Dame Edna brings her latest show to San Francisco, where her daughter Valmai attended college. OK, the alum is actually the actress who plays the daughter of the international housewife, megastar, fashion icon and swami.

Earlier this fall, alum Justin Allen helped baseball fans in the Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg area follow the World Series run of their hometown Rays.

James Van Praagh studied media at SF State but has always been a medium unto himself. The best-selling author began to discover his psychic abilities at age 8, serving as the inspiration for the main character in the movie “The Sixth Sense.”

Brian Chiu, a senior in Design and Industry, was selected as the winner of the San Francisco City Identification Card youth logo contest.

On Nov. 18 at the Board of Supervisors meeting, Sup. Tom Ammiano commended Chiu for his talents. Chiu’s winning design will appear on all SF City ID Cards, program materials and business window signs. The City ID Card will serve as photo identification for San Francisco residents, streamlining city programs, connecting residents to local businesses and offering multiple functions.

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Interplay offers a post-bop sound rooted in the tradition of artists like Clifford Brown and Horace Silver. The group won the first annual ICA/SF State International Competition and Fellowship for Emerging Jazz Combos handily, bowling over the audience at Yoshi’s San Francisco during an exciting “Battle of the Bands” concert and greatly impressing the hard-to-impress veterans of the Generations Ensemble.

In the SF State-sponsored de Young Museum exhibition "Asian/American/Modern Art," Professor Mark Dean Johnson has unearthed rare and seldom seen works by Asian American artists.

The International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University is proud to support the first annual Symposium on Music in the 21st century, to take place at the SF State School of Music and Dance, February 6-7, 2009. The symposium will feature a day and a half schedule of paper presentations and concerts.

Delroy Lindo, the SF State alumnus known for his roles in "The Cider House Rules," "Malcolm X" and "Get Shorty," has moved behind the scenes in live theatre, directing August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Dance Professor Albirda Rose was immortalized in the Sunday comics Nov. 2, when she was featured in the nationally syndicated Soul Corner.

John Fell, a professor emeritus of Cinema, died Oct. 9 at age 81. The Cinema Department will celebrate Fell with a reception at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3, in the August Coppola Theatre, Fine Arts Building.