Television dramatist Stirling Silliphant famously wrote that “there are eight million stories in the naked city.†Local author Burton Becker is out to prove that our city has a few million stories of its own, even if they are a…
Friday Facts: Taupe, Bertram Cates, Waspgrass
:: As temperatures start to warm up, we would like to offer a reminder that a city ordinance passed last year makes public male toplessness illegal in the area bordered by 4th St, Gordon Ave, 57th St, and Burton Blvd.…
City loses hummus title
Ferran Habash may be out of the record books for now, but he’s confident he’ll be back. Habash is the owner of Ferran’s Middle Eastern Restaurant (429 Kerchavel), until recently the world-record holder for World’s Largest Vat of Hummus. In…
IndustriaLand
At the corner of Sparks Street and South Waycross Avenue stands a colossal building – a monument to an era that most people in the city would like to forget. Upon entering the sliding glass entry doors and passing into…
Friday Facts: Alda, Chinnelle, Fake Moustaches
:: Celebrities that have spent more than 24 hours in the custody of the city’s police force: Paris Hilton, Cam’ron, Willie Nelson, Stephen Baldwin, Alan Alda :: Planning a visit to the city and looking forward to doing a little…
The Permanence of Gillard’s Electric Typewriter Service
All large cities feature that staple of stand-up comedy, the retail storefront which seems to change hands every few weeks, and our own is no exception. The left-center unit of the Pioneer Square strip mall, currently S.E. Huang’s Kenpo-Karaterie, was…
Link: Boing Boing on Eisner’s New York works
At boingboing.net: Will Eisner’s New York – like Jane Jacobs in graphic form This is a glorious book. The longer pieces — “New York,” “The Building,” “City People,” “Invisible People” — are fully-formed things, whole stories that manage to put…