Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

At the 50th Grammys at Staples Center, Amy Winehouse won five awards including Record of the Year for "Rehab" while performing by satellite from London, and Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters upset her for Album of the Year, the first jazz album to win in 43 years.

Kyoto Isetan’s italian venue offers a verified, dated autumn menu: Kyoto rice and Tamba shimeji mixed-mushroom tomato-cream risotto.

Kyoto Isetan’s japanese venue offers a verified, dated autumn menu: Mackerel sushi and yuba-mushroom nyumen set.

Adif's Madrid–Barcelona high-speed line opened in full on 20 February 2008, cutting the 621km journey to about 2 hours 30 minutes and becoming the backbone of the AVE network that engineering crews are now upgrading for 350km/h running.

An Osu counter bistro serving shareable French dishes, quenelle and Madame’s desserts, with a changing blackboard menu.

Baccano! Bangai-hen premieres, three DVD-exclusive episodes rounding out Brain's Base's adaptation of Ryohgo Narita's light novels with extra material for the 1930s Prohibition-era cast.

On Sunday 16 March 2008 JPMorgan Chase agreed to buy the collapsing Bear Stearns at US$2 a share, with the New York Fed funding US$30 billion of its assets and the Fed opening a new lending facility to primary dealers.

Visa priced its initial public offering of 406 million Class A shares at US$44 on 18 March 2008, and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on 19 March under the symbol V, raising about US$17.9 billion in what was then the largest US IPO.

International buffets and a priced à la carte menu, with a published children’s dining benefit.

Still working to get his wish complete, Watanuki finds himself into more mess than he can handle when certain facts about his everyday life gets revealed and when he needs to learn the lesson of Yuuko the hard way.

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2, Sunrise's second-season continuation of the mecha-political thriller, begins airing as exiled prince Lelouch vi Britannia resumes his hidden war against the Britannian Empire.

Soul Eater begins broadcast, Bones' adaptation of Atsushi Ohkubo's manga set at the Death Weapon Meister Academy, where weapon-and-meister pairs collect souls to forge new Death Scythes while defending Death City from monsters.

M.S.C releases Tennis no Ouji-sama: Zenkoku Taikai-hen Final, the concluding OVA arc of the Prince of Tennis National Tournament storyline, as Seigaku faces the tournament's strongest team, Rikkaidai.

Rockstar North's Grand Theft Auto IV went on sale on 29 April 2008 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, taking players to Liberty City as Niko Bellic. Take-Two said it sold about 3.6 million copies, worth roughly US$310 million, on its first day.

Hajime Yoneda’s restaurant explores nature, Earth and the universe through a lengthy tasting experience. Current standard and vegetable menus are ¥89,000, plus 15% service.

A Ms 8.0 (Mw 7.9) earthquake hit Sichuan at 14:28 on 12 May 2008, leaving more than 69,000 dead, about 18,000 missing and at least 4.8 million homeless.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian is a 2008 high fantasy film, directed by Andrew Adamson, and written by Adamson, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It is based on the 1951 novel Prince Caspian, the second in the children's book series by C. S. Lewis, and the second installment in The Chronicles of Narnia film series.

At the 43rd Academy of Country Music Awards on 18 May 2008, the first in which fans chose Entertainer of the Year, Kenny Chesney won a fourth straight time at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, with Garth Brooks given the first Crystal Milestone Award.

Russia's first new post-Soviet airliner, the Sukhoi Superjet 100 prototype, took off from Komsomolsk-on-Amur on 19 May 2008 and flew for 1 hour 5 minutes to 1,200 m with test pilots Alexander Yablontsev and Leonid Chikunov.

Hal Film Maker releases Aria the Origination: That Little Secret Place..., a bonus special adapting a bridging chapter of the Aria manga and set between episodes five and six of the Aria the Origination TV series.

Andrew Stanton's WALL-E opened in US theaters on 27 June 2008, following a lone trash-compacting robot on a deserted Earth in 2805. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Jan De Nul's Cristóbal Colón, a 223-metre dredger with a 46,000 cubic metre hopper, was launched at the La Naval shipyard in Sestao, Spain on 4 July 2008, becoming the largest trailing suction hopper dredger ever built.

Yuno, Miyako, Hiro, Sae and the rest of the denizens of the most fascinating piece of surreal estate in Japan are back.

Natsume has always been an outcast because he inherited his grandmother's ability to see yokai.

The first Boeing 777 Freighter took off from Paine Field at 10 a.m. PDT on 14 July 2008, flew for just over three and a half hours and returned to Paine Field after a data-link problem.

Kyoto Animation releases Clannad: Another World, Tomoyo Chapter, a single-episode OVA retelling the anime's finale from an alternate timeline centered on Tomoya and Tomoyo's relationship.

Studio Ghibli's Ponyo opened in Japanese theaters on 19 July 2008 on a then-record 481 screens for a domestic film. Hayao Miyazaki's seaside fantasy follows a goldfish princess who wants to become human.

On 28 July 2008 Emirates received its first A380 at Airbus's Hamburg plant and unveiled a cabin with first-class showers and an onboard lounge. The Gulf carrier, the biggest A380 customer with 58 ordered, flew it Dubai to New York on 1 August.

InuYasha: Kuroi Tessaiga debuts, a 30-minute InuYasha special screened at Rumiko Takahashi manga exhibitions across Japan before it was later folded, slightly re-edited, into an episode of InuYasha: The Final Act.