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Category Archives: Food & Fashion
2009 Style Wars
Last night at Don Hill’s, the unpretentiously pretentious Soho performance space, the fashion meter jumped so fast, it broke. House of Dieh’s 2009 Style Wars, was so hot we nearly ripped off our Gap jeans and LL Bean overcoat, wrapped ourselves in toilet paper and aluminum foil, and vamped the miniature runway. Indeed, the competition, judged by Jenny Shimizu and other second-tier mini-celeb, burned the runway to a crisp. Baby designers had 4 ½ minutes to dress a model, and they did so with astonishing results. Our faves: the girl with the NBA-sized paper ball on her head, the girl with plastic glasses and cardboard box skirt, the wire-hanger dress, the club’s wallpaper, and the praying mantis mannequin.
Least fave: Rob Schneider’s brief, dorky visit in a suede, fur-lined vest.
Yeah!
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Madras Café
A calm place, with an ethnic look, that never gets crowded. We expected the all-Indian, all-vegetarian food to suck because one of is not a big fan of Indian food and likes meat; but it was actually really good. Fast … Continue reading
Ninth Street Espresso
A COMFORTABLE, RELAXING ENVIRONMENT WITH AC. Though the only thing they sell was coffee, it is damn good coffee. Espresso, Americano, macchiato, cappuccino, latte, mocha, house coffee and iced coffee.
Who are these guys?
Each time we eat at Tom’s Restaurant in Brooklyn (not to be confused with the sleazy Tom’s in Manhattan, famed Seinfeld locale), we marvel at the energy owner Gus and his wait staff put into being friendly. Watching the staff … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 — … Continue reading
Best Bar for a Secret Affair
ALTHOUGH WE DISAPPROVE OF THE VERY NOTION OF CHEATING, we couldn’t help noticing that the grottoes and secret rooms (made unbearably sordid by banquettes and plushy pillows and decor worthy of a pasha’s bedroom) of below-street-level Shalel Lounge on 65 … Continue reading
Dirty work, but somebody’s gotta do it.
TO GALES OF DERISIVE LAUGHTER FROM MANICURISTS AND PATRONS, we walked into An’s Beauty Nails at 132 West 72nd Street, one of New York City’s 3500 nail salons, and demanded our first pedicure. Except for the occasional bathtub romp and … Continue reading