Styrofoam

Mayor Bloomberg's New Public Health Target: Styrofoam

In more ways than one, no one should really like styrofoam. It has the half-life of most nuclear substances; it doesn't really keep your coffee that hot; it litters the streets of our beloved city; and, most importantly, it indirectly costs you money. How? Landfills. Last week, the Sanitation Depar ... More >>

New Year's Eve Guide: Eats + Drinks

Mark Menjivar Shows Shelf Pity With 'You Are What You Eat'

Huma Bhabha Does Rodin Meets Mad Max

Incredible Hulks

New York's Far-Flung Theaters

Outré cinephilia with the bridge-and-tunnel set

Hey, Star Wars Fans: Celebrate Your Next Birthday With This Sweet R2-D2 Cake Beverage Dispenser

Check out this R2-D2 cake from Lola May Cake Factory in the U.K. Word on the street is that it can feed 30 to 40 people.

10 Best Incredibly Cheap Eats in New York

Get this Korean fried assortment for less than $5 at Boon Sik Zip. [ See More of Our 10 Bests in New York: Our 10 Best Ice Creams in NYC | Our 10 Best Lamb Dishes in NYC | Our 10 Best Cheap Eats for Tourists in the East Village ] Despite the upscaling of restaurants in general, and common foodstu ... More >>

This Week in the Voice: Sandhogs Under Second Avenue

This week in the Voice, out today: Sean Manning follows the Second Avenue sandhogs: "Here for 470 million years there had been rock, there are now two 20-foot diameter, butter-smooth concrete tubes--a giant, mile-long double-barrel shotgun buried 100 feet below the Upper East Side... Scant attention ... More >>

Our Art Director John Dixon Is a Rugged Maniac

Rugged Maniacs mud race: Brooklyn, NY 2011 from Village Voice Media on Vimeo. The Village Voice's art director John Dixon, who regularly kills it with his covers, is a man of many talents. The video above is of a 5K "adventure race and music festival" called Rugged Maniac that took place in Floyd Be ... More >>

Raffi Stepanian, NYC Treasure Hunter, Lives Off of Tweezers and a Butter Knife

Queens man Raffi Stepanian tells the New York Post exclusively today that, "The streets of 47th Street are literally paved with gold." With typical NYC street character (or nut job) enthusiasm, Stepanian spends his days crawling around on the pavement in the Diamond District, where he uses tweezers, ... More >>

Will the Real Macarons...er, Macaroons or Maakarons, Please Stand Up!

​One of these pastries is also called "macaron," but which one? We've spilled lots of ink lately on the difference between macaroons and macarons -- the former being sticky, coconut-based cookies popular for Passover, the latter cheerless-but-colorful sandwich cookies that taste something l ... More >>

MTA Considers Banning Food, Spaghetti Fights on Subway

runx/Flickr​Although that video of two woman fighting over spaghetti on a crowded subway car was certainly a fun (if slightly unsettling) way to waste four minutes, the MTA is not amused.

Bensonhurst's Dai Wah Yummy City Ain't So Itty-Bitty

Big and boxy—but pretty good Chinese

What We Talk About When We Talk About Yuengling

​ Some interesting facts we gleaned from The Wall Street Journal's profile of D.G. Yuengling & Son, the Pennsylvania-based brewer that last week announced its plans to buy a former Coors brewing facility in Memphis:

Essex Street Market Soybean Sprouts Recalled Due to Listeria Contamination

Beware.​Government food recalls often seem to involve big, faceless industrial food monoliths, but here's one that feels a bit more personal: the New York State Agriculture Department has issued a recall for packaged soybean sprouts sold at Essex Farm, one of the produce vendors in the Essex S ... More >>

Food at Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing Meadows Mildly Disappointing

​Dragon Boat afloat in Flushing Meadows Pond. I went expecting to find a food scene something like the Red Hook soccer fields or the Labor Day parade in Brooklyn, and indeed there were tents, pavilions, and penants galore at the north end of the lake, like some medieval jousting match. Most o ... More >>

Jeremy's Ale House: Fried Seafood, Beer in Styrofoam Cups, Off-Duty Firemen

​It's not that the fried seafood at Jeremy's Ale House near the South Street Seaport is the best you've ever had. It's more like an ideal version of boardwalk food--greasy, but also fresh-tasting and generous. Beer comes in giant Styrofoam cups in either 16- or 32-ounce servings ($4.75-$6.50), ... More >>

Papa John's 99-Cent Slice

​The 99-cent slice at Papa John's on West 28th Street In our coverage of the slice at 99 Cent Fresh Pizza and the superior, one-cent-more slice at 2 Bros., I neglected to mention that a national chain has jumped into the cheap-slice act.

Farm and Blog Launched Sunday on Rooftop of Sixpoint Craft Ales, Red Hook, Brooklyn

​A bantam hen seems proud of her newly laid egg. Cathy Erway, author of The Art of Eating In, is launching a new blog Monday that will be the successor to her long-running noteatingoutinny.com. The url is lunchatsixpoint.com, and the subject matter will be her activities as one of Brooklyn's ... More >>

New York Happy Hours, All Around the Clock

20 Happy Hours for every legal drinking hour in town!

Titus Andronicus and the Vivian Girls Prove Once and For All That Weezer Is How Every Human Under 25 Learned to Play Guitar

To review: Weezer's "Sweater Song" is your holy text; this howling, elemental singalong conducted by Titus Andronicus and the Vivian Girls's Cassie Ramone last night in Philadelphia will serve as your rites. That Titus's Patrick Stickles nails the solo note for note, and that he and Cassie are abl ... More >>

Street Food: Steamed Rice Cakes in Chinatown

​Yesterday, a petite woman sporting a smart blue cardigan and close-cropped salt-and-pepper hair sat on the south side of Grand Street between the Bowery and Elizabeth. A box propped up in front of her held bamboo-wrapped zongzi and Styrofoam dishes of these jiggly snacks.

Alkaline Trio

Indian Mangoes Back in Stores

Every year about this time Indian mangoes appear in Queens South Asian grocery stores, including Patel Bros., and cause quite a stir. They're smaller, greener, sweeter, darker-fleshed, and creamier than the Mexican and Central American mangoes--which often have a red coloration--that you might ... More >>

Fork in the Road Loves Bussaco in Spite of Herself

ATP Rocks the Catskills

Reporting live from Kutsher's, starring a loud-as-hell My Bloody Valentine

Sex and the City: Plotless and Pointless

Despite the labels and levity, the big-screen SATC is a poor-man's knockoff

Trapped in Wedding Hell

A soiree that exists only to give you the business on your wedding day

New York: In Every Kind of Light, the Rapture, and More

Fuerzabruta

The new extravaganza of Buenos Aires–based company De La Guarda

Don't Chew On It

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

The Foil Baron

Ballroom or bathroom? Rudolf Stingel's Whitney retrospective reveals an art of bulimic extremes

A Design of the Times

You're the game-show champion at the Cooper-Hewitt's clowning triennial

Sink and Swim

Hart & Berlin outlive a numbing Irish stew

States of Change

Life into death and death into whatever

Shibam!

Perfect winter food near the corner of Court and Atlantic

Grease Is Good!

Are lard, eggs, and fish tacos the new health foods?

Dumpling Ground

There's a new snack in town

Books

Day of the Dosa

A toasted-cheese surrogate comes to life in Jersey City

Theater

Market Share

Statements and Strategies: Young Artists Negotiate Their Entry Into the Gallery Scene

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Horoscope

Blow Up

Shutter Bugged

New York’s Hidden Cameras Are Watching. One Suspicious Tour Guide Wants to Show You How.

Brrrrrrrr!

Anything Goes

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