HAPPENING
LE BAL
Tonight is the night. Every two weeks people my age meet at L'Elysee Montmartre a concert hall in Pigalle. The place usually closes down around eleven p.m after pop-rock shows are over. But for over a year L'Elysee Mo...
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PEOPLE
KARL HYDE
Considering I see Underworld more often than I see my Mum, I know precious little about them other than the obvious.A year off after their seminal success with Born Slippy and Second Toughestin the Infants, they are o...
THINGS
DEREK JARMAN “GLITTERBUG”
Dedicated to the glitter. The Life, love and work Derek Jarman went though. "Why I like this film is that everyone just laughes in there, feeling no pressure at all" - Derek Jarman Glitterbug includes a lot of ...
HAPPENING
NEST “CIRCULATION MODULE”
Nest has been fascinating audiences by its powerful danceing to the beat of Techno sounds since 1991 when it presented "Never More". After a year from the successful performance "UT" in Slovackia, Nest has just perfor...
HAPPENING
TAKESHI KITANO “HANA-BI”
HANA-BI (Fireworks), 1997, Takeshi Kitano HANA-BI (Fireworks) directed by Takeshi Kitano won the grand-prix at the last Venezia Film Festival. Prior to the roadshow in Tokyo, Takashi Kitano Gallery was held featu...
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MAYA MAXX “COME HERE, LOVE IS HERE”
Known as a painter who drew the cover of 'Junior Sweet' by Chara and Honey Moon by Banana Yoshimoto, MAYA MAXX, the originator of the recent boom of cute and punkish illustrations, through this exhibition. "The...
HAPPENING
REAL WORLD WEB
What is it like if the web space is juxstaposed and expressed corresponding to this real world? Sony Computer Science Laboratory underwent an unique installation project in which the laboratory's own websit...
HAPPENING
HAJIME TACHIBANA EXHIBITION
Hajime Tachibana's solo exhibition is being held at P-HOUSE, Shibuya. After the period of '75 to '80, worked as a member of the Plastics, a legendary techno band, he started acting as a pioneer in the field of CG ...
THINGS
THE NEW YEAR MOVIES LINEUP
There are more movies worthy called The New Year Movies than last year. We've got Chow Yun Fat back with a Hollywood movie and films of Jackie Chan and Chow Sing Chi. Also, Michelle Yeou is staring in 007. Can these ...
PEOPLE
PHIL CHOWDRY
The world style and gossip press seem obsessed with the stars and starlets of fashion and beauty, looking to them for examples and answers of how to live, how to dress and how to act. Problem is; stars are human and t...
HAPPENING
THE END OF A CENTURY
It has been observed that as the world reaches the end of a century, culture, expecting a new order from the following century, goes beserk. This is no more evident than in the tendency towards opulence and decadence,...
PLACE
SPANKING HARDCORE FLAVORS
Well, if it ain't from London, than it ain't hip. At least that's how it seems from here, with the huge rise of bands like Radiohead who recently played in the Hammerstein Ballroom to great raves, accompanied by a 1 h...
