Japan

Why Bother With Real-Life Singers...

Orlando Metallers Trivium Kick Off Tour at Revolution, Discuss Latest Album, Shogun

How To Become A Food Critic

The Raw and the Cooked

Foodstuff

Best Pan-Asian Restaurant

Stir Crazy

Best Restaurant Row

Gateway Plaza

Best Pan-Asian Restaurant

China-Tokyo

The Tim Version

China-Tokyo

Kuruma: The Wheel in Japanese Life and Art

China-Tokyo

Back to Bass-ics

China-Tokyo

Bon Voyage

A Japanese festival sees off the dead

Oh No, They Say He’s Got to Go

A Japanese festival sees off the dead

Details, Details

Zen and the art of printmaking

That Dance Spirit

Zen and the art of printmaking

Divine Underwear

Forget about the cut of the kimono. The art is in the kimono´s lining.

Artbeat

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Turning Japanese

How come Mexico can't keep up with Asia?

Enter the Dragon

Dragon Quest VIII is the biggest thing from Japan since Godzilla.

Guitar Wolf

Golden Black (Narnack)

Seafood Soup for the Soul

At Kiko, the omurice is nice, the sushi is dandy, and the prices are nicer

Various Artists

Beatwave Presents Japan (Sonic360)

Fusion Conclusion

Beatwave Presents Japan (Sonic360)

It's Hanten Season

C'mon, get happi

Earth, Wind, Fire, and Taiko

Drum roll, please

It's a Hit!

Origami at Morikami

Even More Morikami

The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

Another Way to Kick Off Y2K

The Oshogatsu Japanese New Year celebration

The Joy of Sect

For members of Soka Gakkai, the path to enlightenment (and maybe a new car) is through chanting

Life-and-Death Situation

It's hard to stay mad at surprise Oscar winner Departures.

Two for You

It's hard to stay mad at surprise Oscar winner Departures.

Memoirs of the Kimono

It's hard to stay mad at surprise Oscar winner Departures.

Shake What Your Mama Gave Ya

It's hard to stay mad at surprise Oscar winner Departures.

Restaurant Roll Call for September

Tokyo Blue debuted in late August in Fort Lauderdale.​September is typically the slowest month of the restaurant season in South Florida. But there was a lot of moving and shaking going on. Here are some of the highlights.

All-You-Can-Eat Stone Crab: Two Deals For Claw Lovers

​Stone crab season -- at least one of the top five reasons to live in South Florida -- kicked off in mid-October. If you're a fan of the meaty, jewel-like claws, you know that they're often as expensive as they are delicious. Which is a problem if you're into pounding them down the way fat kids ea ... More >>

Where Were We Eating: Tokyo Blue

​Reader "NT" nailed our "Where Are We Eating?" post: The answer is of course Tokyo Blue, a new restaurant/lounge in the Ocean Manor Resort. The restaurant has a broad menu of Japanese classics, mixed and match with Thai, Peruvian, and contemporary influences. It has a full sushi bar with everythi ... More >>

The Cinephiles’ Hangout

​Reader "NT" nailed our "Where Are We Eating?" post: The answer is of course Tokyo Blue, a new restaurant/lounge in the Ocean Manor Resort. The restaurant has a broad menu of Japanese classics, mixed and match with Thai, Peruvian, and contemporary influences. It has a full sushi bar with everythi ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Tokyo Blue Could Exercise a Little Restraint

​Reader "NT" nailed our "Where Are We Eating?" post: The answer is of course Tokyo Blue, a new restaurant/lounge in the Ocean Manor Resort. The restaurant has a broad menu of Japanese classics, mixed and match with Thai, Peruvian, and contemporary influences. It has a full sushi bar with everythi ... More >>

“Modernity and Nostalgia: Woodblock Prints by Toyohara (Yoshu) Chikanobu” at the Morikami Museum

​Reader "NT" nailed our "Where Are We Eating?" post: The answer is of course Tokyo Blue, a new restaurant/lounge in the Ocean Manor Resort. The restaurant has a broad menu of Japanese classics, mixed and match with Thai, Peruvian, and contemporary influences. It has a full sushi bar with everythi ... More >>

Valentine's Day at a Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale / Broward: 14 Specials

flickr, angelmom39 ​Last year you ended up in the doghouse and you couldn't figure out why. How were you supposed to know that carnations suck and that your girl didn't share your liking for the unlimited breadsticks and salad at The Olive Garden? Unfortunately, the little fuzzy white t ... More >>

Meltdown Fears Growing

Two explosions in three days have rocked the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. An endless stream of nuclear industry cronies has claimed there is really not much to worry about, but the money is doing the talking: Nuclear industry shares have already lost more than $1.5 billion ... More >>

Wacky Japanese Snacks At Morikami's Hatsumi Fair This Saturday

Cute Japanese Candy​Japan has experienced horrible devastation in the past week, but if there's one thing for sure about the Japanese people, is that they have a great sense of humor. On Saturday you can celebrate Japanese whimsy with a panel on Wacky Japanese Snacks at The Morikami Museum' ... More >>

Florida's Nuclear Worries?

​A two-page report on a proposed Turkey Point nuclear power plant appeared this weekend in the Sun Sentinel, but calling it a "two page" report doesn't really begin to cover it. These are massive pages, 1,600 words in total. Feature-length pages, in Sentinel terms. And why? Is there a radiation le ... More >>

Black Finger at Elwood's 3/26

​A two-page report on a proposed Turkey Point nuclear power plant appeared this weekend in the Sun Sentinel, but calling it a "two page" report doesn't really begin to cover it. These are massive pages, 1,600 words in total. Feature-length pages, in Sentinel terms. And why? Is there a radiation le ... More >>

Art Hearts Japan

​A two-page report on a proposed Turkey Point nuclear power plant appeared this weekend in the Sun Sentinel, but calling it a "two page" report doesn't really begin to cover it. These are massive pages, 1,600 words in total. Feature-length pages, in Sentinel terms. And why? Is there a radiation le ... More >>

Candlelight Vigil for Japan's Earthquake Victims at Nova Southeastern University Tonight

​Even with all the news coverage of the disaster in Japan, it can be easy to forget about the suffering going on half a world away. We're bogged down in our daily grinds and have to worry about our own severe weather warnings. But students and faculty at Nova Southeastern University have been work ... More >>

Japan and Haiti Benefit at Respectable Street 4/17

​Even with all the news coverage of the disaster in Japan, it can be easy to forget about the suffering going on half a world away. We're bogged down in our daily grinds and have to worry about our own severe weather warnings. But students and faculty at Nova Southeastern University have been work ... More >>

Lady Gaga: Japan Food is Great

Lada Gaga sips tea for Japan​In an interview with the Associated Press  in Japan, Lady Gaga said that if you want to help Japan recover from its recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, come on down. Gaga, in Tokyo for a benefit concert for tsunami victims, MTV Music Aid Japan, sai ... More >>

Domino's Wants to Sell Pizza... on the Moon

Domino's JapanDomino's Japan wants to put pizza on the moon.​Domino's Pizza Japan wants to open a branch on the moon.  We seriously think this is a great idea. First of all, there's the myth that the moon is made of cheese. Plus, think of all the space aliens that must get hungry from interga ... More >>

Food Fight: The Great Wars Recreated By Food

D. Sharon Pruitt via FlickrThis proud burger represents our country. ​Here's something that should be shown in every history class in Junior High School - a video representing every war that America's been in from WWII to present day...using food. In this video by Stefan Nadelman entitled Food Fig ... More >>