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Music Fall Picks 2013

Japan Cuts' Tragic, Thrilling Survey of New Films

HARAJUKU LOVERS

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New York Pitmasters to Compete for Title of 'Brisket King'

Wednesday, February 20 Brisket King of NYC There's been a lot of talk about brisket as New York experiences a great boost in barbecue talent. Taste the work of the city's pitmasters at Santos Party House during the second annual brisket contest. John Stage of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, Daniel Delaney of Br ... More >>

COPS AS ROBBERS

Asian cinema explodes at the NYAFF

Avant-Garde January! It's Koltes, the TEAM, Toshiki Okada, and, er, Ira Glass

A critical dive into the Under the Radar, Other Forces, and Coil festivals

Noh Drama and Eiko and Koma Travel Slowly Into Dreams

Japan pervades two dance performances

SONIC RELIEF

Two benefits for Japan draw marquee names

Liz Taylor Late to Her Own Funeral; Earthquake Kills 74 in Myanmar; 100-Year Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

​• Elizabeth Taylor was late to her own funeral, because she asked to be. She was laid to rest in L.A.'s Forest Lawn Memorial Park yesterday in a ceremony that began 15 minutes late at her stipulation. Westboro Baptist, who'd threatened to picket, did not appear. Taylor shares a "large, mult ... More >>

Martha Stewart and Wynton Marsalis Will Show Their Love for Japan at EN Japanese Brasserie

EN Japanese Brasserie​EN Japanese Brasserie has written in with further details about the Love for Japan benefit they're holding next Wednesday, March 23.

SAYONARA, SANRIO

Japanese artists just say no to cute

Japan Cuts Like a (Very Sharp) Knife

Manga, J-quirk, revenge, and the Naughtiest decade

Toshiki Okada's Enjoy at 59E59 Theaters

What's Happening This Week: Pairing Beer & Cheese; Growing Food in NYC

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! The Harmony of Beer & Cheese Murray's Cheese April 5 at 6:30 p.m. If you think wine is the only appropriate pairing for cheese, then let Dan Suarez, the brewer ... More >>

The Beauty of the Bad Girl

Three Japanese actresses break the mold

KIDDIE CULTURE

Is Japan’s cute obsession creepy?

R.I.P. Suzanne Fiol, Founder and Director of Issue Project Room

​Suzanne Fiol, who founded the itinerant new-music venue Issue Project Room in an East Village garage in 2003 and who shepherded the venue through three successive spaces, died yesterday, after a long struggle with cancer. In this paper's archives you will find any number of raptures about the ... More >>

"Japan Cuts" at Japan Society

The New York Asian Film Festival Is the Best Ticket in Town

Still crazy after all these years

This Week in the Voice

The American military presence in Afghanistan costs about $16 billion a month. What are we getting for the money? "Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation" by P.J. Tobia. When Alan Hevesi was the city's, then the state's comptroller, Jack Chartier and Hank Morris were his "two loyal gatekeepe ... More >>

OTAKU ATTACK

Japan Society takes you to Tokyo

This Week's Voice: Lily Allen, Van Morrison, Max G. Morton, Brian Evenson, Katyn, Paul Graham, and More

Joseph Pickard In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla on the vicious, precocious, but oddly winsome bad-sex revenge fantasies of Lily Allen. Scott Foundas revisits Astral Weeks with Van Morrison. Cristina Black profiles self-taught learner Lissy Trullie. Tal Rosenberg visits wi ... More >>

"Shinjuku Ecstasy" Parses through Sex and Revolt in '60s Art-House Japan

EASTERN PROMISES

The best of contemporary Japanese films

Life Beyond J-Horror at Asian Film Fest

You heard it here first: J-Quirk (!) dominates this year's fest

ASIAN SENSATIONS

The East meets the East Coast

SIS POOM HAH!

A cheer for breaking down stereotypes

FRIDAY | 5.16

Milos Forman's Lost Youth

Plus: Before anime there was . . . animation

Contemporary Dance Showcase's Tidbits from East Asia

The perils of inter-office traffic and beyond-the runway fashion

He Is Legend

The Japan Society remounts Harry Partch's "total theater"

Eiko and Koma Pity the Earth

Two dancers and a pianist create a transcendent lament

Wielding Power

Course(s) for Adventure

You've got a thing or two to learn. . .

Return of the Mexican Spitfire

Painter, playwright, novelist, wrestler: Catching up with a Renaissance woman

Price on Request

Timely and Timeless

Some Asian choreographers ride the pop culture bandwagon; others plumb their traditions

New Japanese Dance: Technically Dazzling, and Not Immune to Western Ways

Letters

The Rebirth of Cinema

Susan Sontag's Notes on Japanese Film

Listings

Radical Departures

Strange Partners

Japan, Israel, and Spain in Our Backyard

Education

Boiling Points

Brushed Off

For Women Artists, Recognition Comes Late

A Glass Menagerie

Look Back In Angura

Somber Samurai

Gender Games

From Spain, Japan, and the Downtown Hinterlands

Beyond Human