miso soup and rice
Having been sick most of last week, and given the arctic wonderland we’ve been experiencing (thanks, Canada) my mind naturally turns to soup. Jewish penicillin is but a deli delivery away, though it isn’t the same unless mom makes it for you. Far easier, and just as good, is Japanese penicillin—miso soup.
Ok, I just made up the part about it being “Japanese penicillin.” It’s actually more like Japanese coffee. You’ll find it at practically every meal, and a traditional breakfast is just miso soup and rice. I’ve never tried that (I’m more of a cereal guy) but I could see how it might be an invigorating start to the day.
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Hive Cooking,
soup
There is a saying most women say, “The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” Well, I think most gays would agree that the way to a gay man’s heart is through a song.
I sadly was not blessed with the gay gift of song. My singing voice is not up to par with most of my gay counterparts, so I like to live vicariously through those that can actually carry a tune. I think the best place to go and just hear some amazing singing is down in the West Village at the piano bars that date back to the days of the Stonewall Riots.
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Cabaret,
Piano Bars,
The Paulinator
Eponymy
Name: Andrea Miller
Occupation: Owner of Eponymy
Borough/Neighborhood: Park Slope, Brooklyn
Tell us a little about Eponymy and how it got started: My grandparents had an antique shop that they ran for about 20 years in Cape May, NJ — the oldest resort and Victorian settlement in the country. Their shop, which closed in the mid 1990′s, was located on the bottom floor of a residential house called The Pink House, a wonderful Victorian Gingerbread House that graced the cover of the New Yorker in March 1974. So I guess I inherited/ developed an eye from watching them in their shop and trying to “help.”
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Andrea Miller,
Beeline,
boutique,
Brooklyn,
Eponymy
Eric Sanders is many things: a prolific playwright, a producer, and a lover of the horror genre. With his upcoming play, The Wendigo, he takes the old tale written by Algernon Blackwood and brings it to the stage. I sat down to talk with him about his career, his upcoming play, and his thoughts on theatre.
KTL: Eric, thanks for taking some time to chat with me today. Before we get into your latest play, The Wendigo, I wanted to talk about DEWEY’S NIGHTMARE: The Library Play Challenge which was a process where people were blindfolded, set loose in a library, had to pick a book at random and then had one week to come up with a play based on the book. Your play was called Mangina. I have to ask, was it about what it sounds like it’s about?
ES: The cool thing about doing Dewey’s Nightmare is that the books were all random and very arcane, really one-of-a-kind books. I wound up getting a yearbook from a small New Jersey State School from 1982 and I had to write a play based on it. I was trying to just absorb it all … and I saw a picture of this sad looking girl, sort of looking off into the distance. On another page there was this picture of a jock. I just pictured the two of them having an end-of-year conversation about a failed relationship. The twist is that he’s a hermaphrodite.
How that came out of seeing those two photos, I don’t know. I’d be horrified if they saw the play! Not that they would ever know it was based on their pictures. So yeah, that’s what Mangina is.
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Algernon Blackwood,
Eric Sanders,
horror,
Medicine Show Theatre,
supernatural fiction,
The Wendigo,
theatre,
Theatre Buzz
Mole - Lower East Side
I’ve walked by Mole in the Lower East Side countless times upon leaving the 2nd Avenue subway stop, but somehow had never been in. After seeing “The Wrestler” (not bad) at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema, I decided to finally give it a try. From the exterior, it does not look like a large space which proved to be true upon entering. We had to wait before we were squeezed upwards and back into the seating area of the restaurant. There was a seating area in the back left hand corner which was empty although it appeared to be set up for a larger group. There were several people squeezed into their tiny bar area and there were two two-top tables together that they finally split apart to seat us. It was quite a drawn-out process, but we were finally seated.
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Dish Buzz,
Enchiladas,
Food,
lara ruth,
les,
lower east side,
Mole,
Restaurants
OKCupid.com
Boners Rejoice! Internet Dating is fun again!
There’s a new ad for eHarmony with a fat guy in goalie pads at a hockey rink. You’ve probably seen it and thought, man, that guy is like 47. He even says that his sisters suggested eHarmony for its more “serious” approach. But what if you don’t want dates that are so “serious” or imminently geriatric? Maybe you’re looking for the love of your life, but maybe you’re also looking for a hassle free hand job on the UWS.
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Dating,
holding hans,
OKCupid
Happy new year! I apologize for the long delay in posting. With winter always comes an unnecessarily long winter cold. But I plan on taking a break from drinking cranberry-apple tea (my new fave) and sipping Robitussin to enjoy some of the Chinese New Year festivities going on in the city as well as the outer boroughs this week.
I know, I know. Why should you celebrate the Chinese New Year if you’re not, well, Chinese? I’m not either, but I love engrossing myself in other cultures and learning about their history. I studied journalism and history in college so this is part of my inner history nerd, or that’s what I always tell my boyfriend as he pretends to listen. The Big Picture, which is one of my favorite blogs, did a great round-up of pictures detailing Chinese New Year celebrations around the world. (My favorite photo is of the woman in full make-up and smoking a cigarette).
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asia society,
china,
chinatown,
chinese,
chinese new year,
flushing,
ox,
soul of shaolin,
year of the ox
Before anyone calls the ASPCA, let me say right up front that Broken Dog Legs, the one woman show written and directed by Emily Conbere and starring Penny Pollak, does not harm any dogs. Rather, “broken dog legs” is a metaphor that reflects one woman’s journey (“SHE”) through therapy as she confronts issues dealing with her distant father, her dizzy mother, her lost-to-suicide brother and Citibank.
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broken dog legs,
Emily Conbere,
one woman show,
Penny Pollak,
theatre,
Theatre Buzz
Hey there. Got a line-up for you, are you ready? Go out there and get ‘em in this fabulous Winter Wonderland because soon Spring showers will arrive and we all know your rain boots are tired as he** from last year. There are many events forthcoming in the next month or so. Next week’s Concierge Corner will honor all of February’s events – and be our meatiest edition yet – so be sure to check back next week for our FABULOUS FEBRUARY edition. It doesn’t matter it’s the shortest month of the year – because it’s our longest Concierge Corner post EVER!
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book signings,
Central Park,
Concierge Corner,
Events,
february,
hotels,
january,
Marissa,
ny,
nyc,
Restaurants,
sake,
theatre,
tours,
walking tours,
wine
