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Another Big Day for Same-Sex Marriage as the Supreme Court Hears Arguments on DOMA

Following yesterday's hearing on California's Proposition 8 (whose decision will likely fall into the hands of swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy), another case is coming through the Supreme Court this morning. The justices are hearing arguments on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Mar ... More >>

Chez Panisse Demolition Will Be Significant, No Opening Date Yet

No one was hurt when a fire hit Berkeley's Chez Panisse on March 8, but the restaurant's structure was damaged. Early reports suggested the café and restaurant would be closed for only a few weeks of construction, but Alice Waters has posted an update on the restaurant's site with more details, exp ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 12/28/12

We're gettin' an early jump on the weekend because you've probably already checked out anyway. So here are the 10 best concerts around the city this weekend, in no particular order. The Ten Best Reissues of 2012 The Ten Best Noise Tracks of 2012 The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012 The Ten Best Countr ... More >>

Live: Phish Bring The Phish Experience To Jones Beach

Phish Jones Beach Theater Wednesday, July 4 Better than: Putting the freak flag in permanent cold storage. "Goddard College!" Phish leader Trey Anastasio called out between verses during "Alumni Blues," the band's opening number at Jones Beach on Wednesday night, a rare onstage shout-out to the b ... More >>

Utah Will Get Fracked!

There's so much fracking news across the country, it's hard to keep up with! As the debate over hydraulic fracturing in New York continues, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar just OKd a major gas drilling project in Utah, The Associated Press reports. Though some fracking is already taking plac ... More >>

Weekend Food Book Fair in Brooklyn

Leave it to Brooklyn to host the first food-book fair, which will bring the intellectuals of the food world together under one space. It's a voracious reader's dream. "We have people coming down from Vermont and from San Francisco," founder Elizabeth Thacker Jones says. "It's really a community tha ... More >>

Top Hops' Ted Kenny on Growlers

After years of working as a bartender and a marketing guy for Anheuser-Busch, Ted Kenny decided to test out his beer chops by opening up a store of his own on the Lower East Side, Top Hops Beer Shop (94 Orchard St., 212-254-4677), where you can grab a pint to stay or a growler to take home. Of cours ... More >>

Rich People Have to Golf Instead of Ski Because of the Warm Weather

What's worse than white people problems (besides real ones)? Rich people problems, of course! InvestmentNews has a Bloomberg article detailing the travails of Winthrop Smith Jr. (his real name), a onetime Merrill Lynch & Co. exec who now owns the Warren, Vermont-based Sugarbush Resort.

Occupy Goes Home

The movement takes back foreclosed houses after leaving the park

The Wild Wild Mushrooms of the New Amsterdam Market

​Bear's head mushrooms look more like polar bears than brown or black bears. With all the rain and general dampness, It's been the best year in memory for hunting wild mushrooms upstate and in the fungus-friendly areas of New England. Not only are the varieties more profuse, but the specime ... More >>

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 >>

Robert 'Sandy' Vietze, Guy Who Peed on Girl During JetBlue Flight, Was an Olympic Hopeful

​Robert "Sandy" Vietze, the drunk 18-year-old who drank eight alcoholic beverages and then relieved himself on the leg of an 11-year-old girl on the worst flight ever (someone later vomited, in an unrelated incident), has been found to have been a top alpine skier and on the developmental team ... More >>

Drunk Man Pees on Sleeping Girl During JetBlue Flight

Does not = "pee on chair."​Good morning. With your coffee, here's a classic What Not to Do! Do not...get on a plane and consume "eight alcoholic beverages." We're all for drinking while flying -- riding, not driving -- for the nerve-soothing purposes, but even on a flight from Portland, Oregon ... More >>

American Flatbread to Migrate From Vermont to Canal Street

​Since the 1980s, American Flatbread has been one of Vermont's most recognizable food exports: even if you haven't been to one of its restaurant locations, you've probably seen its pizzas in the Whole Foods freezer aisle. And now the company is planning to export itself to Tribeca.

Pie Corps Promises New York More "Soul Satisfying" Pie

​Just because the notion of pie as the new cupcakes proved to be a bit of a non-starter, that doesn't mean that bakers aren't still bound and determined to build businesses upon it. To wit: Pie Corps, the new pie company that will be making its debut at this Sunday's New Amsterdam Market.

Real Housewives of NY's Alex and Simon Want Gay Marriage

​No, not for themselves. They already have straight marriage. But they're adamantly in favor of same-sex marriage, which will come up in the new season of Real Housewives of New York, particularly at a marital equality rally they appeared at along with other notables. On the phone yesterday, ... More >>

Afghan Fried Chicken Fight; Whoopie Pie War

​Spot Dessert Bar won customers back after the blizzard by offering half-price hot drinks on Facebook, Twitter, and its blog. It also offers discounts to people who "like" the place. [Wall Street Journal] Abdul Haye, who owns the Kennedy Fried Chicken brand, is declaring war against all Afgha ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Boozy Movie Night; A Beefy (And Lamby And Porky) Burger Night

As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Classic Cocktails, Classic Film Astor Center Friday, January 7 at 6:30 p.m. Some of Hollywood's best movies feature cocktails in supporting roles. Join cocktail col ... More >>

It Snowed! Time to Make Maple Taffy

quietfish.comRemember, only use clean snow!​ Now that New York City has had its first snowfall, no matter how pitiful of a flurry it was, it's time to think about maple taffy, that glorious confection invented by our friends up North who can't ever drive to the grocery store because there's f ... More >>

The Health Department's Anti-Salt Ads Are Nowhere Near as Disgusting as the Health Department's Anti-Soda Ads

​ The Health Department today unveiled its new campaign to "urge consumers to compare labels and choose foods with less sodium." Sodium, the department cautions, can lead to heart attack, stroke, and a variety of cardiovascular problems. So the two-month campaign will endeavor to boost public ... More >>

Fat Pants Friday: Hill Country Chicken's Cowboy Pie

​Yes, we've been eating a lot of pie at Hill Country Chicken this week. All in the name of research, of course. The pie pictured above was our favorite of the three we tried, and also the most lethal. It's called the Cowboy Pie, and is basically a Magic Bar crammed into a crust.

CHOW Announces Its CHOW 13 Awards

​Out in San Francisco, CHOW has just published the results of its second-annual CHOW 13 Awards, designed to honor "the people pushing the food world in new and adventurous directions." While the list skews slightly towards the West Coast, it includes a few easterly types, including the Meat Ho ... More >>

Greg Davis &Ben Vida

Happy Hour at Washington Commons in Prospect Heights: $2 Off Everything

brokelyn.comNo bullshit: proper imperial pints at Washington Commons.​The chocolate lab is wagging its tail, but not because of the $2 off everything -- a rotating selection of beers on tap and a healthy whiskey list -- at Washington Commons in Prospect Heights. Or maybe that is the reason. Th ... More >>

Annie Baker Returns with The Aliens

Following up on her hit Circle Mirror Transformation

Under the Toque: Fabio Trabocchi Eyes The Capital; Jake Wolf Leaves Zum Schneider, the City

​ Fabio Trabocchi, who is out at the Four Seasons after just three months, is eying opportunities in D.C., among other options, if Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema's tweets (no relation to Our Man's) are to be believed. [Eater] The new restaurant by Jimmy Bradley, who owns The Red Cat ... More >>

Health Care Update: Bernie Sanders Introduces Single-Payer Amendment; GOP Forces Endless Reading

​In the Senate today Vermont Socialist (we're not using it in the normal pejorative sense -- that's what he calls himself) Bernie Sanders has introduced an amendment to the health care bill providing a single-payer alternative, the Holy Grail of leftist HC wonks. Republican Tom Coburn has dema ... More >>

Blame French Canada: New York's Maple Syrup Rival

frostnova/flickrSyrup: a sweet boon for the state?​ First, it taunted us with its poutine and smoked meat sandwiches. Now, Quebec has become the target of Senator Charles Schumer's new maple syrup scheme. According to a Times opinion piece, he hopes to have New York eclipse French Canada as th ... More >>

Booze News: Dressing Up Cointreau; Try Good Cider

​ Serious bartenders -- the types who work at craft cocktail dens -- don't seem to just chat with their customers anymore. But Josh Sontag, who tends bar at Summit in the East Village, isn't above making small talk with patrons. [NY Times] Ever had a Kick in the Crotch, an Alien Urine Sample ... More >>

Where Cheesemongers Go to Geek Out

maeko.org​Jasper Hill is an upstanding member of the cheese snob's canon: Its Constant Bliss and Baylen Hazen Blue are staples at stores like Murray's, Blue Apron Foods, and Artisanal Cheese Center. Today, Slashfood reports on a recent tour to the Vermont dairy farm's cheese caves, led by form ... More >>

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

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 >>

Director Mark Brokaw's Flat Spinning Into Butter

Top Chef Loser Wins

Spike Mendelsohn, the hat dude of Top Chef season 4, won the Burger Bash last night at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. His sliders--topped with applewood bacon, sharp Vermont cheddar, fried Vidalia onions, and chipotle barbecue sauce--grabbed three of the event's four awards. The burger, f ... More >>

From Robert Frank's Beat Movies to a Nearly Unknown Staged Afternoon, at Anthology

Anthology gets Frank

Even at the Ecofest, Shopping Is a Natural Reaction

Tender Is the Night in Paul Auster's Man in the Dark

In a new novel, the author explores loss and literary experiment

Clip Job: 'Let's Buy New Jersey and Close It.'

Hello, Blue Roses' The Portrait Is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty . . .

Dan Bejar falls in love, calamity ensues

CIA Paranoia and the Lady from Vermont

9/11 hysteria, even surrounding 60-year-old documents about American spies

Let There Be Lite

Melt your winter heft with dosa, tea, and something nice 'n' stinky

Bliss Through Cheese

Late bloomer taps into passion for goats

Full Mental Jacket: Traumatized Vet Seeks Better Tomorrow

Best and Worst of 2003

Ga-Ga-Ga-Goils! A Counterculture Cornerstone Turns 40

Stop the Wedding!

Why Gay Marriage Isn't Radical Enough

Nation

Academy Fight Songs

Nation

Taking Back the Vote

Florida Fiasco Puts Radical Reforms on the Table