Japan

Chadrick Honore is The Youngest Player in the Legendary Rebirth Brass Band: Get Familiar

At 25 years old, Chadrick Honore has lived the life of a man at least twice his age. The New Orleans native and esteemed trumpet player for Rebirth Brass Band has traveled the world, won a Grammy, and contributed to the critically acclaimed HBO series Treme. But the devoted father & true music fan i ... More >>

Beer Dinners and Wagyu: Best Bets for Foodie Events January 30 through February 5

Wednesday, January 30 Libertine and Saint Arnold's Beer Dinner Tonight the Libertine is serving up plates alongside five pints of "rare Saint Arnold beers." The five-course menu, created by chef Roe Dileo, includes lamb spanakopita, smoked skirt involtini and a truffled cheesecake with bourbon cher ... More >>

Eased Trade Restrictions Good for Texas Cattlemen; Bad For Texas Fajitas?

A news release from the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association announced the recent lifting of restrictions on U.S. beef exports to Japan should be good for Texas cattlemen. According to the USDA, Japan will now allow imports of beef from cattle less than 30 months of age, as opposed to t ... More >>

Wendy's Japan Just Goes Ahead and Adds $16 Lobster and Caviar Sandwich

Not to be out done by French Laundry's sauteed fillet of Atlantic hake, or Noma's tartar and sorrel with juniper and tarragon, or Carl's Jr's Big Carl, Japan Wendy's has added a burger with lobster. And a lobster sandwich topped with caviar. Each is about $16 (US), and can be enjoyed elegantly with ... More >>

Hope Springs Eternal as Yu Darvish Makes His Bow at the Ballpark in Arlington

Late into the evening yesterday, the sun was sinking over Arlington, but it was still warm out -- 77 degrees, far more spring than winter, perfect first-pitch weather. And the Ballpark in Arlington was open too, of course, to introduce the score of the off-season: Yu Darvish, the 6-foot-5 would-be a ... More >>

You Can Always Get What Yu Wants: Texas Rangers and Darvish Agree to Six-Year Deal

​With a 4 p.m. deadline on the horizon, T.R. Sullivan wasn't hopeful at daybreak: "The word Wednesday morning was that the Rangers' optimism has waned a bit." Sources have been saying in recent days that Japanese pitching sensation and magazine cover boy Yu Darvish wanted a five-year deal, the Tex ... More >>

Domino's Japan Has a $50 Pizza

Domino's recent trend of gourmet-ing the shit out of their food jumped to new heights recently. Introducing, from the company's Japanese chain (via Eater), the Prestige Quattro, which is not a sequel to the Hugh Jackman film. This is the $50 (Â¥3,900) unbelievably fancy pizza that features four sid ... More >>

Oddfellows Chef Brady Williams on Running a Smooth Kitchen and His Bon Iver-Inspired Dish

Kelsey FosterBrady Williams, with visions of a Tom Waits Gumbo dancing in his head.​In part one of our three parter, Oddfellows Chef Brady Williams told us about his icy road to cooking, while part two covered his take on the Dallas food scene. Today we learn a little about how he runs things ... More >>

Poster of the Week: Friday Night's Peelander-Z and Anamanaguchi Show at The Loft

​ Seems like, far too often, show posters are straightforward -- an image, some words detailing the show information, and, well, that's pretty much it. So it's nice to see a designer thinking outside of the (video game) box for a change.

Asian Temptations for the Fat Girl Inside

The fat girl inside needs more icing. MORE ICING, DAMMIT!​Although I'm a rehabbed fatty, the inner fat girl inside of me lives on, which can be problematic when I return to old stomping grounds, i.e. the Asian grocery store. The days of a pigtailed me gallivanting through an Asian grocery stor ... More >>

New School of Seven Bells Song Included On Benefit Album For Recovery in Japan

​Musicians releasing songs to benefit those in need is not a new phenomenon -- look no further than 1985's "We Are the World" charity single, by the supergroup USA for Africa, featuring Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper, and strangely enough, Dan Aykroyd. And let's not forget the awesomely awful Haiti rem ... More >>

Watch: CBS News's Story on Dallas and Sendai

CBS News​Sorry, Jack, but Mayor Dwaine Caraway did not appear on last night's CBS Evening News With Katie Couric, which, as advertised, did indeed run an "Assignment America" story about Dallas's deep ties to earthquake- and tsunami-ravaged Sendai, one of our International Friendship Cities. Inste ... More >>

Oh, Lordy: First Baptist's Jeffress Preaching About Quakes? I Think I'll Head Out of Town.

​I'm really worried about what the Reverend Robert Jeffress is going to say at Dallas First Baptist Church Sunday about the quake in Japan. I live within a three-mile radius of First Baptist, and I'm afraid I won't be far enough away. The ad for his sermon that appeared here on Unfair Park ye ... More >>

Failure Is an Option We Should Consider

​Those images of the out-of-control nuclear plants in Japan are hard-wired to our own situation in Dallas. Their tragedy is our challenge. The question is whether we see the wire in time. City council member Angela Hunt has succeeded in forcing Mayor Dwaine Caraway to put the issue of natural ... More >>

She's Crafty

Sharaku Sake Lounge and Izakaya: An Inspired Way to End a Workday.

Oh, Black Water

Indian Restaurant Gets Its Fry Game On -- Maybe

Whoever's behind Chameli's Twitter feed either has a State Fair-inflected sense of humor or the best dessert idea ever. Mi Cocina MexicanaDoesn't kulfi deserve to be treated this way?​"We're doing Fried Mango Khulfi soon!," @ChameliOnline announced yesterday. Problem is, nobody at the Indian ... More >>

Japan House: Overabundance Does Not a Good Meal Make

​I really wanted to like Japan House. Upon first glance, I was in love. The staff is incredibly friendly, the dining area is modern, and the spread looks vast and promising. Because of all the above, it's difficult for me to write what I'm about to write. Located off of 75 in Plano, Japan Ho ... More >>

Giveaway: Two Pairs Of Tickets For Boris Tonight At The Loft

​Tokyo avant-garde hard-n-heavy rockers Boris are making a highly anticipated tour stop tonight at The Loft in Dallas. That's reason enough for excitement, but the icing on the cake is that Chicago's Russian Circles are also on the bill, adding some slow-building, heavy-riffing instrumental madnes ... More >>

Anime-Metal

Club Sushi

And The Winner Is...

​This is our final working Friday of the year. The decade, too, I guess.Yep--taking the 25th and 1st off. The 24th and 31st, too. We're gonna lounge around at home, drink quite a bit and pass out on that futon we hope to buy at Target if we managed to save enough cash after that last Goody Goody ... More >>

Q&A: Titanmoon Travels The World, Gets Treated Like Heroes, Shares an MP3.

Patience SteltzerTitanmoon​DFW's own Titanmoon just arrived home from its first international tour--a whirlwind trip that took the band through Japan, Pakistan and Dubai and found the band being treated like heroes. And though a couple of bombings canceled a couple of shows, the indie rock outfit ... More >>

Dallas-Based Big in Japan Is, Like, This Close to Launching ShopSavvy For the iPhone

Forbes today is but the latest in a long line of media outlets to celebrate Big in Japan's made-in-Dallas ShopSavvy app, currently available only for the T-Mobile Android. The Stemmons Freeway-based developers are rushing as fast as they can to get their bar-code-scanning, price-checking app to the ... More >>

Food For Thought 5.22.09

"No more RICE!" (U.S. Marine corporal Harold Thomas as Army aircraft began dropping rations and other supplies to men held at the POW camp in Niigata, Japan, in late August, 1945. Captured in Peking--now Beijing--China on the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Thomas had been a prisoner of the Japanese ... More >>

Short Orders: Reikyu Sushi

Reikyu Sushi5321 E. Mockingbird Lane214-823-3772Has there ever been a craze as pervasive as sushi? America's passion for raw fish began to build sometime in the very early 80s, which means it's closing in on 40 years. That tops disco fever by 34 years. Our bitterness toward Japan for that faux pas a ... More >>

How the Dallas Mavericks' Jet Spends the Off-Season

Review: The Fish

The Fish could use a touch of poison to spice up its menu

Land of the Rising Drum

Kodo pounds SMU

Baby, I'm-A Want You

The Modern knows what Pretty looks like

Art Floaters

¡Ask a Mexican!

Hot for Teacher

Eastbound and Down

The Crow Collection hosts a day of Asian culture

Acid Mothers Temple, The Antarcticans, The Great Tyrant

Saturday, April 29, at Hailey's

Japan, Animated

Experience living tradition and celebration

A New Body

Creative Solutions turns at-risk into artistic

Go East

Don't get lost in translation

Bass Fishing in America

How Takahiro Omori defied his family, flew to Texas, slept in a van and made his crazy dream come true

Black Dice

Creature Comforts (DFA)

Shrunken Head

Closed by fire, Royal Tokyo re-emerges in a new, improved version

Turning Japanese

What's up with Kobe beef?

Pop smeared

Japan is the new capital of disposable pop

Hot Dish

Events for the week

Tasty transliteration

Sumo Sushi explains Japanese food to Yankee palates

Love for sale

In the harsh world of Picture Bride, you don't find bliss--you make it

Baseball's Far Eastern Division

Strike accelerates exodus to Japan