Thursday lunchtime linkage
Whole Foods, Gowanus and gentrification [New Yorker] Revenge is a bar best served successful [New York Post] Melissa Mark-Viverito is…
Slack around with The Slackers and 19 other ways to spend the weekend
1. Drop in to a writer's clinic to get some real talk on your terrible manuscript and how to make…
25 gifts under $25, No. 21: Hawkeye, Vol. 2!
Superheroes usually have problems we couldn't possibly understand, which we guess comes with the territory when you can lift a…
Extravagance, redefined: A tour through the Dyker Heights Christmas lights
If you’ve only heard of the Christmas lights of Dyker Heights, it’s pretty easy to be dismissive. Home Christmas displays…
25 gifts under $25, No. 20: Bushwick Happy Hour prints!
Cocktails are classy affairs (except for the ones I make, maybe). Knowing about cocktails is classy as well. So how…
Writers: A group in Detroit wants to give you a free house
Writing. It's a tough racket, especially if you aspire to do anything loftier than say mean things about people's terrible…
Effort underway to co-name LES corner after the Beastie Boys
The Beastie Boys already have one member of the group, with Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn Heights. Of course, given…
25 gifts under $25, No. 19: Garden bon bons!
One of the major downsides of the holiday season is that it all goes down when the whole world is…
Wednesday lunchtime linkage
Pictures of New York from those far off days known as the 90s [Gizmodo] Today is Robert Moses' birthday. No…
You, yes you, can go to Bill de Blasio’s inauguration for free
Well, the day is rapidly approaching, like a snowball rolling down a mountain and growing cartoonishly larger: Bill de Blasio…