Yoshi Dreams of (More Than) Sushi

Otoko isn't what you think it is

"...his longtime colleague and mentor Yoshi Okai. A Kyoto-born jack-of-all-Japanese-trades, his 22-course tasting menu is a kaiseki-style journey through..."

May 6, 2016 Food Feature by Dan Gentile

They'll Knock Your Sakes Off

Austin restaurants pour passion into their sake programs

"...poetic story. Austin has seen a rapid increase in Japanese restaurants in the last few years, but those are..."

Aug. 16, 2013 Food Feature by Margaret Shugart

Ramen Tatsu-Ya

Ramen Tatsu-Ya offers prizeworthy ramen

"...for top recognition in the realm of perfectly executed Japanese soul food. On the order of whose grandmother makes..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Food Review by Jessi Cape

A Gathering of Tribes

Timmy Hefner sleeps in a fortress of vinyl just to bring you Chaos in Tejas

"...he's never seen live, and flies in groups like Japanese thrashers Judgement for their only U.S. show on his..."

May 22, 2009 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

Information Wants to Be Worthless

Money was never the most interesting thing about the Internet. Which is a good thing, since now it's gone.

"...the innovation. It never did. The Internet now reaches half the population of the USA. It is starting big..."

March 1, 2002 Screens Feature by Bruce Sterling

Unofficial Parties & Free Shows to See During South by Southwest

The Chronicle’s recommended concerts for the coming week

"...and Best Rapper Deezie Brown – that anchor a half-dozen core ATX indie acts. Just inside, meanwhile, a cumbia..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Tiki Tatsu-ya Raises the Bar to Islander Heaven

The Aikawa Brothers debut a worldclass venue of storied wonders

"...spent much of the pandemically shut-down year and a half researching and constructing the likes of Suffering Bastards and..."

Oct. 4, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Review: Petite Portions and Not-So-Petite Prices at She’s Not Here

South Pacific-themed tiki bar-cum-restaurant evokes a sense of sleek playfulness

"...and ease. The restaurant's name, a gesture to the Japanese word for pretending you're not home when someone comes..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Hightower Lowdown

Microsoft and Sara Lee buy justice; Americans work too much.

"...ago. That literally beats the work pants off the Japanese, who were the world's No. 1 workaholics until we..."

Sept. 21, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

A Work in Progress

East Timor begins the process of reconstruction in its struggle for independence.

"..."to the World's Most Recent Nation." This newly independent half-island, literally on the other side of the earth from..."

May 19, 2000 News Feature by John Sayles

Summer Sneaks

Apocalypse Whenever: Movies in the Season of Armageddon

"...motion an unusual series of events for a bereaved Japanese woman mourning the loss of her beloved fiancé. (June/July)..."

May 22, 1998 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...considering Simon's character, seems unsatisfying and false. The second half of Heaven's a Drag has many enjoyable comedic moments,..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Review: Peruvian Restaurant Llama Kid Is an Eastside Oasis

Once a virtual concept, this modern take is really solid

"...informed by Indigenous folks and European, African, Chinese, and Japanese migrations. As such, Peruvian cuisine bears many cultural influences,..."

July 29, 2022 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

The Best Music We Saw at SXSW on Monday

Cifika in a tube, Haru Nemuri thrives live, and other highlights

"...the church’s giant cross, SXSW’s most memorable backdrop. After half an hour of passionate gesture, the rumbling soundtrack reentered...."

March 15, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Nix on the Flix, Farm to Market Shutters, Sazan Hires a Hammond, Taste of Texas Extended

All the news that's fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...a new executive chef, Kris Hammond – a first-generation Korean-Japanese-Italian American with experience in Michelin-starred kitchens – who’s artfully..."

Nov. 24, 2020 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

25 Restaurants to Help You Eat Your Way Around the Domain in Austin

Sips, bites, sweets, and other food options from around the globe

"...There are complex flavors from Indian-spiced cauliflower to spicy Japanese eggplant sure to delight your taste buds. A restaurant..."

July 5, 2019 Food Feature by The Food Staff

Austin Celebrates Godzilla's Global Impact

Here be monsters (here being Books Kinokuniya)

"...reigning monarch of kaiju cinema, the Austin branch of Japanese bookstore Kinokuniya is hosting a special pop-up store of..."

May 24, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Crescent at North Lamar and Airport Now Offers Unique Asian Dining Options

Long-ignored strip mall gets a makeover

"...More than a year later, there are now nearly half a dozen new restaurants (if you count a grocery..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Review: Yoshi Ramen and Veggie Heaven

Chef Stacy Chen is the bandleader of two distinctly tasty Asian restaurants

"...litmus test, and shoyu ramen serves that role in Japanese fare. Here, its chicken-based broth (all the meat-based broths..."

March 23, 2018 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

DVDanger: RWBY Volume III

Team Rooster Teeth takes anime back to Japan

"...history, and we didn’t want to start now, but halfway through this season was a good time to remind..."

May 3, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The End of Family Detention?

Positive changes coming, but some say it's not enough

"...of Immigrant Justice Corps, in a phone interview. "Only one-and-a-half percent of women and children detained in Texas now..."

July 3, 2015 News Feature by Tony Cantú

DVD Watch: When Horror Came to Shochiku

Criterion box set restores a lost corner of J-horror

"...'Beat' Takeshi Kitano (or, to anime fans as the Japanese theatrical distributors of Appleseed and Dirty Pair films). Yet..."

Dec. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Day Trips

The Centex Wing of the Commemorative Air Force fills a giant wooden hangar with vintage flying machines and memories

"...memorial to Lt. Col. James Doolittle's raid on the Japanese mainland four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor...."

Dec. 25, 2009 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

DVDs

This 1951 film about a middle-class Japanese family trying to arrange a marriage for their 'aging' 28-year-old daughter is considered one of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu's most characteristic

"...Criterion, $39.95 This 1951 film about a middle-class Japanese family trying to arrange a marriage for their "aging"..."

May 27, 2005 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Wide Open Heart

Local accordionist Bradley Jaye Williams brings together fish and fowl in his assimulation of Texas polka and conjunto music.

"...a decade or so, he found work at a Japanese wholesaler...."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

SXSW Record Reviews

"...ocean and a continent away from the Bronx projects, Japanese youth pick up the signals of American music with..."

March 20, 1998 Music Review

Top 10 Festival Films of 2019 You Haven't Seen Yet

Alien invasions, comedy exorcists, and searing commentary

"...Omotenashi is a Japanese word that defies absolute translation: in fact, its inherent..."

Dec. 31, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Beautiful and heartfelt fantasy anime tackles death and family

"...Maquia (the full Japanese title (Saayonara no asa ni yakusoku no hana o..."

July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Red Turtle

Poetic beauty abounds in this animated gem

"...blazing sun. But like Botticelli’s Venus sprung from a half-shell, a beautiful copper-haired woman later emerges from the split..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Wailing

South Korean movie adeptly blends a variety of genre tropes

"...locals blame a recent transplant to the village, a Japanese man never named (Kunimura), who is living in a..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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