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January 21, 2012
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 >>
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January 18, 2012
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 >>
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January 10, 2012
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 (¥3,900) unbelievably fancy pizza that features four sid ... More >>
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October 14, 2011
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 >>
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April 28, 2011
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.
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April 11, 2011
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 >>
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March 31, 2011
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 >>
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March 22, 2011
Watch: CBS News's Story on Dallas and Sendai
CBS NewsSorry, 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 >>
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March 18, 2011
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 >>
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March 17, 2011
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 >>
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January 20, 2011
She's Crafty
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 >>
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December 2, 2010
Sharaku Sake Lounge and Izakaya: An Inspired Way to End a Workday.
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 >>
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October 21, 2010
Oh, Black Water
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 >>
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October 5, 2010
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 >>
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August 6, 2010
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 >>
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July 27, 2010
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 >>
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July 1, 2010
Anime-Metal
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 >>
Dining
February 18, 2010
Club Sushi
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 >>
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December 18, 2009
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 >>
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November 12, 2009
Q&A: Titanmoon Travels The World, Gets Treated Like Heroes, Shares an MP3.
Patience SteltzerTitanmoonDFW'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 >>
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June 25, 2009
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 >>
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May 22, 2009
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 >>
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March 16, 2009
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 >>
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August 14, 2008
A Bang-Up Show
Two peeps play everyone in history
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July 9, 2008
How the Dallas Mavericks' Jet Spends the Off-Season
Two peeps play everyone in history
Dining
February 7, 2008
Review: The Fish
The Fish could use a touch of poison to spice up its menu
Calendar
January 24, 2008
Turning Japanese
Watch as the South meets the East
Calendar
February 22, 2007
Land of the Rising Drum
Kodo pounds SMU
Calendar
February 22, 2007
Baby, I'm-A Want You
The Modern knows what Pretty looks like
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February 8, 2007
Art Floaters
The Modern knows what Pretty looks like
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October 12, 2006
�Ask a Mexican!
The Modern knows what Pretty looks like
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August 31, 2006
Hot for Teacher
The Modern knows what Pretty looks like
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July 13, 2006
Eastbound and Down
The Crow Collection hosts a day of Asian culture
Music
April 27, 2006
Acid Mothers Temple, The Antarcticans, The Great Tyrant
Saturday, April 29, at Hailey's
Blogs
April 12, 2006
Jay-Z Wants to "Murder Jesus"?
Saturday, April 29, at Hailey's
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January 12, 2006
Japan, Animated
Experience living tradition and celebration
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December 2, 2004
A New Body
Creative Solutions turns at-risk into artistic
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November 11, 2004
Go East
Don't get lost in translation
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September 16, 2004
Bass Fishing in America
How Takahiro Omori defied his family, flew to Texas, slept in a van and made his crazy dream come true
Music
July 1, 2004
Black Dice
Creature Comforts (DFA)
Calendar
October 16, 2003
Venetian Finds
Lazarus returns home with more than postcards
Dining
August 7, 2003
Shrunken Head
Closed by fire, Royal Tokyo re-emerges in a new, improved version
Dining
June 12, 2003
Turning Japanese
What's up with Kobe beef?
Music
December 9, 1999
Pop smeared
Japan is the new capital of disposable pop
Dining
January 2, 1997
Hot Dish
Japan is the new capital of disposable pop
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October 26, 1995
Events for the week
Japan is the new capital of disposable pop
Dining
August 17, 1995
Tasty transliteration
Sumo Sushi explains Japanese food to Yankee palates
Film
May 18, 1995
Love for sale
In the harsh world of Picture Bride, you don't find bliss--you make it
Culture
January 12, 1995
Baseball's Far Eastern Division
Strike accelerates exodus to Japan
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