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Kiehl's original store is at 109 3rd Avenue - so the East Village, but yes!

You're missing Rao's Italian restaurant, operating since 1896 at 455 East 114th Street, Manhattan. (Yay for including Barney Greengrass!)

Pan's Labyrinth. Apocalypse Now. Spirited Away. Tokyo Story. Belle du Jour. Ran. Heavenly Creatures. Life is Sweet. Carrie. The list is mostly dark, but all of these are beautiful in their own way, and all took me to places (spiritual places, I guess) that I hadn't known… Read More

Thank you.

Also Germany. And I agree, that picture is weird but definitely explicable.

Yes. Yes, it does.

I know. A lot of them sound like paid trolls, but oy gevalt.

"Armed citizens fighting the government over unnecessary fees?" Whiskey Rebellion, anyone? How did George Washington handle that? Bundy is part of the posse comitatus movement, which has very strong ties to Christian Identity and white supremacy. Do you really want to launch yourself… Read More

This is great! I would add in the fact that Pale Male, the red-tail hawk, has lived on Fifth Avenue for over 20 years. And that St. Michael's Episcopal Church at Amsterdam and 99th has the tallest Tiffany windows in the city. That there's free music all over the place, indoors… Read More

Re: Grace and Wilbur Thrush's "Rapture" - holy sh*t you all have to read this 2004 news story about them. "With black light making them iridescent, different puppets danced and sang Gospel songs. Four sets of glowing eyeballs danced around and sang The Lord's Got His Eye on… Read More