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Music, Music Review Dec 22, 2020
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The Best of the Miyumi Project celebrates 20 years of Tatsu Aoki’s culture-combining ensemble
- By Bill Meyer
- Tags: Music Review, The Miyumi Project, The Best of the Miyumi Project, FPE Records, Tatsu Aoki, Tokyo, Japan, filmmaker, jazz, improvised music, Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Asian, Jamie Kempkers, Mwata Bowden, Rami Atassi, Ameen Muhammad, Recommended

Music, Music Review Jul 10, 2020
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Boris rage against a world turned upside down on the urgent, hardcore-driven No
- By Jamie Ludwig
- Tags: Music Review, Boris, No, Japan, Tokyo, psych rock, heavy music, stoner rock, extreme healing music, Katsumi Sugahara, Wata, Recommended

Music, Music Review May 8, 2020
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Kassel Jaeger and Jim O’Rourke take us on a journey with In Cobalt Aura Sleeps
- By Joshua Minsoo Kim
- Tags: Music Review, Kassel Jaeger, Jim O'Rourke, In Cobalt Aura Sleeps, Editions Mego, Paris, France, electroacoustic, François Bonnet, Wakes on Cerulean, electronics, field recording, waves, Tokyo, Japan, Recommended

Music, Concert Preview Oct 11, 2019
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Shintaro Sakamoto finds the realness in cheesy lounge pop
- By Noah Berlatsky
- Tags: Concert Preview, Shintaro Sakamoto, Let's Dance Raw, How to Live With a Phantom, Japan, Tokyo, Yura Yura Teikoku, psych-rock, Recommended, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jan 11, 2019
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City Pop, the optimistic disco of 1980s Japan, finds a new young crowd in the West

Thanks to the genre’s devoted Chicago fans, City Pop star Anri plays a rare midwestern show this weekend in Schaumburg.
- By Luke Winkie
- Tags: History, Music, Anri, City Pop, Van Paugam, vaporwave, Timely!!, Yasu Hirose, Tokyo, Shibuya, Lee Ritenour, Smooth Jam—Quiet Storm, Murasaki Sake Lounge, Todos Santos, Maria Cecilia Pimentel, Hisashiburi CityPop, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 5, 2018
This life coach is inspired by Helmut Lang and the films of Wong Kar-wai

Life coach Andrew Asuncion, 26, looks for "color and mood" in an outfit that's "uniform, but different every day."
- By Isa Giallorenzo
- Tags: Style, Andrew Asuncion, Helmut Lang, sleeveless button-down, Wong Kar-wei, 2046, Bai Ling, Zhang Ziyi, Tokyo, minimalism, life coach

Music, Music Feature Apr 7, 2016
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From Rockford to you: An oral history of Cheap Trick's early years

Long before "I Want You to Want Me" sent an audience at Tokyo's Nippon Budokan into a frenzy, the Illinois rock legends hustled for years on the scrappy midwest club circuit of the 1970s.
- By Mike Vanderbilt
- Tags: Music Feature, Cheap Trick, oral history, Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bang, Zoom, Crazy . . . Hello, Heaven Tonight, Cheap Trick at Budokan, In Color, Rockford, Tom Petersson, Bun E. Carlos, Pezband, Shoes, Bun E. Carlos's Air Farce, Sick Man of Europe, Fuse, Robert Stewkey Antoni, Randy Xeno Hogan, Lauree Rohig, club foot, Mick Rain, d'Thumbs, Off Broadway, Hounds, Buckinghams, John Pazdan, Mimi Betinis, Brad Elvis, Screams, Elvis Brothers, the Handcuffs, B'Ginnings, Danny Seraphine, Chicago, Night Gallery, Gary Klebe, Sound City, Mike Gorman, Lin Brehmer, Mandocello, ELO Kiddies, Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Brat Stop, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 23, 2015
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Fink from Teengenerate has a new single with the Raydios

Fink has been tinkering with trashy, exuberant garage punk for 25 years, and "Brand New Kid" combines melody and pell-mell drive.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Raydios, Fink, Fifi, Sammy, Shoe, Slovenly, Mangrove, Teengenerate, punk, Japan, Tokyo, Firestarter, Tweezers, Brand New Kid, My Way Back Home, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 29, 2014
Reader premiere: The Lemons' split with Tokyo's Teen Runnings

We've got the exclusive premiere of the newest tunes from local garage-pop outfit the Lemons and Tokyo's Teen Runnings.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Whoa, Music, Reader premiere, exclusive premiere, The Lemons, Teen Runnings, garage pop, Tokyo, Gary Records, Lemoncita, Robyn Chang

Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2014
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12 O'Clock Track: The blown-out garage punk genius of Teengenerate's 'Mess Me Up'

Today's 12 O'Clock Track is the timeless "Mess Me Up" from the blown-out garage punk stalwarts in Teengenerate.
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Teengenerate, Tokyo, Get Action, Crypt Records, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 9, 2014
Gossip Wolf: Help for two former Chicagoans caught in the SXSW hit-and-run

Plus: New music from the Lemons and a sound-art battle from Vague Music
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, South by Southwest, Evan West, Jamie West, Rogers Park, Red Line Tap, Heartland Cafe, Twin Peaks, Polkaholics, Red Line Disaster, the Lemons, Tokyo, Teen Runnings, Gary Records, Portland, the Memories, Distractions Distortions, MultiKulti, Vague Music, Ben Billington, Quicksails, Tiger Hatchery, Hanna Elliott, Emma Sims, Hogg, Sam White, No Pomo, Jail Flanagan, Forced Into Femininity, Melanie Clothilde Double, Brett Naucke

Film, Movie Review Feb 19, 2014
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The Wind Rises: On a higher plane

Hayao Miyazaki's latest animation considers a man who saw the beauty in war.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Review, The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki, Jiro Horikoshi, World War II, Japanese army, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Whisper of the Heart, From Up on Poppy Hill, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Castle in the Sky, Tokyo, Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, Luchino Visconti, The Damned, Death in Venice, Studio Ghibli, Recommended, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Dec 18, 2013
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Ten years of taiko at the MCA

Tsukasa Taiko’s drum-and-dance doubleheader marries classical and contemporary forms—from Japan and Chicago both.
- By Jena Cutie
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Tsukasa Taiko, Reduction, Taiko Legacy 10, Taiko, Tatsu Aoki, Tsukasa Taiko, Chicago, San Francisco, Tokyo, Melody Takata, kimono dancing, Eigen Aoki, Hamid Drake, Michael Zerang, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Oct 5, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sat 10/5: Found Footage Festival's Best of the Midwest, Charlie Wilson, and Toe

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, October 5
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, The Colbert Report, Nick Prueher, Onion, Joe Pickett, Footage Festival's Best of the Midwest, Music Box, Brooklyn Brewery Mash, Slow Food Chicago, Charlie Wilson, Allstate Arena, Kanye West, Bound 2, Chaka Khan, Robin Thicke, Bell Biv Devoe, Tokyo, Toe, Beat Kitchen, CSTVT, Victor Villarreal

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Apr 17, 2013
Ramen quest

The chef developing the recipes for Brendan Sodikoff's new ramen bar sizes up some suburban tonkotsu.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food Issue 2013, ramen, Santouka, Mitsuwa Marketplace, Brendan Sodikoff, Jeff Pikus, Alinea, Karaoke House Nina, Totto Ramen, Tokyo, Kyoto, Brian MacDuckston, Ramen Adventures, tonkotsu, Au Cheval

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Feb 26, 2013
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Spaces in the heart in Like Someone in Love

A Tokyo college student turns tricks for cash in Abbas Kiarostami’s latest film.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, Iran, Abbas Kiarostami, Rin Takanashi, Japan, Tokyo, Tadashi Okuno, prostitution, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Sun 12/2

What's on the Agenda for Sunday, December 2, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Arts, Tokyo, Suzuki Junzo, Monica Kendrick, Empty Bottle, Eight-Sided Infinity, Plastic Crimewave Syndicate, Pandava, Frank Rosaly & Steven Hess, Gorilla Tango, Season's Geekings: A Gorilla Tango Burlesque Holiday Special, Bah Humbug, Charles Dickens, Piccolo Theater, Evanston, Asher Klein

Blogs, Bleader Jul 12, 2012
Helpful hints for those planning to see Pom Poko

Digging into some of the geographic and mythological references of the Studio Ghibli feature playing this week at the Gene Siskel Film Center
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Foreign, Film, Studio Ghibli, Pom Poko, tanuki, Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies, Japanese folklore, Tokyo, Tama Hills, Hayao Miyazaki, Spirited Away, Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, Gene Siskel Film Center, yokai

Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2012
UIUC students try to create a better coastal city

A new architectural exhibition of student work at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- By Elly Fishman
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Architecture, Visual Art, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Tsukiji fish market, Tokyo, Japan, manufacturing landscapes, chicago water management, Julie Larson

Blogs, Bleader Mar 12, 2010
School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama

Children "get injured, play rough and get covered in mud" at the Kisarazu Community Nursery School profiled in Masaki Haramura's documentary School of Nature: The Children of Satoyama, screening Friday 3/12 at Columbia College
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Environment, Eco, Swag, Sea Shepherd, Peter Bethune, whaling, The Cove, Japan, Tokyo, Chiba, Children of Satoyama, Kisarazu Community Nursery School, Masaki Haramura, documentary, School of Nature, The Children of Satoyama, Film Row Cinema

Blogs, Bleader Feb 18, 2010
Video
Miyori in the Sacred Forest

A Tokyo girl befriends forest spirits threatened by a dam project in the animated "Miyori in the Sacred Forest," screening for free, Thursday 2/19 at Film Row Cinema.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Free Shit, Environment, Eco, Swag, Miyori in the Sacred Forest, Japan in Nature, film series, Japan Information Center, anime, Japanimation, dam, Tokyo, Columbia College, Film Row Cinema, Nizou Yamamoto, Hiyao Miyazaki, Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2009
Chicago: All over but the post-mortem
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Clout City, 2016 Olympics, Chicago Olympics, Tokyo, IOC, International Olympic Committee

Blogs, Bleader Oct 2, 2009
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From Copenhagen: 2016 Olympics Presentations
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Politics, Sports, Clout City, Olympics presentations, 2016 Olympics, Copenhagen, IOC, International Olympics Committee, Barack Obama, Chicago, Rio, Tokyo, Madrid, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2008
2016: the Olympics nobody deserves

The question Mayor Daley should've asked in China.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: News, News Bites, Chicago, Mayor Richard M. Daley, China, Madrid, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Mayor Harold Washington, Olympic Games, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Ben Stiller, Mayor Jane Byrne, 1992 World's Fair

Music, Critic's Choice Aug 24, 1995
Akikazu Nakamura
- By Ted Shen
- Tags: Critic's Choice, Tokyo, Japan, Saxophone, Contemporary, Zen, Ravinia, Art Rock

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