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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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Retail

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Turntable Lab

The current music landscape can be a daunting one, considering that any bedroom musician is capable of releasing an album. In these digital times, it’s essential to separate the mountain… read more »

Dining / Bars

Hibino

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Hibino

Several blocks south from bustling Smith Street sits a quiet Japanese restaurant in Cobble Hill called Hibino. The restaurant is a collaborative effort between two chefs and a graphic designer. read more »

Events

Roof in Brooklyn Navy yard

Photo: Sarah Palmer

Rooftop Films

For those of us city dwellers with the frequent urge (but not always as frequent ability) to rise above it all, the annual Rooftop Films Summer Series offers… read more »

Artbook at Den

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Artbook @ Den

The ever changing concept shop, Den in the East Village is changing it up a bit this month. Instead of featuring a clothing line, Den is teaming up… read more »

Blog

Tron Legacy

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Tron Legacy Soundtrack Website

The Tron Legacy soundtrack website is filled with easter eggs. View the source code to see an ascii image of Kevin Flynn. Type in “derezzed” to hear a… read more »

A collaboration between Hudson's Bay Company, Best Made Co. and Partners & Spade

Photo: Partners & Spade

Randomness 02.18.10

Partners & Spade quietly launched their website last week with the help from The Scout. Have a look at the upcoming collaboration between P&S, Hudson’s Bay… read more »

January / February issue of The Word, The Lazy Issue

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The Word

While listening to the Monocle Weekly, Robert Bound, the magazine’s Cultural editor, recommended a publication hailing from Brussels, called The Word. The magazine is a cultural… 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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