Eats

08 Feb 2010

Hill Country BBQ's Feed Your Face Challenge

In case there’s a chance that you didn’t stuff your face quite fully enough on Superbowl Sunday while watching my hero, Queen Latifah sing the national anthem, Texas-style BBQ-ery Hill Country is hosting one of the most daunting eating challenges I’ve been apprised of since Adam Orellana stomped on a

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07 Feb 2010

FREE Food, Pigskin and Pin-Ups All Day

As someone who normally avoids football at all costs, but also has a secret love of hot wings, the Super Bowl is a conflicting event for me. I enjoy the festive atmosphere and flowing beer but not so much the fist pumping and sporadic yelling. But the Who is playing

Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe 0
05 Feb 2010

$5 Pad Thai Party at Note Thai

Elementary school was awesome for random food rewards. If you got enough stars on a chalkboard, brought in the most canned goods, or stayed quiet during spelling tests, you occasionally received pizza, pop corn, or ice cream parties. Now that we’re adults, we’re just expected to do well and buy

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02 Feb 2010

Dorkbot Meet up for Robot Enthusiasts

I love robots.  As an avid lover of anything SciFi, I’ve encountered many different types of robots amidst the pages of Asimov, old Jetsons reruns, and weird B-quality movies.  Take a look at some videos of robots here – dancing and falling and even playing the violin! Oh. You asked

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31 Jan 2010

A UCB Benefit and the New and "Improved" Dominos

It seems like there’s a Haiti benefit every other day, and that’s ok, it’s a bandwagon I’ll readily jump-on. And while most of us can’t afford to dish out the big bucks for high profile events, we can, however, contribute a little and laugh our asses off in the process.

Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe 0
29 Jan 2010

Restaurant Behavior: Avoid Irritating the Waitstaff

I’ve been waiting tables off and on for about 10 years, and I spent my first year in Brooklyn waiting tables at a diner in Park Slope. It was a fantastic cultural introduction to New York. When a lady ordered an egg cream, I had to go ask the other

Kiley E - Ragamuffin Researcher 0
28 Jan 2010

VBar Cafe NYC

Everyone knows the tired cliches of people setting up their laptops in public and banging away at the keys to make themselves feel more writerly. But sometimes you really do need to work someplace that isn’t your messy house, or a depressing, urine soaked library. For that purpose, my favorite

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