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Scotsman Brian Mcgrory introduces accessible malts at his West Village gastropub Highlands.

Tony Mays SD26 trips over gimmicks, while Abe & Arthurs produces decent food amid meatpacking glitz.

An anti-labor party.

A tiny meat counter in Boerum Hill introduces deliphiles to pastramis French Canadian cousin.

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Week of November 30, 2009: East Side Social Club.

On the Upper West Side, across from Zabar’s, a bookstore has stood for more than three decades in one incarnation or another. Today it’s Westsider Books and it has pretty much everything you could want in a bookstore.

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Artist Jeanne-Claude, of Jeanne-Claude and Christo, has died. [NYT]

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I have previously written here of my experience as a New York City taxi driver when I was a university student. Nothing beats cab driving for a crash course in New York City and learning about its geography, boroughs and people. There are many taxi cab stories I have exchanged with others - in the course of driving nights, inevitably a driver will run across some outrageous situations. This has been the subject of the film documentary Night on Earth and the TV series Taxicab Confessions. Read the rest of this entry »