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French Artist Dudes Hit Bedford Ave

Just So Much Master Debating on Iraq

Meat Mystery

I'd just finished an entire goat roti from Ali's Trinidad Roti Shop and felt rather sluggish, so I slithered across the street to the Goodwill Store. Bed-Stuy's is one of the city's largest, with row upon row of good and clean used clothes, a kitchenware section that might be the envy of ... More >>

Farm Rations at Hundred Acres and Forge

I'd just finished an entire goat roti from Ali's Trinidad Roti Shop and felt rather sluggish, so I slithered across the street to the Goodwill Store. Bed-Stuy's is one of the city's largest, with row upon row of good and clean used clothes, a kitchenware section that might be the envy of ... More >>

The Hook Cooks: Annabelle's, Le Bouillabaisse, and More

New restaurants in the city's most remote neighborhood

Slumming with Karl at H&M; The Pottery Barn Rule

New restaurants in the city's most remote neighborhood

I Am Legend Star: I Am Straight!

Wynonna's backwoods backstory (and other therapy issues)

A Buyer's Market

Wynonna's backwoods backstory (and other therapy issues)

Commercial Art

Comme Des Garçons and Tom of Finland arrive in Chelsea

Two-Room Apartment in Nine-Unit Building Over Copy Shop

Comme Des Garçons and Tom of Finland arrive in Chelsea

The Refugees

When Your Sector Has 'Gone to Shit'

Studio in Tenement

When Your Sector Has 'Gone to Shit'

Letters

When Your Sector Has 'Gone to Shit'

Lifestyles of the Rhythm

Dance Music Accesses an Unseparatist Pop Sensibility

In Stitches

Liz Collins and Gary Graham Get Ready for Fashion Week

Studio in Pre-War Building

Liz Collins and Gary Graham Get Ready for Fashion Week

NY Mirror

Liz Collins and Gary Graham Get Ready for Fashion Week

Sightlines

Liz Collins and Gary Graham Get Ready for Fashion Week

Scott Herren of Prefuse 73 Learns in Barcelona How to Post-Rock Ignorably

Liz Collins and Gary Graham Get Ready for Fashion Week

The Art of Dying

Now it’s time to say goodbye—here’s how to kill your prime-time idols in six easy steps

Infernal Affairs

The art of four play: Cruel lies and crueler truths in a tastefully sordid relationship drama

Outrunning the Competition

Adidas' new megastore opens in Soho with smart sneakers and a McCartney

The Hip Flip

The art of selling: Bubble mania meets property porn on home renovation show craze

Ask a Mexican! Voting Is Gay

And everyone should be doing it—particularly in California

Eat Me!

A weekend among suburban cannibals

Dance of the Seven-Headed Mouse Misses Some Steps

A weekend among suburban cannibals

15th Century Meets Pottery Barn in Creature

A weekend among suburban cannibals

Booze News: Rye Kicks Scotch's Ass; The Strongest Beer on Earth

​Rye managed to outrank Scotch as the world's top-rated whiskey. The 2010 edition of The Whisky Bible, Britain's biggest selling whiskey book, has named 18-year-old Sazerac Rye from Kentucky as the finest dram available, beating out past winner Ardbeg Supernova from the Hebridean island of Isl ... More >>

Morning Joe's Willie Geist on Isiah Thomas, Patrick Ewing, and the Necessity of End Zone Dancing

Remember this guy?​Anyone who watches Willie Geist on MSNBC's Morning Joe, or somehow manages to rise in the dark at 5:30 a.m. to watch Willie's own show, Way Too Early, knows that he's a pretty significant sports fan. So we thought we'd check in with Willie to get his take on the current stat ... More >>

Food Fraud Abounds; Olive Oil Shortage Looms

​Denny's will launch its first national value menu on Saturday, dubbed the "$2 $4 $6 $8 Value Menu." It features 16 items, including biscuits and gravy with hash browns or an egg, and lemon-pepper chicken with two sides, bread, and a drink. [Nation's Restaurant News] Food fraud is more commo ... More >>

We Call April Fools on the Williams-Sonoma Finger Slicer

No one was harmed in the making of these fingers. Because they are obviously fake.​Okay, let's play One of These Things Does Not Belong. As recently reported by the New York Post: A Park Slope woman is suing Williams-Sonoma for $2 million, claiming one of the high-end homeware company's ser ... More >>

Off to the Pour House: The Tangled Vine Wine Bar & Kitchen

The Upper West Side sips and nibbles a bit of Spain

Tavern on the Green to Become Gift Shop; Gordon Ramsay to Move in Next Door to Rival Jamie Oliver

​Food writer and cook Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir Toast will be made into a BBC One drama, and Helena Bonham Carter will play Slater's stepmother. Freddie Highmore, who starred in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, will play Slater. [BBC] With Dean Poll unable to appease f ... More >>

How You Know You're a Gay Man

​"If upon initial approach, people mistake you for Lady Gaga. "If you think the Super Bowl is a new culinary product line at Williams-Sonoma. "If the positions 'pitcher' and 'catcher' conjure up something other than your favorite baseball team.

Peels, Now Serving Dinner, Scrumptious Squid

​Fat Pants Friday gave Peel's berry crumble crisp a thumbs-up, and now that Peels has been serving dinner for a week, we headed over there, dodging giraffe-like models out for fashion week, to check out the savories.

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​Fat Pants Friday gave Peel's berry crumble crisp a thumbs-up, and now that Peels has been serving dinner for a week, we headed over there, dodging giraffe-like models out for fashion week, to check out the savories.

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​Fat Pants Friday gave Peel's berry crumble crisp a thumbs-up, and now that Peels has been serving dinner for a week, we headed over there, dodging giraffe-like models out for fashion week, to check out the savories.

The Hemingway Unadaptability Principle Prevails in The Garden of Eden

​Fat Pants Friday gave Peel's berry crumble crisp a thumbs-up, and now that Peels has been serving dinner for a week, we headed over there, dodging giraffe-like models out for fashion week, to check out the savories.

Fifteen Reactions to the Gay Cat Marriage

Bruno and Solomon, the grooms. ​1. Cute. 2. This is a step in the right direction for the whole country. 3. So, they're in love? 4. So, they're gay?

Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!

Here's why we hate being gay

Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!

​Click here for my column detailing the reasons I despise being gay. You know: "You assume the Super Bowl is a large household item at Pottery Barn...Your entire wardrobe consists of male designers having a midlife crisis... "You spend your whole life fighting for rights you don't even want ... More >>

The Ace Hotel, or 'Ass Hole-tel': Free-Associations

​We thought we put this one to bed a few months ago, but as it turns out, we're talking about the Ace Hotel again. Remember how hip it is? Or "not quote-unquote hip, per se"? It's hip again, or continues to be hip, or continues to be quote-unquote not not hip. This time, the angle is that the ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Rebecca Marx​ Here we are, at the end of summer and at the start of Labor Day weekend. And so before we hightail it to an undisclosed location, let's cast a glance back at those last few days of summer. Our 11 Best Places to Eat in Sunset Park. Peels' Shuna Lydon talks pastry, the SF v. NY d ... More >>

Can't Get Into Ippudo? How About a Ramen Noodle Chocolate Bar Instead?

​Ramen love is at a high point across the five boroughs, and there are probably 50 spots where you can indulge your passion for the Chinese wheat noodles that the Japanese have embraced.

NYFF: Daily Reviews

Daily updates from the Festival

Chef John Besh to Sign New Cookbook Tonight

Besh champions familial foodies.​​Renown Chef John Besh will be at the Williams-Sonoma on 59th Street tonight, where he'll be signing copies of his second cookbook, My Family Table: A Passionate Plea for Home Cooking.Besh, who boasts a James Beard Award for his contemporary French restaurant Aug ... More >>

Zoku: Instant Ice Pop Maker, Gift Suggestion No. 1

​Zoku: It reputedly makes "healthy" frozen pops on the countertop in 7 minutes. Tired of making your own alcoholic popsicles by mixing up the hooch, pouring it in cheap plastic molds, popping them in the freezer, and then waiting hours for your treats to gestate?

Twister Wine Aerator at Williams-Sonoma, Gift Suggestion #6

​It looks very scientific on its display stand, doesn't it? Experts vary on the need to aerate wine before drinking it. Many are happy to simply decant the wine into a flask (often a very expensive and easily breakable flask, we might add), and then let it sit for a half hour or so, in orde ... More >>

5 Gourmet Play Kitchens for Kids, Gift Suggestion #13

​Red Retro Kitchen Collection from Pottery Barn Kids, $699. I only wish my own kitchen were this nice! You buy the best gourmet groceries, and seek out superior knives, pots and pans, and other kitchen hardware for yourself, shouldn't you purchase the finest gourmet play kitchen for your of ... More >>

Valentine's Day Gifts for Your Foodie Significant Other

​This just might be a good gift for your BF who refuses to wear an apron -- and walks around at his own dinner party covered with tidbits of the food he just cooked ... Valentine's Day -- or, more accurately, St. Valentine's Day, named after a whole slew of early Christian martyrs named Val ... More >>