The news broke yesterday – our apologies for responding so sluggishly to this momentous event: Russ & Daughters will now toast your bagel.
Turkey tip from Pizza a Casa mastermind (and longtime Chinatown resident) Mark Bello: let the Chinese place on the corner prepare your bird Peking-style!
Saxelby Cheesemongers in the Essex Street Market is making it easy. If the pressure of choosing your own holiday cheeses is too much to take, they have the perfect solution – the Turkey Day Triumvirate. You get: "Pleasant Ridge Reserve, a nutty and sweet raw cows' milk cheese, Mont
St. Francis, a surprisingly fruity and gamey goat cheese, and Bayley
Hazen Blue, that classic, fudgy blue that's sure to leave everyone
clamoring for more." Cost $30.
Babycakes isn't accepting any more Thanksgiving orders but they promise they're "baking their hearts out" to accommodate walk-ins. Babycakes will be open tonight until 10, and tomorrow until all the goodies are sold-out.
Grub Street profiles Kinski, the new Czech-Austrian coffee shop on Rivington Street.
"Julian Plenti is Skyscraper," is the solo debut of Paul Banks, the vocalist of the downtown indie band, Interpol. The Times says: "It is full of prickly,
post-punk guitars and sharp-but-distant vocals (all familiar territory
for Interpol fans). But Julian Plenti is a darker, brasher and more
sinister singer than Paul Banks, and bears more resemblance — vocally,
at least — to a heavy-metal frontman than to a tailored-suit-wearing
art star." Tonight at 9pm at the Bowery Ballroom.
Tonight at White Box Projects, the opening of Spanish Artist Juanli Carrion's "Atlas Shrugged." The exhibition takes its title from "Ayn Rand's groundbreaking 1957 novel. The title is appropriated," according to White Box, "in an ironic way, as opposed to the
Philosophy of Objectivism advocated by the novelist, in order to speak
about dystopia in an alienated landscape of an undefined reality and
time… Carrión's photographs stand as a tragic reminder of what has been
displaced by human development, blurring the distinction between
cultural and natural landscapes." Tonight's opening reception: 6-8pm, 329 Broome Street. The Carrion exhibition will close on December 8th.
Back in May, we reported that parents from P.S. 110 were campaigning for traffic signals on Delancey and Lewis streets, near the school. Community Board 3 asked the Department of Transportation to look at the intersection, alongside the Williamsburg Bridge. This morning, Lo-Down reader Joel Raskin sent us these pictures, showing the signals, turned on for the first time yesterday. Who says you can't get anything done in New York City?
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In a New York Post op-ed piece, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he and his colleagues are willing to make the hard choices that will be necessary to end the state's budget crisis. And in a sign of the Apocalypse, the Post responds by calling Silver "the last adult in Albany," who may be "New York's only hope." The Daily News, on Silver's meeting with the governor yeserday: "Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
emerged to say, in the cryptic way only he can, that he is neither
ruling out nor in the possibility of a two-way budget deficit deal." And in a separate story today, the News reports: "A frustrated Sheldon Silver told fellow Assembly members Monday he does not believe a budget relief deal with the governor and Senate can get done anytime soon. So the Assembly speaker and his members are considering striking their own deal with Gov. Paterson to pressure the Senate, sources told the Daily News."
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