It’s December! Can you believe what a year it’s been? As per tradition, we here at From the Intercom are polishing up our own End of the Year lists (2018, 2019) where we round up ...
Have you ever met Grace Lee? It’s no surprise if you have. Grace Lee is one of the most common names given to Asian American girls – and why wouldn’t it be? The term ‘grace’ ...
Perusing the virtual buffet of panels at Game Devs of Color Expo 2020 made me as indecisive and hungry (for game design knowledge) as the real thing. And if there was an equivalent to the ...
ellihn, the moniker of Singaporean musician John Tan Jon Young, certainly knows how to make a bold first impression. Diving into “Not There,” the nineteen year old’s debut single, it was hard to know what ...
Halfway through his debut single “proud,” there’s a moment where newcomer ravi lad stops, if only for a second, and asks himself a simple question about his pursuit of music. “Am I fine, or should ...
If you kept an ear to my dorm room in college, you would hear the frantic keystrokes of a computer science major on finals day. But alas, not even “Intro to Java” could get my ...
I’ve known Soft Blue Shimmer for a relatively short amount of time (or forever if we’re considering 2020 time). My first exposure to them came from Gaby Chiongbian’s kaleidoscopic picture of the band playing the ...
At 13 years old, Ernest (Jeffrey Chyau) is, like any kid his age, struggling with the pains of growing up. But unlike most protagonists in American movies, Ernest is a middle class Chinese American kid ...
My knowledge of Greek mythology is a dusty tapestry of Disney’s Hercules, Disney and Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts (with Hercules in it), questionably appropriate plays of God of War as a child, and actually appropriate ...
There’s a certain moment when one feels nostalgia prematurely—when the good times are juxtaposed with the sadness of it already being over before the end has even begun. It’s a lightning-in-a-bottle kind of moment, and ...