February 2010
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Elaine Low is a Los Angeles-based writer and sometimes food blogger with a weakness for cheese.
Currently, she writes copy for LivingSocial, whipping up belated birthday excuses, literary theories in the form of truffles, and a dreamy vacation or two for LivingSocial Escapes.
The former managing editor of Mochi magazine, Elaine has also contributed to Audrey, Hyphen, and CollegeCandy. She...
January 2010
9 posts
Educational publications An Unnoticed Struggle: A Concise History of Asian American Civil Rights Issues Curriculum supplement for the Japanese American Citizens League, 2008
Magazines/Webmags Shaun Evaristo: Choreographer to the stars Mochi magazine, Fall 2010 issue
Diagnosing the Asian American eating disorder Mochi magazine, Winter 2009-10 issue
From the Mochi test kitchen: Dorm-style Asian...
An Interview With Designer Estrella Tadeo
Originally published as a Hyphen magazine web exclusive Nov. 13, 2009
The menswear designer talks to us about her line, working at a co-op, and what a well-dressed Mr. Hyphen would wear. To the male college graduates still shuffling to work in cargo shorts and polo shirts: Estrella Tadeo feels for you. “There’s a huge gap from skater boy to professional,” says Tadeo....
Happily Angry
Originally published in Audrey magazine Apr/May 2009
Angry Little Girls” creator Lela Lee releases of her fifth book and maybe - finally - a TV show
In a black and white three-panel drawing, a slightly bobble-headed girl and boy stare at each other. POW! A fist lands on the boy’s nose.
“Ouch! What’s that for?”
“That’s for all the stupid shit you’re going to do in the future,” the girl...
The Last Laugh
Originally published in Audrey magazine Feb/Mar 2009
Projekt NewSpeak is blowing away the competition, whether at sketch comedy competitions or on YouTube. The funniest part about them is that rather on relying on Asian stereotypes and humor, they rely on something more profound - talent.
Enter Toyo, a spiky-haired teenager wearing a bright blue vest, red pants and aviator goggles. When...
Vienna's Calling
Originally published in Mochi magazine Winter 2009
From software engineer to singer/songwriter, Vienna Teng is right where she wants to be
Even though singer-songwriter Vienna Teng has been making music since she was five, it was only a couple of years ago that the sultry songstress was a software engineer working a nine-to-five in a cubicle by day and uploading her acoustic mp3s to the...
Campaign Director
Originally published in Hyphen magazine Spring 2008
Somewhere between attending the Los Angeles premiere of his latest film, Tre, and its opening a week later in Chicago, filmmaker Eric Byler managed to fit it in hours of poll watching, cold calling voters and Super Tuesday campaigning for Barack Obama.
Byler’s been scuttling from city to city to promote his new film and his politics, two...
Once JA-Owned Farm Now First on Washington's...
Originally published in the Pacific Citizen newspaper Nov. 16, 2007
A farm once owned by Japanese Americans will now be one of the first to be placed on the Washington state Heritage Barn Register, preserving the memory of a once-beautiful barn and recalling an uglier era when the law prohibited many Asian Pacific Americans from owning land.
The Nakashima farm, which at one point spanned...
Syracuse Students’ Fight For Asian American...
Originally published in the Pacific Citizen newspaper Nov. 2, 2007
Ellee Kim, a senior at Syracuse University, grew up in a neighborhood full of “Jewish people and Caucasians.” While Kim is able to converse fluently in Korean and English, the 21-year old Korean American “always felt that there was something lagging” in her sense of cultural and socio-political...
"Shocked And Disgusted”: Nurse Files Suit Against...
Originally published in the Pacific Citizen newspaper Oct. 5, 2007
Frannie Richards stopped by the Michigan Avenue H&M on her lunch break hoping to walk out with a dress or a new suit. She never expected to emerge with a different kind of suit - a lawsuit.
The Filipino American nurse is filing a complaint against the corporate clothing behemoth for an alleged racial slur one of its employees...