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Pot-atopia, No! Pota-topia, Nearly Upon Us in Greenwich Village

Spuds on Sixth Avenue Just as adjacent West 8th Street is filling up with restaurants instead of shoe stores, many of them quite pricey, Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village latitudes is becoming a cheap, franchise-eats haven. Ninety-nine Cent Pizza led the way, and soon there was a Chipotle just acr ... More >>

Very Local Seaweed and Fresh Rabbit Blood at Restaurant '13

Can an ingredient be too local? The gelatinous seaweed served at New York's newest pop-up restaurant is scraped each morning from the bottom of the Staten Island Ferry and strewn over sheets of fried kale. It's slippery stuff and it tastes dangerous, like it could kill you. It just might. For the p ... More >>

Traditional Korean Skewers and Stews in the Flatiron District

Fresh kills

Ten (More) Jazz Albums to Hear Before You Die

By Matthew Kassel and Alex W. Rodriguez Yesterday's much celebrated "Ten Jazz Albums to Hear Before You Die" post was a starter course, an easily digestible, rudimentary entry into the storied genre that not one person on the planet disagreed with. But today, we go further. Because for every Blue T ... More >>

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

By Jason Roche Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... Th ... More >>

Beck's Sheet-Music Gambit And Six Other Alternatives To Just Putting Out A Boring Old Record

This week neo-pop superstar Beck announced the release of Song Reader, a new "album" in the form of sheet music. The finished product offers nothing to listen to; just 20 sheets of notation collected in a "lavishly produced hardcover carrying case," according to the publishing outfit McSweeney's, wh ... More >>

'Unaccompanied Minors' at MOMA: The Kids Are Unloosed

The Story of Film: A 15-Hour Tour Through Movie History

What to Drink at The Bearded Lady: The Kinky Krown

Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. Chantal MartineauThe Bearded Lady's Kinky Krown​​​The drink: Kinky Krown The bar: The Bearded Lady (686A Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights, 469-232-7333) The price: $9 Ingredients: Plymouth gin, ... More >>

New High Horse Saloon Features Whiskey, Wine on Tap and Great Hair

​ Why wait more than two seconds to show off your new haircut at a bar? Kristi Banister (above) decided to open a boozy extension to her hip, old-timey High Horse Salon called, naturally, the High Horse Saloon. The smart thing about opening a bar next to your salon? You've already got a custom ... More >>

SoCo Fuses Itself to Clinton Hill

Inspiration: available in 100 or 70 proof.​Another day, another restaurant proclaiming its allegiance to the American South, or at least its more deep-fried elements. The newest member of the confederacy is SoCo, a Clinton Hill establishment that takes its name from the likker bottle and its c ... More >>

3rd Ward Is Looking for Restaurateurs "With a Vision"

3rd WardTaxidermy and Edison lamps not pictured​ Those with a burning desire to open a restaurant in the gray area between Williamsburg and Bushwick, take note: 3rd Ward is seeking "experienced, qualified restaurateur[s] with a vision" to submit café proposals for its planned eatery at ... More >>

The Anti-Food Truck Bandwagon Is Getting Kind of Full

​It's been quite a month for food truck haters!

Vesta's Giuseppe Falco Chats With Us About Foodies, Trends, and the Great Edison Bulb Blight

Photo courtesy of VestaA view inside of Vesta, Giuseppe Falco's Italian restaurant and wine bar in Astoria.​Yesterday we chatted with Giuseppe Falco, the owner, with Leo Sacco, of Astoria's Vesta Trattoria and Pachanga Patterson. Falco spoke at length about the neighborhood's changing restaura ... More >>

How to Have a Popular Restaurant? Be Obnoxious!

flickr/Dan DickinsonShorty sent a Twitpic​ Over at the Oatmeal, there's an entertaining list of how to make your restaurant popular, including only accepting cash, picking a ridiculously small venue with just a few tables, giving it an obnoxious name like "The Place," and offering a tiny menu ... More >>

Bob Hope, John Wayne, Cary Grant -- the 1970 Oscars

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 16, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 16 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris OSCAR GOES TO COLLEGE: You could hardly recognize Oscar this year at the celebration of his 42nd birthday. After years of flaunting his nouveau riche vulgarity and grade s ... More >>

Our 10 Best Food-Centric Day Trips

Photo courtesy The Old FieldOld Field Vineyard is worth visiting for the grounds alone​ In honor of the upcoming Labor Day weekend, we devote our top 10 list this week to food-centric day trips. Our list contains a lot of good eating, most accessible by train or bus, all within range for low- ... More >>

Dans Le Noir? Unveils Its Intentions to Its Neighbors

​ Now that its liquor license application has been approved by Community Board 3, Dans Le Noir? is providing a little more information to its Norfolk Street neighbors, promising them a "truly sensational culinary experience."

The Rum House Will Close; Owner Says It May Be Replaced By Something "Shiny"

The Rum House​Another day, another vestige of old and unpretentious New York disappears: According to its owner Thai Dang, the Rum House, the piano bar that has sat in the Edison Hotel on West 47th Street for over three decades, will close by the end of the year. Or possibly even sooner. Long ... More >>

Studies in Hypocrisy: "Green" Restaurateurs Love Them Some Energy-Guzzling Edison Bulbs

Evan Izer/Flickr​"It boggles the mind that in these times of economic hardship and interest in environmental sustainability that restaurant owners would choose the light bulb that uses 5 to 10 times more power than the other bulbs on the market...You can't on the one hand brag how green you ar ... More >>

Ken Jacobs Returns to Edison with 3-D Specs in Anaglyph Tom

J. Hoberman's Top 10 of 2008

College Leaves its Stain on One's Very Humanity.

Razzle Dazzle

Razzle Dazzle: Digital Joyride

Ken Jacobs's Amusement Park

Shock Art

Exit Art's 'Electric Lab' show could use a little more voltage

History-Making Footage

Devastating Doc's Close-Up on Colombian Gang Warfare

Right Up Your Alley

Freemans channels our forefathers for a more perfect restaurant

Consolidated Edison: A trove of turn-of-the-century shorts

Khan Edison

Poles scream as chiles explode in the wilds of New Jersey

Mommy and the Man

Letters

Music

Celestial Events

Forgotten Silver

Shelf Life

Loophole 101

How Charter Schools Weaken the Teachers’ Union

Outsider Providence

Back That Jass Up

Nation

Nine Powerful Men

City Council Wants a Say in Rent Board Appointments

From Public to Private

Big Changes Planned for City’s Low-Performing Schools

Are We The World?

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lion?

Return to the Tonic

Smoke and Mirrors

Sewers of Budapest

Last Call

Radical Robots

Building the Electronic Future Out of LEGO