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'And She's Not Even Pretty', Courtney Love's new gallery show at Fred Torres Collaborations in Chelsea, is a clever meditation on what it means to be alive and erupting with inspiration.  A violent, sad, and infinitely childlike celebration of fraught relationships and spiritual goblins.  She explains to The Minute why creating visual art is in a way more terrifying to her

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PRIMARY FLIGHT-MIAMI GRAFFITI AND STREET ART EXPLODES IN WYNWOOD AND THE DESIGN DISTRICT (Wherein The New York Minute goes south for Spring Break…) If Miami is the Street Art Mecca, then Primary Flight/Primary Projects is the Qaaba.  Primary Flight major domo Books IIII Bischof sounds off….www.newyorkminutetv.com  Preach Books, preach!

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Hello loyal Daily Cocaine reader!  Please venture forth with me to The New York Minute, my new project originating out of TNYM TV's Lower Manhattan Nerve Center. C'mon along, you are expected!

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It's a shame I arrived in NYC too late to fight as a foot-soldier in the Forsyth Street Noodle Wars.  But that doesn't mean I can't do some research into exactly what those doomed fools were fighting over.  So while waiting for our hair to be done, me and my new friend strolled over to Kuai Le at 28 Forsyth St., followed by Xi'an Famous Foods just down the block.  This branch of

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One thing or another (job, business) has always had me working a lot of holidays and weekends.  You're at home with your family on Thanksgiving, I'm frantically trying to run down the satellite coordinates of  the clean feed of another shitty Lions game.  You're carving a beautiful turkey and inhaling Sam Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale by the case, I'm eating catered gravy by the

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Eating a healthy breakfast is supposed to be the cornerstone of a productive day.  That goes a long way to explaining why nobody has a job in this country anymore.  The line of people waiting to inhale industrial machine-made gross globules of animal grease and chemicals in various states of matter, ranging from Super-Solid (McGriddles), to String-net Liquid (Dunkaccino®), is ponderous,

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New York has the reputation of being a very expensive place to live.  It is well-deserved.  Money goes flying out of your pockets faster than a $20 blow-job, which, by the way, in New York, is $100.  Fortunately, there are a lot of cheapo breakfast and lunch spots for the working types: your egg-on-a-roll, your meat-on-a-stick, your dollar-slice, your dollar-dog, and your halal

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There is a trend in Miami dining, as everywhere else, to put the chef’s face on everything.  Like the chef?  Love the restaurant!  This works for the most part because chefs caught on some time ago that they could be more successful, i.e., make more money, by pretending they were more than just cooks, more than just a face behind a stove.  In fact, in case you weren’t

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Troy Gardens is a great program in Miami that shows kids how to plant, grow, harvest, and sell fruits and vegetables.  A big hug and kiss to James Beard Award-winning Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael's Genuine, who has bought and prepared amazing dishes with the kids' own passionfruit and bananas!  Please watch this cool video shot and edited by the lovely and talented Alexandra

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As someone who appeared on 'Take Home Handyman', and was ultimately vaulted to Minor Celebrity Status, I am passing on to you this golden opportunity to do as I did: to make an ass of yourself in front of millions.  And get a free kitchen renovation for your 'friends'.  The production company, which is casting in Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, as well as other cities, passed the info to me,

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'Brain'-Roasted Cauliflower over Cheddar Grits  Batter, Chocolate  'Brain' Smothered in Muscadet White Mirepoix Gravy Not Swamp Cabbage but Ground Cabbage Fresh Seasonal Tomatoes Fried Mushroom Cigars a la Michel Richard Breakfast Radishes courtesy Troy Gardens, Miami Frying Goose egg Roasted Onions Marshmallow Fluff Batter Cauliflower Fritters and

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{Disclaimer: I did not eat all these meals by myself!}   They say it is important to have three square meals a day.  But as my mother always said, don't forget your Sumtain.  For the scoop on everyone's favorite late-night home-cooked meal, check out this little ditty from way back in the nineties... Breakfast-Mango/Strawberry Maple Goat Cheese Pancakes Lunch-Noodles with

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Food Porn doesn't mean food you have sex with.  Just stuff that looks good naked.  These are some of the highlights of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and sumtain.  Try and control yourself. Asparagus Macaroni and Cheese Vegetarian Blood Pudding (Savory Mushroom Bread Pudding) (No actual blood used) 'Volant Chai Liqueur' Flan Creamy and just sweet enough Tabbouleh...

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Cashion's Eat Place has long since lost its namesake chef, Ann Cashion. But it has not lost lost her daring and inventive take on cutting-edge American food. The perfect example is the crispy lamb's brain appetizer. Three or four crunchy nuggets filled with unctuous, slippery, brain. Served simply with a lemon wedge and a citrus aioli, it's the kind of dish that you won't soon forget, no

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Whether you consider it declassé or recherche, smoking goes with drinking like Plymouth goes with Dolin.  There aren't many places left in DC where you can light up these days, but here are three rooftops where you can not only practice your languid looks, but also work on your smoke rings. At Perry's in Adams Morgan, the menu has been revamped by legendary baker/chef Mark Furstenburg (

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Need a drink and a slice but don’t want to spend too much money? Try the chef-driven Radius Pizza in Mt. Pleasant where on Monday nights, all day Saturday and Sunday, and 5-7PM the rest of the week, you can get a satisfying cheese slice and a pint for $5. Try the Silver Spring-brewed Hook and Ladder ‘Backdraft Brown’, and feel free to add toppings to your slice for 50 cents each. Stay alert

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The best thing about the holidays is the free pass to get hammered and pass out on the carpet.  Wait, you don't get that?  But you must serve alcohol, and plenty of it, so maybe thinking while you're drinking is a measured way to steadily increase the buzz while maintaining awareness.  I help my guests (and myself) to remain alert by serving several different wines and asking

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It's Automatic... I never planned to move back to DC from Miami, and still view it as a temporary upheaval, necessitated by, as they say, these economic times. It's cold here, and drab as hell, with not a grain of sand or a palm tree in sight. You could swing a dead cat all day and never hit anything. But I'll count my blessings-a job, a local bar where you can still smoke, a cheap apartment,

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Long time listener, first time cupcake baker.... They rise a lot. Chanting 'Arise Chicken' (see above) seems to help but is optional.... They somehow remind me of the Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish. To Dan Barber: No blood was spilled in making of these vegan cupcakes. Tool.

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At a show I attended at the Bottom Line in the '70's, there was a problem with the sound, and CB and the Magic Band had to stop playing. As the roadies were trying to straighten it out, someone in the crowd yelled, "Why don't you read some poetry!" Beefheart said, "What, poetry doesn't have to sound good?" He also played a mean harp. You never forget a Beefheart gig. Lester Bangs' 1970 cover

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Charming the ladies...Hit the weekly wine-tasting last Saturday at Calvert-Woodley (DC) to help plan my Thanksgiving wine-buying, and, luckily, Steve Rowland from Pasternack Wine Imports was in charge. He was working hard, in fact, to explain Gewürztraminer to a group of bewildered punters, who had wandered in for a free sniff. He had gotten everyone going with a sparkling Rosé-a fizzy and ripe

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Mazamorra morada-purple corn and fruit, and Arroz con Leche-rice pudding Giant niblets... More tripe? Si, more tripe por favor 'Caballo Viejo' Beatific... Picarones Black sausage, chicharrones, a side of spaghetti... ....and a little more tripe The Peruvian festival that winds through DC's Adams Morgan neighborhood every year is a reminder of the diversity that makes this

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Met up with the some of the more interesting personalities working the NYC craft cocktail scene last week at a sponsored rum tasting at the new Lani Kai, which reworks the old Tailor space. Lots more light, and also a lighthearted take on Tiki rather than chef Sam Mason's more serious grub. No solid cocktails, either, sadly, although former barman Eben Freeman, who tried to make them work,

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Woody Allen had a wonderful lament in the movie 'Annie Hall': as his character Alvy Singer is flying back from L.A. after a disastrous trip with his girlfriend, Annie, played by Diane Keaton, he talks about their future as a couple. "A relationship is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies." A restaurant is in many ways like a relationship. It can delight and

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