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Architecture Du Jour: King’s Highway in Palm Springs, CA
Blowhard, Esq. writes: While in Palm Springs I didn’t get the chance to tour much of its midcentury modern splendor, but I did enjoy this former Denny’s that the Ace Hotel has hipsterized. Dig the cantilevered roof and rock wall, baby. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Food and health, The Good Life
Tagged Ace Hotel, mid-century modernism, Palm Springs
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Cocktails Du Jour
Eddie Pensier writes: “Tweedle Rum” (Gosling’s rum, pineapple juice lime, ginger beer, spiced vanilla-pomegranate syrup, and Angostura bitters, with fresh pineapple garnish and freeze-dried pineapple on the side) and “Mad Hatter” (Appleton 12 Year rum, Bulleit bourbon, Hennessey VS cognac, … Continue reading
Beer Day Out (2015 Edition)
Eddie Pensier writes: I had so much fun at last year’s Beer Day Out (which I recounted for readers here) that I decided to return. Once again, the event was held at the Old Bus Depot in Kingston: once again, … Continue reading
Notes on “Famous Nathan”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: “Famous Nathan” taps into the tradition of the intellectualized, “personal” documentary. Ostensibly, it’s about the Nathan’s franchise of frankfurter establishments, but it’s really a sort of essay on the topics of family, New York Jewry, Coney … Continue reading
Posted in Food and health, Movies
Tagged Famous Nathan, Film, hotdogs, Lloyd Handwerker, movies, Nathan Handwerker
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L’Ecole Restaurant at the International Culinary Center
Blowhard, Esq. writes: Before Paleo Retiree and the Question Lady headed to their Fortress of Solitude for the winter, we met up for lunch at L’Ecole, the student-run restaurant of the International Culinary Center in SoHo. While the front house staff are … Continue reading
Posted in Food and health, The Good Life
Tagged International Culinary Center, L'Ecole, New York, SoHo
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Eddie’s Spirit Chronicles: Stolen Rum Coffee & Cigarettes
Eddie Pensier writes: New Zealand brand Stolen Rum has a hipster origin story for the ages: inspired by a Jim Jarmusch movie. Instead of the usual fruitcakey sorts of spices that flavor a spiced rum, Stolen decided to make theirs … Continue reading
Posted in Food and health, The Good Life
Tagged cigarettes, coffee, eddies spirit chronicles, rum, stolen
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Spicy Chicken, Ugly Buildings, and Freddie Mercury
Eddie Pensier writes: A recent business trip to Sydney brought some fantastic culinary experiences and some regrettable architectural ones. I made a pilgrimage to the Central Park shopping centre in Chippendale to visit (among other things) Daiso, that marvelously kooky … Continue reading
Pop Science, Five Ways
Eddie Pensier writes: As should be obvious to regular readers, I’m hardly a scientific type. Music, food, drink, and art are more my speed. But every once in a while my brain drifts briefly to rationality and I enjoy learning … Continue reading
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