Austria

The Third Man's Wolfgang Ban Explores the 'Secret' East Village

January in New York is well-suited to a cloak and dagger mentality and these dark and stormy days can set the stage for some equally heady nights in our suddenly-eerie metropolis. Our advice? Embrace that film noir feeling and grab a drink at The Third Man, the new cocktail den on Avenue C from th ... More >>

Venues Can't Serve Alcohol To Women With No Underwear on and Other Things You Learn Talking To R.A. the Rugged Man

Tonight, one of underground rap's most notorious legends, R.A. the Rugged Man, throws his own birthday bash at Drom. Joining him for tonight's shindig are critically acclaimed West Coast MC Blu and politically charged syllable killer Diabolic. We spoke to R.A. about completing another Rugged year, r ... More >>

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Shape of Wine Glass May Affect Taste of Wine

Can the shape of your wine glass affect the taste of the wine? According to the people over at The Guardian -- maybe. Felicity Cloake, the publication's food and wine reporter writes: "...in Austria, a ninth-generation glassmaker called Claus Riedel was theorising glass shapes' effect on wine. The ... More >>

The USA Champion Barista on Her Signature Beverage

The past weekend at the United States Barista Championship in Portland, Katie Carguilo of Counter Culture Coffee defeated 54 other contestants to become the first New Yorker ever to win the competition. This summer, she'll travel to Vienna to represent the United States in the World Barista Champion ... More >>

My 5 Favorite NYC Hot Dogs

​At Shake Shack, our own approximation of the Chicago dog. Whether you call them frankfurters, wieners, tube steaks, or floaters, New York City is the hot dog capital of the world. And here are my five favorite local evocations of the silky sausage that came here from Frankfurt or Vienna, d ... More >>

Our 10 Best New York City Restaurant Cookbooks

Going out to dinner in New York City can be an expensive endeavor, with entrée prices clocking in at $30. But you can eat four-star food at a fraction of the price: Cook it yourself using the restaurant's cookbook. Now, cookbook love is like any other type of love -- wildly subjective. Yet some of ... More >>

Time Magazine Names 'The Protester' Person of the Year

​For Time's annual "Person of the Year" issue, they've chosen "The Protester." The Awl announces, "Okay, yay, we won!" The spread features simple portraits of and interviews with protesters from around the world -- Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Spain, and right here in the U.S. The attached cover ... More >>

Wallsé Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner on Neue Cuisine and the Rise of Austrian Food

Photo courtesy Kurt GutenbrunnerSample Kurt's food at the Neue Galerie or from Neue Cuisine​Kurt Gutenbrunner is a busy man. Not only does he run the show at acclaimed Austrian restaurants Wallsé, Café Sabarsky, and Blaue Gans, he just last week opened the beer garden at the Standard Hotel ... More >>

Rightbloggers Discover the Real Victims of Norway Mass Murderer Breivik: Themselves

As you probably heard, someone bombed downtown Oslo, Norway and shot up kids in nearby Utoya, killing 93 people. it turns out that the suspect is not a jihadist but an anti-jihadist -- Anders Behring Breivik, a real deport-them-all, Norway-for-the-Norwegians type who denounced "multiculturalism," "p ... More >>

Amorino Is Bringing Italian-Style French Gelato to Greenwich Village

Lauren ShockeyYessssss​Who says great gelato has to come from Italy? Indeed, Greenwich Village is about to become home to Amorino, a French company peddling the frozen delight.

Hofbrau Bierhaus Is a Real Brew-haha

Noisy-ass beer garden blasts into Midtown from Munich

RECESSIONISM EXPRESSIONISM

Views from MOMA's basement

Q&A: Wolfram On Christmas Presents, Old Photos, And Waking Up Haddaway

Elsa Okazaki​Wolfram recently released his debut album after years of putting out others' records on his Diskokaine label. The guest star roster for the self-titled disc is studded with dance music's heavy hitters, including Holy Ghost!, Hercules & Love Affair, Legowelt, and Haddaway of "What ... More >>

Leo Schneemann of Café Kristall On Austrian Wine, Beyond Grüner

Leo Schneemann​We're betting the first time you ordered the Grüner, you felt pretty cool. The crisp, oftentimes brilliantly acidic wines helped put Austria on the map, but the country has since expanded beyond white wines. Why not try a Blaufränkisch or Zweigelt? Or even a pleasantly mineral ... More >>

Best Craft Beer Apps; Mayor Bloomberg Admits to Icing His Beer

​A review of craft beer apps reveals that Android users have the best options: the Beer Expert, Brewster, and Beer Map. iPhone users get to crow about Pintley. [NY Times] Yet another study on the health benefits of red wine: resveratrol can help boost the healing capacity of cancer-fighting d ... More >>

The Nutcracker in 3D: Nathan Lane and Nazi Rats!

'Moving Sounds Festival Presents Fennesz'

Music for a Russian Spy Swap in Vienna: "Third Man"

​The greatest spy swap since Rudolph Abel walked across a bridge between East and West Berlin back in 1962 in exchange for failed U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers is pending, and if Moscow sources are correct, the perfect locale for the swap has been selected: Vienna. That's where the f ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Cinco de Mayo & Cinco de Vino

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Austria Uncorked Tribeca Rooftop May 5, 6-9 p.m. The hills (read: a New York City rooftop) will be alive with the taste of Austria's best wines, paired with dis ... More >>

Haiti's Rum Industry to Rebuild; Not All Nut Liqueurs Should Be Ignored

​ Several states with tight control on liquor sales, such as Virginia, Vermont, and Mississippi, are considering a change in legislation that would privatize the distribution of alcohol, either by auctioning licenses to private companies or selling distribution centers. [Wall Street Journal] ... More >>

Chatting With Cafe Katja's Andrew Chase About Goulash, Why Good Vinegar is Underrated, and Fizzy Eggplant Salad at Bereket

Erin Gleeson/The New York TimesCafe Katja's Andrew Chase, second from left.​ Two years ago, Andrew Chase and Erwin Schrottner opened Cafe Katja, a tiny Austrian restaurant and wine bar on Orchard Street serving big flavors and high spirits. Chase and Schrottner, who previously both worked at t ... More >>

A CRIMINAL MIND

Film Forum celebrates the 60th anniversary of The Third Man

3 Consulates Get Fake Anthrax, Nostalgia (Update: It's Flour)

​Autumn 2009 is making us nostalgic. First, we have a deranged Muslim killing a lot of citizens on U.S. soil. Now, we have anthrax! Or at least fake anthrax, which we also had back in the day, sonny. The New York consulates of France, Austria and Uzbekistan received anonymous packets of white ... More >>

Pamelia Kurstin

Hot Alcohol!

Hotel Imperial

The Abjection Collection

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Practical Magic

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

What's Up, Docs: MOMA's Sixth Annual Nonfiction Festival

Hostile & Nasty

Angry brutes and tattoo artists whip you with the grease chain

Music

'Wheel of Time'

Wheeling and Healing: Herzog's Journey to Enlightenment

Perfect Worlds: Buch Haus

Revisiting the relics of Central European conceptualism

A cure for all that ales you: The devil spits on Williamsburg

The Martial Plan

Police State Tactics Transform a Nation—Our Own

Stylish Seriousness in Post-Techno Soundhound Country

Funny Cide

Laughing With Thomas Bernhard

Listings

Festing on Forty Deuce

Sex and the Old World City

Hip Czech

Lux et Veritas

A Life on Strings

Dark City

In the Clear

Desperate Measures