New Orleans born – Hanoi based photographer, Aaron Joel Santos, gives us a picture of Vietnam life. From weddings to double amputees, Aaron Joel Santos shows us Vietnam from behind the lens. But today he’s showing us Vietnam from behind the mic. Aside from being an amazing photographer Aaron is really funny and interesting guy, and tells…

Uyen Vu is a high-end jewelry marketing expert. She’s also a recovering metal head with a New Orleans past.     From Chopin to Metallica music, Uyen talks about musical influences, her her life on the road as a working heavy metal musician, and her current days in L.A. fashion culture mogul.

Grandmaster Tai Le began his disciplines in Tae Kwon Do and Kung Fu as an eight-year old in Vietnam.  In the years before he fled the country, he would teach classes to hundreds of people at a time – sometimes on tennis courts!   When he came to the US as a refugee in 1982, he had…

When we think of the big city racial crises, there’s often that image of an Asian community caught in the middle of it – perhaps epitomized by the Asian shopkeeper in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” who, in defending his business from the same angry mob that had just burned down Sal’s Pizzaria shouts: …

Think back if you can, to a time when you were a kid and your parents were called to school to talk about your progress in the classroom, or about disciplinary problems on the playground. And try and imagine what it would have been like if your parents didn’t speak English and the school admin…