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 "Games"

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Fold out map from the Munich Games

Photo: alphanumeric.

Otl Aicher

German designer, Otl Aicher was probably best known for his work in creating the entire identity system for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich Germany. Looking through Flickr, you can… read more »

56 Leonard

Photo: Herzog & De Meuron

Jenga!

Modular, structural, and daring. The original competitive architectural engineering game (didn’t it say that on the box?) has begun showing its formidable influence in the most challenging architecture in NYC read more »

Alexander Girard's nativity set

Photo: House Industries

Alexander Girard x House Industries

We were enlightened by Andy Beach during his Reference Library pop up shop at Kiosk last year about a collaboration in the works with Alexander Girard and House… 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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