Subject: San Antonio

• Russian Roulette

  September 8, 2004

• Not Bathroom Humor: Richest Deal Ever

  September 22, 2005

• Brit Boy In Search Of 'Dream Girl'

  He says it began with a nightmare -- one that involved tampons, zombies and a decapitation by pizza cutter. But then, Adam Pacitti says, he met the girl of his dreams. In his dream. She was "absolutely, genuinely perfect," he says. And she kissed him. When the 20-year-old British student awoke, he quickly sketched her face. The rectangular glasses-wearing doodle is "admittedly awful," but Pacitti swears it's not a joke. He believes this girl does exist somewhere, and he's begun looking for her.S

  February 19, 2009

• The Early Word -- Beer Table Tuesdays

  The luscious smoked chop at Beer Table (click to reheat) Much has been made of the special theme nights, guest chefs, and even micro-restaurants that have been implanted in regular restaurants lately. For restaurant patrons, this is a good thing, and one wonders why no one thought of it previously. So it was with great interest that we dropped in at Beer Table in the southern reaches of Park Slope to check out the table d'hote menu currently being mounted by Julie Farias, a chef who p

  March 23, 2009

• Hayes Carl's Trouble in Mind

  Another Texan troubadour, smarter and funnier than most

  April 8, 2008

• Corn vs. Flour: The Great Tortilla Debate

  July 23, 2008

• Don't Buy the New Welfare-Queen Myth

  August 12, 2008

• August Evening

  September 3, 2008

• Crack Pot Theories

  Don't like Mexican drug cartels? Stop smoking their shit!

  February 4, 2009

• Bloomberg's Accountability?

  April 6, 2004

• Don't Call Her Rosa Parks

  August 21, 2007

• Camera [in the Can]

  May 19, 1998

• Holy Squat, Jazzman!

  December 8, 1998

• Grandpa’s Hands

  May 8, 2001

• History Lessons

  July 11, 2006

• The Death of Hockey

  December 8, 1998

• John Phillip Santos crosses the border

  September 28, 1999

• Music

  December 26, 2000

• Sports

  April 10, 2001

• The Stone Age in His Pockets

  May 1, 2001

• Local Is Global

  September 25, 2001

• Letters

  October 23, 2001

• Five-Room Apartment in Tenement

  October 30, 2001

• Nothing Major

  May 14, 2002

• A Tale of Two Rudys

  August 20, 2002

• Letters

  September 3, 2002

• Letters

  June 17, 2003

• Letters

  August 5, 2003

• The Bodies Come Home

  December 9, 2003

• Reality Show

  February 24, 2004

• Letters

  March 2, 2004

• Letters

  May 4, 2004

• Letters

  June 1, 2004

• Letters

  September 28, 2004

• The Playboy Mansion

  September 19, 2006

• Asking the Cheese Whiz

  November 27, 2007

• Hoffa & Obama: The Labor-Latte Alliance

  Now divorced from the mob, the Teamsters choose a Bobby Kennedy type for president

  February 26, 2008

• Sex and the Pueblo

  October 16, 2007

• Absalom, O Absalom

  May 23, 2006

• Pumping Us Dry

  August 30, 2005

• Battle of the Country Hunks!

  In praise of Rodney, Eric, Pat, Keith, Jason, Dierks, and the women they love for loving them

  April 8, 2009

• Doodle 4 Google Winner Announced.

  Oh cute: Google has announced its Doodle for Google art contest winner. It's Christin Engelberth of Bernard A. Harris Jr High School in San Antonio, Texas, and here's her prize piece, selected by a panel of judges from Google, the Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, and the National Design Museum. She's in sixth grade. 39 of the finalists are on display at Cooper Hewitt at 2 East 91st Street now through July 5. The young finalists stuck to positive, one-world and environmental themes, which are not

  May 21, 2009

• Weekend Special--From The Fork In The Road T-Shirt Collections

  Four months after we bought this t-shirt at legendary Peak Bro's. Bar-B-Que in Waverly, Kentucky (mmmm--smoked mutton!), the joint burnt down! click through to see more t-shirt food art

  June 5, 2009

• Under the Toque--Michael Huynh Expands His Empire; Daniel Boulud Plans British Invasion

  Gavin Mills responded to a statement by his former employer, Laurie Tomasino of Broadway East. Tomasino had blamed Mills for a "serious disconnect" between the food and the venue. Mills says he "was committed to the idea of 'fine dining' and balked at the suggestion from the owners that he serve up 'pizzas and banana splits.'" [The Lo-Down via Eater] Julie Farias, formerly of Beer Table in Park Slope, will now be helming the kitchen at The General Greene in Fort Greene. We loved her Cambodian-T

  June 25, 2009

• ¡Ask a Mexican! Sonia Sotomayor's No Mexican, But We Love Her All the Same

  July 22, 2009

• USA Today's "Big Black" Robot Cock-Up

  ​ You see the above headline as it originally appeared, and can at this moment still be found via the Google cache of USA Today's story about Otty Sanchez's gruesome alleged murder of her young son and attempted suicide in San Antonio, Texas. The item has since its publication last week been taken down, leaving a mild "We can't seem to find the page you are looking for" page in its place. (You can still read the Sanchez story at USA Today under the more fitting headline, "Family: Decap

  August 4, 2009

• Revisit: The General Greene

  ​ A few blocks east of Ft. Greene Park, the General Greene and its ice cream cart are a prominent fixture of the DeKalb dining scene. The General Greene came out of the paddock at a trot last August, then vaguely disappointed everyone with interesting-sounding food that was often poorly executed. When I checked the place out at lunch a few months ago, I lamented: "The pulled pork sandwich...organized something like a Cuban sandwich, was a colossal disappointment, since the pork had been r

  August 24, 2009

• Staten Island Little League Heroes Fail

  ​Remember the excitement when Staten Island sent a team to the little league World Series? "MEET THE SOUTH SHORE LITTLE LEAGUE SUPERSTARS," said the Post, and profiled all the members of the South Shore All-Stars. David Wright sent them a message of encouragement and equipment. They got to meet Bucky Dent. Well, it's all ashes now -- the All-Stars have been eliminated in a 4-1 loss to San Antonio, Texas...

  August 27, 2009

• Visitors board the USS New York in Louisiana

  ​ The USS New York, which contains 7.5 tons of steel salvaged from the wreckage at Ground Zero, invited visitors on board for the first time this weekend. Northrup Grumman employees were allowed to bring family and friends aboard the New York, which has been under construction since 2004 at Northrup's New Orleans-area Avondale shipyard. The ship will be will be leaving Louisiana for New York on Oct. 13, and will be commissioned here on Nov. 7. The San Antonio-class amphibious New York,

  October 4, 2009

• Do Mexican Girls Sabotage Their Own Studies?

  October 20, 2009