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Open Kitchen: The Ramen Master on Smith Street
Two decades ago, when ramen’s modern era began in this country, and in this city, we looked to the emergent genre of restaurant with great expectations. In Japan, ramen is a regional dish that changes by the prefecture. There are styles tied to specific places, broths with contents dictated by history, climate, and geography. It’s a living and reactive cuisine.…
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Shyne Comes Home
On a recent Monday at the Brooklyn Central Library, a packed house assembled to hear Shyne discuss his 30-year career in, but mostly outside of, music. It’s Yom Kippur—and, by some divine force of cultural alignment, Belizean Independence Day—and the Orthodox Jewish artist and politician hasn’t eaten since the previous afternoon, when he was in Trinidad accepting a Global Ambassador…
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Location, Location, Location: Paula González-Nasser on Making ‘The Scout’ and Getting It Right
The Scout, like High Maintenance, is about a gig worker who travels around New York City, particularly Brooklyn, stepping into the homes of other New Yorkers for a brief glimpse of their lives, then moving on. The worker in question, Sofia (Mimi Davila), is a location scout tasked with securing domestic interiors for an upcoming TV pilot—work once performed by…
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The King of “New York”
It’s around the lunch rush, early afternoon on a summer Monday in a studio on the southern edge of Manhattan’s Chinatown, but Joel Martinez is working hard. The all-purpose Bronx-entertainer-turned-New-York-City-institution—affectionately referred to as “Mero” in his hometown—is on the mic, recording one of his three concurrently running podcasts, discussing the worst moment of his life. “I’ve been so down-bad, bro.…
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The LQQK of Love
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At Kirbee’s, NYC’s Best BBQ is Served with a Side of Spectacular Green Spaghetti
Kirbee’s is located at 55 McGuinness Boulevard South, at the corner of Engert Avenue, and is currently open on Friday through Sunday from 11:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m., or until they sell out Best friends Chuck Charnichart and Jonny White are elite-level pitmasters; each runs a highly acclaimed restaurant in Texas; Barb’s BBQ in Lockhart and Goldee’s in Fort Worth,…
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Without ‘The Blueprint,’ There’s No Summer of Jay-Z
So let’s start here, with the understanding I am going to come off as the most wild-eyed, frothing, tinfoil-lidded Barb in need of a grass-covered reality check on the internet: It had to be staged, right? I say this as someone who was in Yankee Stadium the night of Sunday, July 12, just shy of two months ago today, lingering…
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Summer Takes a Big, Beautiful Bow with J’Ouvert and The West Indian Day Parade
Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets around Empire Boulevard and Eastern Parkway as J’ouvert and the West Indian Day Parade turned the entire neighborhood into Brooklyn’s biggest party on Monday, September 7. The official festivities began before dawn, on Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard, with J’Ouvert, a celebration rooted in the emancipation of enslaved people in the Caribbean. …
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NYC Public Schools are Cracking Down on AI in The Classroom
If for some reason your little ones were already a bit too reliant on AI tools in their academic lives, it may be best to brace them for the sobering experience waiting for them on the other side of this weekend. According to Mayor Mamdani, the bulk of New York City public school students will return next week to classrooms…
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Things to Do in Brooklyn This Weekend
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