Cloud Atlas September 15, 2006This guy is so talented it’s ridiculous. He’s like Philip K. Dick without the mental problems–or if he...
Tokyo Police Club: A Lesson in Crime September 13, 2006It’s as if The Strokes got released from their major label and were allowed to really rock it...
Food Merchants (Rock Center) September 7, 2006[CLOSED] Sad and vaguely dirty, this joint is less like a restaurant and more like a bomb shelter...
Bummer Movies September 7, 2006These movies aren’t so much sad as they are total bummers. I was thinking about this on the...
McDonald’s (Rockefeller Center) September 7, 2006[CLOSED] Eating any kind of fast food outside of road trips or hung-over weekends is generally verboten amongst...
Enzo’s Pizza September 7, 2006[CLOSED] Talk about a crime of convenience. I walk right out of bar with a wicked hunger, and...
EN Japanese Brasserie September 7, 2006Eating on someone else’s dime has its privileges. It frees you up from the guilt associated with blowing...
Hop Devil Grill September 7, 2006[CLOSED] Evil this place is not. But Satan’s lair is flush with beers. Service? Not so much. To...
Cookshop September 7, 2006The stomach flu is a bitch. It can turn what is a perfectly pleasant meal into a study...
Mara’s Homemade September 7, 2006[CLOSED] I really couldn’t tell you the difference between Arkansas, Alabama and Louisiana barbecue. I imagine it all...
Chipotle – Bryant Park September 7, 2006Trying to get into this place for lunch is like moseying on over to the bread line in...
Sin Sin September 7, 2006[CLOSED] I gotta say; I really don’t understand dj culture. “Spinning,” as they call it seems to me...
Lunasa September 7, 2006[CLOSED] So utterly unremarkable I’ve already forgotten what the hell is going on. No, seriously. I’ve gotten through...
Garvey’s September 7, 2006[CLOSED] Steve Garvey was my favorite baseball player growing up. His Ken Doll good looks (which I learned...
The Assassination of Richard Nixon September 7, 2006Take Taxi Driver and add a heap of depression and you get The Assassination of Richard Nixon. Travis Bickle was crazy. Samuel J. Bicke, our protagonist in this film (whose
Lenny’s (Rock Center) September 7, 2006[CLOSED] No it ain’t Denny’s. Remember that horrendous ad campaign from the 80’s where the two somewhat elderly...
Mercury Lounge September 7, 2006Somehow I’d never seen a show here in all my time in NYC. I’ve also never been to...
Bread Market Cafe September 7, 2006[CLOSED] Neither a market, nor really a cafe, the Bread Market Cafe is an odd amalgamation of burritos,...