I watched the Oscars last night, and I hate to say it but I was thoroughly unimpressed. According to a study by the LA Times, the average age of the Academy voter is 62—and it showed. What would an Oscar awards show be like if, say, Tina and Amy co-hosted (instead of “Billy Crystals,” as Sacha Baron Cohen’s the Dictator calls him)? Or, perhaps even more bizarrely, Harold and Kumar? That would be crazy.

My two main passions are puns and Asian Americans. So, nothing made me happier than to see these two married in this recent sketch from “Saturday Night Live” about Jeremy Lin’s fame and double standards when it comes to Asian American stereotyping versus black stereotyping. You want to watch. You do. You’ll be Lin-capable of breathing. Now the only thing missing from this video is an actual Asian. Get on that, SNL.

If you’ve been reading the news at all lately (or your Facebook newsfeed), this name would have cropped up for you: JEREMY LIN. Woo boy. Remember him? We featured him in our Youth Issue as one of our “25 Under 25,” and now look at him!

I have collected a lot of jewelry over the years—mostly from antique stores, friends and family. Some of it is pretty tacky (because who really needs a sparkly, silver flip-flop charm dangling from her neck?? Thanks, middle school), and lately, I have just wanted to donate most of it and start anew. I want a chance to figure out what my style is.
Enter JewelMint, a new jewelry line that is the brainchild of actress Kate Bosworth and her stylist Cher Coulter. Here’s how the process works: Visit JewelMint.com and take …

I read this article today about a Laguna Beach doctor who is close to finalizing a laser surgery that could permanently change brown eye color to blue. The laser is tuned to remove pigment from the surface of the iris, which reveals blue underneath.
I’m already a little freaked out by a lot of eye-related trends—surgery to give you eyelids, pupil-enlarging contacts and colored contacts, to name a few. One of the things that bugged me the most about “Memoirs of a Geisha” was the geisha’s blue eyes. What?? How many …