Don’t be put off by its name or address. Contrary to what you might think, the City Eatery at 316 Bowery is neither a soup kitchen nor a flophouse cafeteria, but rather a smart new restaurant serving terrific Italian food. Granted, by current standards (if not those of the Salvation Army), it is cheap: For Read More
In Evelyn Waugh’s novel Vile Bodies , a gossip columnist takes vengeance on his readers “with sultan-esque caprice” by telling them of inaccessible eating houses that he claims are the center of fashion. As a result, the Bright Young Things of London are led to temperance dance halls in Bloomsbury, to cafés where they are Read More
Edla Cusick’s show Cityscapes at the Asyl Gallery, which came down on Feb. 5, frankly wasn’t a resounding success. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the pictures didn’t sell. The gallery’s location, on a Godforsaken stretch of frozen tundra off the Hudson River, at 547 West 27th Street, may have had Read More
