Archives for February 2007
Finally, fashion for dorks
Please, avoid Manhattan’s SoHo. But if, because of a subway fritz or nuclear attack you find yourself near 546 Broadway, and you are a sheep-like sort who thinks, “I do not exist until I am a slave of fashion,” dash to the Uniqlo clothing store, the Japanese megabrand’s U.S. beachhead. There, you can add meaning to your pathetic life while checking out clothes manufactured by Indonesian slaves. Uniqlo doesn’t care about the slaves. What it cares about is competing [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on February 23rd, 2007 | 
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Hillary Death Watch
According to the latest numbers from Iraq Body Count, a website that “maintains and updates the world’s only independent and comprehensive public database of media-reported civilian deaths in Iraq that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention by the USA and its allies,” between 56,640 and 62,363 Iraqi civilians have died since the American invasion. And these figures do not include the 3140 [...]
Posted in The City on February 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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“And history is unforgiven”…stuff we didn’t see in Chinatown.
For more stuff we are too blind and ignorant and scared to notice, go to mdpny.com.
Posted in The City on February 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
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20 reasons why meatloaf is better than sex.
To celebrate New York City Meatloaf Appreciation Day, we are re-printing the famed 20 reasons why meatloaf is better than sex list.
20 Reasons Why Meatloaf is Better Than Sex
1. After eating meatloaf, you don’t fake small talk.
2. Meatloaf can’t get pregnant
3. Meatloafs don’t snore
4. After eating meatloaf, you don’t have to marry it, spend the rest of your life pretending to be interested in it, then die wondering what you missed.
5. Meatloaf tastes good.
6. You can eat two meatloafs at [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on February 18th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Jason Kidd’s other women: only half a dozen?
We are so disappointed in Jason Kidd. According to divorce papers his wife Joumana filed, he cheated on her with six women. Six? Jeesh, we thought it’d be in the thousands.
Anyway, court papers, filed by super lawyer Raoul Felder on behalf of Joumana, have so many nuggets, we hope this fight drags on for like ever.
- Kidd once beat Joumana with a purse.
- Kidd once hurled a large cookie like a “Frisbee” at her, cutting her lip, then tried to [...]
Posted in The City on February 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Flash: condomonium.
Catholic leaders attacked NYC’s plan to give away 26 million, subway-themed rubbers yesterday, calling the attempt to lower the AIDS rate “tragic and misguided.”
Another two journalists who oughta have their tushies paddled: first, our old classmate from NYU journalism school, Maria Bartiromo, CNBC’s puffy-lipped “money honey,” has been caught accepting private jet rides from ex-Citigroup honcho, Todd Thomson, a person she was supposed to be objectively covering. Commenting on Bartiromo’s “close friendship” with Thomson, Steve Adler, Editor-in-Chief of Business Week, [...]
Posted in The City on February 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Super cheap, super tasty Chinatown food walk.
Chinese Lunar New Year coming up this Sunday. Year of the pig, or “DingHai.” Chinatown is not how it was. In the old, pre-Giuliani days — we’re talking 1988 — we stupidly wandered down Mott Street during the absolute climax of the celebration (the climax, in contrast to our one-second toaster pops, lasted a mind-blowing 48 hours), bottle rockets, cherry bombs, M-80s missing our eyes by nano-meters–total lawlessness. More perilous than the old July 4ths (again, pre-Giuliani). These days, we’re [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on February 15th, 2007 | No Comments »
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The menschiest Met ever.
We hail Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado’s choice not to stand for “God Bless America” because for years we haven’t been standing for the National Anthem. For good reasons.
First, the Star Spangled Banner is, hands down, the most unsingable, un-hummable, worst nightmare of a song ever written. Worse than any Paul MaCartney song. Why Congress didn’t scrap it years ago and replace it with “Toxic” by Britney Spears is beyond us.
Second, we remain seated as a lesson to all the [...]
Posted in The City on February 15th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
Posted in The City on February 14th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Chocolate addict or sex addict?
You can’t be both. To find out which 12-step group to attend, visit Jacques Torres chocolate factory on Water Street, in Brooklyn’s DUMBO. Jacques Torres, once the top pastry chef in New York — he starred at Le Cirque — opened his chocolate shop in 2000, one of the first retailers in the neighborhood. For $1.50 per piece, you can eat the best tasting or you can eat the best tasting chocolate in the world.
Not ready to make the trip [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on February 14th, 2007 | No Comments »
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