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Burger King Says No To Horsemeat; McDonald's Says Yes To Sustainable Fish

It's been quite a week for fast food companies around the world. After finding traces of horse and pig DNA in meat last week, British grocery chain Tesco recalled all its meat products made from a questionable producers. Now, Burger King has dropped Silvercrest Foods, one of its main meat suppliers ... More >>

Boston A "Football Town?" Not Even Close

Whenever I read something about football that sounds like it was written in a barroom by someone as sloshed as Rance Preibus at the RNC, it invariable comes from ColdHardFootballFacts.com. The latest beer-soaked rant comes from Kerry J. Byrne on August 26: "There is this mythology in certain circle ... More >>

Are New York's Eleven Madison and Chicago's Alinea Collaborating?

In a video posted up last week, the chefs from Chicago's Alinea (which was named the second best restaurant in North America) and Eleven Madison Park seem to be packing up their stuff and heading to a train station. The cryptic teaser ends with "21st Century Ltd., Coming Soon."

When Rightbloggers Tell You the Battle of Chick-fil-A Isn't About Gay Rights, It's About Gay Rights

In years to come, rightbloggers will tell their grandchildren many stories of the glorious summer of twenty-twelve. They'll tell 'em how they warned America about the socialist menace of the Olympics. They'll tell 'em how, in the wake of the Aurora shooting, they defended assault weapons against Dem ... More >>

Grant Achatz Will Recreate El Bulli's Menu at Chicago's Next

​Think it was hard to get into Grant Achatz' Next before? For three months kicking off in January, the restaurant's theme will be centered around Ferran Adria's famous, now-defunct gastronomic temple El Bulli. Achatz and crew will create a 20-course menu that will cover the last 20 years of El ... More >>

Israeli Ambassador Airlifted Out of Egypt; Japanese Man Questioned About Air Force One Leak; State of Emergency Declared in Texas

Scenes from Springtime anti-Mubarak protests​Israel airlifted its ambassador out of their Cairo embassy after protesters swarmed the building, the Washington Post reports. Protests have been growing after the deaths of three Egyptian border guards who were killed by Israeli troops who say they ... More >>

Vodka Blimp Breaks Free of Moorings and Lands in Backyard

Not the Hangar One Vodka blimp.​A 128-foot blimp advertising Hangar One Vodka broke free of its moorings at a Columbus, Ohio airport during high winds, the AP reports. The FAA couldn't locate the rogue zeppelin after it floated, unmanned, into the sky. Seven hours later, a homeowner two miles ... More >>

Americans Love the Olive Garden; Monte's Reopens in Gowanus

​Lab-grown artificial meat might sound gross, but it could reduce greenhouse gasses by 96% if used to replace conventional livestock. [The Guardian] What national chains do people love most? According to the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, the Olive Garden and Red Lobster. [Chicago Trib ... More >>

Doc Filmmaker Goes Inside the New York Times, Gets Story

In New York, Getting Cocaine Is as "Easy as Pizza"

Jkrizni/Flickr​Given that we live in a time when people enroll in culinary school with the goal of getting their own TV show, it's easy to forget that the vast majority of cooks spend about 14 hours a day doing manual labor for minimal compensation. It's a resolutely unglamorous profession, an ... More >>

Food Trucks Get Their Own Book; Mickey D's CEO Defends Ronald McDonald

​Sbarro, which recently announced it might file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is now considering a sale instead. [Nation's Restaurant News] Prague is getting on the foodie bandwagon, as it gears up for the Prague Food Festival, which will feature cuisines from around the world. [NY Times] A new ... More >>

Donald Trump Buys a Winery; Potential 'Drinking Gene' Isolated

​A small winemaking cooperative in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina is working with six Croats and a Serb to revive ancient regional wine traditions -- and put the horrors of the Bosnian war to rest. [Reuters] Francis Ford Coppola has lured rockstar winemaker Phillipe Bascaules from Château M ... More >>

R.I.P. Liz Taylor: We Remember the Actress with a Bacchanalian Clip from Cleopatra

Leading lady, Elizabeth Taylor​Elizabeth Taylor, one of the last leading ladies from Hollywood's Golden Age of cinema, died yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital of congestive heart failure at age 79. We remember her with a clip from Cleopatra in which the actress and her co-star (and eventual h ... More >>

Man Surprised to Find that Online Girlfriend Asking Him for Money Is Not Real

​There is a sucker born every minute. On the Internet, multiply that by 200,000, and you'll get the amount of money that a hapless 48-year-old man from the Chicago suburb of Naperville sent his supposed "online girlfriend" whom he'd actually never met. But he'd seen her Florida driver's licens ... More >>

Rahm Emanuel Back on Goddamn Ballot For Chicago Mayor

​Yesterday an appeals court in Illinois ruled that notoriously short-tempered, foul-mouthed Rahm Emanuel was not eligible to run for mayor in the election on February 22 because he does not qualify as a resident. Today, Emanuel's legal team took their case to the Illinois Supreme Court (you ca ... More >>

Food Blogger Cries 'Foodie Fatigue,' but Has No Discernible Plans to Stop Blogging

Apparel of the damned.​On this verrry slow news week traditionally reserved for a final onslaught of year-end round-ups/pronouncements, The Chicago Tribune's Christopher Borrelli has bestowed upon the Interweb "a plea for calm." Borrelli, a general assignments reporter writes about food and bl ... More >>

Brooklyn Now a Brand; Nate Appleman Still Trying to Sell Us On Chipotle

​In its continued attack on Starbucks, McDonald's has launched maple-flavored oatmeal, available with diced red and green apples, raisins and cranberries, and cream for $1.99. [LA Times] Cooks looking to start their own businesses can pay by the shift to use a 5,500-square-foot commercial kit ... More >>

The Oval Office Gets a New York-Makeover

​Somehow, the Oval Office getting a "makeover" -- i.e. fixing all the things they haven't had time to fix -- is news. What's new? New York in the house.

Press Clips: Certain Media Reporters Think Howard Kurtz is Full of Shit

​Day 9, Evening Edition. D.C. Drama up in this: Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz has (super) 'Reliable Sources' while The Washington Times was purchased by the Moonies for the high price of $1, and also, my Journolist-Leaker Theories are back, kinda. Elsewhere, the New York Times still ... More >>

Best of the Rod Blagojevich Tapes: "You Russian Motherfuc*ers."

​The disgraced former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is a monumental dumbass. Not that you didn't already understand this from his appearance on NBC's reality television trainwreck I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, but yeah, this guy had his phone wiretapped by the FBI, and -- as Vanit ... More >>

K2 in Krisis: Kathleen Rice and Newsday Want You to Fear, Outlaw The New Marijuana

​You would think: If there was something kids could get ahold of that could get them high, by now, it'd be illegal, right? Wrong. Enter the Oregano-looking "K2," which isn't marijuana, but supposedly gets you high. It's proven to work doubly, however, as a great cause for media fear mongering ... More >>

How New York City's Seven Newspapers Are (Nearly) Surviving

Print is undead—and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it

Revolution 2009: The Beatles Remasters

The new versions might not strike you as drastically different. Buy some anyway.

Quincy Jones Not Done with VIBE

Now the news comes that Quincy Jones is thinking of "saving" VIBE. "I'm trying to buy my magazine back now," Jones told EbonyJet.com yesterday. "They just messed my magazine all up, but I'm gonna get it back. You better believe it, I'm'a take it online because print and all that stuff is over." This ... More >>

Post-Inaugural Comment of the Post-Inaugural

There are reams of commentary available in every paper, blog, and coffee shop this morning, but our favorite comes from Scott Turner of Rocky Sullivan's in Red Hook, reporting for Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn. Turner notes that the new President invited the World Famous Lawn Rangers of Amazing Arco ... More >>

Nat Hentoff's Last Column: The 50-Year Veteran Says Goodbye

I used to say, 'I've been at the Voice since the Civil War.' But now I'm off to other combats.

Real motherfuckers: AIG still hands out bonuses

Daily Flog: Barack Obama -- already a virtual star

Smashing Pumpkins' Zeitgeist

More righteous cherub rock, thank God

Diamonds are Forever

Rudy Giuliani downplays the value of his jewelry collection

Arlen Specter's Sellout

Senate Judiciary Committee chair intent on rescuing Bush from felony charges

The Cartoons Conspiracy

The story behind the story of the furor over the Muhammad cartoons

Mercury in Fish? Baloney!

Lobbyist tells pregnant women to eat more tuna

Day by Day, Death by Death

A Chronology of U.S. Military Fatalities Since 'Mission Accomplished,' Part I

The War on a Rack

Publishers Say They're Being Harassed by NYC

Pressure Drop Newsday Foreign Editor Sparks Culture War

'Sun' Rise, 'Sun' Set

Conservative Paper Sings to the Masses

Letters

The Numbers Game

New-School Baseball Stats From A to Z

Improbable Cause

Pundits Square Off Over Secret Tribunals

Poor Ann Moore

Time Inc. Exec Cornered at CJR Panel

Dream of a Worldwide Truce

Who Will Succeed Jesse Jackson?

'We Are Not a Monolithic People'

Amazing Grace

Why Louis Farrakhan is Desperate to Meet Joe Lieberman

Nation

Human Shields For Clinton

Interventionist Liberals Sanction a Jingoistic War

NATO'S Funeral

Clinton's New Clothes and...

Impeachment, Stupid

Republicans Reeling From Backlash

The Green Menace

Vietnam Lore