Top 10 Date-Night Dinners for a Recession, #5
To enjoy Oktoberfest year-round, step into pint-sized Austrian tavern Café Katja, where patrons gorge themselves on homemade sausages and raise frosty mugs of beer seven nights a week. For those whose German skills are elementary at best, the menu offers a glossary (note that Read More
Top 10 Greenmarket Restaurants, #7
Market Table is a misnomer now that its sparsely stocked grocery is history. A lone deli case still retails Pat LaFrieda meats, but the front space’s general store motif has been axed in favor of a comfy banquette and bar to complement the back room’s smattering of black-lacquered Read More
When the Spotted Pig opened in 2004, it was a thunderous hit among Manhattan’s trendiest denizens. Meatpacking district revelers abandoned antiseptic clubs to crowd into a small pair of wood-plank rooms decorated with mismatched vintage fabrics, pig and mackerel mementos, and window box herbs. Even rail-thin starlets Read More
At about 8:15 p.m. on election night, Ilyasah Shabazz, the third daughter of Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz, stood inside the building where her father was assassinated in February of 1965 and spoke about the election of Barack Obama.
"I know that a lot of people my age and older never expected this to Read More
Barack Obama booster and Law and Order wisecracker Richard Belzer was standing around with Tony Ortega, editor of The Village Voice, in the Audubon Ballroom on election night. He said he got "very emotional" in the booth.
"Pulling the lever for Obama was pretty amazing. And here we are in the Audubon Ballroom, where in Read More
Top 10 Brunches Worth Getting Out of Bed For, #5
A roomful of bed-heads and bloodshot eyes—it’s got to be the morning after. Giant doors open to a long bar that serves up three types of Bloodies. Chic couples shuffle in, taking tables next to bubbly girl packs gossiping about the night before. Read More
