ALAMEDA — For 10 years, Danny Nguyen convinced his traditional Vietnamese parents that he was a doctor. He put on a white lab coat before leaving the house every morning and came home in one every ...
The drumbeats filled the Linh Son Temple in northwest Houston. A Vietnamese Buddhist monk blessed the paper-mâché lion and watched it rise and shake and twist across the rugged grounds. On a recent ...
“Mommy and I are taking a ballroom-dancing class,” my father announced to me over the phone. “Are you serious?” I asked. I was living in Iowa at the time, in graduate school. “Yes,” he said. “And I am ...
: Nov. 4, 9 a.m.-noon, Children's Dance Foundation. Are all of your dancers native Vietnamese? NTL: Yes. In Vietnam we have 54 nations. A lot of nations have strong dance and music, but we are really ...
It was cold and rainy on a recent evening, but the weather didn't stop the Rising Dragon Lion Dance Team from practicing their routine for an upcoming Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebration. Surrounded ...
As a little girl watching those old, Hollywood musicals on television with her parents, Joyce Lien Kushner remembers running to find any dress or skirt that would unfurl when she twirled, and proceed ...
Editor’s Note: Lynda Lin Grigsby is a journalist and editor who has written for NBC News, Shondaland, Parents magazine and Romper. She is a former editor of the Pacific Citizen, a national Asian ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- For nearly 15 years, the Soaring Phoenix Dragon & Lion Dance Association has provided a place for vulnerable Asian American youth in the Greater Houston area to call home and ...