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Starbucks Is Dropping Their Prices

Not on their latte shmatte chai barista cocoa java lala hotchacha stuff, mind you. I'm talking about their prepackaged coffees.

Pam MacKinnon, Sam Gold, and Oliver Butler: A Directors Roundtable

Three of New York's best talents sit down with the Voice to talk Edward Albee, bad actor traits, and why Shaw will have to wait

Seasonal Pumpkin Flavors at IHOP And Krispy Kreme

While we're still mourning over the Starbucks pumpkin spice latte shortage, other chain stores have given us a reason to celebrate -- more pumpkin-flavored treats. IHOP is debuting pumpkin, carrot cake, and New York cheesecake pancakes today and the Krispy Kreme brand is rolling out pumpkin spice ... More >>

Pumpkin Spice Latte Shortage At Starbucks

Well, this is awfully depressing. According to the Wall Street Journal, there has been a shortage of pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks. The seasonal drink debuted on September 4, but the craze has already drained supplies across the country. Apparently baristas are hitting the street to search for ... More >>

Best in Show: The Spook Brothers

'Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets'

Starbucks Appreciation Day Isn't Percolating Much

Yesterday I urged you to go to a Starbucks today to show support for a place that's pro-same-sex marriage. It pained me to beg people to patronize a business that's gentrified formerly interesting neighborhoods with overpriced lattes. But they have positive views on this particular topic, and a ra ... More >>

Starbucks Happy Hour: Frappuccinos 50% Off

Great news for Starbucks aficionados -- and there's a lot of you out there. To kick off the summer season, Starbucks is bringing back their Frappuccino Happy Hour. The deal starts today. Customers who frequent the coffee shop from 3-5pm from May 4th to the 13th will get 50% off their Frappuccinos.

This Week's Specials: Middle Eastern Restaurants, Five Kinds of 'Cue

See what we've been up to at Fork in the Road this week: We've got our 10 picks for Middle Eastern restaurants in the city. Following his review of John Brown Smokehouse, Robert Sietsema runs down the five best barbecue dishes he had at the restaurant.

Coffee Cup Motifs in NYC's 59th Street Subway Station

​Don't fall in! In the last 10 years or so, lots of subway stations have been revamped, many with mosaics intended to reflect some associations with what's above the station on the street. Some of these motifs involve food and entertainment -- there are fish in the Delancey Street station, ... More >>

Newt Gingrich: Pay for Your Next Vacation with Food Stamps

If you are too poor to buy food but have always dreamed of visiting the South Pacific, don't worry: You can pay for your groceries -- and your next Hawaiian vacation -- with food stamps. Actually, that's not true -- not even close to being true -- but Newt Gingrich, who wants to rep the GOP in the ... More >>

Michael Gallina to Lead Blue Hill at Stone Barns; Wolfgang Puck Disses Starbucks

Michael Gallina, of Blue Hill New York, will take the place of Greg Baxtrom, and head Blue Hill at Stone Barns' kitchen. [Grubstreet] Baxtrom won't be out of work long. Turns out he will put in a stint at Floyd Cardoz's soon-to-open North End Grill. [Eater NY]

The Starbucks Bathroom-Closing Taiwanese Animation

The great Starbucks bathroom scandal of 2011 finally has its Next Media Animation treatment. Even though it was never really a story to begin with and we can all continue to use Starbucks bathrooms at will.

OWS Protesters Still Eating Like Kings; NYC's Most Beloved Diners

​Daniel Boulud will indeed be opening a new restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto, as previously rumored. [Toronto Star] More on those in-flight American Airlines meals designed by Richard Sandoval and Marcus Samuelsson. [Chicago Tribune] Occupy Wall Street protesters are sitting o ... More >>

Art in Odd Places Is Happening on 14th Street: An Interview With One of the Artists

Art in Odd Places is an annual New York City exhibit featuring artists, doing, well, art in odd places. This year (the sixth in New York), the theme focuses on ritual, with 70 artists taking over 14th street from October 1st through the 10th to do hour-long projects on that theme each day. The goal ... More >>

Five Astonishing Nutritional Surprises From the Just-Published Eat This Not That

​Penned by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding, and published by Rodale Press, Eat This Not That looks like a knock-off of the celebrated website and coffee-table book This Is Why You're Fat. This square paperbound volume abounds in pictures of fattening foods printed in breathtaking color, wit ... More >>

NYC Potterheads Have Been Waiting Six Days Outside For Final Harry Potter Premiere

Esther Zuckerman​A group of six girls have become the celebrities within the encampment of Harry Potter fans awaiting tonight's premiere of the final film, across the street from Lincoln Center in Manhattan. They do not go to Hogwarts -- in fact, they hail from Florida, New Jersey and upstate ... More >>

Rocco's Shuttered by the DOH, Tourists Pissed

Lauren ShockeyLa dolce vita? Not here!​Rocco's, every tourist's favorite Bleecker Street pasticceria, was shuttered by the Health Department a couple of weeks ago, "due to an expired permit" and promised that they'd reopen shortly. Well, the shop remains closed, and people are p-i-s-s-e-d.

Order Another Venti, While You're at It. Starbucks Is Now the Third Largest Chain

Fast-food frappe​Holy Grande! Starbucks is now the country's third largest restaurant chain, based on domestic sales, having surpassed both Burger King and Wendy's, according to USA Today.

Morning Links: Clarence Thomas' Wife Requests Decades-Old Apology; Paydays Better in Manhattan; the Great Pumpkin Is Here

Clarence and Virginia Thomas​• Virginia Thomas, Clarence's wife, left a voicemail asking for an apology from Anita Hill after nearly 20 years. Hill had testified at Thomas' 1991 Senate confirmation hearing that "he made repeated crude sexual comments" when he was her boss. Flash forward to 2 ... More >>

A Food Truck War Breaks Out; A Blogger Lives on Food Trucks

​Emeril Lagasse sold his Midtown Manhattan loft for $4.6 million, after reducing the price six different times from $7.65 million last year. [Wall Street Journal] A food truck war has broken out between the Rickshaw Dumpling Truck and the Frites 'N' Meats truck after the former parked too clo ... More >>

New York Times Emerges Victorious in Newspaper War ... of Getting Stolen

Via Westside Independent. Click to enlarge.​The Great War of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal rages on as absurdly over-compensatory advertisements continue to be placed around New York, and, uh, that's it. Except for this, with which the New York Times gets to declare victory ov ... More >>

The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual

More thoughts on Broadway and the state of theater in New York

Andrew Cuomo's Mom Disses Sandra Lee's Lasagna; Shaved Ice Rules

​Matilda Cuomo, mother of gubernatorial candidate Andrew, who is dating Food Network star Sandra Lee, says there's no way her Italian-America son actually enjoys Lee's lasagna, which is made with cottage cheese and tomato soup. [NY Daily News] A survey of passenger satisfaction with domestic ... More >>

The Artisanal Deli Movement Has Begun; Are You Cilantrophobic?

​McDonald's will likely reject a proposal put forth by the Humane Society to require that 5 percent of its eggs be cage-free. Burger King, Subway, and Wendy's have committed to buying at least some cage-free eggs. [NY Times] Alliance for a Healthier New York is organizing a soda buyback progr ... More >>

Instant Co-Sign: Ted Leo Covering Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants To Rule The World"

So The Onion's got this elaborate scheme where they get 25 bands to cover 25 specific songs, their pick, first come first served, introduced by Onion staffers casually holding Starbucks cups, with the poor 25th band stuck with whatever's left. Ted Leo bats leadoff and selects, wisely as always, Te ... More >>

The $4.25 Iced Coffee: Blue Bottle's 'Burg Debut

​ Behind these unassuming doors, does greatness lie? Wednesday was a benchmark moment for this city. In the great tradition of going to ridiculous lengths for pretty pedestrian things -- like waiting an hour just to score a $5 burger, or the blood sport of making reservations for a $30 burger ... More >>

Whale Meat Resto Owner Arrested; Sharp Knife Storage Systems Revealed

​The owner of the Santa Monica restaurant that was the target of a sting operation conducted by the team from the Oscar-winning documentary The Cove has been arrested for serving whale meat. [AP] Chris Santos of Stanton Social shops for alternatives to traditional wooden knife blocks, which c ... More >>

Spice Guy: Jay Rayner Shames U.S. for Cinnabomb

S. Diddy/flickrIs this spice nice or a nasty habit?​ First they had a problem with our English breakfasts being too healthy (by "healthy," they meant lacking in deep-fried toast). Then they complained that all of New York had gone soft because we have a Whole Foods on The Bowery. The latest fo ... More >>

Starbucks Bombing Kid's Facebook Friends Talk About Fight Club, Sentencing

Acquaintances and schoolmates of arrested Starbucks bomber Kyle Shaw are conversing about him under a link to a Daily News article about the Fight Club-loving teen. The link to the article "Teen 'Fight Club' devotee and suspected Starbucks bomber Kyle Shaw roughed up at Rikers Island" was posted on ... More >>

Junkless Junk Food & Uplifting Fancy Foods

Popchips and other snack food brands, such as Flat Earth baked veggie crisps, Stacy's pita chips, and Terra Chips, are peddling "junkless" junk food with slogans like "Love. Without the handles," and "Regret. Nothing." Even traditional brands are trying to get in on the act, like Lay's potato chips ... More >>

Sensa Makes Food Smell Better, More Satisfying; US & Canada Reach Organic Trade Agreement

Before you drop a dollar in that busker's open guitar case, be forewarned: Dunkin' Donuts has hired a dozen street musicians to play around Manhattan. The faux buskers are making $20 per hour in the "Breakfast NOT Brokefast" campaign, which promotes eating a Dunkin' Donuts breakfast instead of donat ... More >>

Obama's Foodie Poems Uncovered; Fast Food Secret Menus Revealed

Wired has the inside scoop on some popular food chains' secret menus: In-N-Out Burger's The Flying Dutchman (two beef patties, two cheese slices, no bun), Jamba Juice's extras of white gummi bears and strawberry shortcake, and Starbucks' Black Eye (a Red Eye with an extra shot of espresso). [Wired] ... More >>

Unemployment Hits 8.1%, Wal-Mart Still Hiring

The national unemployment rate went to 8.1 percent last month as 651,000 jobs were lost. The losses are attributable not only to collapsing Wall Street giants, but also to corner-cutting by "healthy" companies like IBM, who in January announced a strong 4th quarter and said that "most importantly, w ... More >>

Al Capone's Secret Sauce Revealed?

Al Capone's great nephew is marketing "Capone's Family Secret," a pasta sauce he claims is based on an 80-year-old recipe he found in his great gangster uncle's hidden archives.[NY Post/Page Six]Yes, today is the day we've all been waiting for: Starbucks begins serving its new "value" breakfasts as ... More >>

Ultra-Cheap Lunch! Lunch Box Buffet

When Free Radicals Become Free Agents

Thurston Moore goes folk, exploits Starbucks, and walks his dog, Merzbow

A Boy's Life, Zits and All

Sherman Alexie's young hero sets off on a journey across time and race

Future, Unscripted

Fall pilots: Real deal, or no deal?

Pub Crawl: Spring Break in New York?

The bar scene at Time Square’s casual dining chains

Mr. Coffee

What to look for in an internship

Table for Twelve

From bar mitzvah memories to video game worlds, this year's coffee-table books offers sentimental journeys

At DTW's juried show, the well-toned meat outshone the motion

Dressing on the Left

What to wear until the election

Trick or Treason

Acting under seditious pretenses, with Bush-bashing intent

Film

Ten Years After

Sarajevo Lost and Found

NY Mirror

All at Once

NY Mirror

Spycam City

The Surveillance Society: Part One