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BrisketTown Is Serving Lunch and The General's Got Doughnuts

ISA in Williamsburg is now open for lunch from noon to 4 p.m. The Mediterranean restaurant has turned some of their dinner entree options into smaller dishes divided into snacks, pizzas, soups, and salads. Some items, like the Tuscan kale Caesar salad garnished with sourdough croutons, are available ... More >>

AND THE WINNER IS...

You! Walk the red carpet to this fabulous oscar Party

I HEART BK!

Celebrate New York City’s favorite borough

Swine: The 5 Best Things To Eat There

Looking like it was wrested from the English countryside, this West Village Tudor house is now home to Swine. A few months ago, the old Rubyfruit space was transformed into Swine. A pork-centric place? Well, not really. The menu is mainly based on small dishes, charcuterie, and bar snacks, but the ... More >>

New Shuffleboard Club Opening In Brooklyn!

And I found out about it while playing Bingo! I joined Murray Hill and Linda Simpson in calling Bingo numbers last night at the Hotel Chantelle to help raise money for the Ali Forney Center. (Their drop-in center was devastated by the hurricane, so granny's board game came to the rescue, all hepped ... More >>

At Xl, It's Not Your Grandmother's Bingo

No one does Bingo like Murray Hill and Linda Simpson, who punctuate the game with banter, insults, and special prizes from the 99-cent store leading up to a big cash prize that people buy lots of extra $2 boards to desperately try and win. The two lovable oddballs have been hosting Bingo Tuesdays a ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Brooklyn on Film

​This week in the Voice, out today: James Hughes talks to director Walter Hill, whose early work, The Warriors, kicks off the Brooklyn Close-Up series at BAM on Halloween, followed by a screening of "his most underappreciated and airtight film," The Driver, starring Ryan O'Neal, at MOMA on Nov ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to Isa; Goodbye to Moonshine Bar

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. Moonshine Bar, in Red Hook, has announced it's closing on its Facebook page. The bar was known to have one of the only working cigarett ... More >>

I'm A Cuomo-Sexual!

​That's what funny lady Judy Gold says in her new show, My Life As a Sitcom, and I have to echo it with pride!

Murray Hill and Linda Simpson In New Shows!

Photo: David Shankbone​Downtown favorites Murray Hill and Linda Simpson have teamed for many a zany Bingo night and other madcap debaucheries. But last week, they made us buy double the tickets by veering off into separate projects that combatted New York's gentrification with aggressive gen ... More >>

Neo-Burlesque Can't Be Killed!

Photo by Lynette Astaire for Bust magazine​It's just too irresistible, with its blend of genders and genitals, saucy humor and body parts. Straights get off on the risque entertainment, and gays like it too--in fact, it's the only time they've been known to applaud stripping females. And so, ... More >>

My Cameo In Music Video Spawns Some Press

​Paper magazine astutely noticed me and Murray Hill in a video for the Brooklyn band TV On The Radio (one in a cycle of 10 videos they've put together all at once) and promptly did an in-depth interview with me and filmmaker Amy Davis about it.

How New Yorkers Describe Themselves in Their Online Dating Profiles

The "shy" map.​Ooh, infographics! Dating infographics! According to these enlightening maps by R. Luke DuBois, which appear today on Fast Company's Co.Design blog, America is quite diverse with regard to how we like to describe ourselves on our online dating profiles. In certain places (like W ... More >>

Is Gramercy Really the Best NYC Neighborhood for Singles?

​The Daily News has its finger on the pulse of what's hot in En-Why-See these days. It has anointed the Gramercy/Flatiron neighborhood as the best spot in the city for singles to live. Could this really be the case, especially with Gramercy's proximity to glorified frathouse Murray Hill? The ... More >>

An Open Letter to Every Young New Yorker Who Feels Like Crying: Please Try Not To!

​You know the story: coddled (post-)college kid comes to the big city, buckles under pressure, cue tears. Today's tale is from a "twenty-something former film student, frequent subway-crier and headboard enthusiast," who called a late-night locksmith when she couldn't get into her apartment. W ... More >>

'Blizzard Bingo' Saves NYC

​How boring are the people who've made themselves homebound just because they're afraid of the rare occurrence that's white and 10 inches. I went out! Last night, I went to "Blizzard Bingo" at Bowery Poets Cafe, hosted by quirky performers Murray Hill and Harriet Halloway, who led the crowd- ... More >>

Live: Tame Impala Inspire Hundreds Of One-Man Dance Parties At Bowery Ballroom

Go ahead and zone out. Pic by Puja.​Tame Impala Bowery Ballroom Thursday, November 18 Better Than: Buying weed. "There's a party in my head, and no one's invited," sings Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker, early into last night's sold-out show. It's a line that resonates for these psychedelic ... More >>

Revd Up Pi to Deliver More Healthy Pizza, Starting Tomorrow

Start your engines.​Just when you thought the city had reached its quota of healthy pizza joints, the awkwardly named Revd Up Pi announces its debut tomorrow at 451 Third Avenue in Murray Hill. The angle here is eco-friendliness, with a storefront façade made of recycled Heineken bottles and ... More >>

Lallisse Mediterranean Wine Bar Opens This Friday in Murray Hill

jessicamelling/flickrLallisse arrives.​A couple weeks ago, we told you about the new Mediterranean wine bar, Lallisse, coming soon to Murray Hill. Now, we hear that the grand opening of Lallisse is slated for this Friday, October 8. Evan Spingarn, the consulting sommelier who selected the sust ... More >>

Hawkers and Bai Cha Try to Take It to the Asian Street

We test out the snack shacks

Plein Sud Plain Sucks

A Top Chef contestant bombs in his own restaurant

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Gazala, Goodbye to Bon Vivant

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Bon Vivant, a Greek diner on Broadway near 12th Street, appears to be closed. The gate is down and the phone is going unanswered. [EV Grieve]​ Gazala Halabi of Gazala Place is opening he ... More >>

Sex and The City 2 Spoiler: Carrie's Jihad on Islam?

​For years, HBO's Sex and the City made New York City an excitable frontier of moneyed men, inexplicably well-off women (despite shitty writing jobs that realistically pay nothing), and a world where everyone is someone else's plus-one. And that frontier was then seized upon by basically every ... More >>

Talent Thai's Kitsch Kitchen

No pig's blood, but plenty of flavors on 34th Street

Rats Reveal the Naiveté of Youth in Housing, Neighborhood

So young and impressionable.​We've all been new to New York City at one point or another. And whether you experienced your baptism by fire recently or decades ago, you know how it feels to naively choose the "perfect" first apartment only to realize that Murray Hill is actually not where the c ... More >>

HEY MISTER

Tranny chasers, this one's for you

Battle of the Dishes: Latkes From Second Avenue Deli and Sarge's

The latkes at the Second Avenue Deli​On this, the sixth day of Hanukkah, we're nearly at the end of what is widely regarded as the latke high season. Really, though, any day when the thermometer registers below 45 degrees can be regarded as an excuse to devour hot, greasy carbohydrates, and ev ... More >>

CALL GIRL

Linda Simpson can't get enough of Bingo

What's Happening This Week: Green Cocktails & Greek Lamb

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Organic, Shaken & Stirred: Step Up to the Green Bar! (free) Counter November 10 You've greened your kitchen; now it's time to green your bar. Join Paul Abercrombie, author of Organi ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Tipsy Parson; Goodbye to Xunta

Tipsy Parson, the new venture by the owners of Little Giant, has finally opened in Chelsea. Expect oyster service in the parlor and a charcuterie bar stocking all-Southern cheeses. [Daily Candy] The West Village gastropub Highlands has arrived with its menu of single malts and bar snacks only. Hagg ... More >>

A New Food Network On the Way; Julia Child Contemporary Charlotte Snyder Turgeon Dies

​Scripps Networks has plans to launch a cooking-focused TV channel next year, called the Cooking Channel, that will replace Fine Living. The company has a growing appetite for food programming following a joint venture to bring the Food Network to Europe. [Wall Street Journal] New Jersey can ... More >>

JOAN JETTS IN TRAINING

Rockin' out for a girl cause

ECO-MOVEMENT

Performers take on Mother Nature

Voice Choice: Those Were the Days: Au Revoir, Restaurant Florent

Now Hiring: Jonathan Waxman, Mermaid Inn on the UWS

Are We There Yeti?

Very strange combination of cuisines flourishes in Sunnyside

New Again

Dirty Martini, Angie Pontani, and members of Caribou, Underworld and Grandaddy make promises.

My Soul Needs Cold Hard Cash

'Spiritual, mystical oasis' charges $12 a drink

Music

Saved?

CBGB's landmark fight; East Village freaks, live and on film

Naughty & Nice

Freaky fun that will have you feeling festive

Vive la France!

Election night parties go sour; say heckno to techno, R.I.P. sonic groove

Election Night Parties

Lost and Found

Fashion week diversions with Derrick May, Nick Zinner, and the Donnas

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