Netherlands

Kirschen-Clark's Painterly New Food at Café Cluny

Heirloom beet salad -- Bartlett pear, arugula, ricotta, walnuts First cutting his eye teeth at Jimmy's No. 43, playing a pair of hot plates like a DJ, chef Philip Kirschen-Clark bounced around trying to find a new place that was a good fit. Most recently, he developed a menu at Vandaag representin ... More >>

Simit--'Turkish Bagel'--Invades the Upper West Side

The simit tastes pretty good, but is it actually a bagel? Above: the whole wheat simit A neophyte chain called Simit Smith has introduced a new sort of bagel to the Upper West Side. In Turkey, it's known as a simit, but there are a half-dozen other names for it in the Middle East, Greece, Romani ... More >>

Ivo van Hove Blends Up Shakepeare in Roman Tragedies

And you can join his crowd, at BAM

TURN UP THE HEAT

Ondatrópica make 
their U.S. debut

This Week in The Voice: When a Cop Lies About Sex

This week in the Voice, out today, Graham Rayman tells a sordid story of sex, power, and text messaging involving a Palisades Interstate Parkway police officer's relationship with a Brooklyn woman, writing: "During the course of her interaction with the Palisades cops in 2010, she had an affair with ... More >>

Human Centipede: After Starring Role As The Middle Piece, What Comes Next? Ashley C. Williams Explains

Not since Two Girls, One Cup (yes, that's the real link. Be careful) has a work of fecal cinema inspired more gagging, satirical interpretations, and, well, gagging than The Human Centipede.For anyone who doesn't already know, it's the story of a demented German surgeon and his quest to create the " ... More >>

Top 10 Eurovision Song Contest Winners* of All Time

In a couple of weeks, the biggest, gaudiest, gayest and easily the most-watched televised music event in the world will unfold, this year from Baku, Azerbaijan, and once again Americans will be almost completely oblivious to it. We're talking, of course, about the Eurovision Song Contest, which sta ... More >>

Europeans Are the World's Biggest Boozers

Is it really a surprise that the World Health Organization and the European Commission found that Europeans drink more than anyone else in the world? No, but the numbers, as reported by Reuters, are still pretty intriguing: the consumption of alcohol in the European Union is double the world average ... More >>

Aryeh Ralbag, Brooklyn Rabbi, Might Get Kicked Out of Amsterdam's Orthodox Community

Aryeh Ralbag, the Brooklyn rabbi who also leads Amsterdam's Jewish community, might soon get booted from his Netherlands position for recent comments on homosexuality. Problems came to a crux for Ralbag, who has held the long-distance post for six years, in January, according to the Jewish Telegr ... More >>

More Mamajuana for Manhattan

​Smell that? It's the scent of Mamajuana wafting through Manhattan's streets. No, not that herbal aroma, that's something else entirely. Chef Ricardo Cardona (Sofrito) is taking his Dominican-Spanish cuisine and branching out from his original Inwood location. His second spot, on Amsterdam at 88t ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: November 16-22, 2011

SPIRITED AWAY

Joseph Keckler puts a spell on you

'Discovery' w/ Sergio Santos+Boris Werner

Pie Corps Promises New York More "Soul Satisfying" Pie

​Just because the notion of pie as the new cupcakes proved to be a bit of a non-starter, that doesn't mean that bakers aren't still bound and determined to build businesses upon it. To wit: Pie Corps, the new pie company that will be making its debut at this Sunday's New Amsterdam Market.

Four Loko Ban Screws Small Moonshot '69 Producer; Introducing Beer for Dogs

​The ban on caffeinated alcoholic beverages has devastated the one-person company that makes Moonshot '69, a caffeinated beer. The company's founder has called the ban "Prohibition in 2010." [NY Times] CultureFix and Panda, both on the Lower East Side, are among a crop of bars that double as ... More >>

Greetings From the New Amsterdam Market

​Best eats at the New Amsterdam Market this weekend: Sunday gravy boat ($6) from Table Tales Cafe, featuring braised pork and beef, sausage, and meatballs lodged in a hollowed-out bread. Gone is the extravagant New Amsterdam Market of last autumn, featuring dozens upon dozens of vendors and t ... More >>

Co. and Frankies Spuntino Offer Opportunities to Drink Beer This Weekend

apol3/FlickrDrink it, live it.​Between pickles, New Amsterdam, and the Grub/Hester Street festival, there are already plenty of ways to stuff your face this weekend. And now, in honor of Oktoberfest, here are two more.

Ground Zero Mosque Haters Go Dutch

Intolerance—imported and domestic—invades a 9/11 anniversary

Oil Company Doing Vile, Horrible Things Actually Not BP This Time

​In a shocking twist, it turns out that the nastiest oil story of the week goes to a company called Trafigiura that, back in 2006, had the brilliant idea of transporting their illegal toxic sludge to the Ivory Coast where they could all forget about all about it and "get their lives back." Mea ... More >>

Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Saxelby Cheesemonger's Grilled Cheese Curd Sandwich

Where curds and kimchi meet and mingle.​ For those of us who spent a certain portion of last summer consuming Anne Saxelby's grilled cheese sandwiches at the Brooklyn Flea, the news that she would not return for this season's market was cause for, if not mourning, then certainly disappointmen ... More >>

Countdown to New Holland Herring at Russ and Daughters

Last year's catch​The time for New Holland herring--equal to the finest sushi--is almost upon us.

The Hold Steady Announce New Record: Heaven Is Whenever, Due in May

Judson Baker​Here's to ending the longest drought between Hold Steady albums, ever. In the two years since the Brooklyn band released the hardcore revival moment Stay Positive, the former five piece toured endlessly and, at the tail end of last month, bade farewell to keyboardist and chief mou ... More >>

Domino's to Change Pizza Prototype; Mickey D's Introduces Free WiFi

​McDonald's will soon start offering free WiFi access as part of its transformation from fast-food joint into hang-out destination. As of mid-January, the Golden Arches will lift its $2.95 WiFi fee at 11,000 of its 14,000 U.S. locations. [Wall Street Journal] A new study from the Netherlands ... More >>

10 Movies in 2007 that Deserved More Attention

Kick yourself for not seeing these films

Scary Day of the Dead Edición

Don't let the Chicanos ruin your sugar skulls

The Again Men

Three painters who enjoy repeating themselves

Your Face or Mine?

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Alamo Race Track's Black Cat John Brown

New Wave grit from Amsterdam—why not?

Riding to the Rescue

Sympathetic European cycling activists jump into critical mess to say, 'Free NYC cyclists'

'Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'

Artists From Amsterdam Muscle Old Ideas Into Intimate Space

Image Bank

Trawling for treasure—and finding it—at a Paris photo fair

Listings

Homos 101

Premier Black College Is a Study in Anti-Gay Discrimination

Ivo, Chekhov, No Nudes

Van Hove Tackles 'Three Sisters' at the Holland Festival

Partial Refractions

Three Funerals and a Wake

Unforgiven

Listings

Close Up On: Flushing

One-Bedroom Apartment in High-Rise

Close-Up On: Sugar Hill

Black Curry Sour

The Age of 'Reason'

Letters

The Theater of Live Chickens

Van Hove, Mee, and Donnellan at the Holland Festival

Triumph of the Ill

Trash Talking With Mad Scientist Paul Verhoeven

Letters

Watch Your Steps

Sells Like Teen Spirit