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Dining
May 16, 2012
Swallow Some Nettles at Parish Hall!
The locavoric folks behind Egg open a new Williamsburg spot
Blogs
May 16, 2012
This Week in the Voice: "Gary Jones" Wants Your Nudes
This week in the Voice, out today, Camille Dodero writes about the FBI's investigation of revenge porn entrepreneur Hunter Moore, noting: "as more unsuspecting subjects ended up on Is Anyone Up, more of them claimed that they'd been hacked -- that someone had actually gained access to their e-mail a ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 21, 2012
Simone Felice
This week in the Voice, out today, Camille Dodero writes about the FBI's investigation of revenge porn entrepreneur Hunter Moore, noting: "as more unsuspecting subjects ended up on Is Anyone Up, more of them claimed that they'd been hacked -- that someone had actually gained access to their e-mail a ... More >>
Film
March 14, 2012
Reuniting the Rubins
This week in the Voice, out today, Camille Dodero writes about the FBI's investigation of revenge porn entrepreneur Hunter Moore, noting: "as more unsuspecting subjects ended up on Is Anyone Up, more of them claimed that they'd been hacked -- that someone had actually gained access to their e-mail a ... More >>
Dining
January 4, 2012
Kutsher's Tribeca: Pseudo Summer in the City
A new spot evokes the Jewish resort hotels of the past
Blogs
January 4, 2012
This Week in the Voice: Air Safety on the Cheap; Are Unpaid Internships Legal?
In the Voice's first issue of 2012, Nick Pinto writes about airport security contractors, like Prince Jackson, who make minimum wage and have no health insurance or sick days -- yet are responsible for keeping the terminals safe. "The scene today at airport-terminal security doesn't look so differen ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2012
Hate Mail on the Subject of Gefilte Fish
Kutsher's tasty gefilte fish comes in a pair of dense, puck-shaped masses -- with another of beets and horseradish on the side. Last evening my review of Kutsher's Tribeca appeared, and it was pretty damn positive. I loved the pastrami -- both flat and deckle -- and ate the flanken with gusto. I e ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2011
What's Happening This Week: A Talk and Tasting, a Halloween Menu
Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Kutsher's Talk & Tasting Tenement Museum October 24 at 6: 30 p.m. In anticipation of Zach Kutsher bringing a taste of his Catskills country club to Tribeca this fall, he and his res ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2011
Our 10 Best Loaves of Bread in NYC
The rustic loaves at Balthazar are cradled in a birch branch. As Pablo Neruda says: "The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker." And indeed he was right. Little gives as much pleasure as a freshly baked loaf, and here are the 10 that please us most. Note that th ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Escaped Bull Flees Slaughterhouse In Queens
This bull charging down Liberty Avenue in Jamaica Queens was escaping a local slaughterhouse, where it was slated to meet its end. It drew support and admiration for its daring escape from onlookers.
Blogs
July 11, 2011
Pardoned Cow Will Retire in the Catskills
A cow that managed to escape the confines of what must have been a not-fun-at-all slaughterhouse in suburban Philadelphia has been given a pardon by Governor Tom Corbett's office. Kayli, the cow, had broken free while being loaded into a holding pen at the butcher's. In the chaos that followe ... More >>
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June 22, 2011
Actual Wild Strawberries Appear in the Union Square Greenmarket
Yes, wild strawberries are almost unbelievably small. Maybe you've stumbled upon a patch while hiking in a remote part of the Catskills in late springtime, lured across a meadow by a tiny flash of brilliant red, but for most of us, wild strawberries remain an idea rather than a reality, or m ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Ramp-O-Rama at Farmers' Markets This Weekend
This is what Rapunzel's mom sold her out for? They've been showing up in dribs and drabs for the last week, but ramps will be available in quantity at this weekend's farmers' markets. Count on at least three or four stalls to have substantial quanitities at Union Square, including stalwarts ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
L.A. School District Bans Jamie Oliver, All Reality TV from Schools; Chick-fil-A Isn't the Only One That's Anti-Gay
The Los Angeles Unified School District has denied a request by Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution to film at a local high school, and has banned all reality TV shows from shooting in schools. [Hollywood Reporter] A Finnish group that calls itself the Food Liberation Army has "kidnapped" a statu ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
On Friday, That White Stuff May Again Fall From the Sky
Never forget!Okay, we're going to go ahead and put this out there, because that's the best way of making sure it doesn't happen, right? Or that, if it does happen, we'll be prepared? (Looking at you Sanitation Department.) Here's the scoop: There's a new storm to watch, and it may be coming o ... More >>
Film
December 15, 2010
Yogi Bear in 3-D: It's As Good As You Imagined It to Be
Never forget!Okay, we're going to go ahead and put this out there, because that's the best way of making sure it doesn't happen, right? Or that, if it does happen, we'll be prepared? (Looking at you Sanitation Department.) Here's the scoop: There's a new storm to watch, and it may be coming o ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
Fat Pants Friday: Shandaken Bake's Trail Bar
A couple of weeks ago, we got our first taste of Shandaken Bake, a Catskills-area baking company that recently began selling its wares at the New Amsterdam Market. Having already written about the abundant virtues of its maple-parsnip bread, we're today turning our attention to those of its ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Courtesy of Shandaken Bake, the Best Thing We Ate at Yesterday's New Amsterdam Market
Last week, a friend of ours was almost operatic in her praise of Shandaken Bake, a Catskills-area pastry concern whose wares she'd sampled at last Sunday's New Amsterdam Market. So we were more than a bit excited to find the bakery's table amid the crush of pre-Thanksgiving shoppers at yeste ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
Saturday Brought More Bagels to Brooklyn
This weekend was a high-gluten one for Brooklyn, thanks to the opening of bagel stores in both Park Slope and Ditmas Park. On Saturday, per Here's Park Slope, the Bagel Market opened on Saturday on Seventh Avenue, while Catskills Bagel opened on Cortelyou Road, according to Ditmas Park Blog.
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September 24, 2010
Smoked Eels and Trout, Wild Foods, and Catskills Products at New Amsterdam Market This Weekend
Trust us, this looks way more appetizing than an actual eel.Back in May, the New Amsterdam Market commandeered the Marble Cemetery for a fundraiser showcasing a variety of wild botanicals from Vermont. On Sunday, the Vermont food gatherers will return to the market, and they'll have plenty of ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
August 29: Bread Alone Cafe in Boiceville, NY
Bread Alone's mixed nut tart is rarely found at the bakery's stalls in the city, but you can get it from its source in the Catskills. The Bread Alone stand is a fixture in many of the city's greenmarkets, selling fresh and crusty loaves in two dozen varieties. Yes they have hippie breads pav ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 1, 2010
'Discovery Presents Marcos Cabral'
Bread Alone's mixed nut tart is rarely found at the bakery's stalls in the city, but you can get it from its source in the Catskills. The Bread Alone stand is a fixture in many of the city's greenmarkets, selling fresh and crusty loaves in two dozen varieties. Yes they have hippie breads pav ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2010
August 27: Canning Tomatoes
$15 buys a hell of a lot of ripe tomatoes in Schoharie County in late August. In the northern Catskill Mountains, the site of the haunted world of 18th-century Dutch New York as described by Washington Irving, the tomato crop arrives in late August with a vengeance. Suddenly, after tomatoes ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2010
WELCOME TO TOMORROWLAND
A rocker retreat with mere mortals
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Battle of the Blueberries: Wild Vs. Cultivated
Wild blueberries on the left, cultivated on the right There's been a bumper crop of blueberries this year, maybe because we had a damp Spring, or maybe they've done well in an especially hot Summer. Pints of regular blueberries have been selling for $3.50 to $7 in farmers' markets, while str ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2010
My Big Gay Italian Wedding!
No, I didn't have one. Don't worry, I'm committed to being a spinster for at least 40 more years (at which point the male version of Anna Nicole Smith willl surely find me and bury me). But CLICK HERE for my column about how I happened to see the show of that title--the one starring the fetc ... More >>
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April 6, 2010
Clash of the Titans: Where Are The Manboobs?
From the looks of it, the new version of Clash of the Titans shockingly downplays the male cleavage angle of the story! The men are way too covered up and it's no longer Clash of the Tits! Shouldn't this kind of oversized historical epic have lots of men's boobies flouncing around, or at le ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 29, 2009
The Felice Brothers
From the looks of it, the new version of Clash of the Titans shockingly downplays the male cleavage angle of the story! The men are way too covered up and it's no longer Clash of the Tits! Shouldn't this kind of oversized historical epic have lots of men's boobies flouncing around, or at le ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 15, 2009
SNOWBIZ
Murray Hill . . . on ice!
Film
November 10, 2009
Holocaust Survivors Face Eviction in Four Seasons Lodge
Murray Hill . . . on ice!
Blogs
October 10, 2009
Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free
Leaf peeper map of NYS (the Catskills reach peak leaf) The big news this weekend is openhousenewyork weekend, which opens up sites around New York for tours and events, all free. The upside: all free. The downside: a lot of the events are already filled up. You can find programs that are st ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2009
Bum's Rush: City Sends Homeless to Paris, Florida, Etc. to Save Money
Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>
News
July 28, 2009
Class Action Listings
Remember when the city was shipping homeless men to the Catskills -- and the homeless indignantly returned and demanded shelter in Manhattan, which they found more exciting and convenient to drugs and crime victims? We sure have come a long way since then. Now we're sending homeless people to ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2009
Culinary Landmarks of Upstate New York
Not sure what the equation on the side of this broken-down orange panel truck means, but I encountered it on the southern edge of Grand Gorge, New York, in the remote northwestern Catskills (click to fully savour). make the jump for further culinary landmarks
Blogs
January 7, 2009
What's Your Favorite Word For a Penis?
And don't say penis! That's so coldly clinical even doctors tend to stay away from it. Here are some other possible choices: *Schlong. I like it, though it sounds a little Borscht Belty--like something that would have been served in the Catskills with cole slaw and some Polish jokes.
Voice Choices
December 31, 2008
CHECK IN
Richard Greenberg’s vacation resort hosts unhappy love affairs and drama
Voice Choices
September 10, 2008
FEELING LOVELESS?
MBV try to live up to the legend
Theater
October 23, 2007
Two Catskills Comics Quip and Quibble in The Joke
MBV try to live up to the legend
Film
June 5, 2007
Gypsy Caravan
MBV try to live up to the legend
News
April 24, 2007
The New Dealer
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
NYC Life
April 17, 2007
A Brooklyn Barn-anaza
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
Blogs
March 13, 2007
Cloonshee Farm RIP, Indeed
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
Columns
September 5, 2006
NY Mirror
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
Film
July 19, 2005
Infinite Jest: Countless Variations on a Classic Naughty Joke
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
NYC Life
June 7, 2005
Golem Gets Married
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
Dining
September 24, 2002
Doner Party
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
NYC Life
November 13, 2001
Five-Room Co-Op in 1905 Tenement
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
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August 7, 2001
Theater
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
Columns
September 7, 1999
NY Mirror
With Spitzer at the table, Pataki's casino cronies pull an inside straight
News
September 8, 1998
Crash Rash
Learning From the Demolition Derby
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