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 "Illustration"

Retail

Photo: Staff

Spoonbill & Sugartown

Spoonbill & Sugartown is an authentic independent bookstore and a destination for new ideas. You’ll appreciate that every title here feels hand-selected. read more »

Features

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 »

Oliver and Evan Haslegrave of hOmE in their Greenpoint studio

Photo: Rose Callahan

The Brothers Haslegrave

One afternoon in late winter, Evan and Oliver Haslegrave, the brotherly design duo behind half a dozen New York City restaurants and shops including the Manhattan Inn, duckduck and Goat… read more »

Blog

Ingo Giezendanner (Grrrr) at the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art

Photo: Swiss Institute Contemporary Art

GRRRR

Some choose to document their travels in writing while others in photography. For Ingo Giezendanner, also known as GRRRR, his choice is in pen and paper. He painstakingly… read more »

Drawings From the Film Beginners

Photo: Alleged Press

Drawings From the Film Beginners

Similar to Thumbsucker, Mike Mills will be putting out a book with Damiani for his forthcoming film, Beginners. In a cycle of art imitating life, Mills created a… read more »

"The Lemur" from the New York Times Magazine

Photo: Ian Dingman

Ian Dingman

To my surprise it wasn’t Wes Anderson’s brother, Eric Anderson, that illustrated the cover to the new Criterion version of Bottle Rocket, but a Chicago based artist by the name… 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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