I saw 2 art exhibitions this weekend. One was the bright, poppy Takashi Murakami show at the Brooklyn Museum: This survey of Takashi Murakami, the artist frequently called the Japanese Andy Warhol, has it all: immense, toylike s…
... right now, you'll only find budding branches — sprightly and pretty, I think — in the Cherry Esplanade: But if you go over to the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, you'll find plenty of sumptuous blooms:
And still meaning to continue my old series of scanned records, here's a 1979 punk rarity, still in its original cover and still quite playable: I don't really know why "Turning Japanese" and this song "Jap…
Here 's an article about the debate over imperial succession in Japan. The princess's problems with depression and anxiety after giving birth only to a daughter have led to a proposal to permit females to carry on the lin…
Punks for Bush. The Times notes a trend: "Punks will tell me, `Punk and capitalism don't go together,' " [22-year-old Nick] Rizzuto said. "I don't understand where they're coming from. The biggest…