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Carolina BBQ Pork Sandwich: Fletcher's Finally Gets It Right

Fletcher's pulled pork sandwich comes closest to ones FiTR has eaten in Raleigh, NC and Lexington, NC. The city has made many strides BBQ-wise in the last two decades. I can point to a half-dozen places that do excellent beef brisket, Texas style, and there are no shortages of pits that do great p ... More >>

Updated: Choice Eats Announces Additional Participants, Still More Coming Up

​Mile End's legendary smoked-meat poutine, with curds and gravy, of course. Choice Eats proudly announces the fourth group of restaurants, bakeries, and other purveyors of delicious foodstuffs to its Tuesday, March 13 festival line-up. Newcomers include: Bep, Brooklyn Brine Co., Fay Da Bake ... More >>

Happy Hour at Subway Inn

If spending time with family on Thanksgiving doesn't drive you to drink, then a visit to a department store on Black Friday surely will.

Banana Leaf: Here's Your Skanky Wallop

Brooklyn's Sunset Park goes a little more Malaysian

NYPD Passing out "Gear Guards," Marking Phones with Invisible Ink for Straphangers

Is your gear protected? Your phone marked with invisible ink? In response to increased crime on trains, NYPD officers have been passing out "gear guards" at various subway stations this week to make sure passengers' backpacks and purses are safe from pick pocketing thieves.

New Yorkers Are Kind of Couch Potatoes, Says Survey

This totally counts as exercise.​As residents of a city known for busy people who seem perpetually on the go, we weren't surprised that New York was not ranked the nation's Most Sedentary City by Men's Health. The honor there went to Lexington, Kentucky. That said, we were a little shocked to ... More >>

Rickshaw Dumpling to Park It Permanently in Midtown

​Given that the Rickshaw Dumpling truck is a more or less constant presence in the lives of Midtown office workers, its original storefront on West 23rd Street can seem like a bit of an afterthought. But bricks and mortar are still very much a part of the company's MO, as their plans for expan ... More >>

Our 10 Best and Cheapest Grand Central Station Eats

​Dive into the comparative culinary wonderland! For two railroad terminals only two-thirds of a mile apart as the crow flies, the chow couldn't be more different. Penn Station is awash in cheesy fast-food, and the rancid smell fills your nostrils as you run for the train. By contrast, the cu ... More >>

Murray Hill Is For Douchebags, Arrested Development

​Even the New York Times says so! Murray Hill, the New York City neighborhood occupying blocks between 34th Street and 40th Street from Madison to Third Avenue, gets chuckled at in this morning's newspaper as the home of buildings "more challenging than a dorm, though not much more." Known for ... More >>

The Underground Churros Scene

Victoria BekiempisA token from the subway​ The stale trail mix, dusty soda cans, and pre-Cold War candy bars sold at news stands--alongside nudie mags and Kardashian-loaded celebrity rags--pretty much make up the subway's food scene. But deep inside the 59th and Lexington station, where the ... More >>

MTA Unveils Six-Foot-Tall Futuristic Subway Intercoms for Interhuman Communication

via MTA​Someday in the not-too-far-off future, you will be able to go about your daily business of work and life and never, ever have to speak to an actual person face-to-face. The MTA gets a jump on that with a new pilot program that will install new MTA Help Point Intercoms in the 23rd Stree ... More >>

NYC Cravings's Zongzi

Pork fat, Chinese sausage and boiled peanuts lurk in the depths​One might legitimately balk at paying $4 for a zongzi, those streamed glutinous rice bombs stuffed with good things and wrapped in bamboo, which you can get in Chinatown for one buck. But in NYC Cravings's defense, their zongzi ar ... More >>

Caroline Giuliani Arrested for Shoplifting at Sephora

​Uh oh. According to the New York Post, Caroline Giuliani -- Rudy's 20-year-old daughter -- was busted for shoplifting today at Sephora of all places, that magical, monstrous beauty store you may have heard of if you are or know of any women or metrosexually inclined fellows. Giuliani was repo ... More >>

Fresh Kills "Smells Like a Dirty Pirate Hooker," and Other Things That Reek in New York City

​Four diligent, odor-scouting reporters at the Daily News were put to the task of smelling out the best and worst-scented places in New York City. Making the list of things that smelled good in this investigative undertaking: BBQ, flowers, coffee, pastries, other delicious foodstuffs. Bad smel ... More >>

Hello Pasta To Take Over Midtown This Summer

​Hello Pasta--the noodle version of those build-your-own salad bars--opens its first shop next Wednesday on Lexington between 54th and 55th Streets. The company will then roll out two more restaurants in Midtown and one in the Financial District, all before October. Angling toward the Midtow ... More >>

Tamarind Tribeca Upscales the Tandoor

Tabla and Devi get a little company

Bhojan's Fenugreek Fritters

​The vegetarian cuisine from the northwestern Indian state of Gujarat is ancient and complex. Madhur Jaffrey has called it the "haute cuisine of vegetarianism." While special occasion foods are more elaborate, staples include stewed spiced vegetables of all kinds, roti, and khichdi, a spiced r ... More >>

Choice Eats Is Nigh

​We are now but two months away from Choice Eats, the Voice's third-annual tasting blow-out representing some of the best and most diverse restaurants (and booze) in the five boroughs.

Get Ready For Choice Eats 2010

Yes, please​ In a new year, our thoughts turn to Choice Eats, the Voice's tasting extravaganza, representing scores of different cuisines from all over the city. Mark your calenders: Choice Eats 2010 will be held Monday, March 22nd at The 69th Armory on Lexington and 26th Street.

Clip Job: Vietnam War Protesters Get an Earful

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 21, 1965, Vol. XI, No. 1 Peaceful Protesters Parade Against War By Paul Cowan Between 15,000 and 20,000 people marched along Fifth Avenue in a parade protesting America's involvement in Vietnam last Saturday. Though Sunday's ... More >>

Contemporary Art Photographers Mess With the Medium

Anxiety? Fetish? Picture-prone artists are loving themselves some process.

Michael Pollan on American Obesity and the Healthcare Debate; Tavern on the Green Files for Bankruptcy

​Following last night's speech by President Obama on healthcare reform, Michael Pollan pens an op-ed pointing to the "elephant in the room" of the health-care debate: the way Americans eat. [NY Times] Tavern on the Green has officially filed Chapter 11, listing assets and liabilities of as mu ... More >>

Pratt Student Beaten into Coma

​ Though we are constantly told that crime is at an all-time low, the neighborhood police blotters show that there is still enough street crime to be worrisome. Now we hear that Eduardo Sanchez, a 22-year-old student of architecture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, was beaten into a coma and r ... More >>

News Roundup: Surfjan Stevens Announces Intimate Tour, Lollapalooza, Them Crooked Vultures, Mike Seeger Dies

​--Sufjan Stevens has announced an intimate fall tour. In what Asthmatic Kitty Records are calling an "east-of-Lake-Minnetonka tour," the run focuses on eastern states, kicking off September 21st at Philly's 250-capacity Johnny Brenda's. Stevens wraps the tour with four New York dates: October ... More >>

Autolux Supposedly Coming to New York This Fall, May Actually Play All Tomorrow's Parties NY This Time, Babies Be Damned

Maura Lanahan Autolux, the Los Angeles art-fuzz trio that blogs forgot, has been annoyingly dormant for the last few years: after releasing the sublime full-length Future Perfect, and touring throughout 2006, they virtually disappeared. Last fall, they booked for All Tomorrow's Parties New York, bu ... More >>

H&M Goes Union

Things are coming up roses for retailer H&M. Their stock hasn't been doing too badly lately, and they're even opening a new store this week at Lexington and 86th. This may have encouraged the company to reach an agreement with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union for a 3-year contract in ... More >>

Wayne Kramer, Handsome Dick to Play Sing-Sing

If you like Johnny Cash at San Quentin, you'll love Wayne Kramer at Sing Sing. The legendary MC5 guitarist, who did two years at Lexington for pushing coke, is working with addict outreach group Road Recovery, and after doing a benefit concert for them at the Nokia Theatre on May 1, he'll go the n ... More >>

New Openings

OLD GHOSTS

Obie winner Ain Gordon explores a piece of forgotten history

Fork in the Road reviews At Vermillion

Ehhhhhhhhh.Where do I even start with At Vermillion? Despite all evidence to the contrary, I thought it might be good. Although fusion concepts like this, Latin American-Indian, often end in disaster, I was excited about a place where you could get arepas topped with duck vindaloo, or crab curry in ... More >>

The Early Word: Baoguette

Test-Driving Murray's Real Salami

Gourmet Mag Lists Best Oldies

Make Way For 'Blogger of The Week' Number Two!

Pragmatic and Defiant Supporters Greet Clinton in New York

Talking to Strangers: Mexican Coke on the Upper East Side

Our Man Sietsema: 'Indians are Snackers'

Trouble in the Air

Reagan's mass firing of air traffic controllers made American skies much less safe in the 1980s. Is Bush's flight plan the same?

Pastries and Pétanque

Commiserating with the French on Bastille Day

When the Streets Are Paved With Snacks

Gorditas, mangoes, and corn in East Harlem

Nightmares of TV's Messy Adolescence

Empirical news

The secret's out: Bush is overtaken by events—and overwhelmed

Childhood's End

The optician-photographer who became a poet of the unexpressed and the unknowable

Close-Up on Murray Hill

Words Will Never Hurt You When Queers Perform for Peace

Close-Up on East Harlem

Getting Wood

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