New Hampshire

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 >>

The Observers

Kaia: Please Boer Me

Happily, New York gets some more South African food

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 >>

Christine Quinn, Activists Address The Stonewall Inn After Prop 8 Ruling

Marriage equality supporters gather outside of the Stonewall Inn tonight to hail the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. There were many of the same people present who were at a rally the first time a federal court ruled the California voter ref ... More >>

Gingrich 'Wounds' Romney; Latinos Demand Solutions from Obama

Newt Gingrich badly wounded Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primaries. Now, Romney has to revive his campaign in Florida -- or risk losing the Republican ticket, the Spanish-language daily reports. The three distinct winners in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina prove Republicans' uncertaint ... More >>

Psychic Staten Island Monkey Picks Newt Gingrich to Win New Hampshire Primary

Drum roll, please. Grandpa, the so-called psychic monkey of the Staten Island Zoo, has chosen his pick to win the New Hampshire Republican primary and it is...Newt Gingrich. Regardless of Grandpa's psychic choice, Newt is not doing so well in the polls, which even the zoo's curator, Peter Laline, ha ... More >>

A Psychic Spider Monkey From Staten Island Will Predict the New Hampshire Primary Winner

Following in the vaunted footsteps of Paul the Octopus (RIP!), Grandpa is a spider monkey who lives at the Staten Island Zoo who has been instilled with the ability to, occasionally, choose a banana or tennis ball with the name of a winning sports team on it, thereby counting him among the ranks of ... More >>

Presidential Campaign Stores: Who's Got the Best Crap?

With the New Hampshire primary less than two months away, candidates are taking to the airwaves with commercials and televised debates to get their messages out. They have been honing their talking points and refining their images to make you, the voter, comfortable enough to buy what they're sellin ... More >>

Mitt Romney's The Republican Frontrunner

​Check out this thoughtful piece which explains why, after his endorsement from Chris Christie and his performance at the last debate, Mitt Romney is the top dog to try to boot Obama from employment. Author John Dickerson says that at the New Hampshire debate, Rick Perry "was too vague and fu ... More >>

Rightbloggers Herald the Rise of Our Next President, Michele Bachmann. (Or Some Guy Who Isn't Running.)

In the future, everyone will be a serious Republican Presidential candidate for 15 minutes. We're close to that now. Last Monday several GOP contenders for the big job debated in New Hampshire, and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's relatively lulu-free performance appears to have pushed he ... More >>

Robert Jeffrey, Dancing Madonna Boy of 1991, Truly Embodies Summer Fridays

Robert Jeffrey has 61,000 views and rising today alone -- a Friday, not coincidentally -- on the perfect above clip of him lip-syncing Madonna's "Vogue" back in the summer of 1991, at the Hampton Beach Casino in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. May all men learn to match his shorts game this weekend be ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Taste Brooklyn, FiDi; Meet a Pig Farmer

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Tasting Brooklyn Century Loft Tuesday, April 5 at 6:30 p.m. Sample dishes from the borough's best restaurants and food purveyors, including Barrio Foods, Clover Clu ... More >>

Rudy Giuliani Redux? Hope Springs Eternal

​There's an item on Politico from the newest blogger, Maggie Haberman, late of the Post and Daily News, suggesting that Rudy Giuliani may be back for one more bite at the apple. We can only hope. Haberman notes that the ex-mayor, ex-presidential candidate, ex-senate candidate, ex-gubernatorial ... More >>

Moving Day Is Not So Moving

In Important Questions: Where Does the Word 'Cocktail' Come From?

What's in a name?​While there has been some debate over the origins of the word "cocktailian," an even more pressing etymological dispute is at hand: where does the word "cocktail" come from? Some say Antoine Peychaud, a Creole pharmacist and the creator of Peychaud's bitters, coined the term ... More >>

The Devil You Know

Live: David Bazan Preaches/Blasphemes At Pianos

Serenading New Hampshire. David Bazan Pianos Tuesday, Sept. 1 No one writes better -- or angrier -- songs about God than David Bazan, slow-core sad-sack mastermind of Pedro the Lion and various solo escapades, his calm, gorgeously bitter baritone enunciating every syllable of every word with perf ... More >>

The Queer Issue: A Guide for Gays

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

President Obama graciously escorted GM into bankruptcy.Enemies decried his kind words and big speech to the Muslim world, but it still went over big. Can't touch this! We're beginning to think that Obama's letting total lunatics attack him on a government website just for the laughs. Patriots ... More >>

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 >>

This Beautiful City, Our Town, and Winter's Tale

Plays about place oddly displaced

Daily Flog: Obama strikes first in stab at replacing Cheney

We Come to Bury Rudy

The evil that men do lives after their mayoral stints—and even 9/11

Is Obama's Constitution Strong Enough?

He stirs the crowds, but when will he tell them about their lost liberties?

Joe Biden: A Poem

Giuliani's Immigration Problem

Much as he hates to admit it, Rudy loved (most of) those huddled masses

Bingo With the Indians

Make Love, Not Gore

Sure of a post-Roe America, anti-abortion marchers go cuddly

Flashback: Here Comes John Roberts, There Goes Roe v. Wade

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood is only the start

Market Value

Horoscope

Film

We the People (They the Freaks)

Clark's Run Still Clouded

Why Didn't He Warn Us About War in Iraq?

Pre-Debate, Kerry Stumps Poorly, Clark Brags About His Fastball

Edwards Starts To Look Better in Comparison

Forget the Debate

Democrats' Debate Fizzles; Dean Goes for an Image Make-Over

Wesley Clark Answers the People's Questions

The General Asserts the Importance of Faith, Explains How He Became a Patriot and a Democrat

The Trip to Dreadful: Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Grubstakers

Erase Your Student Loans the Howard Dean Way

Candidate’s $7.1 Billion Vision for a Diploma in Every Pot

The Hillary Watch

New Hampshire Filing Deadline Approaches

Grave Occasions

Music

Lawmakers Call for New Pollution Limits

Abandoned by Prez, Republicans on Hill Push Curbs

Goblets of Milk

Nation

Nation

Man and Ape

A Controversy Evolves

Hillary's Big Problem

No Woman Has Ever Won Higher Office in New York State

River Red