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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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RESULTS FOR "Girl Skateboards"

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<i>Where the Wild Things Are</i> series

Photo: Girl Skateboard

Where the Wild Things Are - Girl Skateboards

If you follow this blog you know that we’ve been keeping track of the progress of this movie for some time. Limited production stills have surfaced on the web, but… read more »

Beautiful Losers movie poster

Photo: Sidetrack Films

Beautiful Losers on iTunes and Fourstar

Just like it reads, Beautiful Losers is now available on iTunes. No details yet on the U.S. release of the dvd. Blu-ray possibly? A division of Girl Skateboards,… read more »

Kartell and Normaluisa collaborate to produce this "Glass" slipper.

Photo: PSFK

Randomness

Some things we found interesting recently: • Furniture manufacturer, Kartell dabbles in fashion by collaborating with Normaluisa, an Italian fashion label that’s created a line inspired by Cinderella… 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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