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As open as Chicago is to experimental new restaurants, one concept has had trouble sticking in the city: the izakaya, a Japanese type of gastropub that serves sake, beer and small plates.

As Time Out Chicago reports, the few experiments in the field so far have struggled. The 2008 opening of Shochu failed to live up to hype, and the restaurant has turned into an ordinary pub. Izakaya Hapa and Masu Izakaya, which opened in the intervening years, have had equally poor success: Masu closed promptly, and Hapa has cut its hours way back.

Onto this scene emerges Chizakaya, apparently a combination of "izakaya" and "Chicago," which opens Thursday night in Lincoln Park. (3056 N. Lincoln Ave., to be precise.) <...
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As a strong, independent female character, Katniss’s narrating skills mainly explore her evolving actions and emotions the further along she gets through the Hunger Games, and later, the rebellion. While this could be seen problematic to translate into comic form, I am confident that the overdrawn emotions characteristic of manga could embody Katniss’s struggle to think like, embody, and act as a killer. She is a powerful character in her own right, and just as she carries the novel with confidence and honesty, a manga character would be able to convey these same emotions.

Point number two: The great literary debate–Peeta vs. Gale. Forget Team Edward or Jacob, the real question on every woman’s mind is how will Katniss choose between these two unbelievabl...
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Check out these Japan images:

THE KENDO KIDS of OLD JAPAN

Image by Okinawa Soba
From a Sample Set of Classic Meiji and Taisho-era Japan Stereoview and Lantern-Slide images by Japanese Photographer T. ENAMI (1859-1929). This image is a half-stereoview crop.

For more details, see : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendo

For more on the Photographer see www.t-enami.org

The MOTHER-LOAD of T. ENAMI images is found HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/collections/7215761388…

RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/

SEPPUKU SAM, THE WILD MAN OF OLD JAPAN — or, How to KILL YOURSELF (After Losing a Game of Tic-Tac-Toe) ??
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The girl originally from Guizhou to study medicine, graduated from West China Medical Tai, Zhou Xianxin was assigned to a state-owned pharmaceutical factory in Guangzhou, the original should be logical to go on living, often because of adventures and life become increasingly exciting. By chance, Zhou Xianxin participated in the "Songs of Japan Automobile Co., Ltd." beauty contest organized by ambassador, won the championship. Together with the winners to Japan's Fuji Television, the Zhou Xianxin met a Japanese girl. She had to stay at the Beijing Film Academy School, will speak Chinese, she was very careful to try to persuade Zhou Xianxin Nortel exam or in the theater, she said her qualifications for an actor. Can not afford to instigate, with the performing arts has always been a bit rest...
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