Planet of the Grapes

40 Lincoln Center Plaza (located west of Broadway and Columbus Avenue from W. 62nd to W. 65th Street) Having visited the grand performance halls of Lincoln Center and evaluated their loos, we decided to check in with the library that shares its home with these great stages, stages where we will inevitably present readings of [...]

2245 Broadway (at 80th Street) Zabar’s bills itself as “New York’s Epicurean Emporium.” Taking the “epicurean” term in its broader sense, we showed up in togas expecting an orgy, but were stared down by seventy year old women fighting over nova lox, promptly dashing such hopes. However, upon finding that the word primarily implies indulging [...]

2289 Broadway at the corner of 82nd Street In reviewing the varying Barnes and Nobles of New York City, we are beginning to feel like a writer who is paid well by a publisher and spurned on by a rabid but intellectually challenged fan base to keep writing the same crappy book. Sure, there may [...]

81st Street & Broadway The age-old question of quality vs. quantity seems to answer itself when you gaze upon any well-known food establishment. A French bistro with a high Zagat’s rating will clearly be concerned with the quality of their presentation. In the case of McDonald’s, who pioneered the “drive-thru within a drive-thru” and added [...]

71st Street and Broadway Stepping into this bathroom reminds us of stepping into Van Gogh’s mind, at least while he was painting landscapes during the day. No, this is not an absinthe hallucination, but rather a very abstract and dare we say clever way of saying that yellow is a predominant color in this bathroom [...]