Prapatang living is back as Alex takes the wheel while El Gringo and Makikomo go wwoofing in New Zealand.

Also in the program I mentioned Mundo Popular,  a music event that promotes world music to a wider audience in Japan.

Sunday April 6th, 6pm-10pm
MUNDO POPULAR 6 featuring florencia ruiz TOKYO
@ L'institute Franco-Japonaise, La Brassarie
(http://www.institut.jp/apropos/acces.php）
¥2500 on the door, ¥2000 yen pre booked
Station: Iidabashi

Live Performance :
Florencia Ruiz
Luminous Orange Solo Set
Beakers folklorico japon

DJs :
DJ Syril (medvacances)
Richard Counord (Kind of Blue)
Ryosuke Itoh (Taiyo Record)


Shops :
Tarot readings
Ponto [ Brasilian college T-shirts ]
Chunanbei magazine

Mundo Popular

Also check out this link to Tokyo Cooney's hanami party in Yoyogi

Hanami in Yoyogi

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4月6日（日）06:00 pm - 10:00 pm
MUNDO POPULAR 6 featuring florencia ruiz TOKYO
at �?±京日�?学院ラ・ブラスリー（http://www.institut.jp/apropos/acces.php）

当日 : 2,500円 (ドリンク別) / �?売 : 2,000円 (ドリンク別 )
※�?売券販売 - 大洋レコード�?«�?¦

Live Performance :
フローレンシア・ルイス florencia ruiz
ルミナスオレンジ・ソロ・セット luminous orange solo set
ビーカーズ Beakers folklorico japon

DJs :
DJ Syril (medvacances)
Richard Counord (Kind of Blue)
Ryosuke Itoh (Taiyo Record)

Shops :
�?°れん�?¬�?®タロット�? �?� [ タロット�? �?� ]
ponto [ Brasilian college T-shirts ]
中�?�米マガジン

Clothes Supported : H.P. France [ 衣装�?�力 : アッシュ・ペー・フランス

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This event developed by musician Kristy Farkas and presented at Kobe's Big Apple, will feature five live experimental music bands. Jerry Gordon, Rick Tuazon and Charles Billard (Cloneliness) will perform a 25 minutes set from the second half of the show, from 20:00.

STAGE 1

5:30 California 18
Sakiyama Kazuhiro (drums)
Wada Yoshiharu (bass)
Kinoshita Kazushige (violin)

6:00 Isohata Shin'Ichi (guitar, etc.)
Kristy Farkas (piano, etc.)

6:30 Melagukan
Miyake Woshinichi (s sax, etc)
Suzuki Masaru (banjo, etc)

7:00 Play Plot
Kuramoto Takahiro (tablePc, Viola daGamba)
Morikawa Norie (koto,musical saw)

STAGE 2

8:00 Jerry Gordon (sax, percussion)
Charles-Eric Billard (slitars & effects)
Rick Tuazon (laptop)

8:30 Isohata Shin'ichi (guitar)
Won Jiksoo (vocals, etc.)
Nishikawa Bunsho (guitar)
Toshimori Akira (piano)

9:00 Lonesome Hope (cello, guitar)
Kristy Farkas (piano, etc)

9:30 Open Session

1800yen with reservation (contact 078-251-7049)
2000yen at the door.

Big apple is located a 10 minutes walk away from Sannomiya station.
Visit the Big Apple's web page bekkoame.ne.jp/i/big-apple for directions and decent size map.

Visit myspace.com/andsoon to hear some of the organizer's music samples.

KIX on frisky w/ Dan Elliot (Oasis Lounge)

Thursday, March 13

0700 San Fran
1400 London
2300 Osaka
2700 Auckland

http://www.friskyradio.com

http://www.myspace.com/osakakix

Photo by James, BikeClubOsaka.com

Posted by Rob.

After spending the last two years podcasting about, in and around the bars, cafes, izakaya, pubs, restaurants and tachinomiya of osaka and tokyo, now it's time to cover new territory.

I first came to New Zealand back in late 2000 and stayed for 4 weeks. During that time I got to check out quite a few establishments, not only in Auckland, but also in Wellington, Greymouth, Queenstown, Christchurch and many of the smaller towns along the well worn tourist track (my journal of that trip is packed away in a box someplace in Oklahoma right now, or I'd elaborate further).

So far, the only place I remember which I've been able to return to is Cafe Melba on Vulcan Lane--a great place for breakfast and flat whites. It was a good reference point in the city, and an easy place to meet up with other travelers, back before everyone was carrying cell phones. Nowadays it's crazy busy, but the staff are still friendly and patient.

New places we've checked out include Bouchon (nice salade niçoise) and Fridge (great looking wraps and pies, though we only had tea and coffee) in Kingsland, and Roasted Addiqtion, also in Kingsland, which I'm sure we'll be back to, so I'll be telling you more about it later.

Last night four of us went out downtown to Mezze Bar on Durham Street. I had a Green Fern organic lager while the others had tea and desserts. Looking around, it appeared the crowd were mostly locals out for an evening meal (unfortunately, we'd already had dinner). Many were sharing bottles of wine, however, I didn't see any beer on tap, and the drink prices seemed like they were set to keep out the riffraff, which seemed to be working as I didn't notice any backpacker or student looking types in a joint that was otherwise pretty casual. It would be a nice bet for a first date, but please, $14 caipirinhas? That's over 1100 yen, and this ain't Tokyo! In Brazil, a bottle of cachaça only costs... ah, nevermind.

Anyway, Makiko and I will keep you posted as Andrew, Claire and other friends introduce us to new spots around Auckland and elsewhere.

Photo: Makiko's chicken and apricot sauce sandwich at a sidewalk cafe in Coromandel, very appropriately named Coromandel Cafe. The sandwich had nice veggies in it including beets. Mmm. I had the fish and chips.

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Kingsland, Auckland, New Zealand, Cafe Melba, Bouchon, Fridge, Roasted Addiqtion, Mezze Bar, カフェ, �ー, オークランド, ニュージーランド

NFTOS regular Okha a.k.a. Flying Koala recently had a birthday, and Hans a.k.a. h-monster, O Irmão da Xuxa, MC Luncbox, etc, is currently having his.

Posted by Rob

Tags: NFTOS, camping, wwoof.org, organic, Coromandel Peninsula, Waikawau, Cathedral Cove, Hot Water Beach, organic, Auckland, New Zealand, ニュージーランド

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News From The Other Side started out as an online community on groups.msn.com in early 2001. It served as a travel blog and art gallery, and provided the network for our first group art show in Seoul, Korea, in 2004. Since then we've had 3 more group shows, 2 in Osaka and one in Tokyo.

In the 7 years which have passed, the old MSN community got deleted once and came back, and this weblog and podcast have since emerged. Most who know about NFTOS are probably only familiar with the latter, while many more have probably only seen the NFTOS videos on YouTube, MySpace or Revver.

So, what's next? Hopefully another art show in the not so distant future, but for now, Makiko and I are in New Zealand staying with friends Claire and Andrew (a regular participant in NFTOS art shows). We'll be doing some volunteer organic farming, or wwoofing, then we'll probably try to find jobs and it will be back to business as usual. In the meantime, you can help keep this thing going by telling your art-culture-music-travel oriented friends about NFTOS. Make sure to subscribe to us on iTunes--newsfromtheotherside--it's free! And, if you're feeling generous, send us a PayPal donation!

Posted by Rob.

Panic Living video player.

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, 209radio.co.uk, Headstand, Patrick Widdess, Rob a.k.a. El Gringo

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Rob and Makiko's wedding at Matsuo Shrine, Kyoto, through Okha's camera.

Posted by Rob.

Check out the wonderful world of Yo.

CONGRATULATIONS YO!!

Posted by Rob.

Better renditions have been performed for sure, but none have been filmed.

iTunes version coming as soon as we have enough storage. Since we are on holiday, we're going with the cheapest account for now. You can help upload podcasts more frequently by donating. Just click on the PayPal button in the upper right hand corner.

Posted by Rob.

Tags: NFTOS, Rob, El Gringo, Jonny Heartbreaker, Hans, makikomo.com

Posted by Makiko.

"Thank you to those who came to the opening of "3-D Images and Videos" exhibition opening event, February 23rd. It was a really enjoyable event for me and I was happy to gather such fine performers. Here are some pictures of the event, and the link to "Cube Taisou" (cube gymnastics) 3-D video, all viewable with red and blue glasses." -Charles

Cube Taisou video: http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=WZKNl48XUx0