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Dubai

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Q&A with Chef Ho Chee Boon of Hakkasan New York: Flavors Around the World Chinese Fine Dining

    We caught up with Chef Ho Chee Boon, the executive chef of Hakkasan New York, who talked about his 24 years of experience at several of the world's most renowned Asian restaurants. Chef Ho has been with the Hakkasan brand since its conception, and was the chef behind the original Michelin star rated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Say Hello to Hakkasan, Taboonette

    Arabesque, a Morrocan restaurant and lounge, has just opened in Midtown. [Diner's Journal] A new branch of Hakkasan, a trendy restaurant chain with outposts in Dubai, Mumbai, and Miami, has just opened in Midtown. [Zagat] The Franks have turned the delicatessen and provision store next to Prime Me ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 7, 2012

    Indie Spirit

    In it for the love of art

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2012

    Dubai's New Year's Celebrations Were More Restrained than New York's

    Dubai rang in the new year last night by shooting flames out of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. If you ever wondered what a half-mile-tall sparkler looks like, watch the above video.

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    53 More Great Songs From 2011

    Earlier today, Maura offered a list of the 47 songs on her "2011 Awesomeness" Spotify playlist; to complement that, here are the 53 songs from my less cleverly named playlist, "2011." As is the usually the case with these mega-lists, I compiled mine a bit haphazardly, throwing together a substantial ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 21, 2011

    Camel Milk Does Exist!

    Thanks to a tweeted comment from @P2H3K9, we have this astonishing video of a camel dairy in Saudi Arabia. It follows up on a piece posted earlier this morning about why there is no commercial source of pig's milk.

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Coney Island Elegy

    ​The bald and rotund hamburger guy welcomed generations of boardwalk strollers to Astroland, itself in danger of extinction. Coney Island as we know it is clearly on the way out, as real estate interests given the green light by the Bloomberg administration prepare to turn the place into th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Smashburger Jumps on the Gravy Train to the Middle East

    SmashburgerEat up, Dubai.​ Looks like Brooklyn was a mere pit stop on Smashburger's road to world domination: Three months after opening its first New York location in a Fort Greene condo tower, the Denver-based chain has announced it will expand to the Middle East.

  • Film

    August 24, 2011

    Secret Lovers: Iranian Girls' Clandestine Romance in Circumstance

    SmashburgerEat up, Dubai.​ Looks like Brooklyn was a mere pit stop on Smashburger's road to world domination: Three months after opening its first New York location in a Fort Greene condo tower, the Denver-based chain has announced it will expand to the Middle East.

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2011

    Muslims in World's Tallest Building Asked to Break Ramadan Fast Later

    via Marshall Strabala​From our Religious Observances in Skyscrapers department comes an interesting story from the United Arab Emirates. The Washington Post reports that Dubai's top Muslim cleric told residents living above the 80th floor of the 2,717 foot Burj Khalifa to "wait three extra min ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Magnolia Is Basically Planning to Take Over the Planet

    bearbooandyumyum/FlickrSoon, world, this will all be yours.​Although you could be forgiven for thinking that Magnolia Bakery had already achieved worldwide domination, its reach extends only to New York, Los Angeles, and Dubai. But that's about to change.

  • Film

    June 8, 2011

    Muslims? They're Just Like Us!

    bearbooandyumyum/FlickrSoon, world, this will all be yours.​Although you could be forgiven for thinking that Magnolia Bakery had already achieved worldwide domination, its reach extends only to New York, Los Angeles, and Dubai. But that's about to change.

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Derrick Praileau: What Happened to Right-Wing Anti-Arab Theory That Dubai Royals Ordered Him to Kill Andree Bejjani?

    ​Now that Derrick Praileau, the 31-year-old veteran housekeeping manager at the upscale Jumeirah Essex House, has finally admitted in court that he strangled financial bigwig and hotel guest Andree "Sara" Bejjani in September 2009, what has happened to the cockamamie theory raised at the time by r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2011

    Dutch 'Superbus' is Super, Bus

    We reported earlier this week on the New York man who beat an M15 bus crosstown while riding a big wheel. It looks like he's finally met his match; The Huffington Post reports that awesomely named Dutch astronaut Wubbo Ockels has dreamed up a 23-person, 155 MPH electric "superbus." Sure, only old p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Checking Out the Upper East Side Shake Shack

    ​Is that butter on the Shack Burger's bun? When the first Shake Shack opened in Madison Square Park in 2004 - with some grumbling about public space being appropriated for private uses - it was a revelation and an instant hit. Burgers, fries, hot dogs, frozen custard, all like you might find ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    New World's Tallest Building Will Be Very Tall

    via Gulf News​Saudi Arabia will soon be home to a mile-high building, dubbed "The Kingdom Tower." Gulf News reports that it will be erected (you can say that about a building in Saudi Arabia, right?) in the Obhur Gulf, just outside of the port city Jeddah. Kingdom Holding Company is funding th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Energy Kitchen Plans Nationwide Bison Burger Domination

    ​Energy Kitchen, the "healthy" fast-food chain that operates 10 restaurants in the New York City area, is looking to take over America with its ostrich and bison burgers and plans to expand to a whopping 1,000 locations over the next 10 years.

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Magnolia Sets Up Mission Control in Harlem, Readies for World Domination

    Then one day, the cupcakes started eating us.​The cupcake cartel that is Magnolia isn't just opening five new locations around the country. It's priming itself for world domination with a new 5,200-square-foot production facility in Harlem, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new factory ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Ever Find Yourself With a Valuable Collectible?

    ​While uncluttering the house one day, I found a Michael Jackson chocolate bar -- dark chocolate, mind you -- on a shelf, though I have no idea where I'd originally attained it. Must be the Jesus juice. Wherever the thing came from, this discovery had me moonwalking for joy, and I assumed I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    The King of Truffles Has Died; Blue Marble Pier 1 is Delayed

    ​Britain's health chief openly attacked Jamie Oliver for the campaign he inspired to make school lunches healthy, claiming that the number of kids eating school meals dropped since the menu overhaul. [NY Daily News] Paolo Urbani, known in Italy as "Re del Tartufo" -- the king of truffles -- d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Sex and the City 2 Reviews: The 10 Best Slams

    ​If you're the kind of person who sometimes asks themselves why some people hate Sex and the City so much, you are either (A) not living in New York or (B) one of the imported creatures or various changes in New York City that Sex and the City is responsible for. Well, in the new movie, Carrie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    The Middle East's Arab Population: Choosing Facebook over Newspapers

    ​America isn't the only place print publications are in trouble, and online news organizations aren't the only one threatening them. To find evidence of this abroad, one must look no further than Facebook...in the Middle East.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Faisal Shahzad Seemed to Have a Happy Home Life

    AP​Details continue to emerge about Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square bomber intercepted by agents aboard an Emirates flight at JFK as he was attempting to flee to Dubai on Monday night.

  • Film

    May 4, 2010

    'The Calm After the Storm: Making Sense of Lebanon’s Civil War ' at Walter Reade

    Lebanese film series illustrates the absence of sense in a 15-year fight

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    In Dubai, Confusion Over Cooking Alcohol Reigns

    ​Earlier today, it was widely reported that Dubai was cracking down on enforcement of a 2003 law that forbids alcohol to be used in cooking. Alcohol is available at restaurants and clubs in Dubai, and the rule against using it in food had been mostly ignored until recent complaints that devout ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Magnolia Blasts its Buttercream on Dubai

    Flirty Kitty/flickr​Back in October, Magnolia announced it would be bestowing buttercream upon the Middle East by opening a store in Dubai.

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Crime Beat: Tiger Woods' Other Problem Is Dubai's Meltdown -- and Its Adultery Laws

    HarkavySerenity now: Tiger's first designed golf course, in Dubai, features a "30-foot depression" on the 12th hole, a pit much smaller than what he's trapped in right now. Tiger Woods may be lucky that his adulterous behavior surfaced now instead of next year. The first golf course he has designed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Newark Grocers Push Fruits & Veggies; Jonathan Safran Foer Asks, 'Why Not Eat Dog?'

    ​Costco will start accepting food stamps nationally after it started to accept them in New York earlier this year. The program should be operational in half the company's 407 warehouse-style stores by Thanksgiving, according to company officials. [NY Times] Small corner grocery stores in Newa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Magnolia Set to Sugarcoat Dubai

    Flirty Kitty/flickr​Dubai is starting to resemble a New York dentist's worst nightmare: The Chocolate Bar is already there, the Shake Shack is on its way, and now, it appears, Magnolia is about to follow. According to the cupcake capo Steve Abrams, the bakery will open a store there inside the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2009

    Before it Goes to Dubai, Shake Shack Will Travel to Nolita

    CurbedThe future location of the city's fourth Shake Shack outpost. ​The Shake Shack will open its fourth outpost in Nolita, according to an announcement from the Union Square Hospitality Group. The new location will be at 47 Prince, at the corner of Mulberry Street. It's not quite as exotic a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Senator Orrin Hatch Salutes Ted Kennedy in Song

    Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch did not let the fact that the last video on his YouTube channel was "Perils Of Government-Run Health Care" deter him from recording a hastily written homage to his good friend Ted Kennedy. Let's just do this verbatim, shall we?

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    Bye-Bye, Balducci's: New York Stores Close

    Balducci's, next to Zabar's probably New York's best known gourmet food shop, has closed its local stores at West 66th Street and at the corner of 14th Street and Eighth Avenue. The Times eulogizes, though one interviewee says, "Do you really need chipotle raspberry finishing sauce?... People don't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    This Is Why You're Fat--Study Says Allergies Can Hinder Weight Loss

    A study in Japan has found that eating 2.5 ounces of baby broccoli per day for two months may help stave off a stomach bug that is linked to several more serious problems, including gastritis, ulcers and even stomach cancer. [Reuters] Downing a banana smoothie before bed could help sufferers of sl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2009

    Dumped via Facebook? Probably. Hooked up by stimulus bill? Maybe.

    This'll break you up: Revisiting the January 2007 Facebook parody from USC, directed by Mu Sun While you're waiting for the stimulus bill to hook you back up: • It's not you, it's my social-networking. Further confirmation in this morning's Daily News of something that thousands of you alre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2008

    Giuliani, in UAE, Won't Rule Out Runs for President, Gov

    This'll break you up: Revisiting the January 2007 Facebook parody from USC, directed by Mu Sun While you're waiting for the stimulus bill to hook you back up: • It's not you, it's my social-networking. Further confirmation in this morning's Daily News of something that thousands of you alre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2008

    Daily Flog: Hedgehog Day on Wall Street; no one's selling greed short

    This'll break you up: Revisiting the January 2007 Facebook parody from USC, directed by Mu Sun While you're waiting for the stimulus bill to hook you back up: • It's not you, it's my social-networking. Further confirmation in this morning's Daily News of something that thousands of you alre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    Capitalist Kumbaya

    This'll break you up: Revisiting the January 2007 Facebook parody from USC, directed by Mu Sun While you're waiting for the stimulus bill to hook you back up: • It's not you, it's my social-networking. Further confirmation in this morning's Daily News of something that thousands of you alre ... More >>

  • Film

    April 15, 2008

    The First Saturday in May: Spellbound, With Horses

    Could use more humans, though

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2007

    Houston to Dubai: A Nonstop Flow of Money

    Could use more humans, though

  • Art

    December 4, 2007

    Carey Young's "If/Then," 'The Office,' and Jean Foos's 'The Other Me'

    Recommendations by R.C. Baker

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2007

    Our Slave Labor in California, Iraq

    Recommendations by R.C. Baker

  • Books

    August 28, 2007

    I, Genius

    Odd kids and surreal optimists in a new collection from George Saunders

  • Music

    August 7, 2007

    In-Flight African Reveries

    Odd kids and surreal optimists in a new collection from George Saunders

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2007

    Supermax in Baghdad

    Odd kids and surreal optimists in a new collection from George Saunders

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2007

    Cheney as Furor

    Odd kids and surreal optimists in a new collection from George Saunders

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2007

    Michael Jackson and Will.I.Am: WTF

    Odd kids and surreal optimists in a new collection from George Saunders

  • News

    February 28, 2006

    Anchors Way, Way Away

    Port Security and the Politics of a Good Story

  • News

    February 21, 2006

    Dubai's Port of No Return

    Don't jump to conclusions, but there are ties between the UAE, bin Laden, and the Taliban

  • Dining

    July 6, 2004

    Seafood Aria

    In midtown, something fishy and cheesy this way swims

  • News

    November 9, 1999

    What the Butler Wired

    Do Not Disturb — Unless You've Brought Me Some Floppies

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