ARTHUR SCHWARTZ'S NEW YORK CITY FOOD

deli cat / i like to shake the friskies box when i walk down the petfood section of the isle and see if i can get a rise out of the deli cat.

7 11

Last nite was my last nite out in 2007, and a great finish at Cru. Last time I checked I still was at 19 pounds less weight than 2006, and the flush's and cleanse's really helped. 2008 I hope to keep that up, and to loose those last 10 pounds......

07's 11 best in no order are.....

Tommaso's (Chef Tom cooking for us personally)
Cru
11 Mad
Momofuku
Trestle on Tenth
wd~50
Bar Masa
Insieme
Degustation
Sushi Yasuda
Aburiya Kinnosuke

Happy and healthy and yummy new year to all!!

Had a great meal at Cru last night. This was my second visit, but the last was years ago. Not much new to report except that the food is still excellent; the wine list still requires more time than is left in the universe to wade through; and bringing along someone who can pick up the check is still strongly recommended.

Before going I called my friend Alex M., who used to be a sommalier at Cru, to see if he could recommend any hidden gems on the list (and, yeah, to see if he could get me some vip treatment) and he said - I kid you not -there weren't any hidden values left on the list because Skinny and his friends had drunk them all.

Thanks a lot Skinny!

small batch tonic waters :

there is Q tonic from brooklyn. and another from boston and another from the uk. will check and advise.

locavore : oxford english word of the year '07

interesting software dude , read an article on him in economist titles "doing well by being rather nice"

8 @ www.catalanfoodandwine.com in u-stun tx 2nite. c-fud stew = big yums. also "crab fingers"?! wtf? yummy, but call them wat they r ... claws!

kthxbai

little fat man with a pug nosed face...pug pug...pug pug

Big news bird for Bucks.

you stay classy, media!

ny post
trentonian

shake shack at shitifield

la notte di antonioni

Not only do Mormons believe that Jeebus and Dick Cheney Satan are brothers, they're dirty rotten commies. (Scroll down to the question on "united order".)

Hillary!

Bay Ridge has a tiny yet delish new place for those whom like rich full flavored classic food Petit Oven.... She used great butter and lots of hearty meat cream etc but all the food is yummy and correct (and organic if possible) and well priced.....
We pick up but its still BYOB for dine in....
276 Bay Ridge Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11226
(718) 833-3443

first stab at new Momofuku was awesome, and to me more yummy than Saam Bar......we had pork 6 ways and a sensation baby squid dish and a grand cru spanish mackeral......great meal, GREAT!!

its no longer who do you want to have a beer with for judging whether youd want to vote for some as president, now its who do you think is more likely to pull over and help you with a flat tire? not surprisingly, hillary lacks this quality. the media emnity for her is one of the few things that makes me like her.

I waited too long to buy a PS3 60 GB. It's the one that has HW support for PS2 games -- a feature no longer available in the new 40 and 80 GB units. I'm now in Amazon Marketplace/E-Bay hell. The first one is going back after dying within a week. It was "new", except for the fact that it had obviously been out of the box. The second one is now order. It's allegedly "factory sealed".

Part of my testing is playing the Simpson's PS3 game. I'm really a one game gamer (Gran Turismo), but the Simpson's game is kinda fun. One of Homer's super powers is a super belch that can be used to destroy things. Heh heh heh.

Oh, and Blu-ray is freaking awesome.

How could you not buy PC cooling products from a company with a logo like this?

cummon, take the pen

Terrorism in New Orleans, and a selection of comments from its enlightened citizens.

netflix find: killer of sheep (see link for trailer)

Killer of Sheep examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.

Frustrated by money problems, he finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife in the living room, holding his daughter. The film offers no solutions; it merely presents life — sometimes hauntingly bleak, sometimes filled with transcendent joy and gentle humor.

Killer of Sheep was shot on location in Watts in a series of weekends on a budget of less than $10,000, most of which was grant money. Finished in 1977 and shown sporadically, its reputation grew and grew until it won a prize at the 1981 Berlin International Film Festival.

Since then, the Library of Congress has declared it a national treasure as one of the first fifty on the National Film Registry and the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the "100 Essential Films" of all time. However, due to the expense of the music rights, the film was never shown theatrically or made available on video. It has only been seen on poor quality 16mm prints at few and far between museum and festival showings.

Now, thirty years after its debut, the new 35mm print of Killer of Sheep, brilliantly restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive, is ready for its long-awaited international release.

village voice review

salon review

lair of the white worm on ifc at midnight.

speaking pigeon