Hello from the final week of July! Summer is fully in swing — are you eating your daily ice cream? — and the requests keep coming. This week, I’m helping a reader who will be in town for the U.S. Open and needs recommendations for where to dine in Manhattan and on the way back…
Headliner Le Rock Every few decades, the reset button is pressed on the restaurants in Rockefeller Center. A big year was 1984, with the openings of the Sea Grill and American Festival Cafe by Restaurant Associates. This year promises to be notable as well, with Tishman Speyer, the company that owns and operates Rockefeller Center,…
Tyler Joe Gather your friends, family, and whoever else you hold dear (read: credit cards), Nordstrom’s 2022 Anniversary Sale is here. The annual shopping event officially made its triumphant return, opening up to everyone who’s keen to shop. Perhaps you’ve already gotten a head start as a lucky Nordstrom card holder, shopping earlier this month.…
A funny story that B.J. Novak likes to tell from the making of his new movie is about the day he thought he was having a stroke. Are you chuckling yet? At the start of 2020, Novak, a writer, comedian and alumnus of “The Office,” had finally gotten the green light to make “Vengeance,” a…
When Lies Turn Into Prophecies A very drunk man won’t stop telling me about trains. The Cape Town summer is hot, the night sticky, my drink warm. This gay bar will surely sink, given the number of heaving bodies shoved inside it. I nod at the train-talker, plotting an escape, and you appear. Your accent…
Courtesy of retailers So, you’ve found yourself with an overflowing social calendar. It comes as no surprise, given that 2022 is more or less the year of weddings and other special occasions. With so many events and gatherings to look forward to, you’re probably wondering what to wear for each one. Perhaps you already have…
Lea DeLaria, the actress-comedian, surveyed the crowd that had gathered on a recent Sunday evening at the Damrosch Park band shell at Lincoln Center. “A drag queen, three different religious leaders, Broadway stars, the mayor and one loudmouth butch dyke,” she said from the park’s stage to hundreds of people. “Kids, that’s very New York.”…
The Cock is a low-ceilinged, pitch-dark East Village dive that has been described by one website as “the last filthy gay bar in New York.” It shuns publicity, having been frequently raided by police back in the 1990s during the Giuliani administration, and is infamous for its cruisy sex scene. For those reasons, it seems…
The Choco Taco, a nut-and-chocolate-topped ice cream snack that for decades has been a top choice at the ice cream truck or convenience store freezer, is being discontinued, its creator confirmed this week after weeks of rumors about its impending demise. Klondike, which is owned by Unilever and makes the Choco Taco along with several…
Barely a month after the Food and Drug Administration authorized Covid-19 vaccines for very young children, the prognosis that large numbers of them will actually get the shots looks bleak, according to a new survey of parents released on Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which has monitored vaccine attitudes throughout the pandemic. A majority…