Warning: ranting ahead....I'm still too pissed off to write coherently about this but I'll try....Da Wife and I went out to Manhattan last night to catch a bite and a comedy show. We picked a few places but ended up parking far from them.So we popped into Mike's Bistro on 72nd Street. Our initial im...

Let’s stat with the introduction to Stanislaw Lem’s Memoirs Found in a Bathtub . It describes an elaborate future history, one in which the world — something like our world, we gather — has suffered a calamity: the papyralysis. The papyralysis has destroyed all paper on earth...

After the concert in Milwaukee we went out for a late dinner at Coquette Cafe. It is a bistro in a gentrified bit of the city. It was one of just a few places that would be able to take us at close to 11 p.m. Walking it the restaurant hit all the right notes for a bistro. The menu had all the things...

Although Valentine’s Day is a completely made up and fake holiday, we protest, then we celebrate. This year we celebrated with a 7-course dinner at our new favourite restaurant in Sacramento, Tuli Bistro. The delightful staff prepared what I consider to be a most apropos flight of food and win...

Filed under: In Sixty Seconds Normand Laprise urges cooks to not ignore the truffle in hard times -- suggesting how far an ounce can go -- from flavoring your in-shell eggs, to truffle ice cream (recipe included), scrambled eggs, risotto, and bread with a truffle center. February is the perfect time...

Do Humanlike Machines Deserve Human Rights? Good question: I’ve seen videos of the incineration of T.M.X. Elmo (short for Tickle Me Extreme); they made me feel vaguely uncomfortable. Part of me wanted to laugh — Elmo giggled absurdly through the whole ordeal — but I also felt sick ...

by Deb Another day, another great lineup. Check out today’s BlogTalkRadio highlights: (All times EST) Got a geek in your life and are clueless about Valentine’s Day gifts? The Tech Moms give listeners a few ideas for last minute geeky gifts that just might work! Don’t miss it, toni...

It's day three of Montclair's first-ever Restaurant Week - we hope our readers have been finding fine dining deals and delectable dishes by Baristaville's top chefs. Chef Ariane, booted off of her TV challenge, is back in the kitchen at CulinAriane. Riding the wave of publicity at a level befitting ...

Answer: People who get righteously offended at offensive street art, not because it’s offensive, but because it’s just not sophisticated enough, dammit. Don’t click, or even look at the URL, if the f-word offends you. (To be perfectly clear, I bet the folks at Vice had a good hard ...

I have these really great phantom coworkers who I call "phantom" because they live in New York City and I mostly interact with them over IM or on Facebook and such. They're great fun! And probably one of the simple joys of the Inaugural week was having the opportunity to work and spend some time tog...