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Beet (or beet, in that stylish lower-case style so many restaurants seem to be adopting these days) is a chic, beautifully designed Thai restaurant that is as narrow as a hole-in-the-wall joint, but looks like a stylish lounge.  Indeed, with the large selection of liquor, this wouldn’t be a bad place to hang out on [...]

Perhaps it wasn’t in the stars that we would have anything resembling a good time on the fateful evening we ventured to Sahara East.  We chose this East Village hookah bar as our very own Chris’ birthday celebration location, and on paper this place seemed to offer quite the time. What better place to ring [...]

I’m most definitely someone who enjoys delicious cuisine and the wonders that it provides both to the palate and the belly. Nothing is more sad a sight to my eyes than a table full of stick-thin models pondering whether or not to partake in that last bite of dressingless lettuce. I prefer to eat both often [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed, one thing Liz and Laura are not is timely. We don’t usually get around to reading, viewing or eating something until it’s somewhat old news. But we like to argue that our readers are just as lazy as, if not lazier than, Liz and Laura themselves, and probably haven’t gotten [...]

Pattern Recognition, by geek favorite William Gibson, is an airplane read, the type of book you can finish on a weekend.  It’s light stuff, the literary equivalent of a pop song, but like pop songs, the book has an infuriating tendency to get stuck in the brain.  Like Stephen King, a fellow author famed for working [...]

Ah, spring! Time again to break out those wrinkled (and probably out of fashion) shorts and subject the world to your blinding pastiness. Time to fall victim to the hypnotizing power of those demonic Mister Softee chimes, tolling over and over like twisted church bells at a wedding chapel…in Hell. Time, in short, to celebrate [...]

In today’s busy world, it can be hard just to make ends meet, much less think about maintaining physical fitness.  After a long day of work, the last thing anyone has time for is a grueling workout.  And given the choice between painstakingly preparing healthful meals from scratch and stopping by the local greasy Chinese [...]

Liz and Laura are many things.   You may not be aware of this, but one of these things is cultured.  Oh, you bet, baby.  We got culture coming out the wazoo.  So in the spirit of growing as human beings, sharing this wonderful experience called life, and getting a whole bunch of red wine for free, we decided to have [...]

A few of the higher-ups at my place of employment did an adorable thing; they organized a night at the theater for all employees at a significantly discounted price.  How very classy indeed.  Just like that, little ol’ Liz found herself heading, with co-workers young and old, off to glamorous Times Square to attend this [...]

De Guerreros Taqueria is an offshoot of the popular taco stand contained within the Guerrero Food Center across the street. Locals so adored the little pockets of heaven known as Guerrero‘s tacos that, despite the owners continuing to run the counter taco stand at Guerrero, business is already bustling at the tiny new taqueria as [...]