Williamsburg
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In Margot at the Wedding Nicole Kidman tells her sister not to move to Williamsburg because it's "for the young." After I got my Northside badge at festival HQ on Bedford Avenue I enjoyed gratis Heinekens (ah, the fringe benefits of evil corporate sponsorships), scanned the crowd and realized, with a bit of nausea, that I was, at 26, the oldest person there. More»
Eavesdropping In: Drink Up For The World Cup; Lil' Frankie's Budget, Pulinos Dreams; Why Is Lady Gaga So Angry?
- Quintessential Manhattan celebrity magnet Da Silvano opens clone (and continues to ruin?) Williamsburg. [Grub]
- World Cup means never having to say you're sorry for drinking beer at 8:30 am. [CityRoom]
- Cheap Plan Bs to New York's sceniest restaurants. [Eater]
- Remember the old Yankees mascot? Neither does anyone else. [WSJ]
- Someone needs to give Lady Gaga a hug. [NYP]
- They're making a Wizard of Oz sequel and Sam Raimi is the man behind the curtain. [Deadline]
Eavesdropping In: Yet Another Restaurant On Bowery, No Love For Mother Teresa, What's Wrong With Wasabi Lobby Anyway?
- Soon there will be nothing but restaurants on the Bowery. [BoweryBoogie]
- The Empire State Building can, but won't, hold a candle to Mother Teresa. [NYDN]
- There are 13 restaurants in NYC with a crappier name than Dirt Candy. [Fork]
- Williamsburg: Meatpacking District East. [Curbed]
- Puerto Rican Day Parade in trouble before it even begins. [NYT]
- Was there an elite college that didn't fall for the "Harvard Faker"? [Gawker]
Eavesdropping In: Bespoke Is Cool, Scary Text News, Yankees Coach Robbed by Mets Fan Hookers
- Bruce Cameron Clark: Bespokenator. [NYT]
- The Wall Street Journal wants you to know that when the bad men come to murder you, they will try to use your text messages to confuse the police. Will future bad menget away with it? Not now that the WSJ is on the case!!!!! [WSJ]
- Bill O'Reilly says mean things about gay-themed McDonalds ad from France. Breaking: Bill O'Reilly is a jerk. [NYDN]
- Hahaha! SI Yankees pitching coach robbed by miniskirted women who visited him when god-fearin' people were in bed watching "Dancing With The Stars." You know, hookers. [Post]
- The day you've long feared has come to pass: zombies in Williamsburg. [Village Voice]
- The 101 Best Sandwiches List gets easier to integrate into your life. [GrubStreet]
A dozen years after it became the most self-consciously indie district in New York (and four or five years after it was all but entirely gentrified), Williamsburg is getting a very indie movie theater. More»
The restaurant's on Houston between Bowery and Elizabeth, a block "in transition, as stylish boutiques move in next to old-fashioned meat markets...Longtime residents still sit on the sidewalk in lawn chairs...even as...fashion's leading edge sip drinks at a gallery opening next door." Must be Pulino's in 2010, right? More»
You just knew that when hipsters had had it with the 'Burg and/or produced hipster offspring and essentially moved to the 'burbs that they’d cloak the transition in hipness. And so it’s happened with a migration of Williamsburgers to “rough-and-tumble-looking” Rosendale. More»
Eavesdropping In: Neverending West Side Story, Hot Pink, Children Mar The Future
- Remembering the Upper West Side's gory days. [NYT]
- Pink signs are all the rage among NIMBY gadflies. [BlahBlogBlah]
- Vanessa Williams desperate enough to join Desperate Housewives cast. [Deadline]
- Where to go out to eat and avoid New Yorkers' sophisticated demon spawn. [Eater]
- Bizarre Michael Musto-James Murphy feud continues. [DailyMusto]
- In five years you won't be able to tell the East Village and Williamsburg apart. [Eater]
- Rich people don't have to lie about never riding the bus anymore. [NYP]
Eavesdropping In: Ketchup Revamp, Lindsay Lohan's Surprise Appearance, NY Actors Now Doomed
- In the worst idea so far this year (and in the first recipe change in 40 years), Heinz will be cutting the salt from their ketchup. [Post]
- Buildings around 14th St and Irving evacuated due to suspicious vehicle. Everything's okay now, but we've all learned an important lesson about not storing gas cans in our cars when we park them in paranoid metropolitan areas. [NYMag]
- Lady at Buffalo wings joint makes play for Obama's love. [AnimalNY]
- The floundering actors of NY will suffer greatly if the cancellation of Law & Order goes through. [WSJNY]
- Lindsay Lohan pops up at Williamsburg Iggy Pop concert. [NYDN]
The hipster "subculture" is famously fond of thinking of and discussing everything in detached, ironic air quotes. Just skim any Hipster Runoff post for proof. Now, "norm" news agencies have caught on and gone meta by bracketing the word hipster in gratuitous quotation marks. More»
New Yorkers have lived under a nanny state for the last decade. But the past month or two have felt like a May sweeps double episode of Supernanny. And if whorehouse operators can't beat the law, who can? More»
Bachelor, Bachelorette Cast Members At Midtown Tonight
Erwin Gomez To Launch New Salon KARMA And Cosmetics Line
Plovgh, the new online farmers market
Who knew that the farming world had a trend? Well, Mallory Sustick, a Brooklyn bartender, works like a dog to maintain, promote and advance the online farmer's market startup Plovgh that began after noticing a need for more local farm market distribution.
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