Copenhagen

Evil Twin's Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø on the Side Project That Became an Empire

New York City is having an Evil Twin moment. For proof, check the drinks menu at the trendier of your favorite establishments, where you'll almost certainly find one or two beers from this craft brewer listed. For further proof, head out to Greenpoint and hit Tørst (if you've managed to avoid it th ... More >>

How to Take a Roman Candle to the Face: Our Conversation With Iceage

Hurling beers and spitting on bands while they perform is, generally speaking, frowned upon. Shows have been stopped for less. Pfft. Kid's stuff. Doug Smith Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, singer and guitarist of Copenhagen's Iceage, didn't even flinch when a fan decided to let off a Roman Candle in hi ... More >>

Nordic Express at Aamanns-Copenhagen

The city's only Danish restaurant offers less than a complete dinner

Aamanns-Copenhagen's Wildly Creative Smorrebrod

Pate of pork with parsley, aquavit, fresh hazelnuts, pickled apples, celery, and watercress Smorrebrod are little Danish open-face sandwiches made on a dark nutty rye bread. At Aamanns-Copenhagen -- New York's first Danish restaurant -- the bread is homemade twice daily, and the sandwiches have be ... More >>

Aquavit. What Is It?

This glass of aquavit, from Danish restaurant Aamanns-Copenhagen, is flavored with toasted rye bread. Aquavit (or akvavit) is a flavored liquor beloved of Scandinavians, and served in funny little glasses. Derived from the Latin aqua vitae, it means "water of life."

Harding's Opens in Flatiron; The Dalloway Opens in SoHo

Former Acme chef Ariel Fox is heading up the kitchen at Harding's, Flatiron's newest American restaurant. The menu features cold weather comfort food like steak and potatoes, oysters Rockefeller, and pumpkin pie soup. 32 E. 21st St. Aamanns-Copenhagen opened over the weekend. The massive restaurant ... More >>

Live: Holograms Take Command At 285 Kent

Holograms w/Herzog Rising, ERAAS, Heavenly Beat, The Dreebs 285 Kent Saturday, September 8 Better than: Fashion Week. Holograms haven't had the easiest time. They're unemployed. They're broke. They've struggled to acquire work visas. They are in need of new equipment. Only one of the members has a ... More >>

Misty Memories Part 500: The Time I Met Christine Jorgensen

"A lot of people who sing can't sing," Christine Jorgensen told me in 1981, "but at least I admit it!" The groundbreaking transsexual had come in from her home in Laguna Beach, California to make her New York cabaret debut. Her act consisted of saucy impersonations of Marlene Dietrich and Tallulah ... More >>

Acme Rises Again, Fancy and a Little Danish

A Noma co-founder tries his hand in Noho

Democracy Then: Portrait of Ousted Mohamed Nasheed in The Island President

Chill EB and Me: Rappin' About Scientology

Last night, rapper Chill EB showed up in the comments to the story we had written about his interesting career as a 1990s Bay Area up-and-comer who today is Scientology's in-house hip hop act. What ensued was several hours of interaction, as the rapper dangled the possibility of an interview with t ... More >>

Urbanized

Jennifer Yee 'In' at SHO; Dave Martin 'In' at The Meatball Factory

​SHO Shaun Hergatt has a new pastry chef. Jennifer Yee, who has worked at Aureole and The Breslin, has already put her touch on the dessert menu. [Zagat Buzz] Scott Conant has denied that he will bring his Vegas D.O.C.G. concept to New York. If anything, he is looking into opening a fine-dini ... More >>

Chipotle Doubles Its Organic Produce Use; John Huntsman Digs Mexican Street Food

​LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold scores the best assignment ever -- comparing Copenhagen's Noma, San Pellegrino's top restaurant of the year, with Grant Achatz's Alinea for GQ. [HuffPo] The clear grape spirit pisco, originally from Chile and Peru, is making inroads into the crowded U.S. liquor mark ... More >>

DEEP FREEZE

Iceage make their U.S. debut

PSYCH-POP PARTY

Danish DJ spins a smart beat

José Andrés Goes Chinese-Mexican; Michael Pierre White Shills for Knorr

​The Lion's John DeLucie has big dreams: "I'd like to write observational stuff about my life. I have a studio in my house, and I want to play and produce music. I want to move to Hollywood and drive a convertible." [NY Post] José Andrés's China Poblano, the new restaurant in the Cosmopolit ... More >>

What Not to Name Your Restaurant; Vendy Rookie of the Year

This week in food blogs... Eater offered its "What Not to Name Your Restaurant" guide to 2010 openings. Grub Street noticed that egg creams are going to be everywhere this weekend. Midtown Lunch confirmed that, yes, you can get a hot dog at Gray's Papaya on Eighth Avenue for 50 cents. Serious Ea ... More >>

Eataly Debuts Training Program for Career Changers; Lincoln Center Becomes New Culinary Hotspot

​Mario Batali gains a TV show, a 50,000-square-foot food emporium, and a new restaurant in Singapore, and loses 35 pounds by eating less meat and more vegetables. [Wall Street Journal] Meanwhile, after receiving so many applications form career changers, the team behind Eataly has launched a ... More >>

Copenhagen Gets a Cocktail Culture; South Africa Hopes Wine Can Bridge a Racial Divide

​Beer-happy Copenhagen is getting its own cocktail culture, with several serious cocktail bars cropping up in recent years, and the debut of Copenhagen Cocktail Club, a group of bartenders dedicated to "promoting and developing the art of drink and bar and cocktail culture in Denmark and acros ... More >>

Sanitation Department Proposes Removal of Memorial Ghost Bikes

via BrownstonerGhost bike memorial for Liz Padilla on 5th Avenue and Prospect Place in Brooklyn​The painted white ghost bikes stationed on street corners around the city in memory of riders who've lost their lives are an eerie reminder of our mortality, but the idea of someone removing these s ... More >>

Sears Stocks Your Fridge; Burger King Runs Out of Ribs

​You know it for fridges. Now Sears is looking to sell food, too. The company quietly launched MyGofer on Memorial Day in Manhattan and the Hamptons, which delivers groceries and other goods from its Kmart stores. [Chicago Tribune] Since being voted the best restaurant in the world by San Pel ... More >>

No Reservations at a New Breed of Hip Resto; Finding Manna in Manhattan

​New Jersey has banned research-related oyster-farming projects in the state's polluted coastal waters in order to protect the shellfish industry in light of the BP oil spill and avoid having contaminated oysters end up on dinner tables. [NJ] A number of trendy restaurants, like Má Pêche i ... More >>

This Week In The Voice: The NYPD Tapes

​Who knows what goes on behind the closed doors, locked file cabinets, and day-to-day routines of the NYPD? Other than them, nobody. Which is one of the reasons why one of New York's Finest saw fit to record his life among their ranks, and shed light on some of the darker aspects of those who ... More >>

The City's TV Station Is All Bloomberg, All The Time

NYC Media, making Mayor Bloomberg's home movies

Copenhagen's Noma Named Best Restaurant in the World; Amtrak Tests Beef-Powered Train

​Noma in Copenhagen finally topped El Bulli as the best restaurant in the world at the S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants reception, held last night in London. Daniel jumped 33 spots to no. 8, Per Se dropped four spots to no. 10, and Le Bernardin stayed at a comfortable no. 15. [Bloombe ... More >>

Trentemoller+Kasper Bjorke

Hugh Acheson Coming to NYC; Benihana Gets a New Exec Chef

​Top Chef alum Spike Mendelsohn has plans to open outposts of his D.C. restaurant Good Stuff in, Arlington, Virginia, and Georgetown, and maybe in "Chicago, L.A., even London and Tokyo." [Bloomberg] Hugh Acheson, the chef-owner of Five & Ten in Athens, Ga. and a James Beard nominee, has just ... More >>

HOOTERS

They're cute and fuzzy, and now you can eat off them!

Democrats Poised for Disastrous Health Care Victory; Obama Bows (While Seated!); Avatar Attacks The Troops

We have been following with less than our full attention the progress of the health care bill, but we surmise it has just made a great gain in the Senate -- not because of anything the Democrats have said (who listens to them anymore?), but because we saw this at National Review: "The story of ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a pro-Christmas resolution into the House record. Andrea Peyser denounced the godless Bloomingdales ... More >>

SONIC BOON

Catch 12 nonstop hours of new music

Bogus Web Thing Ranks New York #6 Among "Cities for Men"

Ask Men picks the top cities for men -- you know, men, otherwise known as "males who reek of Axe Body Spray and pay over $50 for a haircut." No methodology is cited. Let us save you an assload of clicks: Paris is #10 because it's "a comfortable place to wait out the recession" (?) though "it in rece ... More >>

Lights Out for Empire State Building, Others on Saturday's "Earth Hour"

If you enjoyed seeing a dimmer New York skyline during the 2003 blackout, you may get some pleasure from the March 28 "Earth Hour." On that date from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., several large New York buildings will cut their lights as part of a 1,000-city effort to highlight the climate crisis (though its a ... More >>

'Allegro'

Wedding Crashers

What comes after the nuptials in Susanne Bier's Danish melodrama? A hell of a lot more than the reception

Science Friction

Looking for chemical reaction in physicist love triangle

Ready or Not

Razing and rising in Chelsea

Is City Traffic Killing Your Love Life?

Dancing Bournonville, Part II

Doggy-Style

Forget the sidewalk carts; these franks cater to you

Northern Lights, Black Visions

A Soloist From Denmark and a Company From Norway Make U.S. Debuts in the Woods

Blue Crush

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Girl

Living Large

Thinking About Museums Thinking About Themselves

NY Mirror

Not-Right Triangles

True to Formula

There Is Nothing Like a Dane

Hotel Pro Forma and the Odin Teatret

Pusher Man