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  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Curtis Stone Talks Around the World in 80 Plates, Filming All Over the World Part 1

    He has a new Bravo show and a recently born son, so it's a miracle that we got Curtis Stone on the line. Despite a whirlwind media day, the Top Chef Masters host gave us the scoop on Around the World in 80 Plates, traveling the world, and some destinations he'd like to re-visit. You have a new show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Top 10 Eurovision Song Contest Winners* of All Time

    In a couple of weeks, the biggest, gaudiest, gayest and easily the most-watched televised music event in the world will unfold, this year from Baku, Azerbaijan, and once again Americans will be almost completely oblivious to it. We're talking, of course, about the Eurovision Song Contest, which sta ... More >>

  • Film

    April 4, 2012

    The Assault

    In a couple of weeks, the biggest, gaudiest, gayest and easily the most-watched televised music event in the world will unfold, this year from Baku, Azerbaijan, and once again Americans will be almost completely oblivious to it. We're talking, of course, about the Eurovision Song Contest, which sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2012

    François Payard on Why Macarons Are Way More Awesome Than Cupcakes

    Pastry chef François Payard who runs François Payard Bakery (210 Murray Street, 212-566-8300) has become synonymous with chocolates and fancy French desserts. Payard is also currently organizing the third annual Macaron Day, which will be taking place on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012, a city-wide even ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 10, 2011

    HERE'S TO HEMINGWAY

    Elevator Repair Service toast the author and then some

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2011

    Dominique Strauss-Kahn Also Put Moves On Two Hotel Workers and a Flight Attendant

    ​Dominique Strauss-Kahn cast a wider net last week than we thought. He reportedly tried to lure two hotel employees to his suite at the Sofitel New York, and following his alleged assault on a maid, he lewdly hit on a flight attendant. This was following the alleged assault. In New York Post-e ... More >>

  • Film

    March 23, 2011

    Korkoro: Tony Gatlif's Latest Drama About the Roma

    ​Dominique Strauss-Kahn cast a wider net last week than we thought. He reportedly tried to lure two hotel employees to his suite at the Sofitel New York, and following his alleged assault on a maid, he lewdly hit on a flight attendant. This was following the alleged assault. In New York Post-e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Q&A: French DJ Douster On Robyn, His Dislike Of Moombahton, And Why Music Makes Him See Colors

    ​Hugo Douster is all over the place, in terms of both the French DJ's schedule (which in the last week has taken him through Norway, Switzerland, France, and tonight Brooklyn, where he'll kick off his North American tour) and his sound. The traveling helps, as the producer's influences vary fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Chefs Don't All Have Big Kitchens; Foodspotting Raises $3M

    ​Think you could be a better cook if only you had a kitchen like a five-star chef? Maybe not. Mehangir Mehta of the newly opened Mehtaphor, Anita Lo of Annisa, and husband-and-wife team Jo-Ann Makovitzky and Marco Moreira of Tocqueville and 15 East are among chefs with tiny apartment kitchens. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Diddy Is A Legend In Both Ibiza and the Franklin Avenue 4 Train Station

    Diddy: dirty money plus ice cream.​Rejoice New York, Diddy's long, long, long-awaited Last Train To Paris is finally out today, after three years in the making and some of the most pleasurable pre-album explicating known to man. The record, see, is about the woman of his dreams, except after a ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Sidebar: Bookworms

    White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy

  • Film

    November 3, 2010

    Long Does Not Equal Epic in Algerian War Drama Outside the Law

    White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    Dear Rest-of-America: New York's Cabbies Are Not The Rudest, You Are Just All Ignorant Pussies

    ​DNA News posted today on a recent Hotels.com survey calling New York City's taxis the second-best in the world next to London's Black Cabs. They also called the drivers of New York's taxis "America's Rudest," with Paris coming in second place. To which New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    Whole Foods Recalls Farm Cheese; Plastic Bags Now Illegal in Samoa

    ​Burger King is, in fact, being sold to private equity firm 3G Capital for some $3.26 billion. [Salon] Whole Foods is not immune to food safety scandals. It's recalling farm cheese due to possible Listeria and Staphylococcus aureus contamination. [WireUpdate] A new exhibition at the MoMA, en ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Chatting With Patricia Williams Cooking for Jazz Fans at Smoke, the Dreaded Jazz Brunch, and the Similarities Between Dancing and Cooking

    Patricia Williams​Patricia Williams has been cooking in New York for almost 30 years, and her resume includes many restaurants that made a significant imprint on the city's dining scene, including Barry Wine's Quilted Giraffe, Arizona 206, and Sarabeth's Kitchen. And after spending time behind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2010

    Chipotle Expands Into Europe; Jet Dustin Keller Names Katz's City's Best Dog

    ​The Indian yogi who claims to have not eaten a thing in 70 years baffled scientists who studied him for 15 days. The hope was that information gleaned could help soldiers survive without food and drink or save people trapped in natural disasters. [FOXNews] Chipotle Mexican Grill has opened i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    KFC Pushes Further Into France; Chefs Get Cooking with Their Moms

    ​Americans are eating more vitamin supplements, which may be a good thing, especially for kids, who generally don't get enough vitamin D and other nutrients. [Wall Street Journal] KFC is plotting a deeper move into France, with a new ad campaign surrounding the opening of the 100th store ther ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Morning Links: OTB Lives, New Yorkers Imagine a World Without Doormen, Chastity Becomes Chaz

    ​Hey, it's Monday, time for lots and lots of coffee and, of course, your Monday morning update. • The OTB has a second (ninth?) life. The board voted to keep operations open for at least another year, and will submit a plan on how they will restructure the company to the New York State Wage ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Fool Me Once, Then Pardon Me While I Pummel You Senseless

    ​In case you've been a bit submerged with that whole census thing, we just wanted to give a friendly heads-up that today is officially April 1, which means: Your census is now due. And, oh yeah -- watch your back.

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2010

    Chef Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern on his Japanese Influences, Chefs in Social Media, and Ramps

    Ellen Silverman Photography​Chef Michael Anthony has been the executive chef at Gramercy Tavern for nearly four years. He got his start in the kitchen soon after college, when, while studying in Japan, he fell for Japanese cooking. Anthony began working at Bistro Shima in Tokyo, and then moved ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 16, 2010

    Intolerance

    Ellen Silverman Photography​Chef Michael Anthony has been the executive chef at Gramercy Tavern for nearly four years. He got his start in the kitchen soon after college, when, while studying in Japan, he fell for Japanese cooking. Anthony began working at Bistro Shima in Tokyo, and then moved ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    3 Consulates Get Fake Anthrax, Nostalgia (Update: It's Flour)

    ​Autumn 2009 is making us nostalgic. First, we have a deranged Muslim killing a lot of citizens on U.S. soil. Now, we have anthrax! Or at least fake anthrax, which we also had back in the day, sonny. The New York consulates of France, Austria and Uzbekistan received anonymous packets of white ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Market Watch: Brode Galeux d'Eysines Frightens Union Square Shoppers

    ​ Underneath the glue-on peanuts, worm holes, or whatever they are, is an orange pumpkin. The French name means "embroidered with the eyes of Eysines," referring to a town in the south of France. The brode galeux d'Eysines is a pumpkin that weighs around ten pounds, and the flesh is sweet and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    The USDA Gets Locavore Fever; The How-to-Stay-Regular Cookbook

    ​The USDA has launched a new campaign entitled Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food, that includes a close to $65 million handout to help connect small -- especially sustainable -- farms to people seeking local food. [NY Times] To help fight obesity, universities are posting caloric information i ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 1, 2009

    Battlefields+Overmars

    ​The USDA has launched a new campaign entitled Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food, that includes a close to $65 million handout to help connect small -- especially sustainable -- farms to people seeking local food. [NY Times] To help fight obesity, universities are posting caloric information i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    What to 'B' to A Salt & Battery

    Every week or so in "What to B When You BYOB," a local wine shop recommends a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, Lisa Schock, the director of tasting events at Chelsea Wine Vault, discusses what to bring to nearby fish and chips joint A Salt & Bat ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 3, 2009

    Le Combat Dans L'ile

    Every week or so in "What to B When You BYOB," a local wine shop recommends a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, Lisa Schock, the director of tasting events at Chelsea Wine Vault, discusses what to bring to nearby fish and chips joint A Salt & Bat ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 25, 2009

    Pentagram

    Every week or so in "What to B When You BYOB," a local wine shop recommends a few good wines under $20 to pair with the food at a nearby BYOB restaurant. This week, Lisa Schock, the director of tasting events at Chelsea Wine Vault, discusses what to bring to nearby fish and chips joint A Salt & Bat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    Edible News of the World Update

    The Rainbow Room in better timesAnother victim of the bad economy: The Rainbow Room will close on January 12th, but its bar, banquet space and weekend dinner-dancing will stay in business, moving to the 65th floor of the building. [AP]The holidays are over, time for inauguration fever. Asia Nine, a ... More >>

  • Film

    December 31, 2008

    J. Hoberman's Top 10 of 2008

    The Rainbow Room in better timesAnother victim of the bad economy: The Rainbow Room will close on January 12th, but its bar, banquet space and weekend dinner-dancing will stay in business, moving to the 65th floor of the building. [AP]The holidays are over, time for inauguration fever. Asia Nine, a ... More >>

  • News

    November 5, 2008

    Letters 11.05.08

    The Rainbow Room in better timesAnother victim of the bad economy: The Rainbow Room will close on January 12th, but its bar, banquet space and weekend dinner-dancing will stay in business, moving to the 65th floor of the building. [AP]The holidays are over, time for inauguration fever. Asia Nine, a ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 19, 2008

    DANGEROUS LIAISONS

    A game of seduction and style

  • Voice Choices

    August 12, 2008

    ROPE-A-DOPE

    Working out with double-dutch divas

  • Voice Choices

    July 2, 2008

    FOUL PLAY

    Renoir’s once-hated masterpiece on French society returns

  • Film

    May 6, 2008

    Xavier Gens's Frontière(s)

    Renoir’s once-hated masterpiece on French society returns

  • Art

    April 8, 2008

    The Cooper-Hewitt Celebrates Rococo

    Polish up your Cupids and boar's heads!

  • Film

    July 31, 2007

    After Sunrise

    The long walk over, Julie Delpy explores what comes next (i.e., the hard part)

  • Art

    January 9, 2007

    Pictures at an Execution

    Two museum shows illuminate history's darkest corners

  • Film

    July 18, 2006

    '13 Tzameti'

    Two museum shows illuminate history's darkest corners

  • Specials

    January 10, 2006

    Letters

    Two museum shows illuminate history's darkest corners

  • Film

    December 6, 2005

    Memories of Murder

    Hidden in plain sight: Austrian director Michael Haneke evokes the power of nightmares

  • Dining

    March 4, 2003

    La Vraie Bouillabaisse

    Crazy on Williamsburg's North Side

  • Music

    September 10, 2002

    All Chao's Children

    The Mediterranean Rim Shot (Not Heard Round the World)

  • Film

    June 25, 2002

    Oedipus in Overalls

    The Mediterranean Rim Shot (Not Heard Round the World)

  • News

    June 18, 2002

    Sports

    The Mediterranean Rim Shot (Not Heard Round the World)

  • Home

    December 28, 1999

    Personal Bests

    The Mediterranean Rim Shot (Not Heard Round the World)

  • Film

    June 22, 1999

    The Max Factor

    The Mediterranean Rim Shot (Not Heard Round the World)

  • NYC Life

    January 5, 1999

    All About Eve

    The Mediterranean Rim Shot (Not Heard Round the World)

  • Art

    December 8, 1998

    School of Paris

    The Mediterranean Rim Shot (Not Heard Round the World)

  • News

    September 22, 1998

    A Brief History of Outrage

    The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments

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