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February 12, 2012
Junior's Black and White Cookie Turns Red and White for Valentine's Day
Behold, the Valentine's black-and-white. Long-running downtown Brooklyn deli Junior's has an always-active bakery carryout operation right inside the front door, where the most popular pastries are plain cheesecake, cheesecake with canned cherries, cheesecake with canned pineapple, cheesecake with ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
"Mindful Eating" Is The Hot New Thing For Your Mouth
Today's New York Times has an interesting article about a trend called "mindful eating," which is based on Buddhist principles and which will teach your taste buds a thing or two while making you less of a slurping hog. It's about savoring your food, thinking about it, taking your time with ... More >>
Film
February 1, 2012
Windfall
Today's New York Times has an interesting article about a trend called "mindful eating," which is based on Buddhist principles and which will teach your taste buds a thing or two while making you less of a slurping hog. It's about savoring your food, thinking about it, taking your time with ... More >>
Blogs
October 23, 2011
What You Can Learn About Rick Perry From His Interview in Parade Magazine
Rick Perry gave an interview to Parade Magazine (this week's issue was, yet again, almost completely devoid of any coverage on parades or the parade-attending lifestyle) and people are needling him for comments he made about Barack Obama's birth certificate. He told the interviewer that he ha ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2011
Terroir Aims for Wine Bar Domination; A Look at Cider Week
An upstate New York small business owner is trying to break into the breakfast market with his product, Muesli Fusion, now available in health-food stores in four states. [NPR] With its third location in Murray Hill, the Terroir wine bar mini-empire is announcing its plans for domination, wh ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2011
Happy First Day of Fall Flood Watch!
Today is the first day of fall, or "the autumnal equinox," if you're fancy. Maybe that means something to you, like cozy sweaters and football games in the out-of-doors and the rosy-cheeked drinking of apple cider among friends, or maybe it means that it's going to rain and be horribly sticky ... More >>
Columns
September 14, 2011
Do Mexicans Hate Puerto Ricans?
Today is the first day of fall, or "the autumnal equinox," if you're fancy. Maybe that means something to you, like cozy sweaters and football games in the out-of-doors and the rosy-cheeked drinking of apple cider among friends, or maybe it means that it's going to rain and be horribly sticky ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Fast-Food Chains Try to Get In on the Food Stamp Game; Marcus Samuelsson to Debut Pop-up
Health advocates are worried about fast-food chains trying to get in on the food stamp program. Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut are all lobbying to get involved. [USA Today] More on the effects of Tropical Storm Irene on farms in upstate New York, New Jersey, and Vermont: Greenmarkets are abou ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2011
The Vastly Transformed Sidewalk Café Will Re-Open This Month
High Steel Heels/FlickrThe Sidewalk Café, several years ago Things have been quiet at the Sidewalk Café since March, when it closed for renovations. Long a haven for anti-folkies and fans of alfresco boozing, it had been an Avenue A institution since opening in 1985. We now hear ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2011
New York Stops Calling Lakes the N-Word
Upstate New York is a wilderness we usually try to ignore. Apparently, it's not just us because no one noticed that environmental conservation laws refer to remote bodies of water up there by the n-word. "It was a shock to us. The term is very offensive," said a scientist from Department of E ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2011
Pharrell Williams Peddles Qream Liqueur; Cupcake Vodka Wins Best in Show
Aube, once an area that simply supplied grapes to the more important production regions in Champagne, is coming to be known for its own independent winemakers. [NY Times] Hip-hop artist Pharrell Williams is launching a new dessert liqueur with Diageo called Qream, which will target "women wh ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Make Café Colette's Pan-Roasted Trout, by New Chef Charles Brassard
Pan-Roasted Trout, with all the fixins'The new chef at Café Colette (79 Berry Street, Brooklyn) in Williamsburg has been busy since taking the job. Charles Brassard, formerly of August and Little Giant, implemented a new menu inspired by his many trips to the Greenmarket. He shares the recip ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
I've Been Declared A "Queen Bear"
Or more specifically, "the grandmother of the Queen Bear movement". Here's an excerpt from a christwire article on twinks vs. bears, the two groups waging a bitter internal struggle to determine the future of the gay movement, especially with regard to hair design: "Bears tend to live in sm ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Planes Collide in Upstate New York, Killing Two
According to reports from various news outlets, two small, single-engine planes collided this afternoon above a wooded area in upstate New York approximately 70 miles north of New York City. Two people were killed and one is critically injured -- identities of the three have not been confirme ... More >>
Film
April 20, 2011
Beautiful Darling: A Too Shallow Look at the Far More Than Skin-Deep Warhol Superstar
According to reports from various news outlets, two small, single-engine planes collided this afternoon above a wooded area in upstate New York approximately 70 miles north of New York City. Two people were killed and one is critically injured -- identities of the three have not been confirme ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 15, 2010
JAM WITH THE BISCUITS
Philly eccentrics crash at Terminal 5
Blogs
November 30, 2010
Prince William/Kate Middleton Nuptials May Be Broadcast in 3-D
Chelsea Clinton, eat your heart out. For the Royal Wedding of the century -- the just plain wedding of the century -- the media won't be camping out in any upstate New York hamlet and bullying shopkeepers into answering questions. No, the wedding of the century will be in on the joke. Like, w ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
A Profile of John DeLucie: Media Whore; Bad Food on Planes Now Blamed on White Noise
John DeLucie is one of the hottest chefs of the moment in New York. But is he just a media whore? [NY Post] Cayuga Pure Organics in upstate New York grows all the trendiest exotic grains and legumes, like freekeh, polenta, and navy beans. [NY Times] A harsh look at the health department tri ... More >>
Film
October 6, 2010
Living Life on a One-Sixth Scale in Marwencol
John DeLucie is one of the hottest chefs of the moment in New York. But is he just a media whore? [NY Post] Cayuga Pure Organics in upstate New York grows all the trendiest exotic grains and legumes, like freekeh, polenta, and navy beans. [NY Times] A harsh look at the health department tri ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2010
Law Student Pens Most Heartbreaking Letter Ever
In a nation (city? office?) of the largely apathetic and weary, there are those who remind us, sometimes, what we are supposed to stand for, if only we could ever muster up the energy. Such is one of our dear readers, an eager voter-to-be and first-year law student who moved to New York City ... More >>
Film
September 8, 2010
The Limits of Ripping Off Terrence Malick on Display in The Afterlight
In a nation (city? office?) of the largely apathetic and weary, there are those who remind us, sometimes, what we are supposed to stand for, if only we could ever muster up the energy. Such is one of our dear readers, an eager voter-to-be and first-year law student who moved to New York City ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2010
Posts of the Week
As we launch into a blessedly long holiday weekend, here's a look back at some highlights from the week that was ... We ranked Our 10 Best Food-Centric Day Trips. Ssäm Bar and PDT's John deBary talked forthcoming fall menus, the Star Trek bartender, and dodging the law school bullet. Here ar ... More >>
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August 16, 2010
What's Happening This Week: a Beer and Ice Cream Social, an Upstate Farm Tour
As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Bent Spoon and Beer Table Ice Cream Social Beer Table Monday, August 16 at 7 p.m. Beer and ice cream, together at last. Gabrielle Carbone from Bent Spoon ice cream ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Typhoid Outbreak Linked to Smoothies; More on Foraging Chefs
A rare outbreak of typhoid fever has been linked to smoothies made with frozen mamey fruit pulp made by Goya. [AP] Molecular chefs in Scandinavia and elsewhere focus on terroir and local ingredients, often gathered by teams of foragers, rather than flavors made in a lab. [Wall Street Journal ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2010
Hardcore Homemakers Make Locavorism a Feminist Cause
Femivorism: homemaking for the hardcore.Has Michael Pollan given women a way to be feminists and stay-at-home moms at the same time? A movement described as "femivorism" involves women who stay at home -- not only to care for their families, but also to grow their own produce, can their prese ... More >>
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February 10, 2010
This Week's Voice: Yeasayer, Gil Scott-Heron, Sade, Hot Chip, Speak Onion, and More
Yeasayer' Chris Keating, looking sharp. Photo by Santiago Felipe.In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla recounts the charms of Odd Blood, Yeasayer's latest fretless-bass campfire dance party, Stacey Anderson watches Obama's State of the Union with Gil Scott-Heron, Drew Hinshaw on the retu ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 9, 2010
Phantogram
Yeasayer' Chris Keating, looking sharp. Photo by Santiago Felipe.In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla recounts the charms of Odd Blood, Yeasayer's latest fretless-bass campfire dance party, Stacey Anderson watches Obama's State of the Union with Gil Scott-Heron, Drew Hinshaw on the retu ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2010
2009 Darwin Awards: Crime Down? Criminal Stupidity is Up.
Crime is reportedly down, so does that mean there are fewer criminals? Maybe criminals are just getting more stupid. Two co-winners of the just-announced 2009 Darwin Awards — "Honoring those who improve the species . . . by accidentally removing themselves from it!" — are evidence. U ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2010
Cablevision Drops Food Network; Quarter Pounder Inventor Dies
Celebrity chef Bobby Flay is up in arms about Cablevision dropping HGTV and Food Network. He recently twittered: "Bang away at Cablevision... can't believe there [sic] not showing Food Network," after the channels were dropped in a fee dispute with owner Scripps Network. [NY Post] An upstate ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 17, 2009
SNOW DAY
Get psyched for winter
Blogs
November 16, 2009
Tonight! The Jesus Lizard, Neko Case, And Kinky Friedman
Those of you not cool enough to attend the last upstate New York All Tomorrow's Parties jam or that Vice Halloween party clusterfuck have thus probably been denied the violent, visceral, vitriolic pleasures of the Jesus Lizard reunion, and this is no way to be, going through life without David Yow ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2009
Forget Swine Flu: Horse Virus Kills Man Upstate
As if swine flu weren't enough to worry about, a man in upstate New York has died of Eastern equine encephalitis. This brain virus is rare at present and spread by mosquitoes to horses, humans and other animals; no cure is known for the human cases. Officials in other states have had their ey ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2009
Man Beaten in Village, Critically Injured (Updated)
Our intrepid legman and Voice food critic Robert Sietsema writes to tell us, "There's a smear of bright red blood on the pavement, a few blood-soaked rags, some police tape connected to trash cans, and a Channel 7 Eyewitness News truck at the corner of West 10th and 7th Avenue South." From this morn ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2009
Naked Chef Coming to a Fat City Near You; Snake Head Found in TGI Friday's Meal
A diner at a T.G.I. Friday's in upstate New York found a severed snake head in his vegetables. The head was the size of a thumb, with part of the spine still attached. The restaurant comped him and his companion the meal. [AP via Google] With shoppers trading down from brand names to store brands, ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2009
Upstate New York Wallaroo Video!
The escaped wallaroo that has been terrorizing upstate New York has been caught on video by Morriville State student Rebekah Janson. She saw the beast and told her friends about it; when they remained "skeptical," she hauled out her camera and shot this footage, The Syracuse Post-Standard posted t ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2009
Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared
Well, some cowboy's Goin' Galt in Brooklyn Heights, anyway. Photo (c) Charles D Rightbloggers decided President Obama is a fascist. Despite this, and the aid and comfort he gives to pirates, the voters like him anyway -- which figures, since many of them are apparently socialists. Which may be wh ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 14, 2009
Sonny Landreth
Well, some cowboy's Goin' Galt in Brooklyn Heights, anyway. Photo (c) Charles D Rightbloggers decided President Obama is a fascist. Despite this, and the aid and comfort he gives to pirates, the voters like him anyway -- which figures, since many of them are apparently socialists. Which may be wh ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2008
New York Schools Surprisingly Non-Polluted
Well, some cowboy's Goin' Galt in Brooklyn Heights, anyway. Photo (c) Charles D Rightbloggers decided President Obama is a fascist. Despite this, and the aid and comfort he gives to pirates, the voters like him anyway -- which figures, since many of them are apparently socialists. Which may be wh ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2008
More of The Most Overrated Destinations on the Planet!
Well, some cowboy's Goin' Galt in Brooklyn Heights, anyway. Photo (c) Charles D Rightbloggers decided President Obama is a fascist. Despite this, and the aid and comfort he gives to pirates, the voters like him anyway -- which figures, since many of them are apparently socialists. Which may be wh ... More >>
Film
July 29, 2008
Frozen River Lays It On Thick
Melissa Leo nails her role as a struggling mom.
Voice Choices
March 18, 2008
BRIGHT IDEA
A new space for film and art comes to Brooklyn
Dining
September 11, 2007
The Frying Game
Extending the deep-fat frontiers on Carmine Street
Music
July 26, 2005
Wham, Bam, Thank You Glam
Fancy-pants glitter bands from Detroit, Canada, and upstate remember their forefathers
Specials
April 26, 2005
Letters
Fancy-pants glitter bands from Detroit, Canada, and upstate remember their forefathers
Columns
February 1, 2005
Hotel Hard-On
Why sex in a paid-for room gives our intrepid reporter so much pleasure
Dining
December 2, 2003
Getting Hooked
A bistro lands in Brooklyn's most obscure neighborhood
News
September 17, 2002
A Smaller Stick
Terrorism Investigators Risk Scaring Off Their Best Helpers
Theater
February 5, 2002
Theater
Terrorism Investigators Risk Scaring Off Their Best Helpers
News
March 14, 2000
Mind Body Spirit: Walk on the Mild Side
Enjoy the outdoors, preserve trails, visit historic sites, and relax!
Dance
August 17, 1999
Slow Dancing In a Portable Universe
Enjoy the outdoors, preserve trails, visit historic sites, and relax!
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