Raymond Ang

3 days ago | vogue.ph | Raymond Ang

On a March afternoon so balmy you can see spring right around the corner, I meet the Filipino-American chef Woldy Reyes in Grill 21, a cheerfully dive-y Filipino eatery in Manhattan’s East Village. The leaves are still brown outside but in Grill 21, the flowers are in full bloom; at least the hand-painted ones on the walls, found in charmingly upbeat murals depicting tropical life.

6 days ago | gq.com | Raymond Ang

It’s a gloomy weekday afternoon in Manhattan but inside Boxers, a neon-lit watering hole that bills itself as “America's gay sports bar,” it might as well be last call. The reggaeton’s blaring, the pool table’s buzzing, and our bartender, Javier? Stripped down to his boxers, welcoming the clientele with bedroom eyes, a half-fade, and abs you could grate a wedge of pecorino on. “Where’s your husband?” Javier asks a regular, a beefy unc in a plaid shirt and horn-rimmed glasses.

3 weeks ago | them.us | Raymond Ang

This article originally appeared on GQ. The Korean-American director Andrew Ahn, 39, broke through in 2016 with his debut feature Spa Night, a slow, sexy, beautifully observed film about the coming of age—and sexual awakening—of a closeted Korean-American teenager who works at an all-male spa in L.A.'s Koreatown. The film won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards—but even then, Ahn's path forward seemed murky.

3 weeks ago | gq.com | Raymond Ang

The Korean-American director Andrew Ahn, 39, broke through in 2016 with his debut feature Spa Night, a slow, sexy, beautifully observed film about the coming of age—and sexual awakening—of a closeted Korean-American teenager who works at an all-male spa in L.A.'s Koreatown. The film won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards—but even then, Ahn's path forward seemed murky. “I didn't think that I could make a film career of queer and Asian work,” Ahn says.

2 months ago | gq.com | Raymond Ang

Brandon Flynn still has Marlon Brando on his mind. The 31-year-old actor, who broke out at the end of the 2010s in 13 Reasons Why, recently wrapped an Off-Broadway run playing the legendary actor in Kowalski—Gregg Ostrin’s entertaining, only somewhat-factual play about Brando’s first meeting with the playwright Tennessee Williams—and it’s clear he’s still coming off the high of his well-received take on the acting titan.