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 "Hand Made"

Features

Michael Mast and Rick Mast of Mast Brothers Chocolate

Photo: Mindy Best

The Mast Brothers

The Mast Brothers Chocolate factory occupies only three rooms in a nondescript building in Williamsburg. The first doubles as a storefront that opens on the weekend to customers with much… 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 »

Craig Thompson

Photo: Tuukka Koski

The Sweet Life

It’s a cool and rainy day in the Catskills (worthy of a Rip Van Winkle nap), but the oven keeps baker Craig Thompson’s cottage toasty and warm. The country home… read more »

Videos

Michael and Rick Mast of Mast Brothers Chocolate

Photo: Mindy Best

The Mast Brothers

The life of a mariner is one given over to wanderlust—the quest for adventure, crossing unseen horizons to secure precious goods—only to bring them back to their home port. This… read more »

Blog

Thomas Campbell working on his model

Photo: Two Birds Fly

Two Birds Fly

Two Birds Fly is a new company based in San Francisco. They specialize in hand carved surfboards and skateboards utilizing environmentally conscious materials. The company states that everything… read more »

House Industries at Heath Ceramics

Photo: House Industries

LA Shows

Two great shows happening this weekend in LA. Typography meets ceramics when House Industries makes its way to the West Coast taking over Heath Ceramics on Beverly Blvd…. read more »

The interior to Oswald's Mill located in Eastern Pennsylvania

Photo: Oswald's Mill

Oswald's Mill

Jonathan Weiss is a man that has followed his passion in life and made it into a career. After renovating a loft in Brooklyn where he lived and shot his… 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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