Category: City Life

  • This Week at Gridskipper

    Leica Ginza Onitsuka Tiger Tokyo Paper Sky Visits Akihabara Tokyo Underground You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Shots

    If you weren’t able to make it to the “Shots” party last week at SuperDeluxe, PingMag has got you covered.

  • Inspired 2006

    Let me start off by saying I have absolutely no problem with sponsored/curated competitions of this kind. If Getty Images wants to support new works by artists, then I’m all for it. That being said, here are the details for “Inspired 2006” (from Shift Blog): “Getty images Japan” carries out a film competition “Inspired 2006”…

  • Rocketman Cafe

    This sounds like a nice way to launch an album, especially since I’m a big fan of Ryo Fukawa. From Patrick’s Agenda: For the month of August, Rice Cafe (a cafe located nearby Komazawa University) is transformed into Rocketman Cafe, celebrating the release of Rocketman‘s great 3rd album “Love, sea & music“. While it doesn’t…

  • New Blog for Cafe Pause

    Another one of the projects I was planning to start during the summer break was a separate blog for all my activities at Cafe Pause. Well, like with the new podcast series, I ended up making a quick site last night, and so might as well make it public now (for you feed addicts, here…

  • LOHAS for Everyone

    You’ve probably noticed me using the term LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) often in my “This Week in Magazines” posts, since it’s become a favorite topic of quite a few magazines. If you’re not really quite sure what the term represents and how it got started, last week’s issue of METROPOLIS had an informative…

  • AtoZ Cafe

    The AtoZ Cafe in Aoyama.

  • JT at Fuji

    THE JAPAN TIMES has just launched its first blog, and it’s to cover this weekend’s Fuji Rock festival. If anyone catches Marxy out there, point to him and laugh — he’ll love you for it!