Manhattan

Fenix: TJ Maxx Boots Made for Walking

​Fashion Breakdown: Cropped blouse jacket is XOXO bought at the Lotus House, black beater from Target, jeans from Rainbow, skull bag bought at the street markets in Lower East Manhattan, boots (really old) from TJ Maxx.

Serendipity 3 Coming to Lincoln Road

​Serendipity 3, the Manhattan ice-cream parlor frequented by the likes of Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Oprah Winfrey, and Katie Holmes, is coming to Lincoln Road in a matter of weeks.The restaurant, located between Lenox Avenue and Alton Road, had some intriguing signs on its windows. One invited ... More >>

Heros to Zeros

​Serendipity 3, the Manhattan ice-cream parlor frequented by the likes of Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Oprah Winfrey, and Katie Holmes, is coming to Lincoln Road in a matter of weeks.The restaurant, located between Lenox Avenue and Alton Road, had some intriguing signs on its windows. One invited ... More >>

British millionaire Ben Way wants a floating island in Miami's back yard

​Serendipity 3, the Manhattan ice-cream parlor frequented by the likes of Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Oprah Winfrey, and Katie Holmes, is coming to Lincoln Road in a matter of weeks.The restaurant, located between Lenox Avenue and Alton Road, had some intriguing signs on its windows. One invited ... More >>

"Arc Island": English Millionaire Ben Way Has an Idea We Can All Laugh at Together

​From a subtropical ski slope to a spinning skyscraper, Miami is the nation's capital of obscenely audacious projects that never come to fruition. Why not a sovereign, moving island the size of Manhattan? English multimillionaire Ben Way, we get the feeling, is the sort of fellow who would demand ... More >>

Ezra Pattek Represents Miami in Esquire's Woodford Reserve Manhattan Experience

www.bourbonblog.com​What do you get when Woodford Reserve bourbon teams up with Esquire magazine? The ultimate Manhattan challenge. The two companies are searching for the the quintessential Big Apple cocktail. At stake are a chance to win a trip to NYC for two, swag bags, prizes, and braggi ... More >>

Kasha Varnishkas Recipe From The Brooklyn Cookbook

​Kasha varnishkas is an Eastern European dish that mixes bow-tie noodles, kasha grain, and caramelized onions. It's a hearty dish served warm, and one that I grew up eating from time to time.When I was chef at an upscale take-out shop in Manhattan called Mangia, I made my own version of the dish, ... More >>

Subway Study Hall

​Kasha varnishkas is an Eastern European dish that mixes bow-tie noodles, kasha grain, and caramelized onions. It's a hearty dish served warm, and one that I grew up eating from time to time.When I was chef at an upscale take-out shop in Manhattan called Mangia, I made my own version of the dish, ... More >>

Brooklyn Stoner-Rockers Kings Destroy Will Hold a NYC Benefit Show For Torche on Wednesday

​Torche is a band whose growing influence is not exactly measured in riches. Yes, the band has been hailed in discerning international circles as uh, torchbearers of a new sound that is heavy without being metal, per se, and still melodic. Still, the current threesome has had to keep it together, ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

​Torche is a band whose growing influence is not exactly measured in riches. Yes, the band has been hailed in discerning international circles as uh, torchbearers of a new sound that is heavy without being metal, per se, and still melodic. Still, the current threesome has had to keep it together, ... More >>

Deals & Steals: BLT Steak, Bourbon Steak, 660 at The Angler

​Weighing In On LuluSo the folks from Greenstreet Café put a billboard up announcing their upcoming Lulu restaurant. Paula Nino of Short Order called owner Sylvano Bignon to ask about it, but he wasn't around. Greenstreet manager Eric Boucher was around, and claimed it was "premature" to discuss ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: Top Ten Songs About Food

Burly, bearded Zac Brown and his band play Sunset Cove Amphitheatre on Saturday. The highlight of the evening will likely be a beer-drenched, sing along performance of his fiddle-laced, pleasantly simple and patriotic country smash "Chicken Fried." It's a fun little ditty that got me thinking about ... More >>

Miami Book Fair: Jonathan Lethem

Don't let the glasses fool you; he's a literary super hero​For fellow writers, Jonathan Lethem needs no introduction. 1999's Motherless Brooklyn, the story of a detective with Tourette's syndrome, put Lethem on the map, but by that point, he'd already written four novels that breached the genre li ... More >>

News Roundup

H1N1 vaccines will be administered in South Florida beginning Monday, with a news conference scheduled today to fill in details. [CBS4]You know it's a slow news morning when NBCMiami's main story is about a manatee that traveled all the way to Manhattan. [NBCMiami]Let's see what the Herald's working ... More >>

The Upper West Side Meets the Upper Room

H1N1 vaccines will be administered in South Florida beginning Monday, with a news conference scheduled today to fill in details. [CBS4]You know it's a slow news morning when NBCMiami's main story is about a manatee that traveled all the way to Manhattan. [NBCMiami]Let's see what the Herald's working ... More >>

The Lead Launches This Thursday

New York Times media critic David Carr had a column yesterday about the somber mood of a bon voyage party for longtime New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan and the much more frivolous atmosphere of a shindig held by a handful of new-media wunderkinds, complete with rooftop hot tubs and blaring ... More >>

Mixtape Review: Doormouse - 100% Real Wisconsin Cheese

I guess this is a week for me listening to local DJ's get down on mix tapes.  I know they aren't mix tapes anymore, but that's how I think of them.  There used to be little kiosks in Manhattan that us bridge and tunnel kids would flock to in order to purchase cassettes from DJ Clue?, Tony ... More >>

Sip Slowly, Then Shake Your Head

Wednesday nights we get drunk on Bourbon & Blues.

Art Basel Week: A.R.E. Weapons, J.D. Samson at O.H.W.O.W., Dec. 2

Longtime legends of the lower-lower Manhattan underground, the quartet A.R.E. Weapons have been steadily chugging along since 1999, blasting out something along the lines of electro-rock as imagined by former punk rock types. The band's noisy assault of party-in-your-face found some near-mainstream ... More >>

Summer Grows Up

The season of big-budget bangs uses its brain.

Poppa E

The season of big-budget bangs uses its brain.

The Cool Kids Black Punk Done Right

The season of big-budget bangs uses its brain.

Screw You, Old Man: A Bike Blog Parable

The season of big-budget bangs uses its brain.

Superzero

Spider-Man 3 spins a web of mediocrity

Sushi for a Song

Off-the-tourist-track Matsuri has attracted everyone from Madonna to vacationing Manhattan sushi chefs

Come Together

This Shortbus offers an unforgettable ride

When Sandwiches Were Simple

Big Slick's Deli tries to raise the bar on bread

Tenpins and Cocktails

Big Slick's Deli tries to raise the bar on bread

Out with the Old

Artists are helping to revitalize Miami, but danger looms ahead

Egg Rolls On

The Chinese Restaurant is authentically tasty

BEST PARTY TO KEEP THE VIBE ALIVE

Fuácata!

Hoy Como Ayer

BEST GOURMET GROCERY

Epicure Market

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT

Matsuri

Jenny from the Crock

Lopez, playing a Maid, can really put the "back" in backlash

Ming & FS

Subway Series (Om Records)

Life Force

For all the centuries of grief, Susana Baca

BEST PLACE FOR COCKTAILS

Mike Gordon's

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Shake

The day the music died

Best Seafood Chowder

Norman's

Best Jewish Deli

Wolfie Cohen's Rascal House

Best Place To Slow Dance

La Paloma

Lots of Contention

Quik Park's Hank Sopher has made a quick buck from garages and vacant lots. Now politicians are wondering if he's selling the public short.

Best Diner

Westside Diner

Asian Invasion

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Funny Girl Is a Boy

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The New, True Blue

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Opening With A Bang

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Letters

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