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Wine Craving: Red Tail Ridge’s Sparkling Teroldego
Listen up: if you’re not currently drinking wine from the Finger Lakes, you’re missing out. And if you’re not drinking Red Tail Ridge, well, I feel sorry for you, your kids and your future grandkids. Red Tail Ridge first came on my radar a few months back, when I doing research for an endangered grapes story…
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How to be a Ninja | Knife Classes at Brooklyn Kitchen
Being a big home cook, I’ve learned the heard way that the first cut is the deepest. The combination of a dull blade and clumsy fingers is a recipe for disaster, I’ll tell you what. Earlier this year, Ian and I wanted to up our knife game in the kitchen. After gifting him with a…
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Cheap + Authentic Tacos in the Heart of Bushwick
Real talk: there is a dearth of great Mexican food in New York City. Thank god for Taqueria Izucar. It’s like finding Shangri La, but for your mouth.
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The Ice Geek Cometh
Ever since that first classic cocktail passed my lips (an Aviation, if you gotta know), I’ve been enamored with cocktail alchemy. Though my home attempts are more miss than hit, it’s still a mental exercise in taste and skill. After more than a few botched tipples, all I can say is blessed be the bartenders,…
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New York Minute: ‘Welcome to Night Vale’
Here, the crowd awaiting last night’s live Welcome to Night Vale reading, a modern take on classic pulp and sci-fi radio shows, outside the historic Town Hall theater. The show was charming, charming, charming and so full of hahas! Give it a listen if you want old school radio play-realness, amusing wordplay and entertainment. …Long live Tamika Flynn and…
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Spring Time Up in Here
Welp, the Polar Vortex has become the Pollen Vortex. Us allergy-prone suckers are fucked. But! But it’s spring, which means short-shorts, roller skates, sunshine-y street struttin’ music… Or is that just me?
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New Toys + Sunday Adventures
Last week, I joined the ranks of so-called “prosumers” and got my hands on a sweet new toy: a Lumix GF6 Micro 4/3s camera. While I’ve wanted to go the DSLR route, I don’t have the capital or the desire to lug a beast of a camera around me when all I’ll end up doing…
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This Guy.
Confession: I’m a train-napper. Get me on a choo-choo and within 5 minutes, I’m basically comatose. Commuting via train each day is an opportunity to get in some Zs before getting to the office. The gentle lulling, the calm rocking… it’s a bliss not unlike the last few minutes of a deeply relaxing yoga session. While…
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New York Minute: Beacon
Chelsea, Wednesday, February 26, 7:57 PM “You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.” —Joan Didion
Joseph Hernandez 