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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RESULTS FOR "Friends"

Retail

Ale et Ange

Photo: Mindy Best

Ale et Ange

Step into Ale et Ange and you feel like you’ve stepped into your best friend’s apartment… That is, if your best friend is a clothing designer with a fondness for… read more »

Persons of Interest

There are salons and there are barbershops. Persons of Interest is a barber shop that understand the need for a casual, friendly and comfortable place for men to care for… read more »

Vitsœ New York, 33 Bond Street

Photo: Jordan Provost © 2009

Vitsœ

The stretch of Bond Street between Lafayette and Bowery is no stranger to design. It’s cobblestone road can lay claim to a surfeit of attractive shops and home to the… read more »

Features

Multiple Visions A Common Bond exhibit

Photo: Dana Johnston

El Encanto de un Pueblo (The Magic of People)

Brooklyn welcomed Dana and me on November 7th, 2004 to a sublet apartment with a sheet-less bed and the haunting noise of radiator piping. We arrived with 2 suitcases and… read more »

Hotel Salto Chico overlooking the waterfall. Designed by Santiago-based architect Germán del Sol

Photo: Staff

Six Thousand Miles From Home

After a tumultuous flight from Santiago to Punta Arenas and six hours in a van with our new best friends, we arrive at our magnificent base camp—Explora’s Hotel Salto Chico… read more »

Valentine's Day cards

Photo: Staff

enormouschampion

Communication between friends these days has been reduced to brisk emails, text messages, and IM’s. In spite of these trends, enormouschampion understands the meaning and pleasure of sending a hand… read more »

Events

Operation Tomodachi

Photo: Deadly Dragon Sound

Operation Tomodachi

People do what they can, when they can. There’s been an outpouring of support for Japan as the country tries to grapple with what has become the worst tragedy to… read more »

Spencer Finch, The River That Flows Both Ways

Photo: CreativeTime

Spencer Finch: The River That Flows Both Ways

We heard Spencer Finch speak last spring about his anticipated installation for the High Line, The River That Flows Both Ways, and really liked his thinking…. read more »

Blog

"Always Play Amongst Friends" Friends of Type's first print edition

Photo: Jenny Pfeiffer

Friends in High Places

While living on opposite ends of the coast, New York and San Francisco, Aaron Carambula and Erik Marinovich launched Friends of Type via iChat. It was a reservoir… read more »

Bureau of Friends

Photo: Bureau of Friends

Bureau of Friends Auction

So much about what we discuss on this site seem to be meaningless compared to the tragedies of what is happening in Haiti. But we try and do what we… read more »

The Bureau of Friends meet at Partners & Spade

Photo: Bureau of Friends

Friends in Good Places

A few months ago, The Scout visited Heath Ceramics in Sausalito, California—perhaps the last ceramics manufacturer of their scale left in the United States. Upon touring their factory,… 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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