Stones play long-awaited Glastonbury festival gig

PILTON, England (AP) ― There’s a first time for everything, even if you’re the Rolling Stones.The rock rabble-rousers who formed half a century ago played Britain’s Glastonbury Festival on Saturday, their debut appearance at the country’s most prestigious rock music event.A majority of the 135,000 festival ticket-holders crammed into the fields in front of Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage for the gig, which opened with a rousing “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”As on recent tour dates, the Stones gave fans a fis

PerformanceJune 30, 2013

Husband, wife duo bring the funk as Southway

The free-spirited musician Shaun Southway, a U.K. native and self-proclaimed “wandering, traveling troubadour,” first came to Korea on vacation visiting a friend in 2006. Enthralled upon his arrival, he immersed himself with the vibrant local music scene ― so much to the point where he decided that he had to return to the country.“I came here and the energy was just full on,” said Shaun. “I just got hooked. There’s so much going on here musically.”In 2008, while with some friends in a club in It

PerformanceJune 30, 2013

Celebrity chef Paula Deen loses more deals, but book sales soar

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ― U.S. celebrity chef Paula Deen saw more lucrative deals evaporate despite her renewed apologies for using a racial slur, as retailer Target Corp, drug company Novo Nordisk A/S, Sears, J.C. Penney and Walgreen joined the list of sponsors distancing themselves from the doyenne of Southern cooking. But in a sign that Deen could make a comeback, her upcoming cookbook “Paula Deen’s New Testament,” which features “lightened up” recipes, shot to the top of the Amazon books best-

PeopleJune 30, 2013

Life’s little luxuries at outdoor art event

Seoul’s Gwanghwamun area attracts many visitors throughout the year, as it is located near the beautiful Gyeongbokgung Palace and the charming Samcheong-dong, which boasts a tasteful mix of traditional hanok buildings, cozy cafes and contemporary art galleries. A major spot in the area is Sejong Center of the Performing Arts, which is just across the street from Kyobo Book Centre, one of the biggest bookstores in the country. Most people visit the venue for big-name operas, musicals and ballets,

PerformanceJune 28, 2013

Around the hotels

Special summer menu at Hyatt Regency Incheon Restaurant 8 at Hyatt Regency Incheon presents its summer special menu from July 1 featuring health foods in Korean, Japanese and Chinese traditional style. The menus include croaker soup and duck boiled with nureungji (a thin crust of scorched rice); steamed Korean “ogol” chicken with pine mushrooms seasoned with XO sauce and cold noodles; and some of the most famous Japanese health foods: eel, roasted abalone, and sea urchin eggs. The summer menus a

FoodJune 28, 2013

Shake the summer heat

Ice cream and milkshakes make for great treats. Treats that Cho Sang-hyun developed a taste for while studying abroad in America. Eager to share his passion for ice cream by opening a parlor in South Korea, Cho searched high and low for what he deemed the right combination of texture, sweetness and flavor. “I wanted something not too sweet but still rich,” Cho said. He found what he was looking for in Singapore, at Once Upon a Milkshake, an ice cream parlor chain that first opened in 2009. This

FoodJune 28, 2013

New trends in Japanese dining presented at Namu

W Seoul-Walkerhill has recently recruited renowned Japanese Chef Miyake Kazuya from Tokyo to introduce the latest trends in Japanese cuisine at the hotel’s contemporary Japanese restaurant Namu. The chef has vast experience ranging from traditional Japanese cuisine to contemporary cooking. “I’ll keep presenting new menus in a creative food style that fuses the latest culinary trends and traditional tastes of Japanese cuisine,” Chef Kazuya told The Korea Herald. Some of his newly created dishes m

FoodJune 28, 2013

Jaengban guksu, (cold noodles with vegetables)

 Jaengban guksu is a cold noodle dish served in a large platter with lots of fresh vegetables. It’s usually for more than one person and is meant to be shared at the table. Jaengban guksu is a type of bibim guksu, which typically is mixed with a tangy and spicy red chili pepper sauce. I used green tea noodles here, but you can use any noodles you want. Also, it’s versatile, so you can use almost any salad vegetables you like, such as bell peppers, onions, bean sprouts and spinach. If you have le

FoodJune 28, 2013

Box office: Side Effects, Cold Eyes, White House Down

Side EffectsOpening July 11Thriller. Crime. Drama. Directed by Steven SoderberghEmily Taylor (Rooney Mara), despite having recently reunited with her husband Martin Taylor (Channing Tatum) after his release from prison, is severely depressed. To treat her condition, her psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks (Jude Law), prescribes an unconfirmed new medication called Ablixa. But Emily’s world turns upside down when the side effects of the drug lead her to kill her husband while sleepwalking. In a plea bar

FilmJune 28, 2013

Eyelike: Natalie Maines shines on 1st solo album

Natalie Maines shines on 1st solo albumNatalie Maines“Mother”(Columbia)Natalie Maines‘ first solo album continues her movement into a deeply considered, provocative form of polished adult rock heard on her last recording, the Dixie Chicks’ 2006 award-winning ``Take the Long Way Home.‘’ As with that album, Maines sets aside the cheeky playfulness that marked her success in country music. Instead, she carefully curates an album of covers and originals by other writers -- with one strong original,

PerformanceJune 28, 2013

Bullock and McCarthy bull their way to laughs in ‘The Heat’

Give it up for Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. You’ll never see them work harder at comedy than in “The Heat,” a stumbling, aggressively loud and profane cop buddy picture where they struggle to wring “funny” out of a script that isn’t.Plot? It’s more a collection of scenes that force the stars to riff and riff until something coarse and amusing comes out, topped by something else coarser and more amusing. Instructions must have read, “Sandy and Melissa go to a dance club, where Melissa hac

FilmJune 28, 2013

Options for seeing the Statue of Liberty

NEW YORK (AP) ― The Statue of Liberty is scheduled to reopen to visitors on July Fourth for the first time since Superstorm Sandy. But for those who just want a photo op with the statue, there are many other vantage points, from Red Hook, Brooklyn, and Governors Island, to a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. The Staten Island ferry takes you right past the statue for free, while those on bigger budgets can reserve a room with a view at the luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel. Here are some ways to get a gr

TravelJune 28, 2013

Up close with animals of Africa

CAPETOWN, South Africa ― “What will you do?” our mustachioed safari guide Deon Gericke asked. Each of us in turn gave our guesses on how to best to survive an impromptu encounter with a lion in the wild.“Firstly, take your glasses off and make eye contact because eyes on the front is a meat eater. Eyes over here is an herbivore,” he continued, pointing to the side of his head. “The lions know that, so hopefully they are going to be backing off and look at me and see that I am meat eater.” Some 3

TravelJune 28, 2013

Calendar

Pop music“2013 Ansan Valley Rock Festival”: As Korea’s biggest rock festival, the Valley Rock Festival presents one of the best line-ups of big musicians from Korea and abroad such as this year’s headliners The Cure, NiN, Skrillex, the Foals, the XX, My Bloody Valentine, Idiotape, Peppertones and many others. This year’s festival has moved from Jisan Resort to the Daebu Sea Breeze Theme Park. The three-day festival will be held July 26-28. Ticket prices are 120,000 won for a one-day pass, 230,00

CultureJune 28, 2013

Lee Seung-chul is back, tops K-pop Billboard

Best known as the former lead vocalist of the famed Korean rock band Boohwal and a judge on singing audition program “Superstar K,” singer Lee Seung-chul has topped the K-pop Billboard charts for the first time in his 27-year career with his new rock ballad single “My Love.” Lee released his latest 10-track album, also titled “My Love,” on June 18, making it his 11th studio album and his first full album release in almost four years. After debuting in 1989 as a member of the still-ongoing rock b

PerformanceJune 28, 2013

Korean literature has distant outpost in Poland

Before Polish publisher Marzena Stefanska founded her own publishing company, Kwiaty Orientu, in 2007, there were only 15 Polish-language books about Korea available in her home country.Stefanska, who studied Korean literature at the University of Warsaw, initially wanted to work as a full-time Korean-Polish translator. She decided to found a publishing company after finding it difficult to find publishers to release her translated works. Since 2007, Stefanska has introduced some 20 works of Kor

BooksJune 27, 2013