Maryland

What's Happening This Weekend: NYC Pizza Run, Taste the West Village, Hammer & Claws, Stone Street Oyster Festival & More

You could head upstate on an apple picking trip this weekend, but if you're feeling like it's a little early for that, there are plenty of fall activities happening in the city to get you in a more autumnal mood. Here's a look at where to head.

All Time Low

What's Happening This Week: Macaron Café, Crab Feast

We hope you're enjoying the Labor Day holiday. Here are some great food events for the rest of the week. Monday, September 3 Alobar's Tomato Festival. Chef Ian Kapitan of Alobar is offering a rotating menu of tomato dishes supporting local farms in celebration of the harvest season at $30 per pers ... More >>

Robert Sietsema At Tacos Cachanilla; Tejal Rao At Neta

Robert Sietsema visits Tacos Cachanilla, one of the city's most evolved taquerias: "Relatively new to New York, these 'market tacos' are fabricated from giant flatbreads too big to be called tortillas. Also within find yellow rice, fried chile strips, onions cooked to softness, and--brace yourself-- ... More >>

What Does Being LGBT (Or Wanting to Get Gay Married) Have to Do with Gambling?

Chris Geidner at BuzzFeed has been beating down the path of a fascinating story over this past week, exploring how and why the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force has gotten involved with the issue of gambling in Maryland. His latest post reports that an anonymous source funded a gaming mailer sent to ... More >>

Six Lessons From Catalpa New York, In GIF Form

Over the weekend, Catalpa Fest came to Randall's Island in an attempt to become the New York music festival. Festivals are, by nature, learning experiences (Because if you aren't learning anything, why the hell are you subjecting yourself to a festival?). We've documented a series of important lesso ... More >>

Q&A: Janel And Anthony On D.C.'s Experimental Music Scene And Their New Record, Where is Home

Down in the nation's capital, a vibrant and thriving experimental music scene is currently emerging thanks in large part to the Maryland-based, genre-encompassing label Cuneiform Records. That label recently released the beautiful second album by Janel and Anthony, who have helped spark their hometo ... More >>

Where to Crack a Crab This Summer

Warm up your mallet hand, it's crab season! And we've got three spots for you to have your very own crabpalooza. But first, if you don't know your way around a crab, watch this primer courtesy of Mermaid Inn.

How Many Negroes Must Support Gay Marriage Before "Black Homophobia" Stops Getting Overblown?

Here are the three biggest hand-wringing fears/misnomers people have had about gay marriage, even those who support it: 1. This unimportant issue will cost Obama re-election! 2. Marriage equality would have happened by now, if not for those on-the-down low, religious, self-hating, homophobic black ... More >>

Gay Marriage Just Got Crabs! Maryland Senate Passes Marriage Equality

The Maryland Senate just passed a marriage equality bill, 25-22, putting the Chesapeake Bay State en route to becoming the seventh in the nation (plus the District of Columbia) to allow same-sex couples the right to marry. Maryland is the third state in as many weeks where both houses of its legis ... More >>

Beers in the Pants, the Tumblr: An Interview With the Creator

This guy gets it​It seems like just yesterday we were following the saga of the "Bros Icing Bros" meme, an Internet fad that resulted in a lot of forced-malt-liquor consumption and sugar-induced headaches. In retrospect, that seems tame compared to the new single-serving Tumblr "Beers in the P ... More >>

Now in Chinatown Markets: Butterfish and Purple Yams

​Look for fish with bright eyes and glinting silvery sides. If you're a pescatarian locavore, you're probably already familiar with butterfish. Not to be confused with escolar -- which is also sometimes evasively called butterfish, or white tuna -- the true butterfish are completely wholeso ... More >>

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

Williamsburg gets a taste of life on the ocean

Roving Armadillos Are Heading for the East Coast

This just in to add to your terrifying end-times-esque tales of animal takeover (see also: Crabs in Antarctica! Mountain lions in Connecticut! Ladybugs on Long Island!). Thanks to climate change, so say the scientists, the ole armadillo, 'dillo for short, is moving on from his Texas home, where he a ... More >>

Grave Encounters: A Skeptic's Tour of the Supernatural… Or is It?

Do or Dine: A Nod to Odd in Bed-Stuy

Your foie gras doughnut awaits you

Chick Beer Founder Shazz Lewis Dishes on Making Girly Brews

ChickNo boys allowed​Truth be told, we're a little wary of alcoholic beverages marketed exclusively to women. So when we read about Chick, a just-released beer marketed at the female demographic, we were skeptical at best. What's wrong with regular beer? So we called up founder Shazz Lewis t ... More >>

Wal-Mart Shopper Super Glued to Toilet Seat

​In cases of being stuck to something, it is far better to be glued than to be fused. Or so it would seem. But if you're in a discount superstore on or around April Fool's Day, your best bet is to use the bathroom at home, lest you end up like the 48-year-old Maryland man who became stuck to t ... More >>

16 Handles Set to Spread, Contagion-Like, Along the East Coast

16 Handles​When 16 Handles opened in the East Village in 2008, it appeared indistinguishable from the glut of frozen yogurt shops that at the time were colonizing storefronts across the city. But now it appears that the store's name, so oddly evocative of adipose tissue, will soon be familiar ... More >>

SLAM DUNK

College hoops for a good cause

Utz Red Hot Flavored Potato Chips -- Really, Really Good

​Watch out for your tongue! Utz Quality Foods, Inc. - the brand that flaunts a red-cheeked girl with a hair bow and no nose - is located in Hanover, a backwater in southern Pennsylvania not far from the Maryland border. You'd never expect this snack chip company to have its finger on the popu ... More >>

Danny Glover Gets Arrested Protesting Food Corp.; Ed Burns' Favorite Places to Eat in NYC

​Stop & Shop has voluntarily recalled its frozen artichoke and spinach dips due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, which can cause a serious and even fatal infection in babies, the elderly, and people with weakened immune systems. [BusinessWeek] Danny Glover was arrested ... More >>

'Little Fury Things Records Party'

Strange Snacks of the World Beer Special: Theobroma

Glug​ Theobroma, from Maryland's Dogfish Head brewery, is a pretty strange character as beers go. It's brewed with honey, cocoa nibs, cocoa powder, ancho chiles, and ground annatto, and is supposedly modeled after chemical residue in the Yucatan of the earliest alcoholic chocolate drinks, dati ... More >>

Choptank, New Maryland-Style Fish Shack, Will Open Next Week

​Back in August, Dell'Anima's Bobby Werhane and Houston's Josh Morgan went before CB2 to make the case for the Maryland-style fish shack, to be called Rockfish, that they were planning to build in the old Bar Q space. Five months later, the restaurant, now called Choptank, is scheduled to open ... More >>

BIGFOOT STRIKES AGAIN

Michael Puzzo's Lyric is Waiting

Fun For the Paranoid: Homeland Security TV

That uncle of yours who drinks Jim Beam neat, doesn't get out much, and watches the History Channel obsessively while cleaning his guns will be interested in the new Homeland Security Television Channel, "world's first online, on-demand television network dedicated to homeland security and global de ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World -- Scrapple

During my recent sojourn in rural south-central Pennsylvania, I had the chance to reacquaint myself with scrapple. Like Spam, it is a meat invented in America based on pig. But unlike Spam, which has traveled the world and become a celebrity, scrapple remains an obscure regional dish. In a ... More >>

Stranger in a Strange Land, Day 2

In my rant about raisin pie, I neglected to mention where I'd found it: rural Pennsylvania, a few miles east of Gettysburg and just north of the Maryland border. I'm at a writers' workshop, but here's the catch: I'm not here as a writer, but as a cook. The participants are science fiction writers ... More >>

5 Banks Robbed Yesterday in 4 Boroughs

Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

Fighting for Life

War doctor doc, staggeringly effective

Letters

Mother's Day Round-up

Friday Scribbles, Part I: A Confession

'Crazy Like a Fox'

Hearing Silence

Marriage Equality, State by State

Trash and Vaudeville

A Guide to the New York International Fringe Festival's Recycling Program

Letters

Sex Magic

Tristan takes a trip to a place where erotic communities come together

Scrape and Eat

From blood to blog in Northern Boulevard's Koreatown

A Sleeping Class

Young Americans fight for every cause but their own. Wake up, already.

Three-Room Apartment in Church

The Year in Queer

What Went Down in the Cabaret of Contradictions

John Ashcroft’s New America

The Changed Lives of Arabs in the U.S.—And What a Declaration of War Would Really Mean

Fright Club

Fear Factor, a New TV Show, Covered Contestants With Live Rats for $50,000. Worth the Anxiety?

Republicans Pant for Welfare Massacre

Hot Dreams

Pretty Ducks All in a Row

Season of the Witch

The 'Blair Witch' Directors On the Method to Their Madness

Gore to the Fore

Landow Lurks in Background