Elenor Mak is the founder of Jilly Bing, the company behind the Jilly doll. Jilly is an Asian-American doll, created because Mak wanted to give her daughter a doll that looks like her, but she ...
As 'Barbie' becomes the only billion-dollar blockbuster solely directed by a woman, one doll maker in the Bay Area is hoping to break barriers of her own. When 3-year-old Jillian Mak asked for her ...
About 100 first-generation kids got a surprise in San Francisco's Chinatown on Sunday. The children were given dolls and books that reflect what they look like, and their cultural background. Elenor ...
LODI — For years, mobster Tony Soprano and his friends routinely held their business meetings inside the fictional Bada Bing! go-go bar — the real life Satin Dolls. Even after "The Sopranos" ended in ...
Supporting Jilly Bing's mission to diversify the toy industry, Toys"R"Us at Macy's becomes the first national retail store to debut The Jilly Doll on shelves at select stores, and online at Macys.com ...
The Bing is almost back -- or is it? A marquee sign outside Satin Dolls, the Lodi strip club that served as the inspiration and shooting location for Bada Bing on the famous mob drama "The Sopranos," ...
Authorities say the family that owns a New Jersey strip club where fictional mobsters hung out in “The Sopranos” has been defying state law for years and must hand over its liquor licenses. The Satin ...
Note: This story was originally published in The Record on July 18, 1999. It took a few days, but then word began filtering down: "Your new billboard is over that strip club in Lodi." The next day at ...
Launch of Barbie Fan Bing Bing Celebrity Specialty doll. She joins Barbie in inspiring young girls to "Shine Your Way". 2014 will marks the 55 th anniversary of Barbie as a global role model. Barbie® ...
The New Jersey strip club that was the real-life stand-in for the Bada Bing on HBO's "Sopranos" has been hit by criminals again. Satin Dolls in Lodi was robbed by two armed men a few days before ...
Die-hard fans, and scalpers, queued overnight for the chance to order anything in the likeness of the Winter Games mascot, a panda bear named Bing Dwen Dwen, as factories scrambled to ramp up ...