- Mike Peed: Marea
paragraph class="noindent">This shrine to seafood on Central Park South is Chef Michael White’s offering to the city’s ichthyophagous upper crust. Having already appropriated northern Italy (via Alto) and southern Italy (via Convivio), White decided this year to focus not only on the seam of . . ....
- Mike Peed: Pizzacone, in midtown.
Though there’s no want of diversity in the annals of New York pizza, anyone weary of Ray’s, Joe’s, and Lombardi’s can find novelty at Pizzacone. The shop, located down the hill from the Empire State Building, covers uncharted ground between a tri . . ....
- Mike Peed: Pulino’s Bar and Pizzeria, in Nolita.
paragraph class="noindent">For three decades, Keith McNally’s restaurants have been where the young go to waste their youth, and the old to pretend they’ve reclaimed it. The Odeon, with which McNally débuted, in 1980, graces the cover of Jay McInerney’s “ . . ....
- Uses of Banana For Health and Cosmetics
Banana is a very good low calorie food. Mashed banana is a very good treatment for dysentery. A mixture of banana with milk is very good for weight reduction. The sugars contained in the banana are easily absorbed by the blood stream resulting in high energy levels. Banana peel is very a natural cosmetic as it is used to improve the texture and tone of the skin....
- Mike Peed: The Brooklyn Star
paragraph class="noindent">In 2004, an out-of-work cook from Santa Fe named Joaquin Baca, tired of sleeping on his sister’s couch in the West Village, applied, through Monster.com, to be the deputy to a nobody chef—the No. 2 in a two-man operation. Thus . . ....
- Books: “A Voice from Old New York.”
Auchincloss’s posthumous book returns to the childhood territory covered in his classic memoir “A Writer’s Capital.” The short chapters on genealogy (his father was a third cousin of F.D.R.), education (Groton, Yale), and occupation (his mother discouraged him from writing) make up a mosaic . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Books: “A Voice from Old New York.”
Auchincloss’s posthumous book returns to the childhood territory covered in his classic memoir “A Writer’s Capital.” The short chapters on genealogy (his father was a third cousin of F.D.R.), education (Groton, Yale), and occupation (his mother discouraged him from writing) make up a mosaic . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Mike Peed: Lyon, in Greenwich Village.
paragraph class="noindent">Are French waiters more solicitous if they are waiting tables in the States? Perhaps, if only out of cross-cultural necessity. At Lyon, in any case, you quickly detect the staff’s easy hospitality—they touch you on the shoulder, call you Monsieur or Madame . . ....
- Nick Paumgarten: Out to Lunch
The week before last, two Northwest pilots overshot Minneapolis, their destination, by a hundred and fifty miles, apparently oblivious of their instruments and their internal clocks, as well as of a barrage of increasingly desperate radio calls from air-traffic control. Afterward, they explained that they’d logged onto . . ....
- Books: “Darwin’s Armada”
This geographically expansive account of the rise of evolutionary theory traces the lives and travels of four titans of nineteenth-century biology: Darwin, the botanist Joseph Hooker, the physiologist Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Russel Wallace, a fearless globetrotter whose dangerous and often unpleasant journeys in the Amazon and the Malay . . ....
- Mike Peed: Rallying to bring back the bake sale to New York City schools.
Wouldn’t it be great, the old lefty bumper sticker had it, if schools got all the money they needed and the Air Force had to resort to bake sales? These days, in New York at least, a school would count itself lucky to hold a bake sale. In . . ....
- Ariel Levy: The pious politics of Mike Huckabee.
Sun was bouncing off the miles of Jerusalem stone and the black hats of the Hasidim on the afternoon when Mike Huckabee went to visit the Wailing Wall, earlier this year. Huckabee—the former governor of Arkansas, the host of a Fox News show, and, according to the most . . ....
- Steve Coll: Palestinian statehood, Israel’s isolation, American policy.
Nauru is a destitute Pacific island with a population of just over nine thousand. The country’s failed economic strategies have included offshore-banking schemes and providing Australia with refugee-detention services. For a time, the national airline had no plane—it had been repossessed. Nauru is also . . ....
- Mike Peed: “Edi & the Wolf,” in the East Village.
paragraph class="noindent">At this new Austrian tavern, wedged into an increasingly companionable stretch of Alphabet City, “Edi” is pronounced “Eddie” and “the Wolf” does not refer to Harvey Keitel’s character in “Pulp Fiction.” These are the nicknames of the . . ....
- Rivka Galchen: Why Karl May captivates Germany.
The northern German town of Bad Segeberg is renowned for two things: a vast cave visited each winter by twenty-two thousand bats, and an annual Karl May Festival visited each summer by three hundred thousand people. Karl May (pronounced “my”) is an adventure writer from the late . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Rivka Galchen: Why Karl May captivates Germany.
The northern German town of Bad Segeberg is renowned for two things: a vast cave visited each winter by twenty-two thousand bats, and an annual Karl May Festival visited each summer by three hundred thousand people. Karl May (pronounced “my”) is an adventure writer from the late . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Mike Peed: Annisa, in the West Village.
paragraph class="noindent">“Top Chef Masters,” first season, fourth episode: Anita Lo trumped her adversaries by unerringly cooking an egg with one hand tied behind her back. Not bad, as far as covetable displays of skill go. The feat was also a rebuke to the bad luck that . . ....
- The Ford Pinto
When the Ford Pinto was being manufactured it was planned that it was not going to cost anything over two thousand dollars and it was not going to weigh anything over two thousand pounds. While they were creating the Ford Pinto they were analyzing tests, and in their rear end crashes over twenty five miles an hour they established that the gas tank would always rupture....
- Mike Peed: Bark Hot Dogs.
paragraph class="noindent">Fitting that the New York hot dog should receive its latest refurbishment on this North Park Slope block, a strip that recently swapped its insurance agencies and nonprofits for half a dozen jarringly unscuffed storefronts, including a sex shop and a maternity boutique, each painted its own . . ....
- Mike Peed: Fishtag, on the Upper West Side.
paragraph class="noindent">First, the history: Fishtag used to be Gus & Gabriel (gastropub, 2009), which used to be Kefi (downscale Greek, 2007), which used to be Onera (upscale Greek, 2004), and the chef Michael Psilakis has owned all four. Such a cataloguing might seem cheap, but in a neighborhood . . ....
- The Curative Properties and Health Benefits of Banana
Bananas have a special place in diets low in fats, cholesterol and salt. In the mythological ages in Europe, a banana was called the apple of paradise....
- The Curative Properties and Health Benefits of Banana
Bananas have a special place in diets low in fats, cholesterol and salt. In the mythological ages in Europe, a banana was called the apple of paradise....
- Lorrie Moore: Osama bin Laden, Harry Potter, and 9/11.
Like many people, I watched 9/11 on television from a thousand miles away. Also like many people, I found myself asking, among the dozens of terrified questions that crossed my mind, Do I know anyone who works in the World Trade Center? I was pretty sure that I didn’ . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Ryan Lizza: Politico Live with Mike Allen and John Harris.
Last Tuesday evening, just before the returns came in from the primaries in Mississippi and Alabama, Mike Allen was zipping through the corridors of Politico, the five-year-old Web site. Checking his BlackBerry as he walked, Allen, the site’s White House reporter, was explaining Politico’s . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Keith Gessen: How Kazakhstan is building a glittering new capital from scratch.
The Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center, in Astana, Kazakhstan—also known as the world’s tallest tensile structure, or tent—took four years and four hundred million dollars to build. It devoured a thousand truckloads of materials, which came from all over. The special ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, or ETFE . . . (Subscription required.)...
- Mike Peed: The Standard Grill, in Greenwich Village.
paragraph class="noindent">“The Standard Grill in the base of the Standard Hotel—standard meatpacking district,” a diner observed recently, even though a list of adjectives drawn on a blackboard by the hostess stand declared him to be lost among Standardazzle and Standardream and Standardo-it. At . . ....
- Why I’ll Never Buy Another New Car And Why You Shouldn’t Either
New car smell is nice. But in my experience, it's still there at twenty-thousand or so miles. This article outlines the reasons I will never buy a new car again....
- Ben Greenman: Mike Patton’s “Mondo Cane.”
Mike Patton is one of the most restless workaholics in pop music. Since Faith No More broke up, more than a decade ago, he has been a driving force behind the avant-horror-comic-book collective Fantômas, the metal band Tomahawk, and the skewed pop group Peeping Tom . . ....
