From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…
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The Tenenbaums
By Siobhan Vivian
Photo: Staff
The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…
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El Encanto de un Pueblo (The Magic of People)
Travel
By Erik Marinovich
Photo: Dana Johnston
Brooklyn welcomed Dana and me on November 7th, 2004 to a sublet apartment with a sheet-less bed and the haunting noise of radiator piping. We arrived with 2 suitcases and 4 boxes that showcased a new compact lifestyle. With no jobs or friends we set upon an unexpected 4 year love affair with Brooklyn. During that time we moved through jobs, met best friends and collected a lot of “things.”
enormouschampion
Design
By Tom Ran
Photo: Staff
Communication between friends these days has been reduced to brisk emails, text messages, and IM’s. In spite of these trends, enormouschampion understands the meaning and pleasure of sending a hand written note in a beautifully crafted card. Perhaps it’s because what they create is truly a labor of love.
Greenpoint and the Brothers from hOmE
Food / Drink
By Craig Cavallo
Photo: Daniel Bernauer
At the beginning of The Big Lebowski, Sam Elliot’s gravelly voiceover brings the audience into the scene. “Sometimes there a man,” he says, “well, he’s the man for his time and place. He fits right in there.” It turns out, sometimes that man has a brother, and sometimes those brothers start a design firm. That’s the Haslegraves, and the time and place is right now in Greenpoint.
Hidden and Hipster-Free
Food / Drink
By Maggie Shi
Photo: Staff
PDT, La Esquina, Milk & Honey…secret bars and restaurants are scattered all over the city. But let’s face it; these unmarked or “underground” places aren’t so secret anymore. In fact, anyplace that doesn’t have a name, a sign, or a phone number instantly becomes the next hot spot.
House Rules
Design
By Sarah Williams
Photo: Rose Callahan
Ogling the archives at the House Industries studio in pastoral Delaware can only be likened to digging through the crates of a great record collector. All sorts of gems are strewn out across tables and desks as Andy Cruz recalls anecdotes about each one. He pauses on an early inked sketch of a House 33 logo for their UK clothing line and reminisces over their critiques.
Josh Vogel
Art
By Tom Ran
Photo: Mindy Best
We visited Josh Vogel of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. in late 2010 and kick started this year with a feature on the wood sculptor based in Kingston, New York.
