Last night was Wheeler in Wheeler, great people wine food, new star on the coast!! Owner was once booker for Knitting Factory for 3 years....
keith from kutztown
magnetic slime
I might be geting in trouble here as a white guy but.....Get Out
OK at best as a film IMHO, its amazing as a film cause it cost 4.5MM and has grossed 250MM....Bravo
Personally I found it not funny, not scary, almost predictable.........than I again I am not funny, not scary, and almost predictable too.
OK its a social commentary, Peele said the idea behind the film was "to combat the lie that America had become post-racial.", well who said that America is post-racial, America and the world is full on racial.....
Anyway most new movies are just OK to me so don't feel bad Get Out
frozen satellite screen art
David Wojnarowicz halloween masks etc
seeing a lot of positive notices for a new spy thriller series from bbc america, killing eve. airs tomorrow night.
I ate bunny for Easter dinner (rabbit stew at Brooklyn Beet Co.) Is that wrong?
Toasted With Everything review.
MUST EAT HERE!!
Atomix
Key players: Junghyun ‘JP’ Park, Ellia Park
Target open: April
Modern Korean banchan-inspired restaurant Atoboy quickly became a hit when it opened in 2016, run by chef JP Park, an alum of Michelin-starred Jungsik, and partner Ellia Park. For their sophomore restaurant, the duo will be going even more upscale with a Japanese tasting menu-style restaurant and cocktail bar at Atomix in Kips Bay. The kaiseki menu, though inspired by the hyper-seasonal dinners common in Japan, will still focus on Korean fare — in hopes of expanding New Yorkers’ idea of what food from the country can look like. 104 East 30th St., between Park Avenue South and Lexington Avenue, Kips Bay
Bree/Jim your New Odeon....wine buying team is of 360 Van Brunt Red Hook fame!!
Frenchette
Key players: Lee Hanson, Riad Nasr
Target open: February ((Not on target))
As opening chefs of Balthazar and Minetta Tavern, duo Lee Hanson and Riad Niasr helped make the quintessentially New York Keith McNally restaurants what they are today. Now, they’re embarking on their first solo project with Frenchette, a 100-seat Tribeca restaurant that’s an updated version of a French brasserie. It will be open all day, with a basement aging room, a rotisserie, and a Japanese charcoal grill. And though the word “French brasserie” sounds like old territory for the chefs, they insist that it will be more modern — with fewer white subway tiles.
Zauo
Key players: Noriki Takahashi and his sons Kazuhisa and Takuya
Target open: March
Japanese restaurants have been expanding to New York like crazy, but Zauo might just be the most unique one. The family-owned restaurant, which has 13 outposts in Japan, allows diners to fish for dinner inside the restaurant from a tank filled with ten different kids of fish — an added element that takes the trend of theatrics in restaurants to a level that will surely attract crowds. But the Takahashi family doesn’t want people to think of the new Chelsea location as a gimmick or just entertainment — it’s about understanding where food comes from and thanking the fish for giving its life. Fish, after it’s captured, can be fried, grilled, or served as sushi. 152 West 24th St., between 7th and 6th avenues, Chelsea
My (Kenneth Goldsmith) new work, "One Square Kilometer (for Walter de Maria)" is a black square on the web that literally measures one square kilometer in real space: http://www.aarea.co/
I've been following Syria very closely for a long time now. It is always dangerous, but at the moment is seems particularly dangerous. Mainstream media reporting is all one voice against Assad, and Putin, and Iran, and Hezbollah. Here are some sources from the other side if you are interested and these aren't already on your radar. Are they "Russian trolls" spreading "fake news" or is there another side to the story where the U.S. isn't so "exceptional"?
News:
Al-Masdar News
Opinion:
Moon of Alabama
SST (scroll down below the stuff about his books for the blog...)
The Saker
Twitter feeds:
Elijah J. Magnier
Canthama
EHSANI2
Joshua Landis
War in Syria
And here's a longer Elijah Magnier piece on the danger of the current extremely dangerous situation in Syria:
The superpowers are on the verge of the abyss, so the danger of falling into a war of cosmic proposition is no longer confined to the imagination or merely a sensational part of unrealistic calculations.
