Model and fitness advocate, Adrianne Ho launches “Sweat The Style” today, November 13th, 2013. Sweat The Style an active lifestyle culture and brand devoted to fashionable fitness, natural beauty, positive health, and real food. Ho opens up her world and breaks down the healthy, adventurous, and fashionably fit lifestyle that she embraces. « more »
Asia Week New York Association’s annual invitation-only evening reception on March 17, 2014, will be held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced by Carol Conover, chairman of Asia Week New York. « more »
CheapOair has partnered with China Airlines and the Taiwan Tourism Board to promote travel to Taiwan this fall. Running through November 24, 2013, fans of CheapOair on Facebook can enter to win two roundtrip tickets to Taipei, sponsored by China Airlines. The package also includes accommodations and tours sponsored by the Taiwan Tourism board. « more »
From hip-hop to contemporary art, film to theatre, dance to literature, Asian Americans are weaving cultural influences and new perspectives into the fabric of American art and entertainment, illuminating the human experience and creating opportunities for new generations. ASIAN AMERICANS IN ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT, the newest episode of Asian American Life, debuts Thursday, November 14 (2013) on CUNY TV (*see below) and is available for viewing 24/7 on www.cuny.tv« more »
For the duration of the Queens Museum’s expansion, AsianInNY’s friend the amazing photographer Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao has been in residence capturing the metamorphosis of the New York City Building. The resulting body of work, New York City Building Time Lapse, 2009-2013: Photographs by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, presents a series of 37 of Liao’s color photographs including nine large-format 30 x 72 in. pigment ink prints, and a contact sheet of the same size consisting of 28 other images. Depicted in Time Lapse are worn walls in various states of demolition and construction and stairwells lined in original terra cotta tiles reminiscent of the building’s Beaux-Arts architecture, contrasting with bird’s eye views of barrel-vaulted ceilings revealing the modernist elements of the Grimshaw redesign. « more »
The New York Mets today announced the franchise will salute U.S. service men and women with Military Mondays during the 2014 season at Citi Field with complimentary tickets, retail discounts and community outreach events. « more »
On Oct. 16, Jimmy Kimmel aired a segment of his Kids Table, where he asked young kids how the U.S. could solve the $1.3?trillion trade imbalance with China. “Kill everyone in China,” answered one laughing 6-year-old. Since then thousands of protesters targeted ABC Studios in Burbank, Houston, Phoenix, and New York to ask ABC for a public apology. « more »
CJ Entertainment, South Korea’s largest entertainment company, hosted a special Spotlight on Korean Cinema event at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as it celebrates the 60th Anniversary of its parent company CJ Group. « more »
PAN ASIAN REPERTORY THEATRE will celebrate the start of its 37th season with a benefit dinner to be held Thursday, November 7 at the Golden Unicorn (18 E Broadway at Catherine Street) in Chinatown. « more »
On November 6, 2013 the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF) will host its Eighth Annual Today’s Minds, Tomorrow’s Future® Scholarship Benefit at the Hilton New York in New York City. « more »
