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Blades Come Out at Benihana As Rocky’s Influence Wanes
Before the Iron Chef, before Nobu, Japanese cuisine meant Benihana, with its chefs chopping and bowing at the table, grilling mutant stir-fry concoctions like “Seafood Diablo” and performing antics...
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Blades Come Out at Benihana As Rocky’s Influence Wanes
Before the Iron Chef, before Nobu, Japanese cuisine meant Benihana, with its chefs chopping and bowing at the table, grilling mutant stir-fry concoctions like “Seafood Diablo” and performing antics...
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A Gorgeous Tribute to Ozu, Hou’s Café Requires Patience
The suggestion that there are some filmmakers we have to work to appreciate often implies that moviegoers should be prepared to suffer for the sake of art. We accept that there are writers who require...
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Midtown Manhattan: Cheaper Than Hong Kong
NAI Global, a network of some 300 commercial real-estate firms, released an enormous report today (which we hope to link to here shortly in PDF form). But the highlight appears to be its ranking of the...
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Hillary Navigates Port Issue
For anyone upset that there was no IMterview on Friday, here is a longer-than-usual excerpt from Hillary‘s speech yesterday at the Jewish Community Relations Council‘s annual legislative breakfast at...
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Thursday: Speed Dating and Spadominiums!
Any event called “architecture’s version of speed dating” sounds like a surefire bad idea. But if it’s official name is Pecha Kucha–and if it started in Tokyo before coming to Queens–you cannot go...
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Manipulative and Mean-Spirited, Babel Frustrates Despite Style
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, from a screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga (in English, Spanish, Japanese, Berber, Arabic and sign language, with English subtitles), is based on an idea by Mr....
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Manipulative and Mean-Spirited, Babel Frustrates Despite Style
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, from a screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga (in English, Spanish, Japanese, Berber, Arabic and sign language, with English subtitles), is based on an idea by Mr....
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Next for Al Gore…
By the end of the week, Al Gore will have finished training the last of a thousand “Climate Project” volunteers, who will be charged with spreading the word about the bleaker aspects of 70-degree...
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London, Paris and Tokyo Make Manhattan Look Cheap
Manhattan office-market stats out last week showed what everyone already knows: The borough has one of the most expensive and tightest office markets in the world. But it’s nothing compared to Paris,...
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Your Monthly Rent in Tokyo, London, Bangalore
Though the strength of the Euro has been largely credited with staving off a housing market nosedive in Manhattan, it is hitting expatriate American businessmen (and the multi-national companies they...
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Tokyo Calling
Tokyo! Running time 112 minutes Written and directed By Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-Ho Starring Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ayumi Ito Tokyo! (in Japanese with English...
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Aziz Ansari Explains How A TwitPic Sent Him to Tokyo
Aziz Ansari, the reigning funniest man on the planet, is not one to be trusted on Twitter. For instance, last week he spent the day fake-retweeting Whole Foods and L.L. Bean (the clothier never said...
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Two Americans Arrested in Japan In Connection With Murder of Irish National
Nicola Furlong Tokyo media reports two Americans have been arrested in connection with the death of 21-year-old Irish student Nicola Furlong. Ms. Furlong was in Japan as part of University program. She...
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Morning Links: Brian May's Steroscopic Picture Collection Edition
Brian May, Queen’s guitar player, with Freddie Mercury (Courtesy Brianmay.com) This is what Yayoi Kusama says upon receiving a journalist in her studio in Tokyo: “Hello! Thank you for coming to see me...
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Pretend Pop Star Hatsune Miku Opens Her Very Own Real-Life Restaurant
It’s basically a celeb rite of passage to diversify with licensing deals these days, whether you’re a Kardashian or not.
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Blades Come Out at Benihana As Rocky’s Influence Wanes
Before the Iron Chef, before Nobu, Japanese cuisine meant Benihana, with its chefs chopping and bowing at the table, grilling
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Blades Come Out at Benihana As Rocky’s Influence Wanes
Before the Iron Chef, before Nobu, Japanese cuisine meant Benihana, with its chefs chopping and bowing at the table, grilling
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A Giant Hello Kitty Time Capsule Is Headed for Midtown Manhattan
A very big Hello Kitty is coming to New York. Japanese artist Sebastian Masuda is bringing his multi-city Time After Time Capsule project to the Big Apple in the form of a nine-foot-tall giant...
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First Snapchat Art Show ‘Opens’ This Weekend, Has Sarcasm Replaced Kitsch?...
A roundup of art news from across the web.
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