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Boo Paterson has been a regular at Raines Law Room, the speakeasy-like cocktail bar in the Flatiron District, since it opened in 2009. But she refuses to book a seat through Resy, the reservation app that the bar began using during the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, she emails Meaghan Dorman, Raines’ bar director. It’s a bit of a hollow victory, since Ms. Dorman then puts Ms. Paterson’s name into the Resy system anyway and Ms.

I was at the Burberry show in London this past season. I noticed that London is BURSTING with the Check scarf but so is New York…and it’s kind of everywhere. I got inspired and waxed poetic about the piece. The Burberry Check scarf is one of those pieces that I consider as having a “farmer’s market effect.” Have you ever had a night of debauchery and then you go to the farmer’s market the next morning, start sniffing organic apples hailing from some yadiyada upstate orchard, and then suddenly feel presentable?

Hi friends! We’re sort of swinging for the fences with today’s dirtbag, but I’m in a “go big or go home” sort of mood, so I’m gonna roll with it. Sometimes you’ve got people who are subtly shitty, and then sometimes you’ve got…this guy. The human race contains multitudes. Who is this Granddaddy of Garbage Behavior, you ask? None other than Mr. Yikes himself: This isn’t Dirtbag Nation’s first foray into Ancient Rome, and I doubt very much it shall be the last.

Head Eats: The diner photographed, here, on the back cover☝of the A&M re-issue is the Rite-Way Diner, still in business (now as the Olivette Diner) at 9638 Olive Blvd, Olivette, Missouri (an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis): Share John Schlitt was born February 3, 1950 in Lincoln Illinois. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to the nearby central Illinois town of Mt. Pulaski. When he was 13, he joined a band called Vinegar Hills Hometown Band Something Different.

Culturally Enough. is a community of anyone who straddles more than one culture. All are welcome regardless of age, gender, race, culture, sexuality, and so on. I am so pleased you are here. Welcome home. Reminder1: We are giving away an excellent book at the end of the month. Learn how to enter and gain additional entries to win! Reminder2: We have a leaderboard now! By sharing this newsletter and referring friends you can now earn comped months of the paid subscription!

Click here for the WTC recipe index, and scroll to the bottom of this post for a printer-friendly version of today’s recipe. The inspiration for this week’s recipe, again, came from one of you! On our “favorite regional recipes” thread (it is SO FUN to read through your responses!), Simone from New England mentioned corn chowder, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. But then I couldn’t decide which route to take with this chowder.

Just ahead of the new year, Ola Juice Bar opened a second location at 1025 Garden of the Gods Road. This joins the existing, decade-old spot downtown at 27 E. Kiowa St. Owner of Atlas Group COS Aaron Ewton, whose restaurant portfolio includes the COATI Uprise food hall and PigLatin in addition to Ola, says this new location is more geared toward community space and coworking as compared to downtown’s more cafe-forward approach, where 99 percent of business is grab-and-go.

SIDE PIECES DEP'T.HAPPY NEW YEAR! And welcome to Volume 4 of Indignity! Greetings to our longstanding returning readers and to the new subscribers who’ve just joined us in the past two days. This newsletter is produced by editor Tom Scocca and creative director Joe MacLeod, who’ve been working together on various projects since we were both at City Paper in Baltimore in the previous century.  Back in October, when we had to slow down our publishing for a while because your editor was in the hospital, we vaguely suggested that "

For Heartland Film Festival showtimes and tickets, click here. I’ve never really been huge on the found footage genre. I recently had the pleasure of revisiting The Blair Witch Project for my podcast, and it holds up really well — unfortunately, the genre craze it started has yet to rise to the simple heights it achieved. Too often, found footage horror is a collection of cheap jump scares and an absurd piling-on of tension that either a.