“You used to have career video-store clerks,” said Leah Giblin, a diminutive 29-year-old veteran of TLA, the recently shuttered indie/porn-video store on Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue. Having cut her teeth as a college student (film major, natch) at Waterloo Video in Austin, Tex., she stood behind a TLA counter in Philadelphia for years before Read More
The blogosphere is at it again, resurrecting its favorite rumored restaurant shuttering.
According to Gridskipper–and also relayed via Eater and Curbed–eclectic West Village diner Shopsin’s is leaving 54 Carmine Street.
Again.
Apparently, the iconic eatery is now moving to Essex Street Market on the Lower East Read More
KARA: When it comes to travel, I’m like Woody Allen. I’m afraid of plane crashes. I’m afraid of rare tropical diseases. I’m afraid of food poisoning. I’m afraid of getting into a cab in a place where I don’t speak the language, being driven to a secluded location and being forced to marry into Read More
When Kurt Andersen wandered into the living room at a recent Manhattan dinner party and noticed a stack of firehouse-red Netflix DVD envelopes sitting on the coffee table, he felt an instant sense of belonging. “It’s become this tiny badge of cultural brotherhood,” said Mr. Andersen, who’s been making his way through Netflix’s vast catalog Read More
