FEATURES

Battersby Brooklyn

By Sarah Williams
Left: Chef Walker Stern Right: Chef Joseph Ogrodnek

Photo: Tuukka Koski

At Battersby, it’s all personal. Chef-owners Walker Stern and Joseph Ogrodnek have a long-standing friendship that’s taken them through culinary school to stints at some of the city’s best restaurants.

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Chuck Miller

By Caroline Hwang
Chuck Miller with his wife Jeanette Miller

Photo: Michael A. Muller

The Meatpacking District in New York is full of beautiful Manhattanites, working professionals, and stylish tourists who are staying at the nearby Gansevoort Hotel and the Standard. So when you…

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Journal: Clift San Francisco

By Michael Muller
Frontside view of the Clift from Geary Street

Photo: Michael A. Muller

On a recent trip to San Francisco, the Clift hotel was the central figure and home base on a quick three-day stay during the onset of autumn in…

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Features

Textile & Objects shop 1961

Photo: Todd Webb courtesy of máXimo

Meet the Neuharts

We were first smitten with the work of Marilyn and John Neuhart upon discovering the handcrafted, colorful dolls that Marilyn created on commission for Alexander Girard’s Textile & Objects Shop… read more »

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California Solitary Times along with a Solitary Arts sticker pack.

Photo: Staff

California Solitary Times

Our friend Yong-Ki sent over a Solitary Arts care package last week that included the new California Solitary Times, a newspaper released in March. It features a partial… read more »

Twin Palms aka the Sinatra House today

Photo: Twin Palms

Twin Palms In Palm Springs

One need not be a Sinatra fan to appreciate the singer’s former home in Palm Springs. Built in 1947 and designed by E. Stewart Williams, the Twin Palms read more »

Jenev ceramic vessels 1953-1954

Photo: Ackerman

Jerome & Evelyn Ackerman

An exhibition in 1949 organized by Alexander Girard at the Detroit Institute of Arts would inspire Jerome and Evelyn Ackerman to devote a life and career in design…. read more »

TOURS

The Bacon Tour

By David Tez

Photo: Staff

From time to time, The Scout will feature interborough food tours designed as culinary and geographic explorations of our fair city. Each has been field tested, in a single day,…

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The Tenenbaums

By Siobhan Vivian

Photo: Staff

The Royal Tenenbaums is Wes Anderson’s visual love letter to New York. Though never explicitly named, the film presents a stunningly constructed pastiche of the quirky, the kitschy and the…

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