http://www.rechargerthedog.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:40:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Because, despite today's spring-like weather, the world still sucks and we wanted to say something mean about someone, we dropped in at the Housing Works Bookstore and Café’, located on Crosby Street, and our faith in humanity was slightly restored. Main floor and mezzanine look more like an eccentric—though literate ... http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2010/03/07/a-bookstore-thats-not-mean-to-puppies/ http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2010/02/28/is-mike-alaska-the-champ/ Until yesterday, the Bellini—a cocktail/nuclear device equal parts Champagne and peach juice—did not appeal to us. We’re more Jack on the rocks types. Then we swaggered into Cipriani at 55 Wall Street, whose owners have gained fame for refusing to serve food critics, and were surprised. We are not saying ... http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2010/02/25/bellini/ Because we are old, we half expected the doormen standing guard to the entrance of the Ace Hotel's Lobby Bar, to grimly bar us. Located at 20 W. 29th Street, near the corner of Broadway, the space is casually hip, unpretentious, though spectacular--a big room with comfy chairs and couches, ... http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2010/02/16/ace-in-the-hole/ Someday, we’ll wonder where we were on February 6, 2010, Super Sunday Eve, and we'll  look at this—the 14th Street exit from the 7th Avenue-Broadway IRT express—and feel a trillion times more than when we gaze on Picasso’s Guernica, or listen to Karen Carpenter singing “Close to You.” Better than Superbowl ... http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2010/02/15/better-than-the-superbowl/ We just got back from Vietnam, a country so money-hungry, so capitalistic—Hanoi and Saigon—that we came away with two strong impressions: 1) Because the people are smart, can-do, petite, cheerful and in a charmingly-crazed sort of way, the place struck of as being populated by Asian Reese Witherspoons. And 2) ... http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2010/02/15/1121/ The beautiful thing about this country, no matter how un-chic you are, how empty your wallet, the stores on Madison Avenue still buzz you in. So we are walking past 940 Madison Avenue, a former Chase Manhattan bank, transformed by architect Peter Marino into the flagship for designer Bruce Hoeksema’s VBH uber-luxury ... http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2010/02/06/300000/ Wisdom has it, that pizza prices keep pace, more or less, with subway fares. Not so at 2 Bros Pizza and 99¢ Cent Fresh Pizza, with three and four locations respectively in Manhattan. Bite per penny, we choose 2 Bros as the best cheap slice in Manhattan. Plain slice costs a buck ... http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2010/01/31/cheap-pizza-champs/ Julius C performed at the corner of Broadway and Waverly, June 21, 2007, and they shook that tiny crowd. This is what rock and roll is supposed to be...young, dumb, and street. Julius C, wherefore art thou? http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2009/12/21/julius-c-lives/ Every so often, someone comes up with an idea that's so friggin' genius we lap our heads with admiration and envy. Sushi? Karaoke? In one place?  Damn! Damn! Damn! EAST JAPANESE RESTAURANT, 366 3rd Ave, New York 10016 Thanyawan Ausaraurak http://www.rechargerthedog.com/2009/12/15/sushi-and-karaoke-smoking-hot/