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Free Reads: 5 Great Book Events That Are Giving It Away

Project Runway:The Show That Changed Fashion The National Arts Club Friday, 6 p.m., free "Unwearable" was defined and redefined. Sewing got hip. We became frighteningly desensitized to the image of another human being crying. This is what 10 seasons of Project Runway will do. But at its best the se ... More >>

Jiro Dreams of Duane Reade: Drugstore Sushi Chefs May Arrive in New York

Nobu, Jewel Bako, Blue Ribbon... Duane Reade? Call it "drugstore izakaya" -- California Walgreens are now employing trained sushi chefs. The company (which also own NY's ubiquitous Duane Reade chain) is aiming to lure customers into its stores by introducing "luxury items." And what else says "fanc ... More >>

Battle of the Cheesy, Heart-Shaped Boxes of Chocolate

Doesn't the box in the middle look like the mask from Scream? But which one is the best buy? Let's say you like someone, but not enough to get him a $100 box of chocolates from La Maison du Chocolat. Or maybe you only hooked up with her once, and not satisfactorily, either. Or perhaps you're too l ... More >>

It's the Post Office Customers Who Are Now Going Postal Now!

It used to be that post office workers were stereotypically accused of going "postal" and turning batshit psycho out of sheer boredom. But the mail tables have turned! At my post office yesterday, there was a long line of old-school types who wanted to actually land-mail something, and because thi ... More >>

15 East's $29 Three-Course Lunch

The chawan mushi appetizer arrives with a black-truffle crag. When was the last time you were exposed to top-shelf sushi? Most of us measure out our lives in mediocre finger sushi and nori rolls, and only on rare occasions do we glimpse how perfect sushi can be. Not that the democratization of sus ... More >>

Petula Clark Sings "Downtown" Uptown!

"I know a place where we can go," as Brit pop goddess Petula Clark sang in one of her 15 consecutive Top 40 U.S. hits that came out in the 1960s. It's Feinstein's at Loews Regency, where "Pet" is serving you her hits in grand style (without any of the self-conscious I'm-doing-you-a-favor attitude o ... More >>

Get Your At-Home Cocaine Test at the Williamsburg Duane Reade

via @J_Brukman​File this under "good to know." Should you be wandering about Williamsburg on your way to your appointment to pee in a cup and get approval for your new job with the CIA, or for your court appointed biweekly drug test, and experiencing qualms that you may not pass it, you can st ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

It's National Bittersweet Chocolate Day

​ Did you know that today is National Bittersweet Chocolate Day? Cool, right? It's also National Hot Tea Month ... as well as National Oatmeal Month and National Soup Month. Who came up with this brilliance?

MURRAY ME

MURRAY ME

Duane Reade's Beer Growlers: Miracle or Satanic Manifestation?

Where am I? Blind Tiger? Rattle N Hum? D.b.a.? (Click on image to enlarge.) It wasn't that long ago that if you wanted to get a six-pack (I'm talking beer, not abs) around Union Square, you had to make do with Bud Lite or Colt 45 in cans. Then the beer revolution occurred, and suddenly every bodeg ... More >>

Why Are Filene's Basement and Syms Going Bye-Bye?

​The economy is so rotten that even discount stores are going under! But the real reason for Filene's and Syms going bankrupt, according to this article, is that larger department stores have started carrying the same brands that they do, so they've become largely irrelevant and nearly obsole ... More >>

How Many Cops Does It Take to Get a Squirrel Out of a CVS?

A wild squirrel walked into the CVS at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue on Monday morning and then just stayed, pigging out on delicious mixed nuts for four days, reports DNA Info. This is not only notable because there's video, but also because the squirrel entranced many a staffer and even random on ... More >>

10 Things New Yorkers Need to Stop Doing Immediately

​In light of the latest suspicious package left on public transit, which led to a shutdown of Times Square at peak commuting time (and, surely, got everybody's nerves up in a bunch, yet again, not to mention, is there enough coffee in the world for all of this?), it's time for a little PSA. He ... More >>

UrbanBaby Moms Weigh In On Occupy Wall Street: 'The Protesters Are a Bunch of Idiots'

​Finally, moms on smug-parenting site UrbanBaby are speaking out on the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests. The discussion thread we looked at today starts out like this: "I hate that I'm too much of a p*ssy to actually occupy Wall Street with the rest of the 99%. Finally, people are standing ... More >>

Prime Meats Is Now Available in Growler Form

​Following in the steps of purveyors from Duane Reade to Stumptown, Prime Meats is now selling growlers. The restaurant writes in with the news that you can now purchase its PM Pilsner at Prime Meats Delikat-Essen & Provisions, right alongside the Faicco's sausage and homemade malolactic ferme ... More >>

Duane Reade Just Keeps Getting Fancier, Foodier

Everything but a maitre d'.​Soon, you might need a jacket and tie to go to the drugstore. Duane Reade, which last year installed a beer bar in one of its Williamsburg stores, has now hired a sushi chef for its new Wall Street location.

Fancy New Wall Street Duane Reade Does Hair and Nails

​Tomorrow, Duane Reade will open a new location at 40 Wall Street, and to cater to the business types who are expected to shop there, the store will feature a hair salon, a nail bar, a pharmacy with a doctor on-hand, a sushi bar, a juice bar, and a stock ticker. At 22,000 square feet, the stor ... More >>

Vibrators Are Everywhere Now

​Did you know you can buy vibrators at Duane Reade now? Well, you can. No longer are they illicit devices confined to the vague, grimy territory of sex shops, hidden in brown paper bags or unmarked boxes, purchased late at night on furtive shopping missions to "video stores" with blacked-out w ... More >>

The Body of Mo Pitkin's May Be Brought Back to Life as a Performance Space

​The run of Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction was as colorful as it was brief: between its opening in 2005 and closure two years later, the Avenue A theater/restaurant/bar was rife with performance artists, burlesque dancers, and manischevitinis.

NYC Health Department Launches App for Free Condoms; Also, Reminds You How to Use a Condom

​As we mentioned earlier, today is not just the special day of snuggles and commitment that everybody's all moony about, it's also the day of safe sexual encounters. And it's our own Mayor Bloomberg's birthday, to boot. In honor of this fortuitous triumvirate of occasions, the New York City He ... More >>

NYC's Five Best Bargain-Basement Chain Stores

​Shopping is even more fun when it's dirt-cheap, and when you're sure no one you know will be there to catch you hunting for bargains. Here are the five best department chains that appeal to my budgetary needs and kitsch taste.

Duane Reade May Have Watched You Pee

​But only if you worked there! Sixteen Duane Reade employees are suing the company for rigging bathrooms with cameras and "recording devices" (?) ostensibly to make sure workers weren't, what, playing Angry Birds or snorting drugs? It's hard to fathom this ever seeming a good idea at a manager ... More >>

The O.B. Tampons Shortage: A Story of Loss and Longing

​Tampons. They are important to ladies. We won't go into the details here, but suffice it to say, they're personal. Intimate, even. So when o.b. nonapplicator tampons disappeared from the shelves of our local Duane Reades, something of a Seinfeld: The Sponge Episode was born. Except maybe born ... More >>

Williamsburg to Get Even More "Normal People" Things, Like...a Movie Theater!

via NY Post​Williamsburg is getting a multi-screen, multi-level, mainstream movie theater of its own, planned for a currently vacant lot at Driggs and Grand. According to the New York Post, developer Blue Zees Real Estate will spend $9.3 million on the 850-seat multiplex in a neighborhood that ... More >>

Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the 'New Front Line' of Gentrification, According to England

Via​Our friends on the other side of the pond have discovered a little neighborhood called Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, and today in the Guardian, deem it "perhaps the national capital for young 'hipsters' trying to beat back the commercialism and standardisation that defines much of American da ... More >>

Police Release Video of Suspect in Soho Rape

Last Friday, November 5, at 6 a.m., a 33-year-old woman was raped in the lobby of her apartment building on Thompson Street in Soho. The police have released surveillance video of the man they believe to be the suspect, shopping at a nearby Duane Reade. If you have any information about the crime o ... More >>

Name a NYC Landmark You Miss

​I'll start. Big Enchilada. First, the branch on 28th Street shuttered, and I recently noticed that the one on 12th Street has said adios as well, tragically enough.

Voice Editor Names Duane Reade's New Decaf

​Okay, so sometimes we toot our own horn. Congrats to Sharyn Jackson, associate editor at the Voice, who was just named a winner in the Duane Reade "Dr. Delish Coffee Naming Contest." Yep, thanks to Sharyn, Dr. Delish Decaf will now be called "Avenue D-Caf." You heard it here. (No autographs, ... More >>

Duane Reade's Groceries Are Now Fully Locked and Loaded

​We didn't realize it at the time, but Duane Reade's sushi was just the tip of a very long ice pick. The drugstore chain's grocery ambitions are now fully locked and loaded, as evidenced by their new supermarket in Chelsea. Serious Eats took a wander through the store, and found such surprisin ... More >>

Morimoto Samples Duane Reade Sushi; Ben & Jerry's to Go Fairtrade Compliant

​Whole Foods has reported higher-than-expected fiscal first quarter earnings, which is being attributed largely to a price shift instituted last year. [Forbes] Romania has proposed a tax on burgers, french fries, soda, and other fast foods in an effort to fight both adult and child obesity. [ ... More >>

Duane Reade's Sushi: We Tried it so You Don't Have to

How many things are wrong with this picture?​ Last October, Duane Reade rolled out its very own line of generic food products. Labeled with such au courant buzz words as "vegan," "gluten-free," and "all natural" and wrapped in discreet black and white packaging, they signaled the drugstore cha ... More >>

Duane Reade Security Claims PA Cops Pushed Them Not to Report Shoplifters

​Fascinated as we are with the mini-crime-waves that occasionally pop up in neighborhoods despite the great numbers from the NYPD -- which aren't definitive in every case and can be misleading -- we were interested to hear claims from Duane Reade security at Port Authority that the PA cops hav ... More >>

Michael Musto's Year (and Decade) in Review!

Gaga for Google and every twittle thing that made the Aughts fraught with fakery and fun

Snuggies Will Save Christmas

​I have the answer to all our economic woes! Buy Snuggies! You know Snuggies. They're those very chic wearable blankets that they advertise on TV and which have apparently fallen off so many trucks that everywhere from Duane Reade to K Mart now carries them in bulk. I bought a bunch of them ... More >>

My Duane Reade Now Has a "Doctor on The Premises"!

​In this economic climate, establishments are doing everything but blow you to get your attention and more importantly your buck. But I was still a little bit shocked to see a sign in the window of my neighborhood Duane Reade announcing that they now have a doctor in the house for walk-in medi ... More >>

My Duane Reade Card Got Me Points!

​You know those annoying "club cards" you get at Duane Reade because if you spend $100 there and they tally it on the card, you get five whole bucks towards your next purchase? Well, after what seemed like years of buying and trying, I finally made it! I reached $100 the other day, mainly tha ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Ah, sweet Friday afternoon. Here's a recap of the week's best posts to send you into Saturday. Our Man Sietsema rounded up the city's 10 Best Wine Bars. Battle of the Dishes pitted veggie dogs from Bark Hot Dogs and Crif Dogs against each other in a fight to the death. Vegetarian Delights reveled ... More >>

Fast-food Chains Spreading Like Wildfire in New York; Men Cooking More Now than in 1961

​The five largest chain stores in the city have grown this past year, despite the recession. Dunkin' Donuts opened 88 outlets, Subway went from 335 to 361, McDonald's from 248 to 258, Starbucks ended up with 23 more locations even with widespread closings, and Duane Reade is up to 229 from 216 ... More >>

Morning Papers: Drugstore Prices, Ugly Buildings Go Up

House of Blues

A couple of "off-evenings" in another midtown meet market

What's a Muff?

Drunken holiday shopping with Clarence the angel

Aggressively Adorned

The search for this season's hottest (and largest) jewelry

Capital Ideas: Perfecting the Art of the Deal, Pre-Omarosa

Peace Goods

Anti-War Holiday Gifts

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Red Alert

Valentine's Day Gift Shopping

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