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Rage Against the Machine

This bunch of left-wing rockers have been phenomenally popular in Japan since the early-1990s, and have spawned a host of local imitation bands entranced by their mixture of heavy-duty rapping over a hard rock beat. It's taken the band a while to get here since the release of their last album, 'The Battle of Los Angeles', but now they are obviously out to make an impression by playing one of the biggest venues in the Tokyo area, a 20-minute ride out of the city centre by express train.

Modern Green Bar

Although it doesn't have a late licence, the Modern Green Bar is establishing itself as a venue for choice sounds. With DJs seven nights a week, playing a mix of R&B, soul and cool jazz tunes, the Wexford Street venue is coming into its own. This stretch of the south city, from Georges Street to Portobello, is the place to be with a host of pubs, music venues and restaurants to choose from. In response, the Modern has lined up the likes of Dec Comisky, Peter Kelly and Jim Carroll to take charge of the decks.

Tibrocity: Design and Undesign by Tibor Kalman

Former Benetton magazine design honcho Tibor Kalman prepared this retrospective shortly before his untimely death in 1999. 'Tiborocity' features Kalman's ideas and projects in a setting designed to evoke a mythical 'village', divided into nine sites that serve as metaphors for the themes that influenced his work - including a classroom, a prison cell and a museum of practical ideas. Some 200 works, selected by the designer, encapsulate his lasting contribution to film, video and industrial design.

Pre-Raphaelite Paintings

England's Manchester City Art Gallery, renowned for its stunning collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, has loaned a good few of its Victorian beauties to this prestigious gallery on the 42nd floor of the Yasuda insurance building. Paintings on display include Dante Gabriel Rossetti's images of Elizabeth Siddal, the wavy-haired red-head who obsessed him before he subsequently married, buried and then exhumed her to retrieve some poetry - that he'd placed in her coffin - for publication.

Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho's hilarious, self-deprecating stand-up comedy quickly earned her a cult following as a kind of Korean-American Woody Allen or Richard Pryor in 1990s. A TV sitcom followed in 1994 on Fox, but the network's suits watered down most of her ethnicity humor, which defeated the purpose and the show - it bombed after only five months. Her fall from grace hit her hard, but she eventually came back fighting with 'I'm the One That I Want,' an uplifting and hilarious autobiographical comedy tale about defeat and redemption. Catch this final live performance of the show which is being turned into a feature film.