LIFESTYLE

The Asian Lunar New Year, the Year of the Tiger, will begin on February 14, and is celebrated by many Asian ethnic groups including Chinese, Vietnamese and Koreans. "This holiday is an ancient cultural tradition that is filled with ritual, excitement, and joy," said Cynthia Park, President, Kang & Lee Advertising, the leading multicultural marketing consulting and communications agency specializing in reaching Asian consumers across North America. "It launches a season of renewal, with a celebration of family, friends, community, and good fortune."

This is a project on 72nd Street of the Upper West Side 72 which is close to Central Park in Manhattan. The client is a successful media consultant, well-traveled, sophisticated, art collector and fond of art-deco/ mid-century furniture. The challenge of interior design in an old building in Manhattan is to create more storage space, more closets, and the bathroom and kitchen are usually not very big. Sometimes I wish I could be a magician liked David Copperfield so I could 'create' more square footage in every project I work on.

Conquer cold weather with warm and comforting recipes for traditional chicken and salmon hot pots from Matsuri chef Tadashi Ono. Tadashi Ono is a celebrated chef who has won plaudits for both his Japanese and French cooking in The New York Times, Gourmet, Food & Wine and other publications. Born and raised in Tokyo, Tadashi began training as a chef at the age of sixteen. He moved to Los Angeles in the eighties, cooking at the innovative French-Japanese fusion restaurant Le Petite Chaya and the legendary L'Orangerie.

These two designs are for presenting gift cards, since they're such common gifts this time of year. Please see below for the step by step instructions. Step by Step Instructions:

Shiho Masuda is an artist/designer based in New York City specializing in paper and party designs. Known for her elaborate gift wrapping packages, she has worked with diverse corporate and celebrity clients. She currently gives classes and demonstrations around the city on gift wrapping, scrap booking, and craft design. For photos of her work as well as, please visit her website at: www.shihomasuda.com The following designs are fun, simple, inexpensive, and eco-friendly: Eco-Friendly Gift Wrapping Ideas for the Holidays Using Brown Bags

It was a chilly Saturday morning in New York City, Christopher Ong called with his energized voice. “Good morning! What a lovely morning! Wanna come with me to meet Ana Tzarev?” “When? … ” I asked in my sleepy voice. “This morning at 11.30 AM. Sorry for such short notice. Ana came 2 days ago and she’s leaving this afternoon for Europe and then Asia. She won’t be back in NYC until 2010 summer.”

Winner of the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Piano Competition, Helen Sung has been called “one of the brightest emerging stars in jazz today.” Breaking stereotypes as an Asian-American artist and composer, her experience in classical, jazz, & popular music gives her a compelling, unique voice.

House Foods teamed up with Dr. Melina Jampolis, CNN diet and nutrition expert and Chef Mai Pham, executive chef and owner of Lemon Grass Restaurant in Sacramento and UC Berkeley’s Star Ginger at Café Three to help UC Berkeley start the semester on a healthy note. At a special campus event titled Boost Your GPA not BMI this Semester, Dr. Melina gave nutrition tips for eating well and avoiding college weight gain while Chef Mai showed students how to lighten up Asian noodle favorites with the delicious low-calorie, House Foods Tofu Shirataki Noodles.

Cobu, based in New York City, was created as a Live Rhythm Performing Arts Group in 2000. Yako Miyamoto, the founder of Cobu is a current member of the off broadway-hit STOMP. Cobu combines elements of the Japanese traditional Taiko drumming with rhythmic Tap dancing. The extremely positive impact of the performance has received rave reviews from The New York Times and The Chicago Sun Times and has touched audiences through major festivals in Boston and Chicago. “Dance Like Drumming, Drum Like Dancing”