We’re talking about ice wine from Canada, the grand opening of the new Tokyo Skytree shopping center and tower, Bootsy Collins, the eclipse, coffee shops in Tokyo, and the new size of our magazine, plus we’re reading some of your comments from out Facebook page.
Here’s the link to our FaceBook page: http://www.facebook.com/MetropolisMagazine
"Fly by Night"
Our friend and former CNN anchor Dalton Tanonaka talks with “Hawk” the CEO of a new airline that employs some unusual ideas to provide the very lowest prices in his new no-frills airline. You’ll need to hear this to believe it.
Jeff Richards, Editor-in-Chief, METROPOLIS magazine
We’re talking with Jeff Richards about what’s in the mag and on the cover. Additionally, we’re joined by Mike DeJong, editor-in-chief of ACCJ Journal, who wrote the LAST WORD in this week’s edition who addresses the problem parents and children separated by divorce.
Steve Cropper, Photo by Don Chapman
Mr. Cropper at Okura hotel lobby
Your humble interviewer/podcaster felt extremely fortunate to be honored to conduct this interview with Steve Cropper a living legend in the world of rock n roll and soul.
Check date, time and location of Tokyo performances on this poster.
Golden Week Quickie
We asked out staff at Metropolis magazine and we received so many different, and interesting answers. Listen!
Jeff Richards
Listen to Win a Pair of FREE tickets to see Design Festa!
Once again, we find our microphones at the desk of JEFF RICHARDS editor-in-chief of Japan’s #1 English language magazine talking about the new Hooters and the Solar eclipse to be televised from Mt. Fuji.
Along the way, we also talk with promoter TAKESHI ARAKI of Tokyo’s biggest art festival DESIGN FESTA. In this podcast -and for a very limited time- he’s offering 10 PAIRS of FREE TICKETS to this years event to the first 10 people to send an email to me at kong@metropolis.co.jp Be sure to include your snail-mail address because we’ll mail the tickets to you.
Martini Burger
Elliot Bergman
Also in this MetPod, we take our microphones out to Kagurazaka, the French town area of Tokyo to talk with ELIOT BERGMAN the owner and creator of a Martini Burger.
Backstage with Nile Rodgers
We were granted the rare opportunity to go backstage at the TOKYO BLUE NOTE to talk with our long time friend, Super Producer NILE RODGERS. In this short interview, Nile tells us about his upcoming book, the two musicals he’s producing, his favorite Japanese artists, what he likes to do in his free time in Japan. And there’s much more. Check it out, listen now.
Nile’s Blog: http://nilerodgers.tumblr.com/
TOKYO BLUE NOTE: http://www.bluenote.co.jp/jp/index.html
Among other things we’re talking about burgers, and that burger on the cover.
Burger Model: Teddy’s Bigger Burger,
Jeff Richards
Hear directly from the editor-in-chief about items of interest in our current edition and what’s planned for some of our future editions. Also, please forgive my horrible cold….ugh. More vitamin C, orange juice and rest!
Tokyo Tower Burger
Omotaesando model love Teddy's
Burger creator Ted Tsakiris has recently arrived in Tokyo to re-tune his namesake TEDDY’S BIGGER BURGERS in Tokyo located between Harajuku and Shibuya. In our one-on-one interview, Ted tells us what he’s done to get his burgers back on parr with the burgers in his famous shops in Hawaii. Along the way he shares some of the challenges of operating a business in Japan.
Ted Tsakiris
