WE LOVE QUICKLY, the bubble tea store at 11 Pell Street in Chinatown, for serving our most favoritist drink, taro milk tea with black tapioca. For either $3.75 (large) or $2.75 (small), we could choose blueberry, taro, passion fruit, and green apple. We also—and this is so friggin’ cool—got to choose the “bubbles”—jelly, cake, pudding, sour cream.
– Simon Chu
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on December 13th, 2009 | 
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We saw these two several weeks back, during the non-stop swoon-fest over Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary, and we just had to puke. Are we the only people on earth whose bodies haven’t been taken over by pods and who KNOW that Sesame Street is evil and worse than crack? Forget the absurd studies (paid for by the Children’s Television Workshop–the billion-dollar mega-corporation that bankrolls Sesame Street), that claim kids who watch Sesame Street learn more about reading then actually reading; forget that, in response to mounting criticism (mainly from us), Sesame Street has long since abandoned its original jingle-based format and now, more often than not, resembles Barney (found by Yale researchers to contain more teaching elements than SS), forget even the adorably gay Muppets, and keep this in mind: since Sesame Street began nearly 40 years ago, illiteracy in the United States has risen.
Posted in Books/Films/Media on December 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
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WAY #1: DOUGHNUT PLANT.
We love artificial flavoring, but we make exception for the doughnuts at Doughnut Plant. All doughnuts are made with—yechh—natural ingredients, filled daily with fresh fruit jelly. Even glazes are made from fresh fruits and nuts. We are seriously thinking of getting healthy.
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Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on December 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
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Canstruction, which just finished its run at the World Financial Center, teamed students, mentored by professional architects and engineers, who created humongous and slightly disturbing can structures. Made entirely of unopened cans (with an occasional cereal box or peanut butter jar), the sculptures varied wildly from a map of the world, a slice of pie with a fork, and a Quaker Oats jar (including, disconcertingly, the Quaker Man’s face), all made entirely of metal cans.
The exhibit will travel across the country to a number of cities over the next year and a half.
Posted in Arts & Events on November 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
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EVEN WITHOUT PHOTOSHOP, THIS WRECKING BALL, RENTED FOR THE MOVE THE OTHER GUYS, IS A DOUBLE-TAKER. The Other Guys stars two sure-to-be-hasbeens, Will Ferrell and Marky Mark, in what we used to call a caper/comedy. If the film is half as cool as the wrecking ball, we might catch it on late-night TV.
Posted in Arts & Events, Books/Films/Media on November 12th, 2009 | No Comments »
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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. The competition, judged by Jenny Shimizu and other second-tier mini-celebs, burned that 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!
Posted in Food & Fashion on November 8th, 2009 | No Comments »
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT MAYA LIN THAT MAKES SO MANY OTHER ARTISTS SEEM… IRRELEVANT? While not as monumental as her Vietnam Veterans Memorial, nor as sweeping as her Storm King-based “Bodies of Water,” her “2 x 4 Landscape” installation at PaceWildenstein is pretty breath-taking. Made entirely of two-by-four wood blocks standing vertically, the miniature landscape fills the room like an expanding lung. Around the edges, they stand side by side; closer to the middle, they stack on top of each other. Each block has the same length and width, but varies slightly in height. The wooden wave is profound, moving, mysterious.
PaceWildenstein. West 2245 West 22nd St., New York, NY 10011 Telephone: 1.212.989.4258
Posted in Arts & Events on October 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
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ASIDE FROM NOT BEING ABLE TO FIND IT (multiple park rangers, passersby, matrons giving us faulty directions), the 2nd Annual Great Big Wheel Race this past Saturday, which took place at Central Park’s Great Hill this past Saturday, was mad fun. Brainchild of the ever-inventive Newmindspace, participants came with tricycles, skate boards, scooters, kids’ bikes—anything that was small with wheels. Kids, teens, adults, dressed in costumes, took turns riding down the hill. We thought it especially cool how Newmindspace chose such a remote location for the event (somewhere near East 104th St. and Central Park Drive—took us half an hour to find), and still got people to show up. Unlike our last birthday party.
Posted in Arts & Events, The City on October 13th, 2009 | No Comments »
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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 service.
Posted in Food & Fashion on July 28th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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A cool store; very laid back and rock n’ rolly. Only vinyl. You can to what you choose on the record players. We like the cashier who let us take pictures. While necessary, the headphones made it difficult to gauge sound quality. Records are supposed to sound like records, not an iPod. Otherwise, a hip joint.
Posted in The City on July 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
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