San Francisco's Asian Art Museum opened up its latest exhibition, The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan, on February 20, 2009 with Buddhist ritual observances led by Bhutanese monks currently in residence, as well as a ribbon cutting ceremony. The exhibition is the first of its kind to focus on Bhutan's Buddhist culture, with many of the objects on display remaining in ritual use in temples and monasteries and having never before been accessible to a Western audience until now.

Since 2005, the School of Fashion at Academy of Art University in San Francisco has showcased collections of recent graduates during Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week. This season, one menswear and five womenswear collections from the Fashion Design, Textile Design and Knitwear Design programs were presented in The Tent at Bryant Park. “This University views this opportunity as part of its commitment to help launch the careers of its graduates,” said Dr. Elisa Stephens, President of the University.

Raised in Hong Kong, Chinese actress Elizabeth Sung's long and distinguished career has taken her from The Juilliard School to Hollywood. She has played memorable supporting and starring roles in films and on television, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Joy Luck Club, China Beach and The Young and the Restless. More recently, she was seen portraying the mom in director Jessica Yu's hilarious Asian American family comedy Ping Pong Playa.

Here Comes the TALF! It’s Sunday evening, February 8, and the financial world is eagerly awaiting news from Washington. This week, newly minted Treasury Secretary Geithner will announce his bank bailout plan, while Congress will try to finalize an estimated $800 billion stimulus plan. Big events for the country? Yes, I think so.

Everything I know about singles mixers I've gathered from television and movies, neither of which offer positive portrayals of what goes on. There's always someone with a social disorder and a former lover often surfaces just long enough to create a hilariously uncomfortable scene. I felt the need to discuss these possibilities during the drive to the event with my engagement-minded friend, Sara, who reacted as if my saying those things was enough to make them come true.

You might know Rino Nakasone as the tall beautiful Asian girl of the group Beat Freaks on MTV's America's Best Dance Crew, but did you know that Rino was also one of Gwen Stefani's Harajuku girls? I got a chance to speak with Rino, sometimes called Rinokinawa, on her least busy day of the week, in between dance rehearsals for the hit MTV show and teaching classes!

Two years ago, Asiance had the chance to talk with Big Will, the CEO and executive producer of WWS Magazine, the world's first digital magazine packaged in a compact disc. Fast forward to today and Big Will has been striving strong in his career: his debut album as a recording artist will be released this year (with two singles being released this month!), he has helped dish out a new digital magazine called DTS, opened up his own tattoo parlor, working on television projects, and still maintains WWS Magazine.

If you didn’t know Danny Boyle from his previous films, The Beach, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and Trainspotting, a telling story about heroin addiction, then you most likely know who he is today. Danny directed the award winning film Slumdog Millionaire turning Indian slums, Bollywood and Indian actors into Hollywood history.

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), breast augmentation was the most popular surgical cosmetic procedure in 2007, with a 64% increase from 2000 in the number of procedures performed. Among Asian-Americans, it was the second most popular cosmetic surgical procedure after rhinoplasty. All breasts are made up of fatty tissue, glands, ducts, and a layer of skin. However, the size and shape of the breasts reflects an individual woman's body type.

Suwha Hong was born in Korea and traveled back and forth to the United States as a child. Like most Asian women, Suwha chose the classic Asian career path. She pursued a career in Law, graduating Cornell Law School, eventually practicing Corporate Law in New York City. Soon, her creative side got the best of her, causing Suwha to quit her job, travel, then settle in London to start a design career.