The Awl

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…

Creeping Subway Despair Confirmed By Data

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

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…

Long Reads: The New Website Most Important to the Future of the Internet

New York City, August 25, 2016

★★ The sweat-soaked pajama shirt, flung off in defeat in the middle of the night, hit the floor with an…