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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 "Wes Anderson"

Tours

Photo: Staff

The Tenenbaums

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… read more »

Features

Alex and Companies

Alex Calderwood has a history of turning nothing into something. He looks at unloved and abandoned spaces with an optimistic eye, seeing potential to infuse them with new life, art,… read more »

Blog

Brad Pitt and Wes Anderson

Wes Anderson for Softbank

It appears to be downtime for some movie directors. Softbank, the Tokyo based telecom company responsible for bringing the iphone to Japan, recently launched a spot featuring Brad… read more »

Rushmore 1998

Photo: Criterion Collection

The Substance of Style

There’s no denying that Wes Anderson’s movies are highly stylized, going to great lengths with the details in the set design and costumes. Many may wonder where his influences come… 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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