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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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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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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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…
Read MoreSisters Amy Salvini Swanson and Beth Salvini combined their talents in graphic design and fine art with their printing pedigree to form Greenwich Letterpress. read more »
Don’t expect the same old bacon and eggs here—the much-praised brunch at Prune is always an adventure, from the mystery of wondering how long you’ll have to wait for a… read more »

Photo: Rose Callahan
Joshua Vogel’s relationship with wood is nearly symbiotic. As a sculptor he listens to its sounds, knows the story of each piece intimately, and understands how different species behave. In… read more »

Photo: Mindy Best
We visited Josh Vogel of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. in late 2010 and kick started this year with a feature on the wood sculptor based in Kingston, New York. read more »

Photo: Mindy Best
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 »

Photo: Mindy Best
We visited Josh Vogel of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. in late 2010 and kick started this year with a feature on the wood sculptor based in Kingston, New York. read more »
A bit off the beaten track (physically and conceptually) from Fashion Week and NY400 events, the Mettawee River Theatre Company returns to St. John the… read more »
Handmade Nation is an indie documentary covering the multi-front resurgence of craft and DIY culture by first-time filmmaker, artist, and photographer Faythe Levine. We first learned about the… read more »
There is a lost art in book binding, very few people appreciate the intricacies that go behind its creation. Pepper’s Projects, a gallery based in Tokyo is attempting… read more »
We’re slowly discovering a batch of artisans that call the Catskills their home. With its expansive landscape, rolling mountains and lush woodlands, it is no wonder why they choose this… read more »
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,…
Read MoreThe 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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