Thursday - September 17, 2009

Gluttony with Mary HK Choi: Poore Brother's Salt & Vinegar Chips  @10:54 AM

Here are the best kind of bags of salt & vinegar chips in the whole wide world. No big deal. They're made by the Inventure Group, the dudes who bring us vacuum-packed bits of magic like Burger King French fries with condiment chips and those TGIF-branded tater skins and quesadillas that are less food and more like drawings of food. READ MORE 33

Wednesday - July 1, 2009

Hiram S. Thomas, The Troublesome Colored Man of Fort Greene  @2:16 PM

"The residents of Fort Greene Place, between Hanson Place and Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, have been greatly perturbed of late, as it was whispered among the neighbors that a colored man had purchased a house in that very select block." Thus began an article in the October 1, 1894 edition of The New York Times titled "They Want No Colored Neighbor." READ MORE 12