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Human Rights Body Criticizes U.S. for NYPD's Policing of Occupy Wall Street

New Yorkers, if they've been paying any attention at all, have known for a long time that the way the NYPD treats journalists and protesters doesn't exactly live up to what you'd expect in a democratic society with a free press. Now, it looks like the NYPD's actions in relation to Occupy Wall Stree ... More >>

Dive Your Pita into Balkanika's Hell's Kitchen Treats

5 Best West Village Wine Bars

In theory, I should love wine bars -- I drink a lot of wine, and I often trade evenings in my dinky, NYC apartment for nights out. But I often cringe when I hear the term, since every restaurant proprietor takes poetic license to call their beverages a "wine list" and their establishment a "wine bar ... More >>

Our Restaurant Fantasies, Revealed

After reading this fun restaurant wish-list over on Diner's Journal, the Fork team started wishing and hoping for some of our own fantasy places to open. I'd love for a truck to drive around in the winter serving cups of really good, hot cassoulet. If there's a line, there will be nips of brandy w ... More >>

10 Tips for Wine Rookies

Welcome to Unscrewed, your weekly antidote to wine-related malaise. Allow me to introduce myself with a list: 10 of my best tips for revitalizing your personal wine program or becoming a better drinker. 1. Be curious. There is no shame in learning, only in pretending to know what you don't. 2. Or ... More >>

Q&A: Danielle Henderson, Author of Feminist Ryan Gosling : Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude

Despite launching a website featuring Ryan Gosling that became an overnight hit, and recently publishing a book filled with Gosling's broodingly sexy photos, Danielle Henderson is not a Ryan Gosling fan-girl. The New York native is actually a graduate student in women and gender studies at the Unive ... More >>

IN SYNC

The Beacon Theatre gets 
the boyband it deserves

Free Will Astrology: May 2-May 8, 2012

What's Happening This Week: A Japanese Holiday Special; Swedish Glögg & Julbord

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! $25 Holiday Special Akariba Through December This more than $50 value includes a half dozen fresh market oysters, a choice of donburi (jidori chicken, grilled salmo ... More >>

The Trial

Cool Food Culture Around the World

UNESCO created the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage as a means of recognizing significant local customs and traditions, and it recently added 46 new items, ranging from Peking opera in China to traditional skills of carpet weaving in Iran. Regarding food, the additions of the ... More >>

West Village Dog May Be Oldest in the World

​City Room has a great story today about a wee canine in the West Village who is possibly the oldest dog in the world. Chichi (or Uncle Chichi, or simply Cheech) is a small gray poodle with a mysterious past, who may be as old as 24 (168 in dog years!). He's recently become sick, and his own ... More >>

At Gay Pride, Rightbloggers Try to Keep It On The Down-Low, But Some Out Themselves

Pride Week's a fun time to rightblogger-watch, because rightbloggers just don't know what to do about the gays. They must know straight America is losing its antipathy toward gay people -- Hell, even TGI Fridays is down with Pride. And some insist that the gay-hating stuff is behind them, too. Bu ... More >>

The Castello Plan Opens in Ditmas Park This Friday

Brownstoner.comThe Castello Plan (right) in its plywood infancy.​ The Mimi's family is about to get a little bigger. This Friday, Ben Heemskerk will partner with Avi Shuker, one of the owners of Ditmas Park hummus restaurant, to open the Castello Plan. The wine bar will be located two storefro ... More >>

Imagery and Humor Offset The Garage's Stark Commentary

The Garage at La MaMa E.T.C.

Starbucks Bounces Back; American Goes Crazy for "Cabbage Crack" (Kimchi)

​Restaurants are starting to offer more luxurious prix-fixe menus -- or more downscale tasting menus, depending on your perspective. Upscale Greek Milos Estiatorio, The Capital Grille, and Dovetail are all offering wallet-friendly multiple-course menus. [Nation's Restaurant News] Emeril Lagas ... More >>

News Roundup: R. Kelly, Jay-Z, Mr. West, Drake and Nipsey Hussle, Phil Spector

​--On Tuesday, we noted that R. Kelly had announced his "Ladies Make Some Noise!" tour, which included an NYC stop on October 16th. Now the venue has been revealed-- the WaMu Theater At Madison Square Garden--and tickets are on internet presale right now. The password? LADIES. This man and his ... More >>

Pix from Rudar S.C. with the Wet Towel Club

Members of the Wet Towel Club, seen here at Rudar Soccer Club, insist on anonymity. This week, Counter Culture visits Rudar Soccer Club with the Wet Towel Club, a dining organization that meets monthly. Rudar's subterranean dining room went public a few years back, and now it's one of the few p ... More >>

Man Booker International Prize 2009 Nominees Announced; Jay McInerney, Jane Smiley Exchange Words

Daniel S. NeunerAmit Chaudhuri, Tina Brown, Andrey Kurkov, and Jane Smiley Last week brought the announcement of the Man Booker International Prize 2009 Judges' List, the official shortlist for the sixty thousand pound, every-other-year prize for "one writer's continued creativity, development and ... More >>

Wilbert Tatum, 1933-2009

Photo via the Amsterdam News. Wilbert "Bill" Tatum, the feisty former publisher of the Amsterdam News who took on everyone from Ed Koch to the New York Post, died today in -- of all places -- a hospital in Croatia. Tatum, 76, was a world-traveler despite the diabetes that kept him confined to a w ... More >>

Good Wines from Surprising Places

Iraq is yesterday's news

Ask a Mexican: Anchor Babies, Aweigh!

Children, and the art of making them

Runway to Nowhere: Ford Supermodel of the World Competition and Make Me a Supermodel

A global model competition that wobbles. Plus, the latest example of displaying shell-shocked beauties.

Croation Neo-Nazi Rocker To Perform in Midtown

Beyond Boundaries: The Emergence of Croatian Cinema

Give the Chinese What They Want

The many moods, names, aspirations, and tourmates of Mr. Frank Black

Lost in the Lonely Crowd

Brian Molko and his Placebo pals remind their cult to take their meds

Mystic River: Heideggerian Cine-Essay Treks Up the Danube

83 Years Here

'Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, I'm going to love one man till I die'

New Animated Comedy About a Self-Obsessed Indie Movie Studio Maven

War and Remembrance: Children Draw the Battle Zone

Revisiting the relics of Central European conceptualism

The Imaginative East

Many trains from Slavic countries meet in 'Central Station,' bearing choreographic gifts

Who Will Replace Our Old European Allies?

Inside the New U.S. Coalition

Planet Rock

The World's Most Local Pop Music Goes International

After the Flood

Awakenings in the Former Yugoslavia

Letters

The Atrocity Exhibit

So Long, Serbia

Nation

NY Mirror

Right Thinking

Want to Understand Conservatives? Read Them.

Nation

Nation

Last Call

A Most Unusual Collection Agency

How the U.S. undid UNSCOM through its empire of electronic ears