Bitter, Sweet: Thao Nguyen and her band Get Down Stay Down is out with their fourth full-length release, Know Better Learn Faster. ISSUE: Spring 2010 DEPT: Personalities STORY: Jimmy Lee Here’s your chance to watch a young pop artist mature and take on new musical risks. And with her fourth full-length release, titled Know Better [...]

DEPT: Pop-arazzi AUTHOR: Ada Tseng ISSUE: Spring 2013 PHOTO: Nick Walker  “Alternative folk rock group, Thao and The Get Down Stay Down, just released their latest album, We The Common, in February. Originally from Falls Church, Va., the group, made up of Thao Nguyen and Adam Thompson, collaborated with Grammy-nominated producer John Congleton, who, according to Nguyen, wanted to make a “dangerous party record [...]

Formerly of popular indie group Lady Danville (and alums of Awaken A Cappella at UCLA), Michael Garner and Dan Chang have gone on to form Hunter Hunted. The duo’s latest track, “End of the World” is undeniably catchy – with a cool video to boot. Also catch them live – they’re performing February 6 at Soho [...]

This past weekend, Thai Nguyen had his debut runway fashion show at Concept Los Angeles Fashion Week to showcase his Fall/Winter 2011 collection: The Last Falling Leaf. Connecting back to his Vietnamese roots, he draws inspiration from a Vietnamese song to create this collection that consists of 35 dresses. For this collection, he wanted to [...]

… than marry an Egyptian man if this article is accurate in depicting what they think of Chinese women! According to this article here in China’s People’s Daily, an alarming number of Egyptian men, mainly at the DOM age of over 35, just called in — to the Chinese Embassy in Cairo, that is! The [...]