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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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Don Draper's office

Photo: MadMen AMC

Mad Men Auction

If you’re a regular reader of this site then you’re probably just as infatuated with Mad Men as we are. Sure the characters are great and the dialog between Don… read more »

Classic ad from the Naugahyde campaign

Photo: Uniroyal Engineered Products

Nauga Monsters

Naugahyde, the synthetically fabric made to look and feel like leather, was widely used on many Eames arm shell chairs in the 60s and 70s. To promote its product the… read more »

Stephen Burks's Design Sale at Relative Space

Photo: Stephen Burks

Design Sale

There is a certain pleasure in the hunt, in uncovering that diamond in the rough. I’m talking of course about the endless search on ebay, craigslist, or even a good… 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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