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Jun 13, 2012

New York City to Legalize Sunday Brunch

From this morning’s press release on BRUNCH:

Authored by Council Member Dan Garodnick, the bill will allow sidewalk cafes to open at 10 a.m. — two hours earlier — on Sundays. Restaurants today are prohibited from opening their…

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May 6, 2014

Creeping Subway Despair Confirmed By Data

New Yorkers are as entitled to complain about the subway to one another as they are…

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Oct 1, 2010

The Michael Vick Challenge

There’s no real reason why the town where I grew up needed to replace the grass on the high school’s varsity football field with the expensive and aesthetically jarring sport-carpeting known as field turf. But my North Jersey hometown has apparently decided to rebrand itself, from…

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Dec 1, 2009

Extra-Dumpy Pants Making a Comeback

Stuart Elliott at the NYT is hysterical. Check it, he says, “FIRST, Justin Timberlake brought sexy back. Now, Dockers will try to bring khaki back.” MAHAHAHAHAHA. Isn’t that great? I mean, I don’t know about you but I think mashing that message into the squarest lead…

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Nov 19, 2009

Difficult Listening Hour: Beck’s Harry Partch Tribute

by Seth Colter Walls

Of course NME and Pitchfork are trying to make it all about a beef with Radiohead (who, by the by, do tend to get overpraised even though, no, they don’t blow) but the point is: Beck has a…