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Tag Archives: shopping
Academy Records
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 … 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
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
Better than Vita
CALL US NUTS, BUT ON THE COLDEST DAY OF THE YEAR, WE GASSED UP THE RECHARGERMOBILE AND DROVE OUT TO GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN, recently chosen by Frommer’s travel guide as the 2nd most desolate place on earth. Aim? To investigate the … Continue reading
A Medicine for Melancholy
When there’s nothing to do in this pathetic excuse for a town and the Giants and Jets are out of the hunt and baseball is still three months off and our teeth hurt and our joints ache and TV is … Continue reading
Suckers!
ASK RECHARGER THE MOST BORING NEWS ITEM OF THE YEAR, and he’d waver between any story about Derek Jeter and Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, so named because stores, flush with cash, go in the black. But Black Friday … Continue reading
There is a god
For years, we had a recurring dream that we woke up in a supermarket that sold only rice and curry. We’d cook a pot and add the marsala, but just as we put fork to mouth we woke up. Until … Continue reading
At long last Max!
DESIGNER MAVEN, DEEP-SKINNY DISHER, BON VIVANT EXTRAORDINAIRE, MAX KATZMAN HAS AT LONG LAST COMPILED Max Katzman’s Top 5 Discount Designer Clothe Stores List™. Like us lesser-dressed peons, Katzman’s “utter amazement” at the Loro Piana cashmere coat retailing for $3,565 dollars … Continue reading