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New York. Pizza. An eternally happy couple. It's about time, then, that New York got a serious pizza-eating competition on par with Nathan's Hot Dogs or the Wing Bowl. This Sunday, October 12, the first-ever World Pizza Eating Championship will be held in Times Square. It's the newest official event of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, sponsored by Famous Famiglia. Reigning hot dog...
Filed under: Arts and Culture , History When you describe the history of New York, you begin to realize that it is inextricably tied to the sea. Just recently we told you about a boat graveyard in Staten Island that has to be seen to be believed. And in fact, New York Harbor has been witness to some of this country's most important nautical history, from New York's rise as a trading port for the Dutch...
Join World Hum editors Jim Benning and Michael Yessis, and contributors Terry Ward and Eva Holland Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Lolita bar on the Lower East Side. We’re teaming with host and World Hum contributor David Farley for a night of readings for the wanderlust stricken. Also: We have prizes to give away. It will be, as Farley says, “a literary travel extravaganza.” For more info, check...
We can't let the day end without noting the 2014 World's Fair dream of Gristedes Grocery king and possible mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis. You know, those things that cost about $20 bazillion to stage and leave behind relics that no...
Enter Gideon's Gallery Gideon Gelber, architect was our first presenter at last thursday's AT Offline. Gideon, in addition to being an incredibly talented designer, is a person obsessed with color. Gideon, through research, experience and a couple of long talks with the chemists at Benjamin Moore, knows the behavior of paint. His knowledge is impressive... Enter Gideon's Gallery Gideon refer to paints...
Among the openings that we missed during our hiatus was the opening of Eric New York, the new Park Slope branch of a shoe emporium that has made the jump from Manhattan. We wandered in on opening day and snapped some shots and figure that today is as good a day as any to announce [...]
Former Grub Streeter Josh Ozersky, AKA Mr. Cutlets, has re-entered the blogosphere with his gastronomic gazette, and first-ever old-timey looking food blog, The Feedbag. It's part of the Citysearch empire. We're really curious what Josh is going to do now...
At stressful moments in the past, Saturday Night Live has often produced stupid, vicious, ugly material. (See here , here and here for some examples.) But their sketch three days ago about the Wall Street bailout may be the lowest moment in the show's history. You might have believed the current financial panic was caused by decades of right-wing ideology. But you'd be wrong! It turns out it's the...
Make me proud I talked with Mark Newman, Yankees Senior Vice President for Baseball Operations, a couple of weeks ago on XM radio. I made a mild joke about Yankees fans being extremely disgruntled about the team merely finishing over .500 but not getting to the post season. He responded that he and the front office were, in fact, extremely disgruntled about this turn of events. So let's see if we...
(Reuters) - A jury ruled on Monday that the owners of New York's Plaza Hotel could use the Plaza name on a proposed $5 billion resort-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, despite the existence nearby of another Plaza Hotel and Casino, the New York Times said in a report on its Web site.
Stephon Marbury hasn’t changed since 1995. I mean, he’s put on some weight and ditched the corny haircut, but his ego was just as big then as it is now. Marbury is being interviewed after winning a New York City high school championship, and gives a typical Starbury answer to the question “Where do you [...]
In the American version of "Life on Mars," Jason O'Mara was the only actor who made the leap when production moved from Los Angeles to New York earlier this year.
Upstate Hospital is First to Adopt Surgical Sponge Counting System
TEMECULA, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SurgiCount Medical,
a division of Patient Safety Technologies (OTC Bulletin Board: PSTX), and
the manufacturer of the Safety-Sponge(TM) system, announced their first
implementation of a New York hospital to use SurgiCount Medical's Computer
Assisted Sponge Counting System. Estimated...
Google has unveiled an addition to Google Transit on Google Maps-users can now navigate the entire New York metro region including the subway system, commuter rail, bus and ferry services from the Metropolitan Transit Agency (MTA), the Port Authority of New York and Jersey, New Jersey Transit and the City Of New York. The fundamental goal of the Google Transit project is to make public transit information...
Sotheby'sNew York sale on the 3rd of November will offer a 99 years old painting, emblematic of the Picasso's work after his Demoiselles d’Avignon , his watershed composition. This Harlequin , one of the most important works by Picasso to appear on the market over the last several years, is expected to bring over $30 million! Four years after the Garçon à la pipe sold $104 Million, and two years after...