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Happy Valentine's Day! Cutest East Village Couple Give Love Advice: "There Is No Love Today"

"I love you, God bless you and see you tomorrow," is how Pilar La Rosa bids adieu to her regular patrons at Pilar Jewelry Repair on East 7th Street. Shopping at her quaint boutique is always a joy, though for the most part we stop by for no apparent reason other than to chat with owners Pilar and he ... More >>

Ten Rappers We'd Like To See on Reality TV

So many reality shows, and so many of them are terrible. But people watch this stuff, despite feigning revulsion. "Trash culture" is on the rise, and with everyone from Consequence to The Game are landing "roles" in a reality show, we wanted to get in on the action and list some potentially quality ... More >>

Six Months' Worth of Coffee Beans

Bag numbers 19 (left) and 18 (right) were, respectively, Blue Bottle's Guatemala Maya Ixil, roasted in Brooklyn, and Four Barrel's Guatemala Antigua Santa Cruz, roasted in San Francisco. I drink a lot of coffee at home, ground from beans right before being deposited in a French press. I saved the ... More >>

186 Dollars to Freedom

Season Specials: Half-Price Wine At LuLu & Me, Lunch Boxes From Raymi

A roundup on some restaurant deals and specials across the city: LuLu & Me is featuring half-price bottles of wine all night every Saturday in September. Its wine list includes both familiar grapes and lesser-known varietals. Standout bottles include Picpoul, a white wine made in France that's onl ... More >>

Top Hops' Ted Kenny on Growlers

After years of working as a bartender and a marketing guy for Anheuser-Busch, Ted Kenny decided to test out his beer chops by opening up a store of his own on the Lower East Side, Top Hops Beer Shop (94 Orchard St., 212-254-4677), where you can grab a pint to stay or a growler to take home. Of cours ... More >>

Calyer: Greenpoint Counterpoint

Innovative Latin-American small plates hit up the Brooklyn nabe

The Year in Film: J. Hoberman's Personal Best

His 10 favorite of the year, plus 2

Robert Sietsema at He Nan Flavor; Lauren Shockey at Beecher's Handmade Cheese

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema discovers authentic Henan on the Lower East Side at He Nan Flavor. Lauren Shockey sips a Grilled Cheese Martini at Beecher's Handmade Cheese.Liz BarclayCurd-ish pleasures at Beecher's​ Adam Platt isn't exactly charmed by the new West Village Fatty 'Cue ( ... More >>

Movers & Shakers: More Foreign Transplants and One New York Export

photo by Liz BarclayGoing to Miami.​It's that time of year again, when the food media begin to obsess and chitter over the restaurants set to open in the fall. Among the forthcoming newcomers is more than a handful of foreign transplants, restaurants from other countries that hope to translate ... More >>

Tales of the Cocktail Recap; Priciest White Wine Ever Sold

​If you couldn't make it down to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail this year, here's what you missed. [Metromix] You can now get a drink in Utah, but the state's liquor laws, which are heavily influenced by the Mormon Church headquartered there, are still pretty complicated. [NY Times] I ... More >>

Sol de Quito Helps You Get High in Bushwick

A Brooklyn restaurant helps your stomach scale the Ecuadorean Andes

ARMY OF MANY

What's hanging above your sofa?

Walter Dundervill and Trajall Harrell Give New Meaning to the Word “Show”

Dance Theater Workshop and the Kitchen host the choreographers

Download Bootlegs Of All 13 Sets From globalFEST 2011

Kinda makes you wonder what the Pedrito Martinez Group sounds like. Pic by Ben Jay.​Last week's globalFEST 2011 blowout at Webster Hall packed 13 acts from Brazil, India, Cuba, Mali, Sengal, Hawaii, Honduras, France, Egypt, Colombia, Peru, the Congo, and New York City onto three stages, a stag ... More >>

Microplane Maker 'Disappointed' His Tool Is Used in Kitchens; Baristas Show Off Style with Required Headgear

​The Landmarks Preservation Commission has named the former Childs Restaurant building in Coney Island a landmark, citing its "architectural, historic and cultural significance." [Brooklyn Eagle] Diners will eat out more often in 2011, but will not be spending as much on each meal, according ... More >>

Photos: globalFEST 2011, Starring Red Baraat, La-33, And Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda

Say hello to the Rhythm of Rajasthan. All pics by Ben.​What do you get when you take a dozen or so internationally hailed acts and dump them all in the East Village? The annual mind-expanding musical fete known as globalFEST. Thirteen acts from places as far afield as India and the Congo conve ... More >>

Battle of the Dishes: the Alfajor Death Match

Victoria BekiempisUruguyan civil war!​ The plain sandwich cookie has indeed met its long-lost -- and far more badass -- sibling, the alfajor. The South American snack is simple, but super-flavorful, made up of a thick layer of dulce de leche between two round, doughy pieces of shortbread. Coco ... More >>

Dramatis Personae Brings the Psychodrama From Peru

The Playwrights Realm stages a work by Gonzalo Rodriguez Risco

Visiting the Nostalgia King: Joe Franklin, I Love You

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 9, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 28 Visiting the Nostalgia King: Joe Franklin, I Love You By Jonathan Black I am a Joe Franklin fan. Oh, I know what you're thinking. Joe is no star. Joe is nobody's plum. Maybe you've never even heard of Joe ... More >>

Manuel Treviño 'in' at Lavo; Angelo Sosa Awaits Russian Bride

​Eric Hara makes room in his busy schedule to helm the kitchen at Agua Dulce in Hell's Kitchen, replacing Ulrich Sterling, who is leaving for a job in Peru. [Eater] Top Chef alum Manuel Treviño will be the chef at the forthcoming Lavo. He hails from Travertine, via Babbo and Dos Caminos. [Gr ... More >>

Agua Dulce Grows a Carniceria

Donny TsangUlrich Sterling​Agua Dulce is getting a downstairs neighbor this fall. Carniceria AD, as the name suggests, will be a pan-Latin, meat-centric restaurant, helmed by Agua Dulce's Ulrich Sterling. A press release describes the 30-seat room as "a clubby little space devoted solely to be ... More >>

La Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo

Copenhagen Gets a Cocktail Culture; South Africa Hopes Wine Can Bridge a Racial Divide

​Beer-happy Copenhagen is getting its own cocktail culture, with several serious cocktail bars cropping up in recent years, and the debut of Copenhagen Cocktail Club, a group of bartenders dedicated to "promoting and developing the art of drink and bar and cocktail culture in Denmark and acros ... More >>

Couples to Splurge on Eating Out this Valentine's Day; Are Fancy Restaurants Getting Louder?

​China is doing a 10-day emergency inspection of dairy products following reports that some of the tainted products that the government ordered destroyed during the food safety scandal of 2008 had been repackaged for sale. [NY Times] Couples are expected to spend less on Valentine's Day gift ... More >>

Brooklyn's Chicha Libre Were Also on That Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special

Chicha Libre on The Simpsons So distracted by the sight of Morgan Spurlock in Speedos, forgot to point out yesterday that Broo-Peru psych-surf sixers Chicha Libre also appeared in Sunday night's Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special, in a quickie spot shot at Park Slope's Barbes (a word that should hav ... More >>

Bea Arthur's Big, Brash Memorial

​The late Bea Arthur loved to eat hard boiled eggs with tabasco sauce, according to her Maude daughter Adrienne Barbeau at Bea's gala memorial yesterday. And that's absolutely perfect since Bea was a hard boiled egg with tabasco sauce!

Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Street Tamales

A tale of two tamales, one red and one green (click to explode) Not sure how when it happened, but East Harlem's 116th Street has become of paradise of Latin street vending. At $2 for two, the tamale meal you see above constitutes one of the city's most formidable Incredibly Cheap Eats. Purchas ... More >>

Dispatch from the Bacon and Bourbon Expo

The expo on the second floor of the Astor Center seems to shimmer in the cold night air (click to enlarge). Online it was a billed almost like a class, but it felt more like a trade show once I'd arrived at the Bacon and Bourbon Expo early Thursday evening. On the main floor, whiskey exhibito ... More >>

The Harrowing Adventures of President Obama

Looking back on his first term

Methodical Doc Untangles Peru's Knotty History of Violence

Say 'Yes' to Drugs and Unveil the Secrets of Ancient Civilizations

Clean and Sober

Identity miscegenation and sexual frustration dominate an impressively broad Asian festival

Mighty Hermaphrodite, Boozy Floozy Headline LGBT Fest

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Barred From the Ballot Box

On the anniversary of women's suffrage, a case for letting people with felony convictions vote

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Supernatural Thing

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Tobias Schneebaum’s Ritual Scars

Climb Every Mountain

Chillin' With Uncle Sam

Feds to Teens: Just Say No, Dude

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