Topic “Business”

Soul Sister: Brenda Buenviaje of Brenda's French Soul Food in San Francisco

What's a Filipino Yat? Find out the answer and get to know Brenda Buenviaje, the woman behind the tremendously popular Southern cuisine restaurant Brenda's French Soul Food in San Francisco...

By: RJLozada | Posted: Fri, Mar 1st- 12:21am | Under: new orleans, restaurants, soul food, Business, Food

Online Exclusive Video: Growing an American Dream

While the Silicon Valley of Apple and Facebook is no longer a land of blossoms and orchards, Chinese farmers like the Kuangs continue to wage a battle for farmland preservation in Santa Clara County.

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By: John C. Liau | Posted: Tue, Feb 19th- 12:52pm | Under: Business, Online Exclusive, Food, Health & Environment, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013, Immigration

David Phan's Suicide Sparks Grief, Anger and Call for Justice

"I had a great life but I must leave." These were the last words written by David Q. Phan, a 14-year-old Vietnamese American junior high school student from Taylorsville, Utah, before he committed suicide. A grieving family -- and multiple...

By: Terry K Park | Posted: Fri, Jan 25th- 1:15pm | Under: Blogger Column, bullying, queer, suicide, Utah, vietnamese americans, Activism, Business, Community, News & Politics, Politics, Race, Social Issues, Social Justice

Pose this Way: What Blogger Kinesthetics Say About a Global Fashion Industry

If you have a Facebook account, ever shopped on Etsy, ever followed or created a fashion-related Pinterest board, or flipped through the Style section of a major newspaper recently, chances are you’ve seen one: The Fashion Blogger Pose.

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By: Minh-Ha T. Pham | Posted: Sat, Jan 19th- 3:22am | Under: blogs, susie bubble, Across the Desk, Business, Fashion, Gender

Aquaponics Garden: Fish Poop in a Closed Loop

Jeff Kang takes a look at the next product from sustainable food company BTTR Ventures -- they've gone from a wildly successful mushroom kit to...a fish poop ecosystem?

By: Jeff Kang | Posted: Sun, Nov 18th- 9:27pm | Under: aquaponics, Back to the Roots, closed-loop, entrepreneurship, environmentalism, fish, Accessories, Business, Food, Health & Environment

Cornering The Gangnam Style Halloween Costume Market

Meet David Lee, a Korean American IT guy turned Gangnam Style entrepreneur.

By: Elizabeth Woyke | Posted: Wed, Oct 24th- 12:52am | Under: Gangnam Style, Halloween, PSY, Accessories, Business

Keep Calm and Carry On

Where there’s family, there’s baggage. But sometimes the inverse is true: Where there’s baggage, there’s family. That’s what two New York-based bag entrepreneurs, Lo & Sons and Baggu, found as they took their ideas from family...

By: Anne Phabmixay | Posted: Wed, Jan 23rd- 1:49pm | Under: baggu, bags, family businesses, lo and sons, Accessories, Art & Design, Business, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012, Takeout, Takeout

Victoria's Secret, Fashion Marketing, and What It Says about Us

What the increased use of token Asian models potentially says about the fashion industry, as well as our own buying patterns and preferences.

By: Alvin Lin | Posted: Wed, Dec 21st- 11:38pm | Under: disgrasian, Fashion, martin lidstrom, victoria's secret, Business, Culture, Fashion

Hustle and Grow

In the spring of 2009, three guys stood over a five-gallon paint bucket holding seven fresh oyster mushrooms. University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business students Alex Velez and Nikhil Arora were in the kitchen of Alice Waters’...

By: Jeff Kang | Posted: Fri, Nov 16th- 10:50am | Under: Back to the Roots, coffee, entrepreneurship, investment, mushrooms, Business, Food and Agriculture, Food, Issue 24: Survival - Winter 2011, Gift Guide

The Dollars and Census

Recent demographic changes show how AAPIs are vital to creating a new generation of American jobs.

By: Nicole Wong | Posted: Wed, Nov 9th- 1:13am | Under: 2010 Census, AAPI workforce, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Ethan Allen, Foxit, MQVN-CDC, New Orleans East, WHIAAPI, Business, Community, Politics, Profiles

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