Posted 09/03/08 in Grub Street
Mediavore
Starbucks to Offer Healthy Breakfast; a Red Hook Revival
Britain has its own locavore movement, a review of the Slow Food Nation conference, and more, in our morning news roundup.
Posted 08/11/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Billionaires Have Bad Days, Too
Carl Icahn is struggling with various projects, Sharon Waxman becomes the latest media lady to start a news-aggregation Website, and — it's official! — most City Council members pay less rent than you do, in our daily roundup of finance, media, real-estate and entertainment news.
Posted 07/25/08 in Daily Intel
Vu.
‘Real World’ Still Fishing Around Red Hook
Turns out the cast members won't be living on Pier 41 — but they'll still be right near Ikea!
Posted 07/08/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Ikea Buses for All — Even Recovering Heroin Addicts!
Stuy Town laundry thieves are being surveilled, Carroll Gardens raccoon cheerleaders speak out, Ikea bus riders forego affordable design for methadone, and much more, in our 'Ruby Tuesday' boroughs roundup.
Posted 06/27/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Would You Want to Live in the Same Building As the Cast of ‘The Real World’?
The Belltel lofts marketing plan sputters, things get ugly in Forest Hills, and folks are backed up in Red Hook. That and more in our boroughs-report week-capper.
Posted 06/23/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Can Regina Spektor Make Murray Hill Cool?
Regina Spektor moves into Murray Hill, Carroll Gardens' Ivy League hipster types strike back against last week's maudlin anti-yuppie video, and a celeb hip-hop stylist's body turns up in the Bronx. Plus, news from Red Hook, Long Island City, Dumbo, and Coney in today's boroughs roundup.
Posted 06/19/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
The G Train: Helping Greenpoint Keep It Real
They're not too gentrified in Greenpoint to transcend the crummy G train, not too Ikea-fied in Red Hook to alienate Santogold, and not too cranky in Brooklyn Heights to bitch about smaller OJ cartons. So we're not too proud to say this: that and more in today's boroughs report!
Posted 06/18/08 in Daily Intel
Neighborhood Watch
Tom Wolfe and Aby Rosen Continue to Get on Each Other’s Nerves
The writer disses Norman Foster on the Upper East Side, erotic yet "tender" art is nixed in the South Bronx, and more Ikea mania, in our hump-day boroughs report.
Posted 06/17/08 in Daily Intel
Intel
Swedish Fishing: The Wait for the Red Hook Ikea Opening
We talked to those hardy souls who will wait in line for anything — even a discount Scandanavian sofa.
Posted 05/28/08 in Daily Intel
In Other News
‘The View’ Darkly Celebrates Red Hook Ikea
On this morning's show, everyone in the audience got free $200 gift cards — but the audience didn't seem thrilled. And Whoopi was downright ominous: "Don't forget, you'll be putting it together, too."
Posted 04/16/08 in Daily Intel
Company Town
Good-bye ‘Real Housewives of New York,’ Hello ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’!
Not enough 'Times' newsroom workers are taking the buyouts, BlackBerrys are outlawed at a law firm, and Ikea is finally arriving.
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