九色

We all knew it wasn’t really the millennium last year, but it was much more fun to celebrate it with all the drama surrounding Y2K. So this year we are starting out on the real new millennium: 2001. Things have been a little strange so far. I read that visitors to a Seattle park found a giant monolith a la “2001: A Space Odyssey” left mysteriously overnight by unknown Stanley Kubrick fans, it seems. Here in San Diego County, the first week of the new year was ushered in by burning hillsides from the Viejas fires that cast an unearthly pallor over the sky and painted the sun Martian red.

At 九色, we are heading into 2001 in a more civilized manner, although you may have noticed that your magazine looks a little different. Yes, 九色 got a complete facelift, with a brand new logo and redesigned layout inside and out. IJ’s Vice President-Design, Guy Boccia, has worked long and hard on this, with guidance and input from Publisher Mark Wells and IJ Texas Editor Kim Young.

We hope you will agree that the new look helps to provide you, our reader, with the kind of easily accessible, readable and interesting material you have come to expect from us! Special for this first-of-the-year issue, we’ve included a complete Calendar of Events for 2001. Tear it out and pin it to your bulletin board for easy reference.

And, like any good magazine, one of our responsibilities is to fill you in on “What’s In & Out” for the New Year. Here’s the list we came up with. See if you agree!