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Anna Sophie Loewenberg (aka Su Fei) chats about her internet video show “Sexy Beijing.”

Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month through old and new dance styles. Please press play.

Arturo Vasquez revisits his destroyed home in San Bruno a month after the massive pipeline blast.

Fire spinners and dancers meet at the Santa Cruz Lighthouse most Sunday nights.

A foot-stomping time as young fiddlers compete in San Jose.

Photographers with the San Jose Mercury News share some of their favorite images from the San Francisco Giants postseason run to their World Series Championship.

As the nation debates illegal immigration in the abstract, a Bay Area family lives the raw anguish of deportation and the intense fight to stay together. This is their story.

Bessie Kawachi Chin, 87, fulfills her dream of a college degree after Japanese-American internment prevented her from finishing her studies nearly 70 years ago.

San Jose hosts the first wheelchair lacrosse clinic in the country.

Since Marine Lance Cpl. Jeramy Ailes was killed in Iraq in 2004, three relatives and friends have paid him the ultimate tribute.

Life in a Year: Part 11

The day that Ella Cho was born her parents were advised to start making funeral arrangements.

Tech companies and NGOs help school children recover from the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

A look at California Penal Code 148 and its use by the San Jose Police Department.

The 2009 recession by the Mercury News staff.

The California Institution for Men in Chino is at almost 200% capacity.