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Kittery Brings a Taste of the Beach to Carroll Gardens

A sea worthy clam shack

Another Big Day for Same-Sex Marriage as the Supreme Court Hears Arguments on DOMA

Following yesterday's hearing on California's Proposition 8 (whose decision will likely fall into the hands of swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy), another case is coming through the Supreme Court this morning. The justices are hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Mar ... More >>

In Downeast, the Free Market Chokes Like a Noose

The Pros of a Billionaire-as-Mayor: Bloomberg to Donate $500k to Same-Sex Marriage Campaigns

After twelve years of Bloomberg, we all have more or less assimilated and/or recognized the personal wealth of the citizen-in-chief. His announcement on Day One to accept a dollar-a-year salary and opt out of living in Gracie Mansion was the beginning of a long-term acceptance that, yes, our Mayor h ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: The War on Mexicans Has Gone Too Far

This Week in the Voice, out today, the Village Voice Media series "Crossing The Line" offers several different perspectives on U.S. immigration policies. Chuck Strouse writes of Sunday voting bans: "In a brazen attempt to steal this fall's election, Florida's Republican lawmakers have outlawed votin ... More >>

The Claw Restaurant Will Soon Sling Lobster Rolls on 23rd Street

Lauren ShockeyLobster rolls? Yes, please.​We've already highlighted the 10 Best Things to Eat on 23rd Street, but it looks like there soon might a new contender for good eating on the busy thoroughfare. Signage is up at the Claw, a soon-to-open lobster roll joint located at 269 West 23rd Str ... More >>

Dora Schriro, Correction Commissioner, Sharply Increasing Solitary Confinement On Rikers

The city jail system is sharply expanding its so-called Punitive Segregation Unit, or solitary confinement cells, reports Solitary Watch, a blog which reports on the nations penal system. By the end of the year, the number of punitive segregation cells will increase by 45 percent, from 681 to 990. ... More >>

Rosarito Fish Shack: Ayup, It's a Seafood Shack

Williamsburg gets a taste of life on the ocean

Michele Bachmann's Bright Idea

From the toxic right, a surprisingly healthy notion?

What's Happening This Week: Summer of Riesling, Peak Organic Dinner, Taste of Greenmarket

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Peak Organic Beer Dinner The Vanderbilt Tuesday, June 21, 7:30 p.m. Chef Saul Bolton is cooking up a four-course meal with beer pairings from Maine's Peak Organic ... More >>

In Case You Haven't Gotten Enough Lobster Roll News

​Perhaps because August seems to have arrived two months early, everyone is busy pretending they live in Maine. Or at least that's one way to explain the fact that not a day seems to pass without some sort of lobster roll-related news. And today is no exception.

Fork in the Road's Favorite Lobster Rolls

Flickr/jshyunWill Maine-style or Connecticut-style triumph?​ Welcome to Tuesday Toasts, our new weekly feature highlighting the Fork in the Road team's favorite versions of popular dishes and favorite spots in the city for a given activity. They might not be the best or the coolest or the ne ... More >>

Imperial No. Nine's Sam Talbot Talks About Tuna, Television, and Being a Top Chef

Photo courtesy Sam TalbotGo fish, Sam Talbot.​ Sam Talbot might be best known as the hunky chef who appeared on Top Chef, but now he's making a splash with his new, seafood-focused restaurant Imperial No. Nine, located in the Mondrian Hotel in Soho. We called him up to learn more about what s ... More >>

Rich People Love Fast-Food; It's Been a Good Year for Maine Lobster

​A U.S. Appeals Court upheld a lower court ruling allowing Starbucks to end its distribution agreement with Kraft. [BusinessWeek] Rich people are eating out more at fast-food restaurants. It turns out some people with six-figure salaries would rather spend their money on Jimmy Choos than dinn ... More >>

Food Business Incubator Coming to Brooklyn; Cupcake Craze Goes Savory

​Maine lawmakers are trying to decide whether to make the whoopie pie the state's official dessert. The sole opposition is a Democrat worried about glorifying a product made with lard. [AOL News] A food-focused "business incubator" is planned for one of Brooklyn's lower-income neighborhoods, ... More >>

Subway Announcer Has Not Taken the Train Since 1957

​The New York Times City Room blog has a feature this Sunday on the woman who makes the subway announcements, revealing that she lives in Maine, where not even the Q train goes. Carolyn Hopkins, the public address announcer for 15 years, "works from a windowless room in her house" up north and ... More >>

Smoked Eels and Trout, Wild Foods, and Catskills Products at New Amsterdam Market This Weekend

Trust us, this looks way more appetizing than an actual eel.​Back in May, the New Amsterdam Market commandeered the Marble Cemetery for a fundraiser showcasing a variety of wild botanicals from Vermont. On Sunday, the Vermont food gatherers will return to the market, and they'll have plenty of ... More >>

Kagan-ation: Senate Confirms Elena Kagan to Supreme Court, NYC Repped Hard

​Following Justice So-Bro Sonia Sotomayor's appointment last summer, Elena Kagan has "thrown down" for Manhattan today.

Red Hook Lobster Pound Gets a New Dining Area

More for lobsters to worry aboutAlex Van Buren​ Good news for lobster lovers and cranky Yelpers: Red Hook Lobster Pound, the popular crustacean-slinging shop on the Red Hook waterfront, is expanding its sit-down area by 40 seats in about two weeks. Seating at the Pound, which sells wholesale l ... More >>

Battle of the Blueberries: Wild Vs. Cultivated

​Wild blueberries on the left, cultivated on the right There's been a bumper crop of blueberries this year, maybe because we had a damp Spring, or maybe they've done well in an especially hot Summer. Pints of regular blueberries have been selling for $3.50 to $7 in farmers' markets, while str ... More >>

Johan Santana and Jerry Manuel Get Beaned by Daily News

Give the guy a break!There are some curious grades in today's Daily News midseason report on the Mets and Yankees. Andy Martino, evaluating the Mets, gives Johan Santana just a B . And Jerry Manuel gets just a B-?

Fat Mike's Not-So-Punk Restaurant Thistle Hill, Now Open in Park Slope!

Right before the first seating. Lovely in there!​It's finally here! The opening date went from March to April to May, the menu went from "new American cuisine" to "European- and Mediterranean-influenced cooking," and every dissolute former punk in Park Slope went from denial to bargaining to f ... More >>

Poutine Pizza, Peanut Butter and Bacon Burgers & a KFC Double Down Krispy Kreme Mashup

This week in food blogs... Slice discovered the abomination that is poutine pizza. A Hamburger Today weighed in on Shake Shack's peanut-butter-and-bacon burger. Eater compiled a series of images of anonymous food critics from across the country... although no one is quite sure why. Diner's Journ ... More >>

Stinson Seafood, the Last Sardine Cannery in the U.S., Is Closing

rockyeda/FlickrStaring into oblivion.​Well, here's some glum news: The last sardine cannery in the U.S. is closing its doors this week.

The New Amsterdam Market Returns This Sunday, with Pie

Cameron Nordholm/flickr​The New Amsterdam Market is back this Sunday, just in time for the pre-Thanksgiving frenzy.

If Gay Marriage Passes, Won't the NY Masses Just Overturn It?

​Our e-mail box was flooded this morning with desperate pleas to call our state senator and demand that gay marriage come up for a vote during the special session of the New York state legislature called his week by Governor Paterson. But we wondered, just days after a legislative victory wa ... More >>

Ray Lamontagne

Traces of Death Easier to Watch Than The Way We Get By

Quick Hits

Some guy's leg and foot on the subway, via twitpic. We love Mary Louise Parker as much as anybody, maybe more, but find it hard to credit her claim that she was "goaded" into a nude scene in an (upcoming!) episode of Weeds and is "bitter" about it. She's, like, naked in everything. Here is a practic ... More >>

Under Review--Sietsema Gets Fishy at Sol-Mar; DiGregorio Goes Ramen-Crazy at ZuZu Ramen

This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema gets his fish on at Sol-Mar, while Sarah DiGregorio follows the ramen craze to Brooklyn at ZuZu Ramen. Bruni enjoys some "lovely fish" at Fishtail by David Burke, but is most impressed by the cauliflower. [NY Times] Adam Platt has "expertly crisped" whole b ... More >>

NH Legislature Passes Gay Marriage Bill

"Then he felt a kind of queerness come over him at having said what he'd said; though, naturally, being a New Hampshireman, he wouldn't take it back." -- Stephen Vincent Benet, "The Devil and Daniel Webster." The New Hampshire state senate just passed, by a vote of 13 to 11, HB436, a gay marriage ... More >>

Fork in the Road Shacks Up

So far, the critical word on Butcher Bay, a mid-Atlantic-style seafood "shack" has been pretty bad. In my mind, it's a mixed bag (the fried chicken was greasy, for one thing), but a worthwhile mixed bag.  For one thing, the lobster pot pie is mind-bendingly good--if you like Maine lobster, cre ... More >>

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The great regional frankfurters, in NYC

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First-Time Filmmaker Todd Field Goes Behind Closed Doors

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