[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6deggcIR98Q&feature=player_embedded] Saw the Christmas Spectacular show at the House of Yes last Friday. Very impressive. Not your typical holiday- show mix of burlesque dancers and bland comedy (though the comedy was bland) – the House of Yes show features amazing aerial acts combined with genuinely talented dancers of all sorts of varieties (from burlesque to [...]

Julie Powell, of Julie and Julia fame, talks with Double X’s Hanna Rosin about what seems to be the hobby trend of the moment (and is also the focus of her new book, Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession): butchery. The first proper butcher shop I ever came to know was Ottomanelli’s, on [...]

It’s Greenpoint Food Market day! The now-once-a-month festival takes place in the basement of the chuch at 129 Rusell, across from McGolrick Park, between Nassau and Driggs. This Saturday, Katie & I will be there, debuting “Cobra Pate,” vegan nut pates from our friends in the Goddamn Cobras. It comes in three seasonal flavors: almond [...]