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Watch A Hobbit Fan Ravage Denny's Entire Middle Earth Menu in 20 Minutes

Think you really stuffed your face this Christmas? Jamie "The Bear" McDonald probably ate a few bites more than you did. The competitive eater visited his local Denny's to try and down all eleven dishes on the restaurant's Hobbit-themed menu. What, exactly, is served for breakfast, lunch, and dinn ... More >>

Say Goodbye to Denny's Ice Cream Shop, Gilt, Boom

Denny's Delight in Coney Island has closed after sustaining $50,000 in damages after Hurricane Sandy. Denny's was known for its famous soft serve custard and funnel cakes. Owner Dick Zigun told Brooklyn Paper, "I'm as much of a fan of banana-pistachio ice cream as anybody else. I'm going to miss it. ... More >>

Ootoya: Yo, Tokyo!

A Japanese mega-chain invades our fair city

This Week in The Voice: A Call To Harm

This week in the Voice, out today, Nick Pinto track's the NYPD's poor judgment with the mentally ill, recently culminating in the death of a schizophrenic woman, writing: "With a growing international consensus on the best practices for police interactions with the mentally ill -- practices the NYPD ... More >>

Robert Sietsema At Ootoya; Tejal Rao At Sorella

[See More Under Review: Robert Sietsema At Ootoya; Tejal Rao At Sorella | Robert Sietsema at Hazar; Tejal Rao at Ken & Cook Robert Sietsema goes to Ootoya, also known as "the Denny's of Japan." There's a lot of diversity in the menu and save for the skanky sea urchin, the restaurant did fairly well ... More >>

5 Best Things To Eat at Ootoya

What's that splatting the top of my ramen? This week Counter Culture yams its way into Ootoya, a Japanese chain restaurant that's been compared to Denny's. (Don't worry, it's way better than that.) Here are some of the things my friends and I enjoyed at this reasonably priced set-meal destination, ... More >>

"Tom Cruise Worships David Miscavige Like a God": A Scientology Insider Gives First Full-Length Interview to the Voice

I've spoken to John Brousseau numerous times over the past couple of years. In 2011, I reported about the photographs he smuggled out of Scientology's International Base east of Los Angeles which documented the work he did customizing a motorcycle, a Ford Excursion, and an airplane hangar for Tom Cr ... More >>

Scientology's Own Promotional Material Attests to 15-Year-Olds in the Sea Org

As we explained yesterday, TMZ probably messed up when it claimed that Katie Holmes was filing for divorce because she feared that her husband Tom Cruise and Scientology would send her daughter Suri away to the Sea Org, which is a "boot camp." We went to some lengths yesterday to point out that the ... More >>

Channing Tatum Is In Marilyn Monroe Drag In New Movie

Watch out, James Franco. Another Hollywood hunk has donned Marilyn Monroe drag, and this one felt comfortable in it. It's for a "goof-off scene" in Magic Mike, based on Tatum's real-life stripping adventures.

Red Lobster One of the Worst Chains To Work For, According to ROC

You probably suspected it already, but many national restaurant chains treat their workers badly. Two of the biggest abuses involve discrimination based on race and sex and something called "wage theft," which involves asking workers to do such odd tasks as sorting silverware, filling ketchup bottle ... More >>

Live: David Johansen, Marianne Faithfull, And An All-Star Cast Pay Tribute To The Rolling Stones At Carnegie Hall

The Music of the Rolling Stones: Hot Rocks 1964-1971 Carnegie Hall Tuesday, March 13 Better than: Paying $300 to see The Stones. Okay, so maybe most of the audience was old enough to remember the first time they saw Mick Jagger shake his hips and lips on The Ed Sullivan Show. And a sea of salt-an ... More >>

BREAKING: Has Topless Breakfast Come to an End in Montreal?

Sheri Teris/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/crestedcrazy/137739255/Nothing inappropriate here...​It's a sad time for the Canadians who think that breakfast is best served with boobs, since their Montreal hangout -- topless diner Restaurant Les Princesses d'Hochelaga -- is now a fully clothed eat ... More >>

Scientology Succession: Commenters of the Week!

[Image blatantly stolen from shoopers at WWP]"Finally, a country that treats its people right!"​We had a feeling that this week leading up to Christmas would be pretty quiet around the underground bunker. And boy, were we wrong! What a crazy week, and it all started Sunday morning with our usu ... More >>

Scientology Kids: Fully Indoctrinated by 18

​On Sunday, we published a disturbing new document which was produced by Scientology recruiters in Australia. It purports to be the testimony of an 18-year-old named Denny Chang, who extols the virtues of Scientology's most hardcore contingent, the Sea Org, and urges other young church members ... More >>

Nine Fast-Food Franchises Missing From NYC and How Far You Have to Go to Find Them

​To reenact this scene, you'd have to travel 1,360.1 miles from the Empire State Building. With his developer-friendly real estate policies, Bloomberg has opened the floodgates to fast-food franchises. Ten years ago we had a fraction of what we have now, and ma-and-pa eateries prevailed at ... More >>

Champs Bakery in Williamsburg Now a Vegan Diner

Despite the tattooed, fixed-gear-bike crowd that inhabits Williamsburg, there is a curious dearth of vegan options aside from Foodswings and Bliss Café. Champs, a small bakery tucked away on residential Ainslie Street, is changing all of that by transforming itself into a full-service vegan d ... More >>

Pot Smokers are Less Likely to be Fat than Non-Smokers, Pretty Chill Study Says

​A study conducted by French scientists says that people who don't smoke marijuana are more likely to be obese than their stoned counterparts. The Daily News reports the researchers found that "between 22% to 25% of participants who didn't smoke pot were obese." Only 14% to 17% of people who s ... More >>

Denny's Is the Chain Most Likely to Go Bankrupt (Except, Like, Soul Daddy)

Soul DaddyJamawn Woods, Restaurateur No More​Soul Daddy, the winning concept of America's Next Great Restaurant, has shuttered its third and final location, in Minnesota's Mall of America (the New York City location closed a few weeks ago). According to the company, "The restaurant simply was ... More >>

Always Open Presents Yet Another Web Series About Foodies

Food is becoming quite the trendy subject matter for web series these days. First there was news of Foodies, the web series that premiered last night and which seeks to ridicule all those who love sea urchin ceviche. Now College Humor has Always Open which features actor David Koechner chatting ... More >>

Denny's Fight Club: First Rule Is Post it On YouTube (Updated)

File this video under Crazy Americans. Late night, in a Denny's in Chicopee, Mass. on Sunday, Feb. 20, two men, and three women duke it out during an extremely profane and vicious argument that supposedly started over maple syrup, at least according to whoever posted it on YouTube. Well, we made ... More >>

Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital

Evangelical diet book blames your big ol' butt on Satan

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Help, Lord - The Devil Wants Me Fat! Author: C. S. Lovett Date: 1977 ... More >>

Andrew W.K. Has The Best Idea for a Restaurant Ever.

Mike LumAndrew W.K.​Most people know Andrew W.K. from the hit singles off his first album, 2001's I Get Wet, which included "Party Hard," "She is Beautiful" and "I Like to Party." If you sense that he's a fun guy who likes to party, then you, sir or madam, are correct. He parlayed his passion ... More >>

Food Fraud Abounds; Olive Oil Shortage Looms

​Denny's will launch its first national value menu on Saturday, dubbed the "$2 $4 $6 $8 Value Menu." It features 16 items, including biscuits and gravy with hash browns or an egg, and lemon-pepper chicken with two sides, bread, and a drink. [Nation's Restaurant News] Food fraud is more commo ... More >>

It's Raining Meatballs in Manhattan; Finally, a Return to Real Salsa

​Denny's, with its "Grand Slam for a Year" promotion, is just one of the fast-food chains with food prizes. Subway, Krispy Kreme, and KFC also give away, respectively, foot-long subs, doughnuts, and popcorn chicken to loyal, lucky customers. [Wall Street Journal] New York is meatball mad thes ... More >>

Our Ten Best: Brooklyn Bars

​The best thing about drinking in Brooklyn is how incredibly diverse the options are. You can belly up the bar in an old sailor's hangout, or a place where they make their own bitters, a spot with 19-century charm, or one with no charm at all. A stellar Brooklyn bar might be a neighborhood tim ... More >>

The Fish in Your Filet-o-Fish is Both Ugly and Possibly Unsustainable

The hoki, known more commonly as a filet-o-fish.​The Times has a piece about the hoki, the homely yet delectable fish that's been the star of countless McDonald's filet-o-fish sandwiches and featured on the menus of chain restaurants like Denny's and Long John Silver's. The hoki, which lives i ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​Years ago, Ella Taylor interviewed Quentin Tarantino at his favorite Denny's. She returns to the scene to ask about Inglourious Basterds and his career. Tarantino is charmng, but if you want to be pissed at him, he does say things like, "A case can be made that I re-created the gangster fil ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino: The Inglourious Basterds Interview

Two decades after the severed ear of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino serves up Hitler's head on a plate

Studies in Crap Goes Where No Big Boy Has Gone Before

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​Adventures of Shoney's Big Boy No. 51Publisher: Paragon Products, Pompano Beach, Flori ... More >>

Denny's Gets Sued Over Salt; Hawaii to Kick Wienermobile to the Curb

 A man from New Jersey is suing Denny's for failing to warn him that his favorite item, the Moons Over My Hammy egg sandwich, was "loaded up with the salt." [NY Daily News] Brooklyn councilman Bill de Blasio has proposed that New York follow in Chicago's footsteps and pass a green food resolut ... More >>

Real Dives--Denny's Steak Pub in Kensington, Brooklyn

Real Dives: In which we recommend authentically divey dive bars. A real dive bar may be characterized by low prices, clientele over 60, trucker hats only on actual truckers, a long history, lotto, lack of ironic PBR, and a sense that the place is not trying to impress you, or anyone else, ever. Th ... More >>

Times: Recession Leads to More Downscale Dating

The Times is getting on the recession-positive bandwagon we noted yesterday. They say that since the economy went down, more Americans have, too. "Online and offline matchmakers are reporting that dating interest is up, way up," the paper says. Reporter Abby Ellin attributes increased activity at M ... More >>

California Agriculture in Danger

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu warns that California's farms and vineyards could vanish by 2100 if the nation doesn't act to slow global warming. [LA Times]Following Mayor Bloomberg's Meals on Wheels reforms, sources say that some food deliveries in Queens are not reaching dozens of housebound sen ... More >>

New Denny's Rock Moves include Hooburrito, Cornhole

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Would You Like Shrimp With That?

Casual dining goes overboard with Surf 'n' Turf

Look Back in Anger: Self-Pitying Drunks Drown in Glib Alkie Romance

It's the Tune, Stupid

Lou Harrison, 1917–2003

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Cheap Shot

Beyond Belief

Scenes From a Marriage

First-Time Filmmaker Todd Field Goes Behind Closed Doors

MJQ (1952–99) r.i.p.

The Longest Running Ensemble in Jazz History Makes Its Last Stop

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Assault Charges Hit President, Right Revives

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