About me
Ben Fong-Torres was an editor and writer at Rolling Stone (and a real-life character in Almost Famous). While at the magazine, from 1969 into the '80s, he was a Sunday DJ on KSAN-FM. An Oakland native, he has published ten books, including his memoirs, The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese American. Other books chronicle the history of Top 40 radio; the Grateful Dead; Gram Parsons; the Eagles and Motown Records.
He co-anchored telecasts of the Chinese New Year Parade on KTVU, winning five Emmys. He is in San Francisco State University's alumni hall of fame as well as the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame. He earned an honorary doctorate from the California State University Board of Trustees and is the subject of a documentary, Like a Rolling Stone. He is a DJ on Moonalice Radio.
In a full circle moment, he covered the memorial celebration of Bob Weir in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza...for Rolling Stone.
