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  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    I Saw J. Edgar And I Have The Gay Details!

    ​SPOILER ALERT! I liked J. Edgar, the Clint Eastwood directed flick, written by Dustin Lance Black, about controversial crime fighter J. Edgar Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    The NRA (That's National Restaurant Association) Spends $843K On Lobbying; Anna Wintour Still Pissed About Miss Lily's

    ​Doug Zell, the founder of Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, has teamed up with his old frat buddy, the philanthropist and former real estate developer Robert Buono. Now the two will share the title of Co-C.E.O. in an effort to expand the business. [Diner's Journal] No New York chefs will compet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Snooki Loves Bush: Jersey Shore Star Still Going Strong

    Just when you thought Snooki couldn't get any more crazy comes this video of the drunk Jersey Shore character dancing with a potted plant. What will she think of next? [via TMZ]

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Macy's 37th Annual Flower Show: Fake Daisies and Dogs in Floral Snuggies

    Heather Holland via The Lush Side​It's a good thing the wall of daisies was artificial, since the near-freezing wind that swept through Herald Square would have made short work of any exposed bloom at Macy's annual Flower Show on Sunday. Still, midtown tourists and shoppers took little notice ... More >>

  • Theater

    February 16, 2011

    Apple Cove Bears Little Fruit

    The Women's Project stages a busy satire

  • Voice Choices

    February 2, 2011

    Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control

    The Women's Project stages a busy satire

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Pot Farm Under Neighburrito Had 'Nothing to do With' Neighburrito

    Eating in Translation/Flickr​This morning brought one of the more amusing bits of news we'd heard in awhile: last night a pot farm was reportedly discovered in the basement underneath Neighburrito, the tiny take-out shop at 127 Rivington Street.

  • Columns

    June 22, 2010

    Free Will Astrology: June 23-29, 2010

    Eating in Translation/Flickr​This morning brought one of the more amusing bits of news we'd heard in awhile: last night a pot farm was reportedly discovered in the basement underneath Neighburrito, the tiny take-out shop at 127 Rivington Street.

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Q&A: Earth Day Art Exhibit Commemorates Demolished NYC Gardens

    ​In honor of Earth Day, we wanted to tell you a story about a garden -- The Magic Garden -- that's going to be torn down to make room for a high-rise housing development. Oliver Rios, an East Harlem-bred artist, grew up around gardening when his mother Lydia Roman began transforming abandone ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    The Maharishi Makes the Scene

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 25, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 15 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: The Politics of Salvation by Richard Goldstein The question of the hour is: can an honest man still be a fraud? The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi arrived in New York last Thursday, f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2010

    Brooklyn Botanic Garden Study Finds Local Native Plants Face Extinction

    Bittersweet at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens​A 20-year study of plant life in a fifty mile radius of New York City by the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens has found that more than 50 plant species native to the region face extinction under pressure from decreasing undeveloped land and the spread of non ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 9, 2010

    HEAVENLY DELIGHT

    Radiohole stages Whatever, Heaven Allows

  • Theater

    November 17, 2009
  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    In Local Bakeries, Innovation Proceeds Apace

    ​ The new square green slice at Birdbath Bakery deploys filo dough and plenty of salt. The filo peach tart is shown below (click either to consume). Increased competition among restaurants in an era of economic downturn is often the subject of essays and observations, less so the parallel com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2009

    Vesuvio Bakery to be Recycled Into New Birdbath

    Tjeerd/flickr​Good news for anyone worried that the old Vesuvio Bakery would be turned into a dog boutique or Subway franchise: New York reports that the Prince Street space will instead become the third location of Birdbath, the eco-friendly bakery run by City Bakery founder Maury Rubin. The 89-y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Why Garden? Because Dirt Is the New Prozac.

    woodleywonderworks/flickr​The Huffington Post has an interesting piece on how getting down and dirty with nature in, for example, a vegetable garden can keep us emotionally healthy. The microbes in dirt, apparently, affect the same neurons that are stimulated by Prozac. A British study from a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Get Ready for Puerto Rico's The Taco Maker; You May Not Recognize Sam Sifton After All

    ​The Organic Center in Boulder is refuting claims made by a widely covered British study that found organic foods are not more nutritious than conventional. The Organic Center's own 2008 report showed that "organic foods were, on average, 25 percent higher" in nutrients. [BizJournals] Just as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    L.A. to Take a Dip in Birdbath

    Eater L.A. reports that Maury Rubin, owner of City Bakery and Birdbath, will open another Birdbath branch in West Hollywood later this year. Rubin, who recently closed the L.A. outpost of City Bakery, reportedly plans to open two to three outposts of Birdbath, his so-called "neighborhood green baker ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2009

    The Botanical Gardens Get Foodie & "What's Up with These Dumb, Pornographic Fast Food Ads?"

    The New York Botanical Garden is embracing the fresh food movement this summer with its new Edible Garden program, which will feature such temporary exhibitions as "Tropical Fruits, Roots and Shoots." Martha Stewart helped the Botanical Garden revamp its herb garden, which now includes a variety of ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    June 10, 2009

    'Skirl Party VI'

    The New York Botanical Garden is embracing the fresh food movement this summer with its new Edible Garden program, which will feature such temporary exhibitions as "Tropical Fruits, Roots and Shoots." Martha Stewart helped the Botanical Garden revamp its herb garden, which now includes a variety of ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 6, 2009

    GARDEN STATE

    Martha Stewart, look out!

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Foraging For Free Food--Garlic Chives in Prospect Park

    Free garlic chives in Prospect Park (click to pick) Disembark the Q train at the Parkside stop, wander through the triumphal gate one block west at Ocean Avenue, and then head north along the paved walkway past the muddy picnic grounds. All around you find a wonderland of wild allium, sticking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2008

    Clip Job: Horse Hotel Razed for Shangri-La

    Free garlic chives in Prospect Park (click to pick) Disembark the Q train at the Parkside stop, wander through the triumphal gate one block west at Ocean Avenue, and then head north along the paved walkway past the muddy picnic grounds. All around you find a wonderland of wild allium, sticking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2008

    Herb May Heal, But is Blocked; Times Blames Stoned Kids

    Free garlic chives in Prospect Park (click to pick) Disembark the Q train at the Parkside stop, wander through the triumphal gate one block west at Ocean Avenue, and then head north along the paved walkway past the muddy picnic grounds. All around you find a wonderland of wild allium, sticking ... More >>

  • News

    July 29, 2008

    Class Action Listings for Fall 2008

    Free garlic chives in Prospect Park (click to pick) Disembark the Q train at the Parkside stop, wander through the triumphal gate one block west at Ocean Avenue, and then head north along the paved walkway past the muddy picnic grounds. All around you find a wonderland of wild allium, sticking ... More >>

  • Film

    July 16, 2008

    Scott Galloway and Brent Pierson's Brief Documentary A Man Named Pearl

    Free garlic chives in Prospect Park (click to pick) Disembark the Q train at the Parkside stop, wander through the triumphal gate one block west at Ocean Avenue, and then head north along the paved walkway past the muddy picnic grounds. All around you find a wonderland of wild allium, sticking ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2008

    Lez Get Together, Yeah-Yeah-Yeah!

    Free garlic chives in Prospect Park (click to pick) Disembark the Q train at the Parkside stop, wander through the triumphal gate one block west at Ocean Avenue, and then head north along the paved walkway past the muddy picnic grounds. All around you find a wonderland of wild allium, sticking ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 2, 2008

    LET'S GO DOWNTOWN!

    Another (yes,  another) cool outdoor film festival

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2008

    Gypsy Mishap: Curtain Up! Air Vent Down!

    Another (yes,  another) cool outdoor film festival

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2008

    Valentine's Day is Only for Lovers at Prune

    Another (yes,  another) cool outdoor film festival

  • People

    July 10, 2007

    Shear Madness

    Lopping off your plants while speaking Spanish: They’re coming, NY!

  • Art

    February 6, 2007

    Positively 27th Street

    Carving out a home for good nature in Chelsea

  • News

    November 8, 2005

    Paradise Lost

    When the High Line above Manhattan's West Side turns into a park, a secret world will disappear

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    The Rose and the Thorn

    Nodding Out in the East Village

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Rudy Deflowers New York

    Across the City, Communities Fight the Mayor's Garden Auction

  • NYC Life

    February 22, 2005

    The Endangered Garden

    AvalonBay makes concessions, but will Liz Christy's trees and plants survive?

  • Theater

    June 29, 2004

    Fleur du Mal

    Dumas's Black Tulip droops in Mark Giesser's new vase

  • News

    April 22, 2003

    Rocks in the Shape of Billy Martin

    The First Days of Baseball on the Eternal Diamond

  • Columns

    September 24, 2002

    Horoscope

    The First Days of Baseball on the Eternal Diamond

  • NYC Life

    September 17, 2002

    Close-Up On: Sunnyside

    The First Days of Baseball on the Eternal Diamond

  • News

    July 16, 2002

    War of the Gardeners

    Bugging Out Over Green Spaces

  • NYC Life

    May 14, 2002

    Two-Story 1800s Wooden Back House

    Bugging Out Over Green Spaces

  • News

    July 24, 2001

    War of the Roses

    Garden Vote Could Settle Perennial Problem

  • Film

    March 14, 2000

    Another Country, Not Her Own

    Garden Vote Could Settle Perennial Problem

  • News

    November 23, 1999

    The Coqui vs. the Bulldozer

    7th St. Gardeners Plan Amphibious Attack

  • News

    May 4, 1999

    Rudy Deflowers New York

    Across the City, Communities Fight the Mayor's Garden Auction

  • News

    March 30, 1999

    Spring Catalogue

    Plots thicken as gardens head for auction block

  • News

    January 12, 1999

    Garden Variety

    Plots thicken as gardens head for auction block

  • Dance

    December 1, 1998

    Rich and Strange

    Three Women Ignite Asian Traditions

  • News

    November 17, 1998

    Uprooted

    The City Yanks More Gardens Out of Harlem

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