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

Oliver and Evan Haslegrave of hOmE in their Greenpoint studio

Photo: Rose Callahan

The Brothers Haslegrave

One afternoon in late winter, Evan and Oliver Haslegrave, the brotherly design duo behind half a dozen New York City restaurants and shops including the Manhattan Inn, duckduck and Goat… read more »

House Industries founder Andy Cruz at his home office.

Photo: Rose Callahan

House Rules

Ogling the archives at the House Industries studio in pastoral Delaware can only be likened to digging through the crates of a great record collector. All sorts of gems are… read more »

Blog

Old Spice commercial directed by Mike Mills

Photo: Mike Mills

Mike Mills For Old Spice

Mike Mills takes a break from working on his second full length feature, “Beginners,” to direct a comical advert with Wieden and Kennedy for Old Spice. Though the… read more »

"Le Apartomatic" co-directed by Wes Anderson and Coppola

Photo: Stella Artois

Le Apartomatic

Mother London has been rolling out the “She is a thing of beauty” campaign for Stella Artois since July. Billboards, bus shelters posters and print ads have been spotted throughout… read more »

Natalie Portman stars in Sofia Coppola's latest spot for Miss Dior Cherie

Photo: Dior

Sofia Coppola for Dior

After watching the :30 second Miss Dior spot directed by Sofia Coppola, we had to wonder whether an extended version exists. Possibly in a French cinema before a midnight screening… 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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