The Turkey is gone. The leftovers decimated. All I can do now is stare at an empty fridge. But Ruth Reichl seems to have no such problems. The former editor of the now shuttered Gourmet magazine and one of the most influential food restaurant critics in America, has her fridge runneth over. Salon.com raided...
Pajamas Ahoy! The best thing about the downturn is that we don't have to get outa our jammies. For all those of you, who have morphed in "The Dude" from The Big Lebowski, but unlike him are looking for a way to do something constructive with your time - here are 11 businesses you...
Sure, we all use Facebook well. We did put up pictures of the dumb pie we baked, or the loser concert we attended ... not to mention cutesy pictures of us at various parties to prove our popularity. We update our statuses religiously, add friends, spy on people's babies and smirk at dormant walls.
Quickly reviewing all major post World War II wars, the New Yorker's Henrik Hertzberg asks a series of tough questions he would like the president to answer on Tuesday: Does it make sense, for example, to spend lives and treasure trying to eradicate “safe havens” in Afghanistan when Al Qaeda has so many other—well,...
Considering everybody received the meme on Twitter and the gazillion ways it can be used to "save journalism" "aid journalism" and "wreck journalism" - here a case of Twitter gone wild in Alabama. The idea, as all ideas do, started off as a great one. Take a billboard with an ad for a local...
And so the world turns. After Rihanna got her mug badly injured by Chris Brown taking a swing at her, golfer Tiger Woods, may well have been subject to his wife's wrath. News broke Friday, that Woods was injured in a car crash outside his Florida mansion. His wife Ellie Nordegren had a...
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My mind took a while to coming around to this video. Only because I am a crotchety old person that types with one finger- r.e.a.l. s.l.o.w. But here is an amazing presentation by a guy called Pranav Mistry. Ho Hum, so what's new you say? Well, this guy is the inventer of SixthSense, a wearable...
At first glance, the empty lot at 36-88 36th St. in Astoria looks like any other construction site in the city. But the mere presence of this parcel in a quiet, leafy stretch of Astoria makes the neighbors angry. Days after the Norwood Neighborhood Association reached a compromise with the Department of City Planning...
Saturday may be the hardest morning to crawl out of bed, but this week more than 100 residents of Jackson Heights gathered at the Renaissance Charter High School on 81st Street to brainstorm how to make their community greener. Jackson Heights was originally intended to be a “garden in the city.” Edward MacDougall who...
For many students in Queens, overcrowded schools are a constant reality. Each day they jostle and push through crammed hallways, squeezing into classrooms designed for fewer occupants. Some students in Jackson Heights, however, may soon be granted a reprieve, as the city has acquired the Blessed Sacrament School building at 34-20 94th St. and will...