On Saturday, April 10, stars from MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” will reunite to host a hip-hop competition, featuring popular groups like FR3SH, Fanny Pak, Kaba Legacy, Rhythm City and Static Noyze. These dance groups will be joined by Karla Garcia, a season five finalist of FOX’s “So You Think You Can Dance.” The event, which is backed by over 100 sponsors and advertisers, will highlight around 500 dancers and bring together a nationwide audience.

“The Main Event” will take place in Rahway, New Jersey at the Union County Performing Arts Center. …

“America’s Next Top Model” may be in its 14th season, but the hit show has yet to pick an Asian winner. It looks like Cycle 14 won’t be any different, since there was not one Asian face among the 32 selected for the semi-finals during the premiere, which aired last week.
In previous seasons, Sheena Satana and Jennifer An both came close to winning the Top Model crown (and with that a lucrative $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics, a six-page spread in Seventeen magazine, and representation by a top New York-based …

Charice Pempengco is only 17 years old, but she has already been compared by critics to the likes of Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston.
The Filipina native, who in late February released her second single, “Pyramid,” featuring Iyaz, was raised in Laguna by a single mother after incidents of domestic violence occurred in her household. Instead of letting her circumstances hold her down, Charice stepped up to the plate, and in an effort to support the family, began competing at the age of seven in any singing contest she could …

Released nationwide yesterday, Chang-rae Lee’s fourth book, “The Surrendered,” deals with the horrors of armed battle, though it is far from being just another war novel. Lee, whose first book, “Native Speaker,” received critical acclaim and earned him prestigious awards, revisits the themes that launched his past works to fame.

In “The Surrendered,” 11-year-old June Han flees the violence and destruction of the Korean War, and becomes accidentally separated from her 7-year-old twin siblings in the process. She seeks refuge in an orphanage near Seoul under a friendly American soldier named …

For those of you in New Jersey, there’s an interesting conference for you to check out at Princeton University if you’re in the area. From today, March 3 to Thursday, March 4, the East Asian studies department will be hosting a conference open to the public titled “Too Cute: American Style and the New Asian Cool,” devoted to exploring the new wave of “Asian cool” that has taken the whole world, including Western civilization, by storm.
Scholars hailing from a variety of fields, including American studies, anthropology, gender studies, and art history …