There was a time, not too many years ago, when Yoko’s was the only place in Central Oregon to go for sushi.The original Yoko’s was on Bond Street in downtown Bend, virtually next door to the Deschutes Brewery restaurant between Greenwood and Oregon avenues. It was named for Yoko Funabashi, who opened the restaurant with partner Steve DePatie in 1989. Funabashi left Bend for Portland in 1994, but
It seems not so long ago when six first-grade moms from White Oak Elementary School in Westlake Village regularly got together for tea and scones. Yoko Washkewicz cherishes those get-togethers, which continue to this day, although the kids are now in the sixth grade.
Near the end of Matthew Barney's visually spellbinding film "Drawing Restraint 9," a work that might be described as his "Moby-Dick," the voice of his co-star, Bjork, repeats a life-affirming motto in broken musical phrases: "From the moment of commitment, nature conspires to help you."
At Edelstein boarding school, the schoolboys wear lip-gloss, the headmistress has a weakness for homoerotic comic books, and there is only one subject: how to serve female visitors.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese carbon fiber makers Teijin Ltd and Mitsubishi Chemical Corp said on Friday that they each plan to start supplying fiber-made parts to carmakers by 2010. The move is in response to growing demand from carmakers for light but strong parts to boost fuel efficiency as consumers grapple with soaring oil prices and have become more conscious of global warming when making a
Dorothy Podber, a wild child of the New York art scene in the 1950s and '60s who is probably best known for brandishing a pistol and putting a bullet through the forehead of Marilyn Monroe's likenesses on a stack of Andy Warhol's paintings, died at her apartment in Manhattan on Feb. 9. She was 75.
A curved, UFO-shaped art pavilion designed by top architect Zaha Hadid has landed in Hong Kong on the first leg of a two-year global promotional tour for art inspired by luxury goods brand Chanel.
Op-Ed Article Date: 02/28/2008 While it is perfectly acceptable for tabloid newspapers in the UK to titillate their readers with female breasts and nipples galore without a murmur from the nation’s largest newsagent with branches in every high street, when a lesbian magazine produces a cover that shows part of one breast, sans nipple, all hell lets loose.