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Friday Scribbles, Part I: A Confession

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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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Fighting for Life

War doctor doc, staggeringly effective

John Ashcroft’s New America

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

Gore to the Fore

Landow Lurks in Background

Season of the Witch

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

Pretty Ducks All in a Row

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

Republicans Pant for Welfare Massacre

Hot Dreams

Mother's Day Round-up

Hot Dreams

Fright Club

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

The Year in Queer

What Went Down in the Cabaret of Contradictions

Edamame and Black Angus

What Went Down in the Cabaret of Contradictions

Three-Room Apartment in Church

What Went Down in the Cabaret of Contradictions

Jackin' the Box

Cable Descramblers—Are They Legal?

Pebbles at the Palace

Volunteer Now in Civilization's Battle Against George the Boy King

A Sleeping Class

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

Scrape and Eat

From blood to blog in Northern Boulevard's Koreatown

Sex Magic

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

Letters

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

Trash and Vaudeville

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

Marriage Equality, State by State

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

Letters

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

'Crazy Like a Fox'

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

Hearing Silence

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

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

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 >>

BIGFOOT STRIKES AGAIN

Michael Puzzo's Lyric is Waiting

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 >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Bosie; Goodbye to Montenapo

The owners of L'Age de The are opening Bosie in the West Village. Tea master Kiley Holliday selected the more than 100 teas, while Angelo Sosa of Xie Xie designed the menu. [TONY] Red Bamboo may have shuttered but the owner has reopened it as Poppa's Place. While the restaurant now serves meat, a h ... More >>

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 >>

'Little Fury Things Records Party'

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 >>

This Weekend! Kaki King, Jesse Murphy In The Woods, Real Estate, The Hold Steady, Telepathe, Trans Am, Liars, Ho-Ag, And Reverend Billy & The Life After Shopping Gospel Choir

Kaki King all tied up​ It was no small feat when Kaki King became the first woman to make Rolling Stone's "Guitar God" list in 2006 -- so don't pass up a chance to bask in her fret-tapping, slap-bass glory at the Bowery Ballroom. Then, Webster Hall wards off pervs and creeps with Jesse Murphy ... 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 >>

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 >>

SLAM DUNK

College hoops for a good cause

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Fedora; Goodbye to Victory Café

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Gonzalez y Gonzalez, a lively Mexican joint near Broadway and Houston, is shuttering after 22 years in business. [Paper] The West Village beer and burger spot Stoned Crow has also closed, due ... More >>

Energy Kitchen Plans Nationwide Bison Burger Domination

​Energy Kitchen, the "healthy" fast-food chain that operates 10 restaurants in the New York City area, is looking to take over America with its ostrich and bison burgers and plans to expand to a whopping 1,000 locations over the next 10 years.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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

Your foie gras doughnut awaits you

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, whe ... 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 >>

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 >>

Elizabeth's Neighborhood Table Brings Locavorism to the Upper West Side

Ye ole Upper West Side farmhouse.​The Upper West Side is about to get a dose of wholesome, locally sourced food. Elizabeth's Neighborhood Table (680 Columbus Avenue, 212-280-6501) is a new restaurant working with organic and biodynamic ingredients for its menu of American comfort food classics ... More >>