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Mike Bloomberg Gets Driven To His Subway Stop -- Just Like The Rest Of Us

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg last week promised that he would join the riff-raff by taking the subway to work this morning in an apparent attempt to prove that the city is getting back to normal following last week's hurricane.The billionaire mayor's playing the "common man" is adorable, and a ... More >>

Christians And Jews Partake In Holiday Celebrations; Lottery Winner Comes Forward in Kansas; Tugboat Capsizes Near Liberty Island

Both Christians and Jews are observing holy days over the weekend. Cardinal Timothy Dolan participated in the Good Friday Way of the Cross procession across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. The march began after a ceremony at Brooklyn's Cathedral Basilica of St. James. Today he will be at the Church o ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Is Out to 'Fix' Our Drinking Problem

You know how our dear Mayor Bloomberg went after our soda-chugging habit, and how, on the occasion, we enjoy delicious trans-fat-full French fries, and how much salt is in our food? He also made us stop smoking in public places, one after the next, and installed giant calorie counts on the menus of ... More >>

Nevermind, People, Mayor Bloomberg Doesn't Want to Take Away Your Booze

After a massive fervor must have ensued (we're guessing that liquor businesses, like liquor patrons, can be quite vocal) following the New York Post's story on the Health Department's possible plan to make New Yorkers healthier by limiting their access to alcohol through fewer stores (and ads), the ... More >>

Cat Woman Convicted, Will Face Up to 15 Years in Prison

​Last year we watched, aghast but slightly intrigued, as a woman in a cat mask, later identified as Shana Spalding, a/k/a, "Purgatory," the singer in a death metal band called Divine Infamy, robbed high-end boutiques with a feline intensity (and a gun). Her wanted poster was the stuff of great ... More >>

Not All Yelpers Are Created Equal; OWS Protesters Target Fancy Restaurants

​Junk food is now being blamed for low sperm counts in young adult males. [Business Insider] If you thought the tainted cantaloupe death toll had peaked, you were wrong. A second New York death brings the total up to 25. [Wall Street Journal] Some Yelp reviewers -- Yelpers -- are so influen ... More >>

OWS Protesters Still Eating Like Kings; NYC's Most Beloved Diners

​Daniel Boulud will indeed be opening a new restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, as previously rumored. [Toronto Star] More on those in-flight American Airlines meals designed by Richard Sandoval and Marcus Samuelsson. [Chicago Tribune] Occupy Wall Street protesters are sitting o ... More >>

Padma Paid to Get Off Stage; Olive Garden and Red Lobster to Cut Salt, Calories

​Padma Lakshmi, who hosted The Moth's storytelling event at Cooper Union Tuesday night, was reportedly paid to get off the stage due to a "grating" performance. [NY Post] The Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and others are hopping on Michelle Obama's healthy-eating bandwagon and pledging to reduce ... More >>

The NRA (That's National Restaurant Association) Spends $843K On Lobbying; Anna Wintour Still Pissed About Miss Lily's

​Doug Zell, the founder of Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea, has teamed up with his old frat buddy, the philanthropist and former real estate developer Robert Buono. Now the two will share the title of Co-C.E.O. in an effort to expand the business. [Diner's Journal] No New York chefs will compet ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Accuser Sues New York Post for Calling Her a Hooker

​As the case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the alleged sexual assault of a Sofitel hotel maid seems to hang in the balance, perhaps to be dismissed entirely, the hotel maid, who is a Guinean immigrant, is fighting back against three articles in the New York Post that reported she was a pro ... More >>

Charges Against Lucali's Mark Iacono Dropped; Gordon Ramsay Tweets Photo of Himself "Planking"

​A Brooklyn DA dropped all charges against both Lucali pizzaiolo Mark Iacono and alleged assailant Benny Geritano due to lack of cooperation from both witnesses. [NY Post] Jake Klein, who previously apprenticed under Masaharu Morimoto, is taking his Caribbean- and Southeast Asian-style cookin ... More >>

Cab Driver Refuses to Go to Brooklyn, Craziness Ensues

​We've all been denied transit to Brooklyn via taxi now and again, to the extent that Mayor Bloomberg has said he'll crack down on cabbies who won't take passengers where they want to go -- a promise easier said than done. But this is about the craziest example of it we've ever heard. Accordin ... More >>

Todd English Sued for Skipping Out on Rent; Jamie Oliver Declares Small Win in L.A.

​Todd English got the third degree from lawyer David Katz giving his deposition regarding allegations that he skipped out on a $9,000-a-month lease on a Nolita loft. [NY Post] The state has for the first time released the definitive guide to what foods can be taxed. In short, if it comes read ... More >>

Richard Branson Is Planning to Create Island Full of Lemurs

​Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire and chairman of the Virgin group, is planning one of the most extravagant displays of socially conscious wealth we've ever seen. The New York Post says that he wants to fill one of his privately owned islands with endangered lemurs in order to build ... More >>

Emptying New York City's Rubber Rooms: Pay a Fine, Teach Again

​The Department of Education recently returned 474 local teachers to the classroom in an attempt to rid New York City of the infamous "rubber room" sitters, in which educators accused of misconduct sit around and do nothing while collecting a full paycheck. The New York Post reports today that ... More >>

Olive Garden Remodels to Look More Tuscan; Hunts Point Produce Market to Relocate After Losing Lease

​Gwyneth Paltrow is everywhere these days and might be coming to a newsstand near you. The actress is rumored to be [groan] planning a food magazine. [NY Post] Olive Garden is remodeling 400 of its more than 730 locations over the next two years to look more like Tuscan villas. [Nation's Res ... More >>

Rich Old Woman Pick-Pockets Chinese People Because She Hates Them

​The New York Post has the sort-of Robin Hood story today of Ha Vasko, a rich 67-year-old Vietnamese woman arrested in Chinatown four times for pick-pocketing. "I hate Chinese people," she explained to the police. "They sell fake stuff, take the money, and send the money back home," she went o ... More >>

New York Post's 'Unluckiest Traveler' Seems Pretty Damn Lucky, Actually

Really?​The New York Post has found a man, 24-year-old Jason Gordon, whom they dub "the unluckiest traveler" in the entire world. This is based on several pieces of evidence, including: 1) He was once on a 16-hour flight from Los Angeles to New York that included a seven-hour stint on the tarm ... More >>

Long Island Jocks Beat Up Weed Dealer, Who Tells Cops and Gets Arrested Too

​Three dumb jocks from Long Island pretended like they wanted to buy an ounce of pot, but instead of paying they just beat up the drug dealer and took his stash, with a "knife and a pellet gun" in tow. The weed dealer was so devastated that he hopped in his car to follow the trio and passed a ... More >>

Thomas Keller to Be Recognized by French Legion of Honor; Subway Now Bigger Than McDonald's Worldwide

​Thomas Keller will be named Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, joining the ranks of Julia Child and Alice Waters as the only Americans in the food world to get the honor. [Diner's Journal] More good news about the Mediterranean diet: a new Greek study found new evidence that it helps i ... More >>

Windows on the World Will Not Be Resurrected in the Freedom Tower

​Although the Freedom Tower is now home to the world's highest-altitude Subway, it will not get a brand-new version of Windows on the World.

Teachers Accused of Classroom Sex Sue City

via​Cindy Mauro and Alini Brito were supposedly spotted having sex at James Madison High School, according to a custodian, but one who Brito's lawyer says only saw the encounter "while standing 15 feet behind a 300-pound janitor who'd opened the classroom door a crack." Brito contends that she ... More >>

Afghan Fried Chicken Fight; Whoopie Pie War

​Spot Dessert Bar won customers back after the blizzard by offering half-price hot drinks on Facebook, Twitter, and its blog. It also offers discounts to people who "like" the place. [Wall Street Journal] Abdul Haye, who owns the Kennedy Fried Chicken brand, is declaring war against all Afgha ... More >>

New York Post May Not Approve of Andrew Cuomo's High Approval Rating

​Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, while fair and balanced 99 percent of the time, occasionally allows some bias to creep into one of its many media outlets. Hard to believe, but if you look very close, you can find it. So let's play a game: Guess the News Corp. lede!

All of the Mean Words in the New York Times Review of the Spider-Man Musical

​Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark sounds like a disaster. Practically a national tragedy at this point, the new, super-expensive musical has yet to be officially released, trapped in the purgatory of "previews," in which a Broadway show works out all of its kinks. This one might be hopeless, if early ... More >>

L.A. School District Bans Jamie Oliver, All Reality TV from Schools; Chick-fil-A Isn't the Only One That's Anti-Gay

​The Los Angeles Unified School District has denied a request by Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution to film at a local high school, and has banned all reality TV shows from shooting in schools. [Hollywood Reporter] A Finnish group that calls itself the Food Liberation Army has "kidnapped" a statu ... More >>

Lotto Winner May Have to Share $8 Million With Husband Who Left Her

​How great would it be to win the lottery? How crappy would it be to have to share those lotto winnings with the d-bag who left you? Patricia Eisel, 40, an Irishwoman who was just barely making ends meet as a waitress in Long Beach, is battling with that conundrum after winning $8 million (aft ... More >>

Trans Fats Labels Lie; Movie Theaters Offer In-House Dining

​Trans fats labels may be misleading due to a law that allows foods containing less than 0.5 g of trans fat to claim they have none at all. [CBS News] The Post's dining trends forecast for 2011 includes pizza, German and Austrian wine bars, and chefs from Montreal. [NY Post] Movie theater c ... More >>

Livery Cab Shooting Suspect Sought by Police

​The NYPD is asking for the public's help locating a man wanted for questioning with regard to the December 7 shooting of a livery driver at the corner of 122 Street and Sutter Avenue in Queens. The victim, 53-year-old Trevor Bell, was shot in the neck, arms, and legs. He is in critical condit ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch Bans Google For Bing

​News Corp.'s own Darth Sidious, a.k.a. Rupert Murdoch, has had it up to here with the Google and their world domination. In fact, he's gone ahead and set the computer homepages in the new Sunday Times offices to Bing, the poor man's Yahoo!, which pays Uncle Rupe for his content. "None of us k ... More >>

News Corp. is Basically Hiring Everyone for The Daily iPad Thinger

​Lock up ye editorial staffers! The Daily is trying to hire them if they haven't already. And if Papa Rupe doesn't come for 'em, Yahoo will. A New York Observer-er peaces out. Finally, the clearing out of some old items, the firing of some long-needed shots, and the media company you're most l ... More >>

Renegade PATH Conductor Really, Really Hates It When You Eat on the Train

​Today the New York Post covers the story of a PATH conductor who takes very strictly the "no-eating-on-the-subway" rule (but is less concerned with the "no-littering-on-the-subway" rule, to say nothing of the "no-ripping-other-people's-property-out-of-their-hands-and-throwing-it-out-the-windo ... More >>

Marcus Samuelsson Delays Red Rooster Yet Again; Hung Hyunh Now with the EMM Group

​Marcus Samuelsson has delayed the opening of his much anticipated Red Rooster yet again and is now preparing for a November debut. [Eater] Franco Bario, the former chef de cuisine at Boqueria, is opening Caliu, a new Spanish tapas place slated to launch next Thursday on Hudson Street. [Craig ... More >>

Air Conditioner Falls from Sky, Lands on East Villager

How not to install your air conditioner.​Here's something we didn't even know we had to worry about: Air conditioners falling out of 6th-floor windows and ricocheting off of awnings and onto the heads of innocent passers-by. Yep. On what will go down in history as a very unlucky day for 67-yea ... More >>

The New York Post Reads Runnin' Scared!

​We'd like to congratulate our intern, Leslie Minora, whose last today with us is sadly today. You know you've made it when the New York Post is just openly jacking your shit without attribution.

Stand-Up Coffee Shops; Making Messy Food Look Good

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Cloned Meat & Milk May Have Hit the Shelves; Rare Yellow Lobster Found

​Although no vendor has publicly acknowledged it, meat and dairy products originating from cloned animals may already be on supermarket shelves in Europe. [NY Times] Gordon Ramsay reportedly owes some $2 million in taxes. The celebrity chef now has three TV shows in the U.S.: Hell's Kitchen, ... More >>

Charlie Rose to Speak at NRA Show; Former Food Network Chef Plots Murder

​Charlie Rose will give the keynote address at the upcoming National Restaurant Association's 2010 Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show at Chicago's McCormick Place's Vista Ballroom. [Nation's Restaurant News] Juan-Carlos Cruz, once the host of Food Network's Calorie Commando and Take It Off, alleged ... More >>

Why is Page Six Gossip Neel Shah in my Taxi?

New Yorkers: Have you ever had the sinking feeling or faint paranoia that our fair city's gossips are watching your every move, waiting for you to slip up, so they may then extract from your life further proof of the dog-eat-dog-while-crowd-watches-with-popcorn existential nature of the universe? We ... More >>

Poll Results: Do You Care About the New York Times/Wall Street Journal Newspaper War?

​It's been a week since the Wall Street Journal launched their much-ballyhooed and long-awaited Greater New York metropolitan section. How is it? Who cares! You always knew it was going to start out as The New York Post for People Too Rich To Be Caught With A Copy Of The New York Post, and wow ... More >>

In California, the Happy Meal Goes the Way of the Dodo Bird; Donatella Arpaia Dons Chef's Whites

​Santa Clara County, south of San Francisco, has decided to ban Happy Meal and other promotional toys that often accompany kids' meals at fast-food chains. [NY Times] The recipe-testing battle between Food52.com and Cook's Illustrated continues, and the results will be posted on Slate. [ABC N ... More >>

Fake Heirlooms Rile Tomato Purists; Burger King Does... Brunch?

​In Durham, N.C., the rich outlying soils that once grew tobacco now sprout peas, strawberries, fennel, artichokes, and lettuce. Chefs are also using local milk, cheese, eggs, pigs, chickens, quail, lambs, and rabbits. [NY Times] Tomato purists cry heresy as plant breeders offer hybrid versio ... 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 >>

Whale Meat Resto Owner Arrested; Sharp Knife Storage Systems Revealed

​The owner of the Santa Monica restaurant that was the target of a sting operation conducted by the team from the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove has been arrested for serving whale meat. [AP] Chris Santos of Stanton Social shops for alternatives to traditional wooden knife blocks, which c ... More >>

New York City Wine & Food Fest Wrap-Up; Restaurant Workers Like to Light Up

​At TimesTalks, moderated by Frank Bruni on Friday, Anthony Bourdain talked about obesity: "If you're 5'8" and 400 pounds, that's not a lifestyle choice; that's a social problem," and Rachael Ray: "[She] sent me a fruit basket, and I'm just not talking shit about her anymore." [NY Post] Bourd ... More >>

Somebody Got Murdered: Teen Shot and Killed in Brooklyn Public Housing Development

View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009 at approximately 0434 hours LOCATION: In front of 2189 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn. The police say 18-year-old Taquan Crandall of Bridge Street in Brooklyn was shot and killed on Pitkin Avenue early Sunday. Crandell had been shot in the chest at the Fiorent ... More >>

New York Post Revives Ancient Slur About Cops, Doughnuts

The New York Post exclusive about one NYPD Sergeant Eric Turetsky, who allegedly sought and received confectionery largesse from a Dunkin' Donuts in the Rockaways, filching free donuts and coffee and the occasional sandwich, allows the paper to reproduce a picture of Chief Wiggum and use lines like ... More >>

2nd Flyover Narrowly Averted by Quick-Thinking FAA, Mayor

Another socialist White House flyover! This time involving some of Obama's fellow-traitor Navy flyers! Also, this one never happened: It was cancelled at the last minute by the FAA , which probably thinks everyone's had enough agita for one term, and had the presence of mind to ask the Mayor's opin ... More >>

PD Roundup: Nut Kill, Suicide, Coverup, Cameras Cleared

Lots of cops in the news today. Yesterday officers tried rubber bullets and tasers on knife-wielding, deranged Mauricio Jacques yesterday, and when that did not dissuade him from his stated mission to kill his wife and children, the cops shot him dead. Also this weekend, a cop shot at his cop wife ... More >>

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