Urban Kvetch: Wobbly Tables
Wobbly Tables
This is a flipping four-star restaurant. The sauteed skate we ordered came with cauliflower that you spent a week and a half caramelizing and a caper-raisin emulsion that required a Ph.D. in Chem...
Urban Kvetch: The Demise Of The Fortune Cookie
The Demise Of The Fortune Cookie
Remember fortunes? Something that foretells a new job, love or financial windfall; a prediction that eerily rings true that you'll superstitiously keep in your wallet; or at le...
Urban Kvetch: Dance Dance Revolution
Dance Dance Revolution
Quit claiming it's "just like Guitar Hero." Dance Dance Revolution is to Guitar Hero what Napoleon Dynamite is to Justin Timberlake. Anyone who attempted their DDR "dance moves" in the r...
Urban Kvetch: The Locker Room At The Friar’s Club
The Locker Room At The Friar's Club
To all of those Christian groups dedicated to "curing" homosexuality through "reparative therapy": just send Ted Haggard to the locker room at the Friars Club and expose him...
Urban Kvetch: Your First Day On The Job
Your First Day On The Job
You get introduced to the same people five times and you still can't remember anyone's name, then you're seated at a desk and given nothing to do, so you spend the afternoon straighte...
Urban Kvetch: Mr. Met
Mr. Met
Mets fans aren't some sushi-rolling, lemonade-sipping pansy-asses. The blue in the team logo is a reflection of the hue around our collars. We may have some sentimentality for team mascot Mr. Met, but ...
Good Chemistry
Remembered for her zany hats and pubescent troubles on the sitcom _Blossom_, Mayim Bialik could have easily entered pop culture's stable of desperate reality TV stars. But save an appearance on _Curb Your Enthu...
The Ballad Of Marissa Nadler
Marissa Nadler's music seems to exist in a world of its own. Most songs consist of little more than a carefully finger-picked acoustic guitar and a wispy, disembodied voice that recalls Hope Sandoval's reverb-d...
God Save The Queen
For a gay, bald, chubby Jew, Matt Lucas is pretty comfortable in his own skin. Then again, the actor/comedian is perhaps better known for the multitude of other skins he inhabits in his BBC hit show _Little Bri...
Taking It To The Streets
"They just aren't pretty," my grandmother declared after walking in and quickly out of Zoe Strauss' solo exhibition at Silverstein Photography this past summer. I was startled. I had spent the last month visiti...
The Gospel According to A.J.
The market for gimmick books—shtick lit, as it were—has enjoyed a surprising shelf life. There are authors who pledge not to spend money for a year, those who promise to say yes to everything and, of course, th...
