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November 14, 2012
A Short History of Cinema's Long Passing
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March 24, 2012
Ethics of Eating Animals: NY Times Announces a Contest and FiTR Provides a Crib
Tomorrow's New York Times Magazine jumps the shark and provides its readers with a moral challenge: Justify your consumption of meat with a 600 word essay. Of course, the dice are loaded, and anyone who favors meat - either actively or passively - has a long row to hoe. Arguments like "everyone does ... More >>
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January 29, 2012
Studies Look At What The Internet Can Do To And For Kids
viaThere was a period in history when we assume being a teenage girl or a girl on the verge of teenagedom must have meant listening to a Joni Mitchell record while writing in a diary. Now, there's Taylor Swift, blogs, Facebook, texting and the like. It's all so confusing. So two recent studie ... More >>
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December 15, 2011
Tyler Kord to Expand No. 7 Subs
Tyler Kord, of No. 7 and the eponymous sub shop, has announced that he's opening a new location of his sandwich store -- in Greenpoint. [Eater]
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December 1, 2011
Da Capo's Second-Best Music Writing 2011: 112 Of Last Year's Most Notable Music Stories
The 2011 edition of Da Capo's annual anthology Best Music Writing— which this year was guest edited by The New Yorker classical writer and The Rest Is Noise author Alex Ross; Daphne Carr has been the series editor since 2006—contains 32 essays and is augmented by a a jumbo-sized "Other N ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
German Riesling Dries Out; George Washington Peddles Whiskey
German Rieslings are straying from sweet and heading toward dry, which some find disconcerting. [NY Times] Bottles of whiskey from distilleries closed during the 1980s' recession can be a solid investment. [Decanter] Bargains can be had with "second wines" from Bordeaux, like Château Marga ... More >>
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October 4, 2011
Four Loko Is Back... With a New Can!; Vodka Marketing Is Out of Control
If you thought you'd heard the last of Four Loko, were you ever wrong. After removing caffeine from the recipe last year, Four Loko's makers have agreed to change the label to read, "This can has as much alcohol as 4 regular (12 oz. 5 percent alc/vol) beers." That should do the trick. [FOX Ne ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Open and Closed: Say Hello to Mas (La Grillade), Goodbye to Hollis Famous Burgers
Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. Hollis Famous Burgers, in Jamaica, appears to be closed. The website is down, and the phone line disconnected. [Grub Street] Ci ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Farmers Forced to Fundraise After the Flood; Tainted Cantaloupes Kill 13
After the government turned down Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to test a ban on food-stamp use for soda, experts are now urging that the government conduct its own study of such a ban. [NY Times] There is now such thing as a foodie magician. His biggest trick? Guessing what your favorite restaurant is ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
Where to Drink During Oktoberfest; Red Wine Good for Hearts, But Not for Blood Pressure
Eric Asimov finds himself rather underwhelmed by New Zealand Pinot Noirs. [NY Times] Fast-food chains like Starbucks and Burger King have started serving booze, but others say it's not worth the hassle. [NY Times] A roundup of spots to celebrate Oktoberfest includes Zum Schneider in the Eas ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
Restos Return from Summer Vacation; Wendy's Redesigns Its Signature Burger
A Staten Island couple stole some $2.5 million meant for healthy meals for preschoolers by skimming money over five years from accounts at the nonprofit Red Apple Child Development Center. [NY Times] A roundup of cooking classes in the city includes pasta making at The Brooklyn Kitchen, beer ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Absolut Wine? Say It Ain't So.; Yet Another Baby Gets Served Booze
Absolut Wine? Not quite, but the Swedish vodka maker has paired up with Brancott Estate to release a 'sparkling fusion' of vodka and Sauvignon Blanc. [Decanter] A number of Long Island wineries have hired chefs, despite the state law that, in most cases, limits them to serving finger food. [ ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Link Found Between Pesticides and ADHD; Peruvian Food Next Big Thing (Again)
BaoHaus's Sweet Bao fries, portabello fries at Sea Grill, and cactus fries at Toloache are just some of the alternatives to French fries around town these days. [NY Post] Now that we finally have healthy food in school cafeterias, food trucks selling junk are parking nearby to lure kids away ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Colin Quinn to Host Vendys; Le Bernardin, Renovated, Reopens Friday
Wondering what deep-fried monstrosity won the "most creative" category at the Texas State Fair this year? Fried bubble gum. [Time] Brooklyn native Colin Quinn will be a judge at this year's Vendy Awards, alongside CNN's Kat Kinsman and New York Times columnist John T. Edge. [Gothamist] A nu ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
Open and Closed: Say Hello to Isa; Goodbye to Moonshine Bar
Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. If you hear of any new openings or closings, let us know. Moonshine Bar, in Red Hook, has announced it's closing on its Facebook page. The bar was known to have one of the only working cigarett ... More >>
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August 9, 2011
Moms Fail Health Department Standards on Packed Lunches; Restaurants Are Shrinking
Gordon Ramsay is trying to revive his struggling restaurant empire in the U.S. with a deal with Caesars in Vegas to launch three restaurants. [NY Post] A look at the lineup for the food-truck lot in Queens: Kimchi Taco truck, Taim, and Andy's Italian Ices one day; Eddie's Pizza, Desi Food, a ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Hydroponic Farming Beyond Marijuana; Seamus Mullen's Diagnosis and Cookbook
A look at hydroponic farms like Gotham Greens, the new 15,000 square-foot rooftop farm in Greenpoint, which uses a tenth of the water of conventional farms. [NY Times] Tom Colicchio's own hydroponic Riverpark Farm, less than 100 feet from the restaurant of the same name, supplies produce for ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
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 >>
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July 20, 2011
Little Italy Replaces Greeters with Suave 'Maitre Ds'; Menu Calorie Counts Can't Be Trusted
It appears that Little Italy is trading in its pushy greeters in favor of "outside maitre d's": suave young gentlemen who attract lady tourists with their eyes. [NY Post] The Hurt Locker star Anthony Mackie's new Bed-Stuy bar NoBar welcomed stars like Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Rockwell at it ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
States Fight Back Against City Food Bans; Could Eating with a Bigger Fork Help You Lose Weight?
States like Alabama and Florida are adopting limits on the authority cities have to ban unhealthy foods. [Time] Food authorities in Australian and New Zealand are warning citizens against consuming a new coffee that claims to perk up people's sex lives. [Herald Sun] A new study suggests th ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Philly Has a Soulful Vendys; Eating Invasive Species
Gigi and Big R's soul food truck took top honors at Philadelphia's first-ever Vendy Awards. [Wall Street Journal] Why eat shark fin soup when you can save reef fish populations along the Florida coast by eating lionfish, an invasive species? [NY Times] Arturo's is not so out of place in Ma ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Meat Prices Could Shoot Up 7 Percent This Year; Upscale Supermarkets Hit China
The floods, droughts, storms and tornadoes that hit the United States in April and May could mean a severe spike in food prices, including a 7 percent increase in the price of meat over the next year. [NPR] Deliverymen for Chinese restaurants are increasingly using electric bicycles--much to the ch ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Sarah Palin Emails Are a Group Job; Huffington Post Passes New York Times in Traffic
We mentioned last week that a large portion of all the emails Sarah Palin sent in her half-term as governor of Alaska are finally being made public long after a few publications requested them via open records laws back in 2008. It's now being reported that the mother-load will drop tomorrow. ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
Bottle Service Is Back, Baby; Upscale Restos Do Fast Food
Jason Wang of Xi'an Famous Foods and Jonel Picioane of the Ridgewood Pork Store and the Sunnyside Meat Market are examples of second generations in food families taking their businesses into the 21st century. [NY Times] Au Bon Pain has announced a redesign to stores and a menu expansion that ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
A Look at Who Is Really Responsible for All These Food Trucks; Oscar Mayer Sued for False Health Claims
The Shanghai Stainless Product & Design Company on Gerry Street in Brooklyn is the place to go for your brand new haute food truck. They've done trucks for Korilla BBQ, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Treats Truck, and Van Leeuwen. [NY Times] Colicchio & Sons will run a beer garden on the forthcomin ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
McCain Frozen Foods Magnate Dead; The Rise of Hash Brownies Without the Hash
David Greco of Mike's Deli in The Bronx, Jake Dell of Katz's, and Nicky and Vinny Defonte of the eponymous Red Hook sandwich shop weigh in on the new generation of delis, including This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef, Oxley's Carvery, and Bowery Beef. [NY Post] Wallace McCain, who helped found ... More >>
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May 11, 2011
New York Times Traffic Down 24% From Paywall; Erik Wemple to Washington Post
Lately the New York Times has lost a few of its star writers including legendary critic and columnist Frank Rich and foreign correspondent Dexter Filkins, along with a handful of others, and although people change jobs all the time and for a variety of reasons, the timing was enough to make u ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Open and Closed: Say Hello to Stivale, Goodbye to Baotique
Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. News has broken that the Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel is closing at the end of July, following management getting sued by the hotel for its rowdy champagne brunches. [NY Times] Baotique, ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
New York Times' Favorite Hobo Cannot Escape the New York Times
Last week, the New York Times was positively thrilled to have located a real-life old-timey hobo in New York City (New York City!?) and wrote about the discovery breathlessly, with a bunch of old-timey real-life hobo references (see: "ramblin' man," "odd jobs," "wide open spaces," "front teet ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
The Palates Behind the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restos; Newsflash: Some Restaurateurs Hate Groupon
Ever wonder who picks the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants? 27 panels of journalists, chefs and restaurateurs, and food lovers worldwide do the judging. [NY Times] Foodies at 41 is a club at P.S. 41 where kid members get to make ice cream at Grom Gelato, pizza at Keste, and pal aro ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Strawberries Can Fight Cancer; World Food Prices Finally Drop
Top Chef Masters premiered yesterday with several changes: fewer contestants, fewer judges, including Ruth Reichl, lower-profile chefs, and a new host. [NY Times] A new book follows the Pepper Trail of northern Mexico and examines how farmers are dealing with the effects of climate change on ... More >>
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April 1, 2011
Did the Huffington Post Steal Their April Fool's Day Joke? Plus More Media Gags!
Today, almost every media operation in the world has already attempted or will soon attempt to make a joke at the expense of their readers, viewers, visitors, or customers. Most will actually fool very few, while even less will be funny. We've already noted some of Google's gags for the day, ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Missing New York Times Journalists Return; Famous Women, Blow Jobs Save Newspapers
Though reporters are still missing, being killed and deported across Syria, Libya.html and the upheaved Middle East, there was some cause for celebration among the media today as the four missing New York Times journalists came home to a hero's welcome. The group has already detailed the brut ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
Fundraising in Japantown; Sandra Lee Mum on Budget
The new caffeine concern is energy drinks, which "might pose just as great a threat to individual and public health and safety" as alcoholic ones, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. [NY Times] Nine months after restaurant letter grades debuted, more than half of th ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Open & Closed: Say Hello to Walle; A Possible Goodbye (Already?!) to Carmine Club Café
Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Avenue A Bistro Bar, formerly known as Avenue A Sushi, has shuttered after close to 30 years in business. [EV Grieve] Four-month-old Carmine Club Café might already be done for. It appe ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
New York Times Journalists Free From Libya, Paywall Gets Internal Investigation
Two of the missing NYT journalistsOn Friday, the New York Times was told that four of its reporters being held by government forces in Libya would be freed. Meanwhile, bombing commenced from allied forces and Gaddafi's troops struck back against their own people in the embattled African natio ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About the New York Times Paywall, But Were Too Poor to Ask
Big news in the world of meta media news today! Details of the long-awaited, vaguely teased New York Times paywall have arrived via a press release from the Paper of Record. It's sort of expensive, compared to free! It's also sort of reasonable, if you feel inclined to support the making of good ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
NPR's Vivian Schiller Resigns After James O'Keefe Sting; New York Times Blames Rape Victim?
Two distinctly icky stories dominate media news this Wednesday, with none bigger than the mess at National Public Radio following yesterday's release of a hidden camera video by the right-wing videographer and activist James O'Keefe. The public radio organization scrambled as a result of the ... More >>
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March 7, 2011
The Happiest Person In America Has Been Located; He Is Not You
He does look pretty happy. [via NYT]The New York Times and Gallup have located the "happiest person in America." To do so, Gallup put together a composite for such a person, based on key happiness characteristics for 2010. The key to happiness is to be, said Gallup, "a tall, Asian-American, o ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Coconut Oil Makes a Comeback; New Chile is World's Hottest
Gabrielle Hamilton on Blood, Bones & Butter: ""I wrote a book in a way that I would like more people to write books. I'm not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls." [NY Times] Once maligned for its cholesterol and ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
Will the New York Times Paywall Be a 'Wasteland' For Writers? It's Coming Soon!
The New York Times had a big, important meeting today at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, in which the people in charge talked about how the business side is going. For most everyone that reads the paper, the discussion is boring beyond belief. ("The improvement in p ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Rich People Love Fast-Food; It's Been a Good Year for Maine Lobster
A U.S. Appeals Court upheld a lower court ruling allowing Starbucks to end its distribution agreement with Kraft. [BusinessWeek] Rich people are eating out more at fast-food restaurants. It turns out some people with six-figure salaries would rather spend their money on Jimmy Choos than dinn ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Orlando Is Fast-Food Heaven; Oscar-Inspired Cocktails
Orlando has more McDonald's, Burger Kings, KFCs, and other fast-food restaurants per 100,000 residents than any other city in the country. [LA Times] Homes for the Homeless has launched the new Milk From the Heart initiative that will distribute free fresh milk to needy families. [PR Newswir ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Bittman Dissects McDonald's Oatmeal; Minnesota Introduces 'Cheeseburger Bill'
Mark Bittman exposes what really lives in McDonald's oatmeal: "A more accurate description than '100% natural whole-grain oats,' 'plump raisins,' 'sweet cranberries' and 'crisp fresh apples' would be 'oats, sugar, sweetened dried fruit, cream and 11 weird ingredients you would never keep in y ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Michael Merida 'In' at Mia Dona; Daniel Van Heudsen 'In' at Mahjong Dumpling and Cascabel
White House chef Sam Kass gave the keynote address to members of The International Association of Culinary Professionals in New York, where he spoke about the progress made in making healthier food available to kids and what more needs to be done. [Atlantic Food] Mia Dona has a new partner a ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Razor Clams Stage a Comeback; Beware the Publicly Hungry Actress
The group of Finnish artists and activists that kidnapped a Ronald McDonald statue and promised to behead it in a grisly terrorist-style video, did so when their so-called demands weren't met. [AOL] Graydon Carter and Ken Aretsky were apparently interested in taking over Elaine's, says manag ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Robert Parker Getting Out of Wine Reviewing; USDA Guidelines Say Some Booze is OK
Robert Parker is quitting the wine reviewing game, passing most of his responsibilities on to his colleague, Antonio Galloni. [SF Chronicle] Joe Santos and Brad Estabrooke both make a Brooklyn gin (the latter is actually Breuckelen gin) and are locked in a trademark battle over the name. [NY ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
L.A. School District Bans Jamie Oliver, All Reality TV from Schools; Chick-fil-A Isn't the Only One That's Anti-Gay
The Los Angeles Unified School District has denied a request by Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution to film at a local high school, and has banned all reality TV shows from shooting in schools. [Hollywood Reporter] A Finnish group that calls itself the Food Liberation Army has "kidnapped" a statu ... More >>
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February 4, 2011
Open & Closed: Say Hello to Buvette; Goodbye to Vutera
Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Williamsburg's Vutera and its upstairs venue Rose Live Music are celebrating the venue's fifth and last year this week, as both are set to close at the end of February. [Wall Street Journal] R ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Rosé in the Wintertime; Vintage Beer All the Rage
Andrew Lloyd Webber sold $5.6 million worth of French wine at Sotheby's Hong Kong, including a 1982 case of Château Pétrus for $77,564. [Wall Street Journal] Emilio Estevez finds comfort and inspiration in his backyard vineyard, Casa Dumetz, where he often writes dialogue. [NY Times] Herb ... More >>
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