April 2008
13 posts
Budget Travel
Where It’s At (and When): A layperson’s guide to finding warehouse parties in Barcelona and Indian-style pizza in Oakland.
FishbowlNY
Ex-ABC Analyst Faked Obama Interview?: Of lying Frenchmen and scandal allegations. Philly TV Anchor’s Wild, Cop-Attacking Night: In your average journalism career, you come across a few stories that are solid gold. This is one of them. The New York Times Gets Rickrolled: Sometimes an internet meme can take a well-respected newspaper by surprise. This was one of those occasions.
BlackBook
Porcetta, Haggis and Padma: 16 hours spent at the Fancy Food Show, the world’s largest gourmet food tradecon. Celebrity photo-ops, haggis potato chips and 2500 kinds of cheese… what’s not to love?
Forbes Traveler
11 Classic American Dishes: If you needed even more reasons to be patriotic, here are 11 of them.
America’s Most Expensive Hamburgers: Where the (expensive) beef is at.
Awesome July Fourth Meals: From sea to shining sea, a guide to the best holiday dining around.
America’s Classic Bars: Whether it’s a beer-and-a-shot in Brooklyn or Capitol Hill’s favored spot for...
Foreign Policy
The Way To America’s Heart Is Through Its Stomach: How the gourmet food industry is offering a chance for some of the world’s smallest states to enhance their brand profile in the USA.
Gridskipper
Fareed Zakaria’s Fantasy Island: Once upon a time, a cultured media icon and a fabulously rich rock star decided to create a beach resort for the culturati. It failed.
Deconstructing Wagamama: A look inside the rabidly popular London-based restaurant chain written before their Stateside launch.
Havana’s Chinatown: Havana’s Cuban-Chinese community, restaurants under communism...
Mediabistro
So What Do You Do, Michael Calderone? An interview with ex-New York Observer reporter/current Politico media maven Michael Calderone. So What Do You Do, Tony Ortega? Village Voice EIC Tony Ortega has a yen for Flight of the Conchords. We approve of this hobby.
Jewcy.com
When Rockets Hit Your Home: When you go to grad school abroad, you assume you’ll have good stories when you return. Unfortunately, sometimes you’re right.
Life in the Tel Aviv Bubble: A guide to waiting out geopolitical conflicts via coffee, Cuban sandwiches and cognitive dissonance.
We Are All Converts: Reviewing Shlomo Sand’s ‘The Invention of the Jewish People’:...
MenuPages
Baghdad’s Chinese Restaurant:When the city around you is a warzone, sometimes you just need comfort food. Fight For Your Right To Foie Gras: It’s animal rights activists vs. restaurant owners in a battle royale. Sasha Issenberg Interview: A chat with author Sasha Issenberg of The Sushi Economy, one of the best books we’ve seen in a while.
Philadelphia City Paper
New Year’s in Beersheva: The best way to learn about the difference between Grad rockets and Katyushas is to have both of them fired at you.
Witout Borders: In which your humble correspondent tracks the cheesesteak to the furthest reaches of China and Eastern Europe.
Slate
Who’s who in the Middle East rap game: Hip-hop, politics and the live music jones in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
War is Gaga: A history of military humor from Iraq and Afghanistan on the internet.
Real Princes, Real Persians: A look at Iran’s surprisingly vibrant video game industry and at the young developers who are fighting the Mullahs, piracy and western...
True/Slant
CIA Suicide Bomber Was… A Blogger: Not only that, but this particular jihadist also wrote Caliphate fanfic.
Dubai Debt 101: A Beginner’s Guide: A simple explanation of how years of limitless construction compounded by unusual accounting and planning put the brakes on the City of Tomorrow.
The United States’ Secret War in Yemen: Before an African terrorist with overstuffed...
Wired/Wired.com
Hard Science, With a Twist: A guide to the best science-themed bar nights in the United States. Yes, science-themed bar nights. The Rocky History of Rockers in Videogames: Since those halcyon days of Pong, video games have come out starring everyone from Michael Jackson to Aerosmith to the Thompson Twins. Here’s a screenshot-filled look back at the classics.