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Bourdain, Questlove, David Carr, and Michael Lomonaco Enjoy Bro Time at Porter House

The gang is all here! #MichaelLomonaco, David Carr, Anthony @bourdain & @questlove #partsunknown #porterhouse #nyc twitter.com/BullfrogAndBau...— Bullfrog & Baum (@BullfrogAndBaum) April 11, 2013 Holy media overload! What happens when two reformed bad boys (Anthony Bourdain and NY Ti ... More >>

Under Review: Sietsema is in Spicy Heaven at Sweet Yummy House; Rao Devours "Fresh-Killed" Chicken at Hanjan

For our own Robert Sietsema, hearing the name Sweet Yummy House "conjured up gingerbread dwellings deep in the woods made by witches." In reality, the Elmhurst restaurant is one of the city's newest Sichuan restaurants, specializing in "delicious peculiarities resulting from fusion with other cuisin ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 2/8/13

Here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

18 Awesome Places to Watch the Super Bowl in New York: Get Your Sports On

Deciding where to watch the Super Bowl is stressful. Do you pick the place with the best drink specials? The greatest food deals? Do you follow the crowd? Find a quiet bar with a decent screen to watch the game in private? We've broken it down by hood and borough of where to get the most bang for yo ... More >>

Tatzu Nishi: Discovering Columbus

Jonathan Batiste and the Stay Human Band Fill the Subway with Their Take on Jazz

Robert Sietsema at Littleneck

Don't clam up.​ This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema bites into bivalves at Littleneck, a Gowanus clam shack: "The most spectacular appearance of Brooklyn's iconic bivalve is on a clam roll ($16), featuring full-belly littlenecks with creamy tartar sauce and a few shreds of lettuce for colo ... More >>

My 10 Best Fat Pants Fridays

Rebecca MarxCake Shop's peanut butter bomb.​ I have spent the last 18 months or so eating untold amounts of fat and sugar, often but not always in the name of Fat Pants Friday. This column has given me a great excuse to coddle my sweet tooth, and more importantly, to visit and revisit some o ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Neely's Barbecue Parlor; Lauren Shockey at Do or Dine

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema is shocked to find that, at Neely's Barbecue Parlor, "Much of the food is good, despite hatred of the restaurant spewed by Yelpers and others." Lauren Shockey is charmed by Do or Dine, which "embraces a youthful (but still professional) spirit of chance-taking ... More >>

Where Was I Eating? Per Se

Lauren Shockey​And how quickly we come to the end of this week's Where Am I Eating? It was a relatively easy one this week, with the pictured dish being none other than the famed oysters and pearls at Per Se. The dish, a Thomas Keller classic, is a menu staple at the luxe restaurant located ... More >>

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Bedbugs Visit Staten Island Jail

​Despite early rumors that this would be the "summer of bedbugs," we've heard relatively little as the doings of those adorable creatures this season, especially compared to prior years. Remember when they took over Victoria's Secret, Hollister, Hachette Filipacchi, the U.N., the Time Warner C ... More >>

Sexy Nude Lady Statue to Disrupt Traffic on Upper East Side

"The Mountain," by Gaston Lachaise​Tramway Plaza between East 59th and East 60th Streets at Second Avenue, already the epicenter of much traffic chaos, will soon house a sculpture of a 9-foot "voluptuous reclining nude woman" by Gaston Lachaise, modeled after his own, presumably more human-siz ... More >>

Bouchon Bakery Opens, Thomas Keller Loves Everything There

Bouchon BakeryThe cookie everyone loves to love, and loves to hate​Thomas Keller's new branch of Bouchon Bakery officially opens today at 1 Rockefeller Plaza (212-782-3890) and will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., ensuring that Midtowners will be able to get their fix of cookies, cakes, pastrie ... More >>

Open and Closed: Say Hello to West End, Goodbye to Café Flo

Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Vai, the Upper East Side spot that just got a Soho outpost, has closed. The building is reportedly being torn down. [Grub Street] Café Flo in Astoria did not survive a four-alarm blaze that r ... More >>

Our 10 Best Bakery Desserts in NYC

Cannelle Patisserie's pear tart.​ The season of overindulgence is fast descending upon us with the subtlety of a Zeppelin, bearing glad tidings of weight gain and dental despair. To celebrate the occasion, we've decided to round up our favorite bakery desserts, the ones that make us cross riv ... More >>

Morning Links: White House Christmas Ornaments in Peril; Time Warner Visitors Getting Handsy With Nude Statue

The 2009 tree, with ornaments.​• Wyoming is having trouble finishing their ornaments for the White House Christmas tree this year. They have only 1,600 of the 5,000 they're responsible for. Apparently these ornaments have to be handmade, weatherproof, a foot tall, and in a Western theme. And ... More >>

Let's Just Give Up and Accept that the Bedbugs Have Won

​Bedbugs have now infested the AMC movie theater in Times Square. Yes, it's horrifying. But at this point, the idea that bedbugs are all over the damn place is not new. Let's look at all the places that have been infested by the little critters this summer:

Brooklyn Has the Most Bedbugs, and Other Findings From the Mayor's Bed Bug Advisory Board (Q&A)

You are getting very itchy.​Yesterday the mayor held a press conference to announce the city's new bed bug plan, a multi-pronged and rather high-minded-seeming (bed bug information portals? bed bug czars?) approach to a completely physical problem: bed bugs feasting on the blood of the city's ... More >>

Thomas Keller to Open a Second Bouchon Bakery at Rockefeller Center

Coming soon to Midtown.​Today brings excellent news for fans of Bouchon's monolithic and life-altering Nutter Butter: Thomas Keller will open a second location of the bakery in Rockefeller Center. Flo Fab reports that it will replace Dean & Deluca, and will have 45 outdoor tables and no waiter ... More >>

Former J.P. Morgan Trader Wins Naked Bartender Competition at the Time Warner Center

Carlo Romero, the Stirrings competition winner​Stirrings, a brand of natural bar ingredients that, yeah, you've probably never heard of until now, held a competition for a new brand ambassador/official bartender today at the Time Warner Center. Six shirtless (but apron-clad) finalists competed ... More >>

Paying $2,500 a Month to Live Next to the Lincoln Tunnel Is Really Quite Adventurous!

via NY Daily NewsPeople having fun in "the Linc"!​Remember when they started calling "Hell's Kitchen" "Clinton" or, generically, "Midtown West"? You know, to better represent its pastoral delights? Now, an area near the Lincoln Tunnel that was previously known only as a place you avoided at al ... More >>

Fat Pants Friday: Bouchon Bakery's Nutter Butter

Open wide.​ After a couple of underwhelming Fat Pants Friday forays, we're happy to report that Bouchon's Nutter Butter has completely restored our faith in the healing powers of sweet, fatty baked goods.

Make Marc Murphy's Curry Chicken Sandwich, Available in 'Landmarc in the Park' Picnic Baskets

Ants, be damned.​As the weather turns balmy, Landmarc has started offering ready-to-go meals that come packed with a picnic blanket and frisbee for the perfect Central Park picnic. Landmarc in the Park lunches vary from simple sandwich meals for $15 to a lounge-in-the-grass box for $20-$25. Pi ... More >>

Anderson Cooper Vs. Dr. Death

Fun with assisted suicide. Plus: Puffy Combs on the craft of acting?

Empire State Building Goes Dark Tonight as New York Observes Earth Hour

​The Empire State Building will be shutting off its lights tonight for an hour at 8:30 in observation of Global Earth Hour 2010. Earth Hour is an initiative of the World Wildlife Fund, which asks "individuals, schools, organizations, businesses and governments" to turn off or dim their lights ... More >>

New York's Community-Labor Divide

A nasty split as the Council finally bucks the mayor

19 Buildings Go Pink & White for Breast Cancer Events

​If you're like most of our readers, you came to this post by accident. But it's a serendipitous accident if you stroll the streets of our fair city at night, because the tireless publicists of the Empire State Building inform us that tonight the skyscraper will glow pink and white in honor of ... More >>

A Voce Columbus to Officially Open on September 18

The Feed brings word that A Voce Columbus, younger sibling to the celebrated A Voce, will "officially open" in the Time Warner Center on September 18. Its reservation line will open on August 24, and the restaurant, with executive chef Missy Robbins presiding in the kitchen, will subsequently expand ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Der Schwarze Kolner; Goodbye to La Goulue

It comes as little surprise that just days after Frederick's Downtown closed, its sister restaurant on the Upper East Side has also shuttered. Owner Frederick Lesort tried to battle slow business by offering discounts, but apparently it wasn't enough to save either restaurant. [Eater] Upper East Si ... More >>

Trend That Must Stop: Public Dancing Schtick

Break Out in Song did it again, getting a bunch of dancers to jump around to "If My Friends Could See Me Now" in the Time Warner Center yesterday. Further performances are promised for this afternoon at the South Street Seaport, tomorrow at the Intrepid, and Sunday in front of the Marquis in Times ... More >>

Chevy Chase, NY Republicans Dis Sarah Palin

Even at the Ecofest, Shopping Is a Natural Reaction

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