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January 23, 2012
5 Pies to Stuff Yourself Silly on Today, a/k/a National Pie Day
Lauren ShockeyNorth End Grill puts out a fine lemon meringue pieToday is National Pie Day, woot woot. While Fork in the Road believes that this holiday should really coincide with the other Pi Day (March 14), any day that celebrates the bounty of baked, filled pastries is still pretty damn a ... More >>
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December 9, 2011
Our 10 Best Soups in NYC
Polonia's borscht with meat dumplings is so good, you'll want to swim in it. Like the primordial ooze our ancestors crawled out of, soup is a nourishing, regenerative fluid. And when the weather turns cold, there's nothing more revivifying than a great potage - even coming out of a can, it ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 16, 2011
Skull Defekts+Mats Gustafsson
Polonia's borscht with meat dumplings is so good, you'll want to swim in it. Like the primordial ooze our ancestors crawled out of, soup is a nourishing, regenerative fluid. And when the weather turns cold, there's nothing more revivifying than a great potage - even coming out of a can, it ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
This Weekend In New York: The Wake And Weekend Get Rained On But Not Rained Out, Ted Leo And Screaming Females Shine In The Sun
In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. Sweaty DIY venues are great, but even Waste Of Paint needs a break from them once in a while. Furthermore, I haven't been leaving my dark cave much lately, and my c ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
Littleneck Promises to Bring Brooklyn Its "First and Only Classic New England-Style Seafood Shack"
Littleneck, or a rendering thereof.While the Gowanus doesn't exactly summon comparisons to Cape Cod, Aaron Lefkove is planning to make its dining options a wee bit more evocative of the New England shore.
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June 21, 2011
Americans Love the Olive Garden; Monte's Reopens in Gowanus
Lab-grown artificial meat might sound gross, but it could reduce greenhouse gasses by 96% if used to replace conventional livestock. [The Guardian] What national chains do people love most? According to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, the Olive Garden and Red Lobster. [Chicago Trib ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 2, 2011
WTF IS THIS?
Podcasting with indie greats in Gowanus
Blogs
February 22, 2011
Live: Prince Rama Start Their Own Cult At Issue Project Room
"Wave goodbye to your former selves."Prince Rama Issue Project Room Sunday, February 20 The Hare Krishna-bred, Animal Collective-produced crew Prince Rama are the Brooklyn-based band you previously might've seen performing alongside a homemade vacuum-cleaner-powered organ during Body Actuali ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
Ivy Stark Is Coming to Smith Street With Diego (Updated)
BrownstonerWhen Smith Street's four-year-old Union Smith Café shut its doors recently, plenty of neighbors wondered what would replace the restaurant, which, while not stellar, was a dependable brunch destination. Per Carroll Gardens Patch, its replacement will be Diego, an upscale Mex ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Whole Foods Still Coming to Gowanus
Good news for Brooklynites who don't feel like schlepping to Red Hook's supersized Fairway: After an extended residence in limbo, the Whole Foods Gowanus has returned, and this time it looks like the store will actually rise at 3rd Street and Third Avenue.
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October 5, 2010
Suzanne Fiol, May 9, 1960 - October 5, 2009
It was this day last year that Suzanne Fiol, the kind, charismatic local presence who founded Issue Project Room in 2003, died, after a protracted battle with cancer. (Our tribute to her is here.) She was a lovely person whom we were lucky enough to know, a little bit, like so many other peop ... More >>
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August 16, 2010
Live: Mountain Man Scale the Roof of the Old American Can Factory
Mountain Man at Rooftop Films. All photos by Georgia Kral.Mountain Man Old American Can Factory Friday, August 13 Friday night was chilly, cold even. But that didn't stop Mountain Man from projecting their spine-tingling folk songs in three-part harmony across the deep Old American Ca ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 27, 2010
STRAIGHT UP
A gin distillery grows in Brooklyn
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June 16, 2010
Marty Markowitz Will Don His Trunks to Protest Gowanus Pool Closing
Yes, that's how we feel, too.Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will join protesters this Sunday in rallying against the city's decision to close the "Double-D" public pool in Gowanus this summer for budgetary reasons -- apparently keeping the pool shuttered will save the city $200,00 ... More >>
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June 4, 2010
BKLYN Yard Shut Down: Sunday Best (And Every Other Party There) Left Homeless
Yeah, this place was pretty great. Shit. BKLYN Yard, the improbably wonderful banks-of-the-Gowanus-Canal outdoor venue that played host to outstanding summer dance parties -- including the increasingly beloved Sunday Best series, which had started this year's slate just this past weekend with a Mi ... More >>
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May 25, 2010
The Toxic Joys of Sunday Best
How the best weekly dance party in town wound up alongside the Gowanus Canal
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April 10, 2010
Things to Do This Weekend for (Mostly) Free
Tartan Week finishes up with the Tartan Day Parade up 6th Avenue today, or take in the all-day J-Cation food festival at the Japan Society. Both days, New York Classical Theater presents traveling performances of Hamlet at the World Financial Center.
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April 8, 2010
Jamie Oliver Doesn't Approve of Potty Mouth; David Chang Wears Both Boxers and Briefs
A Korean-born chef who used to work at Le Bernardin is the first food truck cook to be named one of Food & Wine magazine's Best New Chefs. [Reuters] Why you won't hear Jamie Oliver cursing out any chubby kids in Virginia: "I don't approve of [chefs] who swear... Sometimes you feel it's their ... More >>
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January 4, 2010
Whole Foods to Start Cleaning up Gowanus Site, but Won't Build Store Anytime Soon
It looks like Whole Foods is finally doing something to the site at Third Street in Gowanus where it's been sort of planning to build a store for months now. The Carroll Gardens Diary got ahold of a letter sent to WF stakeholders and community groups detailing the chain's plans to begin parti ... More >>
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December 25, 2009
Miserable Christmas News from Around the City
Fire up Silent Night/7 O'Clock News and let's revel in how miserable it all is: A guy driving on Brooklyn's 27th Street near the Gowanus Expressway yesterday felt something under his car and found a corpse wrapped in plastic. Surveillance video reveals that the body was dumped there Wednesday n ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Gowanus Canal Now on Facebook, in More Than One Place
The Post announces that "the Gowanus Canal has finally joined the 21st century: The fetid waterway has its own group on Facebook." They mean the EPA has started a GC discussion group at its page, at which it encourages conversations that "follow the conventions of polite discourse." As you ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
R.I.P. Suzanne Fiol, Founder and Director of Issue Project Room
Suzanne Fiol, who founded the itinerant new-music venue Issue Project Room in an East Village garage in 2003 and who shepherded the venue through three successive spaces, died yesterday, after a long struggle with cancer. In this paper's archives you will find any number of raptures about the ... More >>
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August 11, 2009
Lunch, Garden of Dreams, Come to Vue
Vue, the restaurant and lounge perched atop Gowanus's very own Hotel Le Bleu, has just debuted a lunch and brunch menu. Chef Chris Cheung will offer such apps as a Samurai spiked crab cake and chilled butternut squash soup, and such entrees as Denmark baby back ribs with macaroni and bleu cheese and ... More >>
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July 27, 2009
Acrylics Playing After the Jump Fest; More Line-Up Announcements to Come Via Twitter
After the Jump Festival, the annual three-day local music convocation organized by local music bloggers--"the ones on the front lines, crushed into the barrier, braving bad music; earsplitting acoustics and drunken mobs, all to bring you a daily look at the New York music world"--has announce ... More >>
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July 8, 2009
Details On the 2009 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival
Information remains scant on the super minimal page for the 2009 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival, scheduled for August 8 at everybody's favorite BK venue the Old American Can Factory, a/k/a the Yard, a/k/a the old Issue Project Room space, a/k/a probably the only inhabitable lawn along all of t ... More >>
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May 29, 2009
Tonight They're Gonna Rock You Tonight: Zap Mama, Cake, and Some Golden-Age Hip-Hop
Starting today, intrepid Voice intern Michael Downes will offer a daily, highly biased digest of that evening's best NYC shows -- and the whole weekend's slate on Friday, which today is, mercifully, if you were not aware. Enjoy. FRIDAY Zaire-born Marie Daulne fronts Zap Mama at Joe's Pub. Foun ... More >>
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March 2, 2009
Reverend Billy Running for Mayor
Bloomberg, Weiner, Thompson, Avella, quake in your boots: Reverend Billy has joined the 2009 mayoral race. The charismatic preacher against consumerism and related social ills, whose Buy Nothing Day service we attended last Black Friday in Union Square, announced his candidacy at his MySpace page ... More >>
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February 25, 2009
Times Reviews Swing Club, Finds It Clean But Unsexy
The latest club to be reviewed in the New York Times is located "between the Gowanus Expressway and a cement plant." They can't give more details because it's a swing club where New Yorkers, including "hairy-chested buzzards" and "Spandex matrons from the suburbs" gather to have anonymous sex. The T ... More >>
Books
February 25, 2009
Cabinet Magazine Hopes Its New Home Catches Fire
The latest club to be reviewed in the New York Times is located "between the Gowanus Expressway and a cement plant." They can't give more details because it's a swing club where New Yorkers, including "hairy-chested buzzards" and "Spandex matrons from the suburbs" gather to have anonymous sex. The T ... More >>
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February 13, 2009
Quick Hits
The Brides.com annual Valentine's Day mass wedding takes place tomorrow at the top of the Empire State Building. This year the event includes its first same-sex couple. Charles G. Hogg, the groundhog who bit Mayor Bloomberg on Groundhog Day, is appearing at the Staten Island Zoo this weekend, in ... More >>
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February 5, 2009
Brooklyn Neighbors to Compile List of Stoners for Cops
They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2008
Gowanus Project Moves Forward, Builders Suffer Huge Losses
They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2008
The Newfound Joy of a Native Ohioan
They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>
Blogs
October 29, 2008
This Week's Voice: Ice-T and Richard Hell on the Election, They Might Be Giants, Craig Finn, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and More
They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2008
More Term Limits Reax
They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2008
Local Brats' Allowances Cut
They do things old school in Gerritsen Beach. GerritsenBeach.net went to their regular property owners meeting and discussed with neighbors and cops the surprisingly vital marijuana scene in Seba Avenue Park. The cops reported 16 summonses written for open container and weed in one month. The locals ... More >>
Music
September 17, 2008
Dirty Blonde: High Times at the Bell House
The Union Hall crew opens another spot, and adds to a surprising resurgence
Voice Choices
September 10, 2008
PASTIE-A-GO-GO
The burlesque invasion
Blogs
September 4, 2008
Midday Mashup: Wild Man, Falling Man, "Prancey," and Pervs
The burlesque invasion
Blogs
August 20, 2008
Bohemian Crapsody: W'm'sburg Blogger Assails Whippersnappers
The burlesque invasion
Blogs
August 12, 2008
Where Are You From? Runnin' Scared Counsels Troubled Fellow Citizens
The burlesque invasion
NYC Life
June 12, 2007
In da Club
The burlesque invasion
Blogs
April 5, 2007
ETA for Gowanus Yacht Club, Red Hook Ball-Fields
The burlesque invasion
NYC Life
July 11, 2006
Electric Dreams
The burlesque invasion
NYC Life
May 16, 2006
A Shore Thing
Mini guides to five waterfront neighborhoods worth your salt
Dining
May 2, 2006
Frida Fatigue
Our rollicking crew checks out a couple of Brooklyn taquerías
NYC Life
August 16, 2005
Durian, Durian
If only you were a mangosteen
Columns
April 26, 2005
Class Conscious
Accidental learning through leisure activities
NYC Life
December 3, 2002
Close-Up on Red Hook
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Dance
September 29, 1998
In the Black
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