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Emo is Dead, Long Live Emo: 30 Bands Making it Safe to Hurt Again

It's a confusing time to be an emo fan. My Chemical Romance recently called it quits, while Fall Out Boy, surprisingly, have the #1 album in the country. That album, however, is a far cry from the sound old heads remember from the Take This to Your Grave era. Bro, are you even emo anymore? See also ... More >>

Cull & Pistol Opens in Chelsea Market; MP Taverna Hits Astoria

Michael Psilakis opened the latest version of MP Taverna in Astoria on Monday. Other outposts of the Greek restaurant have become popular in Roslyn, Long Island, and Irvington, N.Y. Psilakis told Flo Fab that lamb dumplings, a favorite from his original restaurants, and a Greek paella with seafood a ... More >>

Kittery Brings a Taste of the Beach to Carroll Gardens

A sea worthy clam shack

New Pizzeria in Tribeca: American Flatbread

The handsome beehive oven at American Flatbread, one of two American Flatbread is a small but ambitious chain of pizza parlors that originated in New Hampshire. The chain recently opened a massive new pizza parlor at the corner of Hudson and Canal. As you wait for your pies, you can watch convolut ... More >>

Qi Thai Grill Opens in Williamsburg, American Flatbread Opens in Tribeca

Williamsburg got a new thai spot from Pichet Ong and Sripraphai Tipmanee. Qi Thai Grill opened last week on N. 9th Street and the menu features a combination of small plates from Tipmanee's Woodside restaurant Sripraphai, and savory specials and desserts from Ong. Think Chiang Mai sausages and beef ... More >>

Fairhaven

Here's Some Old-Timey Video of New York's 1938 Hurricane -- Which Was Not Caused By "Global Warming"

The Global Warming crowd is claiming that climate change is part of the reason that a hurricane is about absolutely crush New York City."Substantial evidence indicates that global warming may be responsible for the recent increasing intensity of Atlantic hurricanes, including increasing their size a ... More >>

Barry Manilow's Least Offensive Songs, Ranked in Order

Barry Manilow--who always reminded me of a gay Snoopy--is coming to Broadway, so it's the perfect time for me to sit back and determine which of his hits is the least egregious to the ears. (And also to admit that some of them are actually pretty catchy, and not just like a plague.) My choices in ... More >>

Damien Echols Tells Us How Stephen King Novels Taught Him to Write

Free but still not quite exonerated, Damien Echols spent half his life in prison -- much on death row -- as punishment for a crime that he has never been linked to with, say, evidence. Many of those years he suffered in solitary confinement, even as the documentaries Paradise Lost and its sequels r ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Balkanika, Tejal Rao at 606 R&D

Robert Sietsema dives into the pan-Balkan cuisine at Balkanika, where 18 dips are neatly displayed in tubs. Located in Hell's Kitchen, Balkanika adds a passel of Balkan hot dishes served as main courses and a cheeses and charcuterie list that emphasizes Eastern European products: "Other hard-to-find ... More >>

UNDER PRESSURE

Fight fires the old-timey way

Live: Nü Sensae Work Out Their Demons At Death By Audio

Nü Sensae, Psychic Blood, the Dreebs Death By Audio Monday, August 20 Better than: The last horror movie you shelled out double the price of this show to see. What little there is to cyber-stalk of Nü Sensae's offstage life would suggest that they're a trio of upbeat, probably hilarious Vancouv ... More >>

Cheap Shuck: New York's Oyster Happy Hour Specials

New York can be cruel. Long workdays, unpredictable commutes, exorbitant prices--it feels like we must be gluttons for punishment. But don't fret you tired, you poor, you huddled masses! With the abundance of oyster happy hour specials around the city, we can now indulge in another form of gluttony. ... 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.

Feds Take Down Major Oxycodone Trafficking Ring

In a case that probably should have gotten more attention than it did, federal prosecutors took down a major prescription drug trafficking organization this week, indicting Jose Garcia Acosta and 13 other people for selling millions of dollars of the dangerously addictive painkiller oxycodone. Th ... More >>

Cannes Film Festival: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky, isle-strewn coast of New England. Sam (Jared Gelman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp supervised by Scout Master Randy Ward (Edward Norton), absconding with a couple of bed ... More >>

Whole Foods Fish Ban Angers Fishermen

Starting yesterday on Earth Day, Whole Foods stopped selling overfished seafood in its stores throughout the country. Not everyone is happy about this new policy: According to the New York Times, some New England fishermen have expressed anger over Whole Foods' move, which they think has threatened ... More >>

Spring Guide 2012: The Stabbin' Cabin

Enjoy a rustic bloodbath

Year of the Takeout Day 84: Nine Dragons

Shrimp with Lobster Sauce from Nine Dragons (83 Humboldt Street, Williamsburg, 718-599-3544).

The Most Habit Forming Nuns In Screen History

I won't be reading the comments on this one because I don't want to see all the cries of "You forgot about..." I forgot nothing. I know everything. These are my faves. Deal with it or go to hell.

Madonna (2) Tangles With Jon Spencer (15) As Sound Of The City's Search For The Ultimate New York Musician Continues

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

Pretty Poison Is Pretty Fabulous At Film Forum

In 1968, a year after Bonnie and Clyde caused a sensation, the way more obscure Pretty Poison trotted out just as bizarre a criminal couple consisting of a weird guy with a sick imagination and a stunning blonde who eagerly bites his bait. But this time, the Bonnie isn't necessarily working in tand ... More >>

David Wax Museum

The New York Public Library's Maps Project is a Time Machine for Your Neighborhood

While public library systems across the country flounder in the face of declining tax revenue and dwindling readership, the New York Public Library is somehow managing to survive. Rather than run away from digitization, NYPL has embraced it, and has recently produced a series of projects which are h ... More >>

La Promenade des Anglais: France Gets Loud

Alain Allegretti seasons his new restaurant with noise

Robert Sietsema at Kutsher's Tribeca; Lauren Shockey at La Promenade des Anglais

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema noshes on Jewish-American gems such as pastrami and gefilte fish at Tribeca newcomer Kutsher's. He especially enjoyed the starters and stews: "The matzo-ball soup ($11) is close to perfection, with a clear, light broth and crushed-cracker orbs of the 'big ball ... More >>

'Charles Ives Marathon Concert'

Littleneck: Gowanus Gets Its Clams

We promise you they're not from the canal

Maine Cod Fishery in Danger of Federal Curtailing; NYC Restaurants Still Serving Cod

landoffirstcontact.ca​In previous centuries, stocks of cod were plentiful in the North Atlantic. No one wanted to see it happen. Yet, anyone familiar with Cod (1997) by Mark Kurlansky or End of the Line (2004) by Charles Clover knows that stocks of cod in the near North Atlantic have been d ... More >>

Hey, Bono, Here Are Five Songs You Might Want To Consider For This "Song Lyrics Of Literary Excellence" Contest You're Judging

​The New England branch of the literary society PEN has announced that it's bestowing its inaugural award for outstanding achievement in song lyrics in February (hat tip: Dave Bry/Maud Newton). Lyrics from all stripes of popular music can, of course, be utterly banal, but they can also employ ... More >>

Say Hello to Littleneck, Whitehall, Parm

Here are the latest newcomers to New York City's cutthroat dining scene. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. A second location of cheesesteak purveyor Shorty's has opened in Murray Hill. It also features an extensive beer selection. [Zagat Buzz] Smith Street has yet another n ... More >>

The Wild Wild Mushrooms of the New Amsterdam Market

​Bear's head mushrooms look more like polar bears than brown or black bears. With all the rain and general dampness, It's been the best year in memory for hunting wild mushrooms upstate and in the fungus-friendly areas of New England. Not only are the varieties more profuse, but the specime ... More >>

An Ode to Summer's Last Footlong

​The last footlong of summer -- click to enlarge it to full size. People without imagination find the last day of summer on Labor Day, when they lament the return to the routine of school, or the last summer-hour schedules at work. More poetic souls see signs in the first day you put on a jac ... More >>

Dewey Dufresne to Open BYGGYZ, an Unusually Monikered Sandwich Project

A sandwich, though not a Dufresne sandwich.​Sandwich shops just keep on rising from the ashes of the 2008 financial meltdown, and the latest indication of their still surging popularity comes from none other than Wylie Dufresne's dad.

Pill-popping Cutters Will be Girls in Private School Coming of Ager Tanner Hall

The Ghost Writer

Red Lobster Employs Actual Fishermen to Convince Us of Its 'Authenticity'

Real people, real stories, real advertising dollars.​Taking a page from the Olive Garden playbook, Red Lobster is has embarked on a campaign to make people think of it as something more authentic and less off-putting than it actually is.

Littleneck Promises to Bring Brooklyn Its "First and Only Classic New England-Style Seafood Shack"

Littleneck, or a rendering thereof.​While the Gowanus doesn't exactly summon comparisons to Cape Cod, Aaron Lefkove is planning to make its dining options a wee bit more evocative of the New England shore.

I've Been Declared A "Queen Bear"

​Or more specifically, "the grandmother of the Queen Bear movement". Here's an excerpt from a christwire article on twinks vs. bears, the two groups waging a bitter internal struggle to determine the future of the gay movement, especially with regard to hair design: "Bears tend to live in sm ... More >>

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Garbus, you slay us

Winter Guide: Cozy Up to New York's Warming Restaurants

Strong Place May Be the Perfect Postmodern Bistro

And the 24-tap of craft brews doesn't hurt

Braeburn's Funny Farm

New West Village bistro gets lost in the corn

Aw, Shucks

Edamame and Black Angus

Trading Taters

A Family Affair