In reporting on the unfolding events in Times Square right now, the New York Times‘s City Room blog lapses into almost Onionesque territory when it mentions a vendor who reported a suspicious duffel bag earlier this morning: Mr. Elbaz, an immigrant from Egypt who lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, said he was relieved. It was [...]
Snow-covered exterior of the Grand Opera House at Elm Place and Fulton Street, Brooklyn, during the Blizzard of 1888. [Photograph: Wallace G. Levinson/Life] OK, people. I am at the office today. BFD. I’m am now officially sick of people acting like it’s crazy that the office is open today. It’s not that crazy outside. Sure, [...]
“Lee sources his perfectly clear, superdense, supercold two-inch-by-two-inch cubes from a Queens ice-carving studio, where they’re whittled down from 300-pound blocks. They cost Lee a dollar a cube, and if your drink comes on the rocks, they’ll cost you the same.” [New York magazine]
Restaurateur and Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio has introduced several new gimmicks at Craft in recent months. First, in November 2008, it was Tom Tuesday Dinners, in which, as one wag pointed out, (and I’m paraphrasing) “It’s gotten to the point that it’s news when a chef actually cooks at his own restaurant now.” In [...]
I was robbed. My New Yorker Caption Contest photo was far superior to any of these. As C. says, “You should do a write-in vote. Yours was way better and incorporated a bunch of New Yorkers’ (the people, not the magazine) favorite things: Jewish people who eat Chinese food on holidays.” My caption was, “Do [...]
“Hey, you never responded to my friend request on Going.” Hey, that’s because I don’t know you, and I don’t want to join yet another social-networking site. Also, that’s a really passive-aggressive follow-up email. I didn’t respond to the request to join weeks ago. What makes you think I want another reminder? STFU, Going. This [...]
Ugh. Seriously. I get this message in my inbox and I’m like WTF!? We’re using Movable Type Enterprise Version 1.53 to run Serious Eats, and since I’ve been using MT for almost five years, I’m familiar with its quirks and what not. But for a multiuser affair like SE, trying to telegraph all its quirks [...]