By Staff 1/31/07 4:56pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday

  • In the ongoing quest to find the city’s scariest bar, the NY Press heads to the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, where ice-less $3 cocktails and Tupperware Cheez Doodles are a reminder of what Brooklyn was like before Hollywood came. [NYP]
  • Who knew Canadian real estate had become so exceedingly ritzy? In Read More

    • By Moira Hodgson 1/20/03 12:00am

    Dining out with Moira Hodgson

    South Meets West:

    Provence Lights Up Broadway

    The zaniest dessert on the menu at Aix is the licorice panna cotta, served with tangerines and bergamot sauce. “It tastes of cigarette butts,” said my husband. “But it’s actually very good.”

    This strange comment came at the end of a meal that had included foie Read More

    By Simon Doonan 12/10/01 12:00am

    Avoid a Rockwellian Holiday And Throw a Naughty Bash

    Beware the new TWEE! What’s twee ? It’s English vernacular for prosaic faux-sentimentality. And as New York retailers struggle to promote holiday shopping in a caring, uncraven way, they are starting to sound rather twee. In fact, the struggle to merge heartfelt inspirational clichés with ad copy is resulting in a new ultra-twee lingo, reminiscent Read More

    By D.J. Levien 11/05/01 12:00am

    So Men Are Back? Not in Suburbia

    I stood outside, admiring the supremely well-greened turf of the two-plus-acre spread on a ritzy street in mid-country Greenwich. I sipped my cocktail. I’d already toured the 5,000-square-foot modern house and seen the art collection. The marble-dusted lap pool gurgled aqua only yards away. Two other male guests and I stood with our host, and Read More

    By Stacy Abramson 8/17/98 12:00am

    My Love Recipe: Dump Food Snob, Learn to Cook

    There really are two types of people: those who cook and those who don’t. I was always one of those who don’t. Josh said it was my biggest flaw. And not only did I fail to embrace the whole culinary thing, but I was not sufficiently impressed with his skills in the kitchen–an essential part Read More