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Richard Kuo Goes His Own Way at Pearl & Ash

A young chef plays with flavors from around the world

New Restaurant Reviews: Interpretation of Dreams at Pearl & Ash; Outstanding Seafood at Kittery

Spring is ripe with surprises (80 degrees, 40 degrees, you know the drill). This week, our professional eaters explored two curveball restaurants and were pleasantly delighted--though not equally--by each. Tejal Rao appreciated the food at Pearl & Ash more than the dark and noisy space on the Bowery ... More >>

Watch an Illustrated Guide to Cocktails

Orr Shtuhl and Elizabeth Graeber self-published their first run of An Illustrated Guide to Cocktails and sold the recipe collection via Etsy, but the book caught the eye of Gotham Books and a new edition, packed with stories and illustrations we haven't seen before, is now available for pre-order--t ... More >>

See a Parks and Rec-Themed Food Poster: Tom Haverfoods For Your Wall

If you're an Aziz Ansari fan (and, if you're not, watch this), then you probably know that the comedian is also very into food. His Park's and Rec character, Tom Haverford, is also a gourmand and regaled audiences a few years back with his epic food abbreviations monologue.

What's Happening: Big Brooklyn Holiday Toy Drive and Mission Chinese Sandy Relief Fundraiser

Monday, December 3 Five Ambassadors of the New York City Culinary Experience: Join the owners of Russ & Daughters, Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese, and Amanda Hesser from Food52 as they talk about food and its place in history and community. New York Times' Sam Sifton will moderate the discussion at ... More >>

A Handy Flowchart For Selecting Your 2012 CMJ Panels, Day 2

While you folks were all wearing yourselves out running around between CMJ showcases yesterday, I just guzzled a bunch of free booze at a press-only party and then ran home to giggle at the two boring rich dudes angrily discussing the details of their pension plans on national television. Hope it wa ... More >>

CRAFT A NIGHT

Everyone’s an artist at this party

Tejal Rao at Calliope; Robert Sietsema at Food Gallery 32

Tejal Rao hits up French country-bistro fare at Calliope in the East Village. Although there were a few glitches in the service, she is overall impressed: "Pity the person who orders the roast chicken, a breast covered in a glorious, impossibly golden skin, beside a cigar of rich, confit-stuffed cab ... More >>

The Domino Sugar Factory Deal: $160 Million and a Waterfront View

If you've ever drove/ran/biked across the Williamsburg Bridge, you have probably seen the Domino Sugar factory. The pre-Civil-War industrial building used to be the largest sugar refinery in the world; now, its worn-down streaks are covered with bright graffiti and its drabness is reminisc ... More >>

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 11: Kreayshawn, "Gucci Gucci"

​If 2011 had one takeaway, it was this: It's really, really easy to write a song that's by-the-numbers lousy. Rebecca Black's "Friday," the mushmouthed ode to getting down on the weekends, is a prime example; made on a budget, it nonetheless had enough brain-sticking properties to get inside t ... More >>

Sushi Crochet Patterns, Gift Suggestion No. 10

Wasabi not included. ​ For the foodie urbanite who lives up to yet another hip stereotype -- crafting -- this sushi crochet pattern is perfect for that guy or girl in your life who's as into dashimaki as doilies.

Special Mujer Edition

Free Will Astrology: September 14-20, 2011

Live: Danielle Ate The Sandwich Gets A Little Too Cute In Brooklyn

Danielle Ate The Sandwich Red Horse Cafe Saturday, September 10 Better than: Sitting through YouTube comedy sketches. Danielle Ate The Sandwich is a young woman in thick-rimmed glasses from Colorado. She plays acoustic guitar, and sometimes the ukulele. If you purchase her self-titled debut album, ... More >>

'Metropolitan Etiquette Authority' Posts New Signs Around New York City

​Jason Shelowitz, or Jay Shells, a New York artist who in 2010 launched a subway etiquette campaign covering all sorts of ills committed by commuters (something we clearly have an interest in as well), and later followed with a "clean up after your dog" series, is at it again. He put up street ... More >>

How To Successfully Mimic Beyoncé's Dance Moves: A Sound Of The City Guide

Don't try this one unless you've stretched.​During Beyoncé's Sunday night show at Roseland a friend pointed out to me that B's signature dance moves help her songs become megahits. I'd like to take it a bit further, and say that easy to master signature dance moves are what help her songs bec ... More >>

Coming to Smorgasburg: Barbecue, Chorizo Sandwiches, and Alan Harding's Rice Balls

A chorizo sandwich, inspired by London's Borough Market and headed for Smorgasburg​ "Smorgasburg," Eric Demby says, "is in this Darwinian phase: We're trying out lots of people. It's a little bit survival of the fittest." The market's evolving list of vendors is producing some new faces this w ... More >>

Dumbo Gets Free Wi-Fi; Manhattan's Paid Version to Follow

​As of today, Dumbo, Brooklyn, is the first -- and only -- location in the city to offer a free wireless network for the neighborhood. It's called Dumbo Wi-Fi, and it will be available outside, in streets, parks, and plazas, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges -- including in the newly ... More >>

Williamsburg Hipsters Robbed of Prestigious 11211 Zip Code

​A letter from the U.S. Postal Service informed Williamsburg residents -- hipsters and real people alike -- that the zip code designating the Bedford Avenue gentrification haven will switch from 11211 to "the sadly less palindromic 11249," as one resident put it to Gothamist. The reasoning act ... More >>

Urban Outfitters and Etsy Artists: Who's Stealing From Whom?

via Regretsy​It's well known by now that Urban Outfitters sometimes rips off designs from independent artists. Last summer, Foster Kamer noted that the hipster warehouse was stealing from Brooklyn designers; this week, Averie wrote about how the chain could be basing their state pendant neckl ... More >>

Urban Outfitters, Still Stealing Designs from Local Artists

​If Urban Outfitters isn't shaking in their boots yet, they should be. Because based on this, and this, they've been caught red-handed stealing from online fashion and jewelry designers. It will have been a year ago tomorrow that Foster Kamer called out the mega-hipster monolith for stealing f ... More >>

Manhattan Tells Brooklyn to Suck It

James Campbell Taylor​Dear Boroughs, Last week we wrote of a "lighthearted jab at that other borough across the river," for sale on Etsy from the Fourth Floor Print Shop. In it, Brooklyn told Manhattan that it was ugly and, basically, that it was over it. Manhattan has now written back, or a ... More >>

Ask the Critics: What Are Some Good Online Resources to Send Food Gifts?

FoodzieWho doesn't want a big box of food?​Maya L. Asks: I'm looking for a birthday gift for my food-loving partner. If it were up to me, I'd send him a picnic basket full of lobster rolls from the Lobster Pound and booze to his workplace in Midtown...but I'm in Senegal and out of the loop. D ... More >>

Here Is a Lovely Gift for Someone Who Lives in Brooklyn and Hates Manhattan

​What, you wanna start trouble? If so, this is available on Etsy, via the Fourth Floor Print Shop, for the cost of a whole lotta PBRs (translation: $24, plus shipping and handling). The vivid yet relaxing blue color and epistolary style belie the fact that this 16-by-20-inch "lighthearted jab ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Stoner Foods, Easter Sunday, Green Restaurants

This week in food blogs... Eater rounded up its 15 best stoner foods in the city. Mac 'n' cheese pancakes, anyone? Grub Street mapped out where to celebrate Easter Sunday. (Because dinner at Grandma's is lame, right?) Diner's Journal offered advice on what to do when your friends torture you with ... More >>

MTA Backs Down in Fight Against East Village Metrocard Artist

Some of the artist's work.​On Friday we wrote about East Village artist Victoria, or VH, McKenzie, who had been creating oil paintings on discarded Metrocards and selling them on Etsy for $48 apiece. An MTA marketing intern, part of whose job it is to seek out unauthorized use of the MTA trade ... More >>

MTA Goes After East Village Artist for Painting on Used Metrocards [Updated]

Some of the artist's work.​The big bad wolf is hungry. Or jealous? EV Grieve today alerted us to the matter of East Village artist VH McKenzie, who has been creating oil paintings on discarded Metrocards that she then sells on Etsy for $48 apiece. The MTA found out about this, and sent her the ... More >>

Etsy Privacy Policy Shows Everyone Your Heinous, Uncouth, or Twee Purchases

For sale: vintage JFK bust​The e-commerce website Etsy, which focuses on sickeningly cute arts, crafts, and vintage junk, also happens to sell sex toys, like ceramic polka-dotted dildos and crocheted vibrator cases, as we learned today! Others on the Internet may have learned a similar lesson ... More >>

Today in Pricey Pie News

All Jarred Up​What's even more 2010 than pies or things in jars? Pies in jars. A Los Angeles-based pastry concern called, aptly, All Jarred Up is now selling the sickeningly cute things on Etsy. The folks over at Chow.com got a taste and pronounced them "excellent," but recoiled a bit at the p ... More >>

Our 10 Worst Foodie Xmas Presents

​Awful Gift #10: Stonerware Apron With Marijuana-Leaf Imprint, Broadway Panhandler Everyone knows that chefs like to get stoned (or "baked" as the apron has it), which helps relieve the tedium of chopping vegetables for hours at a time. But this guy doesn't need to wear an apron to show us he' ... More >>

The 9 Most Hideous Thanksgiving-Themed Tchotchkes

​Happy Thanksgiving! Time to be thankful you don't own any of these items. Here, we've identified the 9 Thanksgiving-themed tchotchkes that frighten us the most. (Sorry to the creators of said items, but we are thankful that you possess the genius and home craftsmanship/manufacturing prowess t ... More >>

PROJECT HIPSTER

Off the runway and in the ’Burg

One Last Thought Before the Holiday Weekend

trendycraftcreations/Etsy​There is an awful lot of crocheted food on Etsy.

Fall Guide: Karen O's Style Guru Takes Us Shopping

Cruising Williamsburg with Christiane Joy Hultquist

Best of Etsy: Joaquin Phoenix/Hipster Hunter DIY Bearded Beanie

via taraduff on Etsy Click to Enlarge​A Runnin' Scared tipster brought this gem to our attention, noting the knitted hat's uncanny resemblance to Joaquin Phoenix 2.0, about whom a movie trailer for I'm Still Here; The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix surfaced last week (after the jump). We think i ... More >>

NY Tech MeetUp Showcases Some Useful New Technology, Some Not

​NY Tech MeetUp is a monthly event for the technology community in New York that allows emerging companies to demo their new ideas in front of a large audience of like-minded techies. It's a safe place for these tech geeks, but it's open to outsiders like us, too. We went last June as well, took J ... More >>

Class Action Listings

Chuck Schumer Is a Congressional Hipster, the Senator Repping Williamsburg

​There is no arguing that Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) is a fucking hipster. But is there anything of substance to speak of behind those thick frames, perhaps an Etsy account or a collection of rare 7" records? She certainly has nothing to do with the free concerts ("Pool Parties") tha ... More >>

Shocker: New Yorkers Don't Need a Yard to Grill; Big Salt Fights Back

​New Yorkers didn't need a backyard to grill this past Memorial Day weekend. There are 36 parks across the city that have areas for barbecuing, and people will even cook on their fire escapes. [NY Times] Flooding, poor construction, and a string of related delays made the long road for two wo ... More >>

Here, At Last, Is The Inevitable Justin Bieber/Black Flag T-Shirt

​Why? Because, explains the t-shirt's creator, "Both groups have caused riots, both embrace DIY." Just ask Australia about the former. Also, not to brag, but let the record show we called for a Bad Brains/Bieber mash-up all the way back in November of 2009. We're prescient like that. [Etsy]

Five Best Pieces of Food Art on Etsy

Etsy might be a little precious, but it's also a trove of affordable, unusual gift ideas, some of them food-related. Before you know it, you've bought a pair of mushroom earrings from a woman in Singapore, and felt sushi from a crafty girl in Chicago. Click through to see our five favorite food gift ... More >>

HOLIDAY MADNESS

Two shopping events that give you gifts

10 Most Unsettling Twilight Crafts: Underpants, Onesies, and More

​ A new film about death and sexual restraint comes out this month. You may have heard of it--Twilight? The second installment in the vampire series, New Moon, features a meaty werewolf constantly busting out of his clothes, and the ongoing unrequited lust--excuse us, love--of undead teen Edwa ... More >>

Felt Soup Dumplings Good Enough to Eat, Or Gift

Little Fluff Stuff​These bizarrely appealing hand-made felt soup dumplings would make a terrific holiday gift. The set is $12. Find them on Little Fluff Stuff, an Etsy shop run by a woman who describes herself as a 24-year-old engineer in San Francisco who likes to make cute food out of felt, ... More >>

Things to do this weekend for (mostly) free

​ Leaf peeper map of New York State Saturday Stinky Cheese Man author Jon Scieszka and five others read at Books of Wonder Hayrides at the Carl Schurz Park Harvest Festival Mask making at Kate's Paperie Craft fair, Chelsea, with PS11 and a group of local Etsy sellers Madison Square Fall ... More >>

Foodie Gifting: Breakfast Necklace

Image borrowed from Museum of Useless Objects' Etsy page​ This Diner Ensemble necklace would make a terrific gift, although you might want to keep it for yourself. It's from the Museum of Useless Objects on Etsy, and each necklace is made by hand from crocheted and wet felted Malabrigo merino ... More >>

Holiday Handmade Cavalcade

Brooklyn Homeshow

Eighth Annual Sexy Gift Guide

High-tech vibrators, anal treasures, and rock-star porn

Crafts Bizarre

Duct tape totes? Etsy's eBay-style craft community makes everyone a potential artisan