Fork in the Road
4:26 pm
May. 25, 2012
Say Goodbye to 9 Restaurant, Nolita House
By Clarissa Wei
It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Know of any restaurants or bars opening or closing? Drop us a line.
Eric Hara's 9 has shuttered. The number to the restaurant is disconnected and even the web...
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Fork in the Road
4:22 pm
May. 25, 2012
Beer UP: Two Brothers Domaine DuPage
By Eric Sundermann
Beer UP is an attempt to examine as many of the fine craft brews across the country as possible. Following the Beer Judge Certification Program guidelines, the rubric has five* simple categor...
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Runnin' Scared
3:31 pm
May. 25, 2012
Feds Take Down Major Oxycodone Trafficking Ring
By Graham Rayman
In a case that probably should have gotten more attention than it did, federal prosecutors took down a major prescription drug trafficking organization this week, indicting Jose Garcia Acosta and ...
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Runnin' Scared
3:09 pm
May. 25, 2012
Report: Long Islanders Love Drugs
By James King
If you live on Long Island, there's a pretty good chance that you absolutely love drugs -- and we're not talking about weed, we're talking about real drugs like heroin, Oxycontin, and other opiat...
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Fork in the Road
2:37 pm
May. 25, 2012
Robert Sietsema at Little Pepper; Tejal Rao at La Vara
By Clarissa Wei
See what NYC's restaurant critics have been up to this week:
Robert Sietsema tries the Sichuan fare at Little Pepper: "The tiny chunks of light and dark meat lurk among bales of toasted red chi...
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Fork in the Road
2:15 pm
May. 25, 2012
This Week's Specials: Lamb Dishes and Shrimp Heads
By Clarissa Wei
Robert Sietsema gives the run-down on New York City's best lamb dishes.
Thinking of going camping over the long weekend? We give you five ideas for outdoor eats: mason jar cocktails, spiced chi...
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Runnin' Scared
12:27 pm
May. 25, 2012
Etan Patz Arrest: Is It Really An Open and Shut Case?
By Graham Rayman
Is there a problem with the arrest in the Etan Patz case? So wonders New York Times Columnist Jim Dwyer in today's newspaper.
Dwyer suggests that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Mayor Bloomber...
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La Daily Musto
12:15 pm
May. 25, 2012
A New Word For The Lexicon: "Travolted"
By Michael Musto
A dear friend of mine, Brian Belovitch, has sardonically coined a brand new word to add to our vocabularies:
travolted: the act of being aggressively caressed and grabbed between your legs dur...
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Runnin' Scared
12:10 pm
May. 25, 2012
Pot Policies: Weed's Legal Use Might Widen in Arizona
By Victoria Bekiempis
New York still hasn't decided whether it's going to OK medical marijuana, but more developments across the U.S. suggest that it's spreading -- though with some legal blowback from the U.S. courts...
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La Daily Musto
12:00 pm
May. 25, 2012
The 10 Biggest Box Office Movies Of All Time
By Michael Musto
If you look that up, you'll generally find a list that includes a bunch of recent films, both animated and comic bookish, and all very large and loud.
But boxofficemojo.com took the time to adjus...
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La Daily Musto
11:00 am
May. 25, 2012
BeBe Zahara Benet Is Quite A Creature
By Michael Musto
Last night at xl, BeBe Zahara Benet--the very first winner of RuPaul's Drag Race--proved she truly earned her crown.
The Cameroon-born drag star put on her elaborately entertaining Beto Sutter-pr...
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Fork in the Road
11:00 am
May. 25, 2012
Are Food Critics Worthless?
By Tejal Rao
Gawker really hates people who care about food! First food threatened music and Hamilton Nolan slammed the whole food-is-the-new-rock thing (Nolan was more articulate about this on WNYC recently, ...
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Runnin' Scared
10:32 am
May. 25, 2012
Is Google Censoring Links?
By Victoria Bekiempis
Not too long ago, there was talk that the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and the Recording Industry Association of America might sue Google, claiming that the web behemoth h...
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La Daily Musto
10:29 am
May. 25, 2012
The Best Explanation Of Fame I've Ever Heard
By Michael Musto
I'm always amazed by celebrities who crave fame and claw their way to the top to get it, then resent anyone who so much as looks their way, while also hoping to keep the attention coming, bizarre...
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La Daily Musto
10:00 am
May. 25, 2012
Bernadette Peters Admits She May Have Aged A Tiny Bit
By Michael Musto
The timeless Bernadette Peters was the guest of honor at a New Dramatists Luncheon at the Marriott Marquis yesterday, where she was serenaded by costars Elaine Stritch and John Dossett and honored...
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Sound of the City
9:30 am
May. 25, 2012
Dead Sara Will Set Your Stereo On Fire (In A Good Way)
By Maura Johnston
A few weeks ago I was perusing the Billboard Rock Songs chart, which at present shows a genre in crisis—its ranks are split between the staggering dinosaurs of the nu-metal era, a few poppi...
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La Daily Musto
9:30 am
May. 25, 2012
My Tony Predictions Will Air Tonight On Theater Talk
By Michael Musto
Tonight at 1 A.M. on Channel 13, the long-running Theater Talk presents its usual array of experts offering educated guesses as to who'll cop the Tony awards on June 10.
Jesse Green (New York mag...
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