When Taylor Swift announced the title of her next album during an acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, she spurred a reaction from a typically quiet bunch: the poets. The album, slated to come out April 19, she said, is called “The Tortured Poets Department.” (Sans apostrophe.) As the name caught fire on…
The formal, European style of restaurant service was perfected in the 19th century, was stiff as a corpse by the end of the 20th and seemed safely buried by the early days of the pandemic. But it won’t stay dead. It is in full swing at Essential by Christophe, Torrisi Bar & Restaurant, Oiji Mi…
Not-So-Secret Ingredient I eat an egg, over-easy, every morning. In the summer, I make the egg myself. As a teacher, my mornings are slower during those months. It tastes fine. But during the school year, my husband makes the egg every morning. Same stove. Same pan. Same ingredients. Yet his egg is unbelievably delicious. Is…
So you want to go to the Super Bowl this weekend. Even for non-football fans, this year’s spectacle of professional sports and over-the-top entertainment — in Las Vegas, no less — could be hard to resist. Some of the best players of their generation, like Nick Bosa, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce, will take the…
Headliner Amarena Against the odds, the chef Julian Medina is an optimist when it comes to the business of owning restaurants. Just this past year he opened three, and he is about to add another for a total of 12 at various levels of service and price. The newest one, open later this week, is…
For journalists, bars have long functioned as second newsrooms. Over martinis, sources share secrets. Over beers, ordinary men and women plead for coverage of some local outrage. And when the news business has convulsed, eliminating afternoon editions or shuttering foreign bureaus, reporters have knocked back a scotch or two, shaken their fists at management and…
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On Thursday night at the Roxy Cinema in Lower Manhattan, a throng of scarf-bundled cinephiles attended the sold-out screening of a black-and-white psychological thriller, “End of the Night,” that was being shown for the first time in more than 30 years. The film’s obscurity wasn’t what drew the crowd: They were there because of its…
The microwave and the baby arrived roughly around the same time. I hadn’t had a microwave until then: My kitchen was small, counter space was highly coveted and I wasn’t doing enough reheating to justify it. But my husband wisely realized that we’d want to heat food for the baby and for us, the new…
As Americans crowd around the television to watch the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers play the Super Bowl in Las Vegas, they’ll dunk chips in salsa, guacamole, queso, chili and seven-layer dip. They’ll scarf down jalapeño poppers and Frito pie as cameras pan between touchdowns and Taylor Swift. The appetizers are almost…