McDonald’s New York Tri-State has announced the all-star lineup for its first annual McDonald’s B-Boy Royale, New York City’s largest breakdance competition of the year. Held on August 16 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the event will feature eight award-winning dance crews from across the nation battling it out in a head-to-head tournament for the chance to win a grand prize of $3,000. The competition will be hosted by Korean American rapper and YouTube sensation Dumbfoundead, who will also perform tracks from his latest album. Tickets can be purchased at the NYU Skirball Center box office or at http://nyuskirball.org/calendar/bboy, with proceeds benefiting Ronald McDonald House Charities® New York Tri-State Area. For more information about the McDonald’s B-Boy Royale, visit www.McDonaldsBBoyRoyale.com. [Read More]

With painstaking care and the use of multiple exposures, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao crafts each of his images with technological precision. Shooting primarily with a large-format film camera, then scanning and digitally editing the negatives, Liao creates enormous, detail-driven panoramas of the social and urban landscape of New York. [Read More]

SOLD, the story of an extraordinary thirteen-year-old girl living in a poor village in Nepal who becomes a victim of human trafficking and must risk everything to escape, will be the Opening Night Presentation of the 37th annual Asian American International Film Festival. Asian CineVision is hosting the film on July 24th, 2014 at the Asia Society and again on July 26th, 2014 at the Village Cinema East. [Read More]