The West Town storefront is part butcher shop, part Japanese American taqueria.
Tag: Japanese
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Katana plunges its glittering blade into River North
A massive robatayaki parachutes in from Hollywood.
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The Man in the High Castle imagines a world ruled by Nazis
Amazon’s latest original series tackles Philip K. Dick’s novel, in which America lost World War II.
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DJ Virtual Brat offers an education in Japanese fashion trends
This guy is so kawaii, Japanese for “cute.”
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Do the Cha Cha Cha at Jinya Ramen Bar
The country’s fastest-growing ramen chain arrives in Lincoln Park.
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Shiawase Restaurant in Lakeview takes sushi over the top
The food at Shiawase Sushi Restaurant in Lakeview is hit or miss.
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In “Destroy the Picture,” a violent attack on the canvas
A new Museum of Contemporary Art exhibit collects abstract artists’ impassioned responses to World War II.
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Japanese to go at Arami Go
Streeterville’s Arami Go offers fresh, simple food in the form of bento boxes and ramen.
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The happy revolutionary
“Fetish expert” Robert Dunlap screens his documentary “Xaviera Hollander, ‘The Happy Hooker’ – Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary,” Thursday at the Portage Theater.
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ACID MOTHERS GURU GURU
Contemporary psychedelia often raises the question, hasn’t inner space been explored enough already? Well, yes and no. The psychedelic experience, like the religious one, is unique to the individual–while there’s no denying the commonalities, everyone interprets it his own way. Japanese guitarist Kawabata Makoto takes cues from past masters in pursuing his own voyages and […]
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5.6.7.8’s
These three Japanese rocker girls, purveyors of snarly-sweet prom-dress-and-leather surf punk since 1986, haven’t released an album of new material since 2002’s Teenage Mojo Workout (Bomba), but they’re on the road and working a handful of reissues thanks to Quentin Tarantino, who gave them an on-screen cameo and sound-track slot in Kill Bill–Vol. 1 and […]
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Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Guitarist Makoto Kawabata, hirsute helmsman of Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., once titled a reissue series of his own early work “Learning From the Past.” That could just as easily be AMT’s motto: this nine-year-old band from Nagoya, Japan, has amassed a ridiculously cluttered catalog (45 entries, not including side projects and […]
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Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
In 1996 guitarist Makoto Kawabata formed Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. as a one-off studio project with a simple, clearly defined goal–to make the ultimate trip record. Since then, matters have gotten well out of hand for this “soul collective.” The Japanese ensemble’s touring itinerary is intense–this show is part of its […]
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Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
The sentiment prevails even in indie-experimental circles that the venerable Japanese heavy-psychedelic scene is way out over the edge of listenability, the very definition of obscure–just about everything short of “inscrutable.” It would be nice if the appearance of Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.–the big, marvelous communal venture loosely led by guitar […]