Waiting for Godzilla is less absurdist angst than its Beckett namesake and more operatic B-movie fantasy. In fact, the piece, by famed composer and…
Small plates but big flavors in Japantown.
When you buy a plant at the S.F. Botanical Garden, you get something extra: status. Buying one at the garden's Lunar New Year Flower…
Soon, revelers around the world will officially usher in the Year of the Rat. Sure, having a verminous mascot head up Lunar New Year…
The astonishingly gutsy filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong doesn't set out to shock viewers. He's just unwilling to flinch from hard truths, be it the taboo…
Last autumn, Japanese artist Katsushige Nakahashi took 20,000 photographs of a single object — a model of a World War II Japanese Kaiten submarine,…
Until pretty recently, Lipton's Orange Pekoe was the only variety of tea most Americans had ever tasted. Basic black may be considered appropriate for…
The world sees the U.S. these days through the prism of ostentatious, explosion-packed superhero and disaster movies. But there was a time when the…
You can get (almost) any kind of Japanese food you want at Hime restaurant
James Joseph Dresnok calls himself a simple man, but he's got secrets to share — or hide. Now in his mid-60s, the bulky, chain-smoking…
