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Category: City Life

  • Mu Art Cafe

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    I forgot to mention it in my Roppongi travelogue the other day, but I also spotted this place called Mu Art Cafe in the TV Asahi building (it’s on the street side). There’s a small cafe area inside, but most of the space is taken up by various artworks for sale. A small window-side corridor…

  • An Afternoon in Roppongi

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    Yesterday I managed to get out of my futon (something that’s been extremely difficult with the recent cold spell) and made it out to Roppongi, or more specifically Roppongi Hills, to meet up with Jim Frederick, TIME magazine’s Tokyo bureau chief and co-author of the recent Charles Jenkins autobiography (which is still only available in…

  • Canadian Style

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    If you’re reading this post in a browser and not a feed reader (well, unless you’re doing it through Bloglines, which happens to be my reader of choice) you’ll notice an updated theme, and it’s of course in support of the next event I’m producing at Cafe Pause (which is now pictured in the site’s…

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Omotesando Hills Opening Soon Akihabara Tour You can read all of my Gridskipper contributions here.

  • The Love of Sleep

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    One thing I always appreciate when Momus spends time in Japan is that his blog, Click Opera, suddenly gets a very heavy Japan focus. Today, the topic is sleep, and he also connects it to the magazine KU:NEL. In a related note, when I was talking with the staff at Cafe Pause this week about…

  • YMCK Mini-Live

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    YMCK play fun bossonova-induced 8-bit melodies, and according to Patrick’s Agenda, they’re holding a free mini-live this coming Sunday (January 8) at Tower Records Shinjuku at 16:00. His post has a few more details.

  • Workshop with Samira Boon

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    The TRAVELING GAS SHOP will be holding a workshop with designer Samira Boon (of BOONDESIGN) this month on creating 3D objects from one sheet of material. More info here.

  • Book Cover Exhibition

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    For all you book binding fetishists (Craig, I’m thinking of you): When you leave Ochanomizu station, cross the Hijiribashi bridge, and walk along Sotoboridori toward Akihabara with Yushima Seido on your left, you will find on your right a small shop named Misuzudo. It belongs to a book bindery, the main factory of which is…