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  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    The New Yorker's Annual Food Issue Has Arrived

    Martin Schoeller/The New Yorker​The New Yorker's annual food issue is out this week, to the immeasurable joy of gastronerds who have some spare time on their hands. High on the marquee is Lauren Collins' profile of April Bloomfield, whom Collins dubs "the food world's oblivious savant." Elsew ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Stopping and Frisking the A.G. Candidates

    I knew Eric Schneiderman was coming to the attorney general debate at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn last night, so I didn't park in the campus lot. I preferred to take the chance that I'd be stopped and frisked by Ray Kelly on my walk through Crown Heights to see a debate at which all five Democ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Rightbloggers Find a New Enemy of the People: Captain America

    ​As seen from the French Revolution forward, partisans of a populist movement that claims to represent the will of the people against The Man must be constantly on guard against mockery or criticism by its enemies. No slight, however minor, can be left unaddressed, lest it feed the worm of dou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Is Clinton Hill Neighborhood Bar LOX Closed?

    nytimes.comNo one home at LOX.​The door has never been exactly welcoming at Clinton Hill's LOX bar. But the locals know the heavy steel prison door-like storefront is the gateway to a lovely neighborhood drinking hole. Now, the gate has been down at LOX for several weeks and no one is answerin ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2009

    The Pet-Death Business

    All dogs go to heaven. Yours will probably get there in an urn.

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Chewing Over the $25 Cookie

    Before they opened Cookie Road in Greenpoint earlier this month, owners Jerzy and Aneta Szot were artists -- both earned their MFAs from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poland. "I was a painter, and she was a graphic designer," Jerzy Szot tells Fork in the Road. But Aneta "baked all her life -- it was h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Live: The Grateful Dead's Free Gramercy/Orensanz/Roseland Trifecta

    all photos by David Atlas "We miss Jerry!" some guy felt the need to observe loudly last night, during the quietest of last night's three sets by the band once known as the Grateful Dead. "You think we don't?" shot back, Phil Lesh, the Dead's 69-year-old beanpole bass player.

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Exclusive: Listening to Sufjan's "The Lonely Man of Winter" in Crown Heights

    The writer, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy. "You're the first person to show up" said Alec Duffy, as he took my coat. My listening session was in Crown Heights, just off the Franklin 1/2/3 stop. I slipped on the snow twice, went the wrong direction, and landed at his friend Dave Malloy's doorstep 20 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Four Freedoms Park: Might the Money Be Better Spent?

    Roosevelt Island 360 generously suggests that perhaps, given the financial crisis, the Island could do without the FDR Four Freedoms Park proposed for the Island's Southpoint Park. The Governor has budgeted $4 million in 2009 for the Park and the city is expected to match that. The Park is expecte ... More >>

  • Music

    January 14, 2009

    Dirty Blonde: Where to Drink in 2009

    Even bars get sequels now

  • News

    July 2, 2008

    Trash Talking with Harvey Weinstein

    Juicy details plucked from the garbage of a movie mogul

  • Books

    August 28, 2007

    Drink It Up

    After decades out of print, Walt Whitman's only novel comes back from its strange obscurity

  • Books

    May 1, 2007

    Eastward, Ho!

    In Jim Crace's new novel, post-apocalyptic America yearns for Europe

  • Music

    August 15, 2006

    Bleat on the Brats

    Emo-goth bill isn't exactly Top-8 material

  • News

    December 13, 2005

    Bill Weld's School Daze

    The GOP candidate's troubled term at a construction training college

  • NYC Life

    November 15, 2005

    You Know You Want It

    Gifts for addicts and fanatics

  • News

    August 30, 2005

    When the Levees Broke

    Hurricane Katrina unravels the threads of a fragile New Orleans society

  • Music

    June 7, 2005

    Music

    Hurricane Katrina unravels the threads of a fragile New Orleans society

  • NYC Life

    May 31, 2005

    Animaniacs

    Notes for an animated TV show I'm writing about my first job in New York City

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2005

    NYC: Must Work For Food

    Notes for an animated TV show I'm writing about my first job in New York City

  • Columns

    April 26, 2005

    Class Conscious

    Accidental learning through leisure activities

  • Screens

    April 19, 2005

    screens

    Accidental learning through leisure activities

  • Theater

    April 12, 2005

    Girl, Interrupted

    Seeking solace from grief, a teen emulates Helen of Troy

  • News

    November 16, 2004

    Naughty & Nice

    Freaky fun that will have you feeling festive

  • News

    November 16, 2004

    Wrapper's Delight

    As your personal shopper, we've got you covered

  • News

    October 12, 2004

    Voter's Digest

    The latest election fraud warnings

  • NYC Life

    June 15, 2004

    Lez Is More: Straight Bars Court Queer Ladies Once a Week

    The latest election fraud warnings

  • NYC Life

    May 4, 2004

    Cabin Fever

    The heat is on—and for a limited time only—so get out of the house and soak it up before it's gone

  • News

    September 16, 2003

    Testing to Create Dropouts?

    Playing the Numbers Game for Kids' Futures

  • News

    September 9, 2003

    Hillary Potter and the Senate Chamber of Secrets

    Playing the Numbers Game for Kids' Futures

  • NYC Life

    August 12, 2003

    Get a Little Closer at a Lounge Fit for a King—and a Pauper

    Playing the Numbers Game for Kids' Futures

  • News

    April 8, 2003

    Turn the Other Sheikh

    Using the New, Improved Sermon Tank

  • NYC Life

    March 4, 2003

    Altered States

    Ex-Shamen DJ Conjures Up a New Image

  • News

    February 25, 2003

    The Old Man and the Ski

    Waxing Poetic in Central Park

  • NYC Life

    December 17, 2002

    Close-Up on Crown Heights

    Waxing Poetic in Central Park

  • News

    November 19, 2002

    Cheap Cheer

    Waxing Poetic in Central Park

  • NYC Life

    November 12, 2002

    Listings

    Waxing Poetic in Central Park

  • NYC Life

    May 28, 2002

    Fair-Weather Friends

    Best Bets for Boozing in the Breeze

  • NYC Life

    May 28, 2002

    Hooky for a Day

    Best Bets for Boozing in the Breeze

  • News

    November 27, 2001

    Seasonal Brew

    Best Bets for Boozing in the Breeze

  • News

    November 27, 2001

    Holiday Happenings

    Best Bets for Boozing in the Breeze

  • Dance

    October 30, 2001

    Guy Time

    The Home Team and the Visitors Soothe the Maelstrom

  • News

    July 10, 2001

    Party Over Here!

    The Home Team and the Visitors Soothe the Maelstrom

  • NYC Life

    May 29, 2001

    Bars

    Too Hot to Think? Drink.

  • NYC Life

    February 13, 2001

    Listings

    Too Hot to Think? Drink.

  • Theater

    November 7, 2000

    Theater

    Too Hot to Think? Drink.

  • News

    June 20, 2000

    Loyal to a Vault

    Lazio Breaks the Bank at His Neighborhood EAB Branch

  • Music

    July 6, 1999

    Bummertime Blues

    Lazio Breaks the Bank at His Neighborhood EAB Branch

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