Permanent Brunch - East Village
I’d been hearing rumors of a new restaurant. It would be a magical land Manhattannites had only ever dreamed of where brunch never ended. None of this Sunday-maybe-we’ll-give-you-Saturday-but-that’s-it business. All week long. Nothing but brunch. Refreshing. But delays upon delays, it seemed to be an urban foodie myth until voilà! Out of nowhere, an opening date was set for the restaurant, Permanent Brunch, and it was definitely time for a visit.
I’d originally wanted to visit at brunch time on Friday, as part of the allure of the restaurant (to me) is brunch on your schedule. I was bummed to see no daytime hours on their schedule during the week. Only the weekend. How, dare I say, standard. But no worries, as I was still very curious. They are open until 11:30PM Monday through Wednesday and Sunday or until 3am on Thursday through Saturday. Read more »
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Permanent Brunch
Obliterati Endless Summer Sizzle
Sponsored by Citysearch!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
6:00pm – 11:00pm
Sweet & Vicious
5 Spring Street (Btwn. Elizabeth St. and Bowery)
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In regular terms, Summer means heat, humidity, a rapid desire to remain indoors or at the very least pool or beachside. In film terms, Summer usually means a bad case of the film blockbusters. It actually is a great marketing ploy. Winter is a more serious season, it’s cold out and the freezing wind forces a bit of us all to take things less flippantly than we do in the boisterous Summer. But with each passing year, the idea of splitting films up by seasons based on their depth gets to be a bit monotonous. Just because it is Summer, doesn’t mean we as audienes want to shut our brains off completely to all plots and well-built characters. And finally, some film studios are catching on and saying “you don’t have to.”
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amy irvng,
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hugh dancy,
max mayer,
peter gallagher,
rose byrne
Markt, Flatiron
I was recently planning a brunch with some ladies and was trying to think of a good place with a varied menu (nice range of prices) which wouldn’t be a fiasco to get into at noon on a Sunday. Markt had been on my list for a long time, having walked by it countless times noticing it’s always busy. I saw they took reservations and decided to finally try it out.
Markt is a great little Belgian restaurant over in the Flatiron District, just bordering on Chelsea. They have a great outdoor seating area, but it’s mainly 2-tops, so we ended up sitting indoors. It was very hard to choose from the menu, enticed by the plates of croissants and preserves which went by and with my eyes darting from the Chocolade Pannekoek (chocolate chip pancakes served with Belgian chocolate sauce) back up to the Boterham Met Parijse Ham (Paris ham and Dijon mustard on whole wheat bread). We all pondered our options as I enjoyed my very strong coffee, which came served in its own French press. Read more »
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lara ruth,
Manhattan,
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Keith Chow
Paolo Javier chats with Keith Chow about the inaugural Asian American Comicon in post-convention glow.
Asian Americans have been vital contributors to the American comic book since, well, its birth, a fact rarely acknowledged by an industry that continues to uphold a homogeneously white and hetero imaginary on the covers and in the panels of its mainstream and independent titles. With this in mind, I cannot thank the BSG gods enough for the editors of Secret Identities, the first-ever anthology of Asian American comics published earlier this year, who followed-up their historic publication with an equally groundbreaking event on July 11th at the Museum of the Chinese in America: the inaugural Asian American Comics Convention. The AACC felt more like a day-long celebration; I got to participate in the morning as a reader on the panel ‘Every Comic is Asian American’, then geek out in the afternoon and evening as a reader and fan. (During my panel, I shared excerpts from obb, my on-going poetry comic collaboration with artist Ernest Concepcion that’s partially inspired by our lifelong interest in underground comic art and artists.) And I loved AACC for all the reasons that Keith Chow, co-organizer of the event and co-editor of Secret Identities, gives in our post-convention interview below.
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Bernard Chang,
Charlie Chan is Dead,
Christine Norrie,
Cliff Chiang,
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Derek Kirk Kim,
Gene Yang,
Goldfish Kisses,
Greg Pak,
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Jeff Yang,
Jerry Ma,
Keiko Agena,
Keith Chow,
Kelly Hu,
kiyama award,
Larry Hama,
Ming Doyle,
Museum of the Chinese in America,
paolo javier,
Parry Shen,
San Diego Comic Con,
secret identities
You can tell it’s Fringe Season when theatres ’round the city are suddenly bustling with life at odd hours of the day and escorting people in and out quickly so they can strike a set and get ready for the next show which is happening in, oh, about a minute. Yes, it’s all about endings and beginnings at Fringe which is why it’s rather fitting that I started my rounds this year with two very different plays that both dealt with the same fine line between living and dying, and what you do with that quick snap of a moment in between the two blackouts. Eli and Cheryl Jump takes you off on the wind of fanciful, magical, dreaminess while Look After You shows the realistic portrait of a life interrupted by a flash of illness that comes quickly and takes certainty with it. Both plays speak to the frailty of what we take for granted every day, both highlight what it means to be a survivor.
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Cassandra Vincent,
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Ignited States,
Jason Altman,
Look After You,
Louise Flory,
Lowell Byers,
Maieutic Theatre Works-MTWorks,
Nicole A. Watson,
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Theatre Buzz
So you can imagine how I excited I was to be invited for a weekend in East Hampton. The heat had finally descended on the city, in my Brooklyn neighbourhood garbage was steaming and stepping outside was like being draped in a warm, clammy towel. With visions of swimming pools and sea breezes dancing in our heads we boarded the Long Island Rail Road at Flatbush Avenue and in a little under three hours we were in another world…
A cross between the French Riviera and the Hollywood Hills, seemingly stalled in the 1950s, the Hamptons have to be seen to be believed. So if you’re after a classier paddle than Coney Island can offer why not plan a daytrip there before Labour Day brings the party to an end? See over the jump for some cunning plans… Read more »
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Shelter Island,
staycation,
Westhampton
There is something to be said about a film that taps into a style blocked into a certain era of film history. It is a difficult undertaking, one that cannot be simply executed by an innate desire to evoke a feeling that is encapsulated by outside influences of the time. Rian Johnson’s Brick is one of the few examples that not only captures a late film style but also combines it with the flare of current independent filmmaking.
Tapping into the Film Noir genre, Brick is set in a modern day high school where loner Brendan Fry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) delves into the underworld of a teenage crime ring that has spiraled out of control after the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend. Complete with a Femme Fatale, the film holds to practically every Noir characteristic leaving aside only the at-times distracting voice-over narration.
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Emilie De Ravin,
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Lukas Haas,
Matt O'Leary,
Nora Zehetner,
Rian Johnson
Society doesn’t look kindly upon mothers who kill their children, intentionally or otherwise; right now the court of public opinion is busily vilifying Diane Schuler who was reportedly drunk and stoned when she piled a group of children (her own daughter included) into her car and then drove the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway killing everyone as well as (some would say rightfully) herself. Before that, there was the infamous Andrea Yates, who, in a stupor of post-partum depression and psychosis, systematically drowned one child after another until all 5 of her young boys were dead. But really, the “how” is never the question. In fact, the “how” is pretty much shushed away quickly, no one wants to hear how a mother kills her own children. What we are left asking is … why? Why would a mother kill these little ones?
The Greeks have always been amazing storytellers; their myths and tragedies are rife with the themes that pulse through every level of society. Show me an Icarus and I’ll show you a victim of Bernie Madoff. But the story of Medea has always been a little harder to figure out; a woman who is so angered by her husband’s betrayal that she kills her sons in order to exact revenge on him. Again, this “why” never quite resonated enough with me to be clearly understood. A woman can more easily identify with killing herself over a tragic affair than she can with killing her own child. So updating Medea has to be done very carefully. Luckily, playwright Will Le Vasseur has found a way to give his Medea the perfect out, thus preserving the original story while making his main character actually sympathetic. Read more »
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Chekov,
MADDY,
Medea,
Nicu's Spoon Theatre,
The Swan Song,
Will Le Vasseur
Five Star Punjabi - Long Island City, Queens
I’ll admit that Queens is a part of NYC I’ve yet to explore. I’ve been out there a few times but until recently, I could easily count the number of times on one hand. Now that I’m working in Queens, there’s no excuse not to see what it has to offer.
My sister recommended we check out Five Star Punjabi. She’d been there before, coming across it online when searching for Indian food, and said that the food was actually quite good. I was glad she was with me though. The sign proclaimed “Five Star Diner” with “Indian” only barely visible from the angle where we were.
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