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New York Times Explains This ‘Ten Percent’ ConceptLook kids, this is what 10% unemployment looks like — one Men’s Room sign out of ten is filled with warm piss! The very important New York Times graphic adds, “That’s 15.7 million people. If the unemployed lived in one state, it would be the country’s fifth largest.&... |
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Cru Redo: Flo Fab has an update this...Flo Fab has an update this morning on the tenuous state of Cru, the restaurant that lost its chef and sommelier and entered into a battle with its landlord earlier this summer. It has a new chef, Todd Macdonald, a new somm, Greg Majors, and most vitally, it's slashing wine prices by 30 percent. [... |
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We Can Think of Several Hundred Million Other ReasonsAuletta: Google feared buying the NYT would "sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine." ... |
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Sift Ain't Happening: Sift Happens: Le Relais de VeniseWelcome to Sift Happens, the latest in a long line of offerings for Times dining section junkies in which we preview and handicap tomorrow's restaurant review. Tomorrow, @samsifton reviews Le Relais de Venise the newly opened Parisian import that sports a whopping three items--salad, steak, pi... |
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Shattered Myths – from the Gourmet archiveA great piece of wine writing has just become accessible: oddly, with the closing of Gourmet magazine, Gourmet.com has made the classic article “Shattered Myths” available for free. Written by NPR contributor Daniel Zwerdling back in 2004, the story starts at a tasting with Riedel st... |
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Former Ms. Editor Slams "Mismeasure Of Woman" [Notable/quotable]"After expressing no respect for her foremothers' role in the fight for gender justice, she has the nerve to suggest that women demand respect, as if it was something we old strident feminists forgot to include in our agenda." [NYT] ... |

