Prepare yourself for the Jolt Revolt, part two. The latest drink-maker to try cashing in on the retro-beverage nostalgia wave is the high-octane soda with “all the sugar and twice the caffeine” that caused insomnia in many a ’80s and ’90s computer nerd. The company says the original cans...More »
More early research on Ducktales ! Secondary characters this time. I ha a lot of fun playing with those Disney codes (very unusual for me) ! Ducktales is available on Disney XD. (All images are Disney TV property).
If you've ever lived in a small space, you know that the dishwasher is, well, you. Not anymore, thanks to one European importer who wants you to be able to have your minimalist studio and low maintenance clean dishes, too.
Coming of age in the High Mall Era meant the food court was the first stop before buying a new halter top or catching Freddie Prinze Jr.'s latest flick. Despite being a mall regular, I always debated between choosing the oversized pizza slice or sticky-sweet chicken teriyaki. Chicken teriyaki always won. Today, I rarely make it into a mall, but on days when my energy is low and the need to feed my family is high, the urge for chicken teriyaki takeout is strong.
NYCC and Uniqlo have announced a partnership for this years show. It’s the first time that Uniqlo. the Japanese clothing brand, has teamed up with NYCC but it seems like a natural. Uniqlo has been making comics-themed clothing for a while now (I still treasure the t-shirts from their Tezuka collab nearly a decade ago.) […]
Stag deers in London’s Richmond Park, elks in east China, and Bactrian deer in central Asia are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world
Shake Shack taps England’s famed chef Fergus Henderson
It’s a meat match made in heaven, with chef Fergus Henderson putting his spin on the Shackburger. On Friday, September 15 and Saturday, September 16, Henderson will be in town repping his acclaimed restaurant St. John with an eel burger, doughnuts, and the restaurant’s wine. The Madison Square Park Shake Shack will serve a $9.99 smoked eel burger topped with bacon, pickled red onion, crème fraiche, horseradish, and watercress, as well as vanilla custard doughnuts ($3.99) and red and white wine produced in France for St. John. Henderson’s appearance is sure to draw long lines — Eater’s meat master Nick Solares calls St. John his favorite restaurant in the world.
Some Starbucks in NYC will have whiskey-flavored coffee
Starbucks will make New Yorkers’ mornings a little more boozy-tasting with the addition of whiskey barrel-aged cold brew to the menu. Sold only at the 10 Waverly Place and 1142 Madison Avenue stores, the drink is made by steeping unroasted Sulawesi coffee beans from Indonesia in old whiskey-aging oak barrels. The beans soak up the flavor, and then once they’re roasted, the alcohol is killed off but the flavor remains. It hits stores on Tuesday, September 12.
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Prontito
“Ornately swagged” burgers and hot dogs in Queens
This week, Ligaya Mishan revels in the excess offered at Prontito, a Colombian hot dog and burger shop in Elmhurst, Queens at 40-25 Forley Street. Here, the piled-high renditions will make you “toddle heavily, happily home,” she writes, particularly recommending the cholado, super perro hot dog, hamburguesa Prontitos, and loaded fries.
Community Board 3 zeroes in on Hell Square
It its continued quest to clean up so-called Hell Square — that crowded, rowdy bar zone on the Lower East Side — Community Board 3 has put together a committee to assess the link between bar density and public health and safety. The committee will report its findings at a meeting next week in the interest of seeing what should be done. Stay tuned.
Van Leeuwen rolls into FiDi
Ice cream truck hit Van Leeuwen keeps the expansion rolling, this time with a new scoop shop at 224 Front Street in the Financial District. It’s now open, but a grand opening party on Saturday, September 9 will have dollar scoops from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. For reference, that’s a $4.50 savings per scoop. This is the sixth Van Leeuwen location — not including the trucks — with two more to come soon on the Lower East Side and in Greenpoint Landing.
Openings and coming attractions all around Manhattan
Here comesHairy Lemon, the American-Irish comfort food pub replacing now-closed Croxley Ales at 28 Avenue B. In other East Village news, a location of coffee shop The Beanhas taken over the old St. Mark’s Bookshop space at 136 East 3rd Street. Meanwhile, on the opposite side of the city, a Mexican restaurant called Guacamoleis opening this week at 768 Amsterdam Avenue at 97th Street.
Shanghai will soon have octopus fusilli
Midtown Italian hit Marea — most famous for its fusilli with red wine-braised octopus and bone marrow — is expanding to Shanghai come early 2018. Here’s a look at what locals have in store:
The arepa doesn’t get enough attention. Done well, a sandwich made by splitting open the savory, grilled or fried cornmeal cake — most commonly associated with Venezuela, but eaten widely in other Latin American countries, too, including, especially, Colombia — and stuffing it with things like soft, salty white cheese,...More »
Chocolate titan Mars, maker of dozens of candy bars and owner of Wrigley gum, is pledging to tackle climate with an amount that could cause a double take. A billion of its dollars over the “next few” years are being earmarked for a plan called “Sustainable in a...More »
One week after the record deluge in Texas, the biggest hurricane ever measured in the mid-Atlantic is tearing through the Caribbean.
Hurricane Irma, a category-five storm, is destroying homes and threatening lives in the Leeward Islands with 185mph winds and 11ft coastal surges, and in the coming days it is forecast to hit Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba and Florida. The governor of Florida has already declared a state of emergency.
Scientists have tracked the ruddy shelduck to 6,800 metres, making it the first duck known to fly at extreme high altitudes
A high-flying species of duck reaches altitudes of up to 6,800 metres (22,000ft) to cross the Himalayas, research from a British university has revealed.
Scientists from the University of Exeter used satellite tracking to find out how ruddy shelducks – which are a similar size to mallards – find their way through the mountain range.
A strong-beaked bird named after Barack Obama, a fire-tailed titi monkey and a new pink river dolphin are among species recorded by the Living Amazon Initiative of the WWF Network
Making an Amazon Prime Pantry order can be a stressful endeavor. Chances are, you hate the idea of wasting all those resources just to ship a half-full box. (We only have one planet!) And if you're gonna pay that $5.99 flat-rate shipping fee (keep reading for some tips on how to avoid that), you really want to make it worthwhile. That's where we come in.
We pretended our box was a puzzle (because it kinda is!) and figured out the ultimate combination in order to get the box completely full — full of stuff we can all use and need.
With their latest edition for their Architecture series, LEGO is going meta. The newest building to get the brick treatment is its own LEGO House in Denmark, which resembles—you guessed it—LEGO bricks.
President Trump on Tuesday suspended an Obama-era rule that would have required businesses to report how much they pay workers—broken down by race, gender and ethnicity. The rule had been hailed as a victory in the fight for equal pay, since it would have made it easier for employees and government agencies to identify pay discrimination.
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Under the rule, businesses with 100 or more employees would have begun reporting salary information with race and gender data in 2018. Businesses already report wage data to the EEOC each year, but the new rule would have expanded the number of reporting categories from 130 to 3,300. An amendment defunding the initiative was introduced in a House committee in August—ironically, on the heels of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day.
The White House Office of Management and Budget said in a memo that the rule is being scrapped because it was “burdensome to companies and could pose privacy and confidentiality issues,” but the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which adopted the policy last year, has stated that such information is necessary in order to identify and address wage gaps based on discrimination.
This is the latest in the Trump administration’s series of moves to disrupt the rights and opportunities of workers and unions. The administration has taken steps to abandon the guidelines that extended reporting requirements for companies when responding to union campaigns and expanded mandatory overtime pay for millions of workers. Trump has proposed major slashes to the budget of the Department of Labor, resulting in the elimination of the Women’s Bureau, which works to establish parity for women in the work force—and additional budget proposals include deep cuts to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), which ensures that federal contractors comply with affirmative action to promote diverse, fair places of work for all employees.
“We see through the Trump Administration’s call to halt the equal pay rule that requires employers to collect and submit pay data by gender, race and ethnicity to the government,” National Women’s Law Center CEO and President Fatima Goss Graves said in a statement. “This is not a technical tweak as they would have you believe. Make no mistake — it’s an all-out attack on equal pay. Today’s action sends a clear message to employers: if you want to ignore pay inequities and sweep them under the rug, this Administration has your back.”
Calling all Potterheads who wish to try your hand at a bit of sorcery IRL: There's a Harry Potter-themed shop in Edinburgh, Scotland, and it's filled with a rather impressive collection of merchandise inspired by your favorite bespectacled wizard's adventures.
Houston-based company Sentai Filmworks launched a GoFundMe campaign on Friday to assist its staff members following Hurricane Harvey. All donations will...
From self-healing phone screens to concrete that repairs itself, businesses are investing in futuristic materials. But can it curb our throwaway habits?
Smashed screens, broken circuits, water damaged keyboards – we send millions of tonnes of broken electronics to the dump every year. But what if our phones and laptops could fix themselves?
This month, it emerged that smartphone company Motorola had filed a patent for a self-healing phone display. The design includes a “shape memory polymer”, which the patent application says would at least partly reverse damage when exposed to heat. In theory, at least, users could hit a “repair” button and wait for their cracked screens to mend.
Winning and shortlisted images from this year’s competition, from awe-inspiring action shots to charming portraits, featured in a new book celebrating some of the best bird photography of the year
All good things must end, and so it is with one of the oddest items to ever grace a McDonald’s menu: McPizza. The all-American culinary fail-safe was introduced with much fanfare in the ’80s, and two locations — in Pomeroy, Ohio, and Spencer, West Virginia, run by the same...More »
A KFC in China has released a new payment method that’s incredibly convenient on the one hand, and deeply alarming on the other. Say hello to the planet’s first store where customers buy food with their face. “Smile to Pay,” as the feature is being called, will be part...More »
It is PSL season, but unlike past launches, when the drink was given out a week or more ahead of time, Starbucks decided to be especially coy for this year’s debut, and it’s driving customers nuts.
It’s hard to think of a more refreshing beverage — a more perfect respite from a hot summer day — than a glass of lemonade. In its purest form, it’s a simple combination: lemon juice, sugar, and water. Of course, this being New York, we’ve got a host of excellent...More »
USDA-certified organic Cheetos and Doritos may sound like something out of the next dystopian Margaret Atwood novel, but the future of Whole Foods–friendly junk food is actually here now in the form of Frito-Lay’s latest snack line, Simply. Parent company PepsiCo has been on an all-natural kick for a...More »
NYCC and Uniqlo have announced a partnership for this years show. It’s the first time that Uniqlo. the Japanese clothing brand, has teamed up with NYCC but it seems like a natural. Uniqlo has been making comics-themed clothing for a while now (I still treasure the t-shirts from their Tezuka collab nearly a decade ago.) […]
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Jessica Merino is an editorial intern at Ms.
