Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist makes me miss New York
We just watched Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist. It was good, but I expected more. It’s definitely the weakest of the Michael Cera films I’ve seen. The redeeming qualities in the movie were New...
View ArticleBeyond the Pudding, a Mystery – New York Times
But there has always been something strange about the business on Spring Street. It seems too beautiful, too expensive an operation, given that it sells only coffee and 20 flavors of rice pudding....
View ArticleGreat new tequila bar less than a block from my old apartment in New York
I miss New York so much. I wonder why we don’t get cool places like this in SF. Monika sent me a link to this new tequila bar in the east village. Created by the same people as Death & Co, one of...
View ArticleThe giant Starbucks in Astor Place is closing. In my old New York neighborhood
via gawker.com I lived in New York for the best years that city ever had. The economy was booming and there was more life and activity in New York than anywhere else in the world. I totally lived it...
View ArticleNew Cooper Square Hotel opens in my old New York backyard
The neighbors aren’t too happy with the mezzanine bar & terrace….there’s an elderly lady that hangs her dirty laundry on a clothes line and blows a whistle at people on the terrace….NYC charm! via...
View ArticleAn engineer’s worst nightmare? His design for a skyscraper like Citicorp...
ON a warm June day in 1978, William J. LeMessurier, one of the nation’s leading structural engineers, received a phone call at his headquarters, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from an engineering...
View ArticleA liter of Hofbrau beer at Radegast Hall with friends in Williamsburg, 7/11/09
Old photo, from my last trip to New York Tagged: beer, Gary Liu, New York City, Williamsburg
View ArticleBitters are the glue that hold a cocktail together
“It’s almost like glue that holds a cocktail together,” said Philip Ward, the head bartender at Death & Co., in the East Village, where 17 of the 37 house drinks include bitters. “Add a dash, and...
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