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Spring 2012
Cover Feature | Hannah Simone of New Girl
Feature | Mother Superior
Plugged In | The Reeducation of Cherry Truong
Personalities | Sarah Kay, Katrina Law, Reggie Lee, Jay Hayden, Marie Lu, Jin Akanishi
DestinAsian | Taj Campton Place, The Luxury Place, Tokyo on Foot
Mind & Body | Detox and Cleanse
Style | Meg Frampton, Mama Knows Best
My Story | Balancing Life from Uneven Bars: Anna Li
The Awful Truth | Isn’t it Bromantic?
Entertaining | Dina Yuen
Winter 11-12
Cover Feature | Keeping Up with Kaling with The Office‘s Mindy Kaling
Feature | Booze Control
Plugged In | The World We Found, The Lady with Michelle Yeoh, Amy Rider, Ellie Wen
Personalities | Dia Frampton, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Booboo Stewart, Maria Ho, Tina Guo, John Cho
DestinAsian | Zozi, The Cosmopolitan, Chiva Som
Mind & Body | Protect Your Eyes, Keep Your Smile Healthy, Adjust Your Diet
My Story | Dying to Be Me: Sarah Yeung
The Awful Truth | Grading the Hall Pass
Entertaining | To Give and Receive, Winter Cocktails
Cultural Collage | Blog Spotlight: Cakies
FALL 2011
Cover Feature | I Dream of Jenna with Glee’s Jenna Ushkowitz
Feature | Picking Up The Pieces: faces of the Recession including Kimberly, Cat, Celena, Enid, and Alfred
Plugged In | The Fire Within book review
Plugged In | Q&A’s with Blush, Steven Yeun, Beats Per MNET‘s Yvonne Lu, Frieda Pinto, and Chin Han
Personalities | Tim Kang
Personalities | Diana Reyes
Personalities | Brent Chua
Personalities | Rachael Yamagata
Personalities | David Chiu
Personalities | Rebecca Wang
Mind & Body | Audrey staff samples Supplements
Beauty | Lighten Up with brightening cosmetics
My Story | Yangzom Brauen fights for her grandmother’s Tibet
The Awful Truth | How the Internet Changed My Sex Life
Entertaining | Surachai Tangsakyuen
Cultural Collage | Through My Pen
SUMMER 2011
Cover Feature | Unbound with Snow Flower and the Secret Fan’s Li Bing Bing
Feature | Body of Quirks ft. real women Violetta, Neha, Nebula, Helena, Jessica, Joz, Iris, Yoko, and Doris.
Plugged In | Daughter of the River Huong book review
Plugged In | Q&A’s with Jeannie Mai, Olivia Speranza, and Lucia Micarelli
Personalities | Ashok Amritraj
Personalities | Dilshad Vadsaria
Personalities | Jared Eng
Personalities | George Takei
Personalities | Priscilla Ahn
Personalities | Anjula Acharia-Bath
Mind & Body | Lose the Plastic with Angela Sun
Beauty | Sunscreen Special
Beauty | Cargo’s Judy Yonemoto
My Story | Patty Chang Anker
The Awful Truth | Dates of Glory
Entertaining | Royal/T’s Picnic Cocktail
Entertaining | Nami Design
Cultural Collage | Through My Lens: Desert Refuge
SPRING 2011
Cover Feature | New Munn Rising with Olivia Munn
Feature | Generation Diverse: Are We There Yet and Being That Asian
Plugged In | The Devotion of Suspect X
Personalities | Steel Magnolia: Anisha Nagarajan
Personalities | Late Bloomer: Randall Park
Personalities | The Queen’s Speech: Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai
Personalities | The Storyteller: Jon M. Chu
Personalities | A Joyful Noise: The Go! Team
Personalities | Dream Weaver: T.V. Carpio
Audrey Style| Audrey It-Girl: Kelsey Chow
My Story | The Wish Maker: Judy Lee of Design Squad Nation
Mind & Body | Food Fail: Natalie Minh’s Nutrition Failures
The Awful Truth | The Back-Up Plan: How To Be a Good Wingman/woman
Entertaining | Japanese Cocktails
DestinAsian | Travel Gear
Cultural Collage | Through My Lens: Poppy Fever
WINTER 2010-2011
Feature | Paradise Found: India’s Wellness Retreats
Plugged In | Bitter in the Mouth by Monique Truong
Personalities | On The Rise: YouTube Sensation Joseph Vincent
Personalities | The Glamorous Life: The Motivational Ruby Veridiano
Personalities | Party Time: Food Network Star Aarti Sequeira
Personalities | National Hero: The Green Hornet’s Jay Chou
Personalities | Soul Barer: Singer Heather Park
The Awful Truth | Dating for Dummies: New Year’s Resolutions
My Story | An Uncertain Education by Lianne Lin
Beauty | Lash Royalty’s Elizabeth Le Pek
Entertaining | Kabuki’s Master Sake Sommelier Yuji Matsumoto
Entertaining | Hot in the Kitchen with Kelly Choi
Through My Lens | Last Look of Winter
FALL 2010
Feature | Something Old, Something New … Something Red?: Asian Wedding Superstitions
Personalities | Radical Reboot: Hawaii Five-O’s Grace Park
Personalities | Girl Next Door: Pretty Little Liar’s Shay Mitchell
The Awful Truth | The Office Grind: Intra-office Dating
My Story | The Giving Tree
SUMMER 2010
Feature | Hip Hop Groundswell: Far East Movement
Feature | The New Rhythm Nation
Personalities | Comedian Steve Byrne
Personalities | Host Jeannie Mai
The Awful Truth | Going the Distance
My Story | Gianna Driver’s Cycle of Hope
Plugged In | The Surrendered by Chang Rae Lee
SPRING 2010
Feature | A Quiet Revolution: O.A.R.
Personalities | Thao Nguyen and Get Down Stay Down
The Awful Truth | Gaming the System
My Story | Veronica De La Cruz’s Fight For Life
Entertaining | In the Kitchen with Jaden Hair
FALL 2009
Feature | Protecting Our Youth
Feature | The Spicy Trade
Girl Talk | Gleek Appeal: Jenna Ushkowitz
Audrey Man | New Moon’s Justin Chon
My Story | A New Direction
Plugged In | Thirsty For More: Park Chan-wook
Stylemaker | Seventy Two Changes
SUMMER 2009
Girl Talk | A Wave of Love
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We’re going to be constantly updating this archives page with our favorite stories from past Audrey issues so continue to check back when you have time. If you want to read the issues in print (and really, who doesn’t) and keep a little bit of Asian American history in your archives, check our shop to purchase back issues. But hurry — they sell out fast!
In our Spring 2011 issue, we feature actress Anisha Nagarajan, who plays the shy call center worker Madhuri in NBC’s comedy Outsourced. Here, more of our interview with her.
Audrey Magazine: Your character Madhuri on NBC’s Outsourced is shrouded in mystery, but slowly unraveling her true self. Tell us a little more about her.
Anisha Nagarajan: She’s got a lot more to her than meets the eye. She comes across as this very shy sort of wallflower, but she … can, at times, hold her own when it comes to retaliating when people say things to her about being a wallflower. It’s going be fun to see how people react to the surprises that she’s going to show everyone. I’m enjoying discovering her through the writing and through everybody else’s impression of her. It’s interesting to see where she’s going to go and what’s going to happen.
From cult status as co-host of G4’s Attack of the Show, to prime-time star on NBC’s Perfect Couples and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, modern day Wonder Woman Olivia Munn has transformed from geek goddess to the new thinking man’s woman.
ISSUE: Spring 2011
DEPT: Cover Feature
Photographer Emily Shur
Wardrobe Monica Schweiger, monicaschweiger.com
Styling assistant Victoria Collins
Hair Jonathan Hanousek for Exclusive Artists/Kerastase
Makeup Amy Oresman
Location Pete’s Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Story Janice Jann
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ANNA M. PARK | Editor-in-Chief
ANNA M. PARK spent six years as a corporate bankruptcy attorney before realizing that she’d rather swim with sharks in Moorea, trek through remote mountain villages in the northern Philippines, and, most frighteningly, brave a commuter bus in Seoul during rush hour, than spend another day writing legal briefs. Today, she is an award-winning writer and editor-in-chief of Audrey Magazine. The best part of her second career? She gets to wear whatever she wants. |
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JANICE JANN | Assistant Editor Janice Jann is astonished by how accurate the Meyers Briggs profile of her as an ENFP is. An idealistic champion of causes who will stop at nothing to get a good story told, Janice graduated from UCLA and spends her time as Assistant Editor of Audrey Magazine finding and sharing stories that will matter to the modern Asian (or not Asian) American woman (or man). While not at work, she is still writing away at her blog, www.themediamaid.com. |
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ESTHER KIM | Office Administrator/Circulations Manager
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KATRINA GUEVARA | Editorial Intern Katrina Guevara is a junior journalism major and psychology minor at Cal State Long Beach. Even though she doesn’t mind talking about herself in the third-person, she would much rather spend her time on other things like witty banter, photography and traveling. |
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RACHEL TSAO | Online Intern Rachel Tsao recently graduated from UC Irvine with a degree in Literary Journalism and minor in Digital Arts. In her free time, she enjoy playing tennis, baking, and trying new and different types foods.
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MELODY LEE | Online Intern Melody Lee spent most of her life living in Hong Kong, and now she travels back and forth between Asia and America. She is currently studying at the University of Southern California, pursuing a double degree in Business Administration and Psychology. She never leaves the house without a pair of heels on because she believes that longer-looking legs are totally worth the pain (plus they give a boost of confidence).
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In our Winter 2010-11 issue, we introduced you to Ruby Veridiano, writer, speaker, arts educator, media personality and founder of the Glamourbaby Diaries, a writing empowerment program for Asian American college women. Here, more of our conversation with Ruby.
Photo by Chaz Cruz.
Audrey Magazine: OK, give us the basics.
Ruby Veridiano: Filipina-Chinese American, 27, born in Manila, raised in Sacramento, and currently residing in New York City. I went to University of California Davis, majored in Sociology of World Development with minors in Asian American Studies and Communications.
AM: You’ve been conducting writing workshops called the Glamourbaby Diaries, thanks to a grant by Asian Women Giving Circle. What are these workshops about, who’s attending, and why are you holding them?
RV: The workshops are for young women ages 14-20. I designed it for Asian American women as a space for dialogue about issues that they face. However, it is open to all women of various backgrounds. Right now, I have a group of girls from different backgrounds attending, which is great because it allows us all to learn from each other, and build solidarity between different communities. I held these workshops because I wanted to create an empowering place where women can view positive Asian American female role models that stand for something.
I’m also in the midst of planning the Glamourbaby Diaries speaking tour in the Spring of 2011, taking this program and compacting it into a one day event. I am excited to share this program and dialogue with future female leaders all across the U.S. next year!
AM: What does “glamourbaby” mean to you? Why that name?
RV: Ah, the term “glamourbaby.” Well, let me tell you how it came about. My friend once taped me speaking, and I kept messing up with all of these bloopers. I think I kept spitting and sounded like I had a lisp! And then I said, “Ah man, well…it’s not all glamour, baby.”
And much like most of life, it isn’t all glamour. Especially when you’re striving towards a dream, the path towards anything worth fighting for is filled with obstacles. Moreover, as an activist, there’s nothing glamorous about the injustice you witness and the disparity that you become aware of. But it’s about fighting through the struggle, embracing adversity to let it serve as a lesson of humility and perseverance, and continuing to represent something beautiful for your community. The people I consider glamourbabies are those who represent truth, love, and hope. They are influential, purposeful, visionary. They set trends and but more importantly, they set goals. They are aware of their power to inspire and act.
Read more after the jump.
Finally! Our Winter 2010-11 Issue is out! Check out our stunning red-headed, be-freckled Asian American cover girl Angelina, luxuriating in the afterglow of the season!
Inside we’ve got all sorts of goodies for you like:
* The Green Hornet‘s Jay Chou
* YouTube mega-star Joseph Vincent
* Behind the scenes on American Idol with their resident stylist Soyon An
* More photos from Audrey’s Night Out 2010
* Escape (vicarously) to an Ayurveda spa in southern India
* Resolutions (the dating kind) for the new year
* Holiday dressing, tuxedo-style
* Cozy knits and rapturous wraps for a winter getaway
* Luxe beauty products
* Plus films, TV, books, music, food, travel and all the stories that matter to you!
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