ISSUE: Summer 2011 DEPT: Plugged In STORY: Katrina Guevara Treme, HBO Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, this HBO TV series from David Simon (The Wire) follows the lives of struggling artists and musicians, including Annie, played by Korean-Italian American Lucia Micarelli, a real-life, Juilliard-trained concert violinist who has toured with Josh Groban and Jethro Tull. [...]

2012 is the year for K-Pop! At least, it seems so with three of Korea’s top girl groups all planning releases this year. The 9-member girl group that already has millions of fans around the world, Girl’s Generation, releases its 2011 hit “The Boys” with a special digital remix EP today in the US and [...]

Mark has launched its most recent collaboration with award-winning handbag designer Carlos Falchi, and it’s available now! Called the Rio Beauty and Fashion Collection, the collaboration is inspired by Falchi’s native Brazil, which of course means it’ll feature plenty of sexy beachwear, globetrotter-inspired jewelry and glow-inducing makeup, shoes and handbags! And to celebrate, celebrity makeup [...]

Earlier this year, Asian American-focused music network MYX went on a blogger-hunt in an effort to find fresh faces with big voices for their revamped website, MYX.tv. The search is over, and there are 16 new Asian American vloggers and bloggers from across the nation with different backgrounds and perspectives to best represent the new [...]

Congratulations to Audrey reader Sasha, who won Tina Tang’s sterling silver “Crescent” necklace from our Thank Goodness It’s Free Friday Giveaway! Isn’t she adorable? Writes Sasha: “I have just received the Tina Tang ‘Crescent’ necklace in the mail today! Somehow, I love it even more in person. It happens to be just the right length [...]