The joy and excitement of cooking should not be limited to those who are already great at cooking. Pizza bagels are the ultimate expression of egalitarianism in the kitchen—you don't need fancy ingredients, you don't need to be any sort of cooking savant, and you needn't worry about the opinions of food snobs.
"People ask me what it's like to work at MAD," said John Ficarra, current editor-in-chief of MAD Magazine. "It is a job. We come in every morning and we sit and there's blood on the walls trying to come up with an idea that we can agree on as funny."
There is no quintessential NYC experience quite like running down a subway station platform with your arms flapping all about like a distressed penguin, making eye contact with the conductor, and then hesitantly stretching out your hand to try to slip between the doors before they close.
Instead of relying on arbitrary real estate demarcations or our digital overlords over at Google Maps, we ventured out to Tompkins Square Park to ask real New Yorkers where they think the East Village borders lie.
Even with the ubiquity of surveillance cameras around the city, the NYPD still relies on forensic artists who have been trained to work with victims and sketch images of their attackers.
We asked the many owners, handlers, groomers, and dog lovers who were in attendance to tell us why they love the event so much, how they got into dog showing, and why they devote so much of their lives to adorably sociopathic creatures who would fertilize every inch of your home without a second thought.
For most of his long career as a self-professed (and wholly self-deprecating) "journeyman cartoonist," Jaffee's name and style has been synonymous with MAD Magazine, the long-running satirical publication which taught generations of skeptical teens to question false idols, push back at deceptive advertising, and mock authority figures.
A man sighs while hovering over a long white table inside 83 Wooster Street. His credit card purchase of $1,115 worth of Kanye West apparel has just been rejected (for a second time).
What you know for certain is that this particular dog on this particular day needs you to bend down and pet it, and you need to pet it too. It is the sensation of making eye contact with someone across a crowded bar, only twice as meaningful because people are mostly terrible and dogs are universally wonderful.
I relaunched the Gothamist House music series in 2018, which included performances from Madison McFerrin, who made a cappella sound cool.
Westerman performs his breakout single for the Gothamist House series. "The imperfections are kind of what makes it so magical."
Gruff Rhys, the longtime leader of the Super Furry Animals, performed three songs for Gothamist House.