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Win These Gluten-Free Cookbooks!
by Victoria Phillips in Giveaway, May 9, 2012
One in 133 people have celiac disease. The autoimmune digestive disorder damages part of the small intestine, making it impossible for the body to absorb certain nutrients. When someone with celiac disease eats gluten, the body is essentially attacking itself.
In honor of Celiac Awareness Month in May, we're giving away four gluten-free cookbooks, so you can make delicious meals at home without worrying about whether or not the recipe is gluten-free. Whip up a delicious French pastry from Blackbird Bakery Gluten-Free 75 Recipes for Irresistible Desserts, or make Almond Encrusted Tilapia With Cilantro Rice from Fresh from Elizabeth's Kitchen for the whole family. Quick-Fix Gluten Free features more than 100 fast and easy recipes like Kickin' Paella or Gnocchi with Roasted Garlic Butter and Parmesan Cheese. Pizza and pancakes are possible on a gluten-and-dairy-free diet, all you need is The Dairy-Free & Gluten-Free Kitchen.
You can buy your own copies of Blackbird Bakery Gluten-Free, Fresh from Elizabeth's Kitchen: Gluten-free & Allergy-Free Recipes, Quick-Fix Gluten Free and The Dairy-Free & Gluten-Free Kitchen or enter in the comments for a chance to win one pack of these four cookbooks. Just let us know, in the comments, if you or someone you love has a gluten allergy or sensitivity, and what dish you wish you knew how to cook for them (or yourself!) . The contest starts at 10:00 a.m. EST today, and ends on Friday, May 11 at 5 p.m. EST.
We're giving away one pack of four gluten-free cookbooks to one lucky, randomly selected commenter. You must include your email address in the "Email" field when submitting your comment so we can communicate with you if you're a winner.
You may only comment once to be considered and you don't have to purchase anything to win; a purchase will not increase your chances of winning. Odds depend on total number of entries. Void where prohibited. Only open to legal residents of 50 U.S. states, D.C. or Puerto Rico, and you must be at least 18 to win. For the first day of the giveaway, all entries (answers) must be entered between 10:00 a.m. EST on May 9 and 5 p.m. EST on May 11, 2012. Subject to full official rules. By leaving a comment on the blog, you acknowledge your acceptance to the Official Rules. ARV of each prize: $86.88. Sponsor: Scripps Networks, LLC, d/b/a Food Network, 9721 Sherrill Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37932.
So tell us, do you cook for someone who avoids gluten? What recipe would you like to make gluten free?
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Goalkeeper Hope Solo has been suspended from the U.S. women's national team for 30 days, U.S. Soccer announced Wednesday.
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Cliven Bundy vs. Donald Sterling: One of Them Is Worse
Have you noticed how, whenever public figures make racist statements that get them in trouble, conservatives are always caught holding African Americans to higher standards and liberals are caught holding them to lower ones?
Commentators will spend the next few weeks lumping together scrappy Nevada rancher/Tea Party mascot Cliven Bundy and billionaire L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling over their recent racial remarks, citing these as proof of the lingering scourge of bigotry in our society. Some will try to tie both figures to the political far right—until their editors remind them that Sterling has given to multiple Democratic politicians and liberal causes over the past 25 years, including $2,000 to Democratic Senator Bill Bradley in 1989; $1,000 to Democrat Gray Davis in 1991; $1,000 to Democratic Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy in 1991; $5,000 to Gray Davis's California gubernatorial campaign in 2002; and $1,000 to an animal rights proposition in 2008—and $0 to Republican candidates or conservative causes.
But in fact the two men's statements have zero in common, and reflect a sharp divide between Democratic and Republican views of African Americans traceable all the way back to the institution of slavery, through the mid-20th-century civil rights movement, and up to today.
Consider: Senator Lyndon Johnson, Democrats' civil rights champion, opined in 1957, "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days, and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness…" How dare those uppity Negroes demand full equality rather than the illusion of equality!
While filming a segment on insurance fraud in 1981, liberal 60 Minutes anchor Mike Wallace speculated, "Blacks and Hispanics were too busy eating watermelons and tacos to read the fine print on their insurance policies." If they can read at all, you can almost hear him adding under his breath.
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) once said of former Klansman Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), "I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment… He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation." Blacks' freedom be damned, of course, if it would have besmirched the glory of his filibustering friend.
In 2006, Joe Biden gushed of Senator Barack Obama, "[Y]ou got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." Also raving about Obama's political potential, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid described Obama's possible appeal to Democratic voters: "[L]ight-skinned… with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."
Meanwhile, arguing against Obama's racial fitness as a candidate, former President Bill Clinton groused to Senator Ted Kennedy, "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."
In 2012, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schulz and other liberals called former Secretary of State and Republican National Convention Speaker Condoleezza Rice "window dressing," a "token," and "nice shiny packaging."
It isn't just white liberals who condescend to African Americans. In 2001, Latino California Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante unleashed the n-word in a speech on black history to a shocked African-American audience. Apparently he had assumed that, as blacks, they wouldn't mind being insulted.
Indian-American abortion doctor Ashutash Ron Virmani was caught on videotape in 2012 bragging to a group of pro-life activists that his services provided a benefit to taxpayers. He challenged them, "Let me see you adopt one of those ugly black babies."
Black liberals also patronize African Americans. In an Esquire cover interview in 1992, director Spike Lee conveyed his disdain for interracial couples: "[W]hite women when they want to be with black men, they just know all they have to do is go to some club… Most black men… have nothin' going for them, nothin'. Doesn't matter what she's doing, what she's about, she's just there, and you have a prize—a white woman on your arm. A trophy."
In 2008, former Obama spiritual advisor Reverend Jeremiah Wright informed an NAACP audience that they have separate but equal brains: "Africans and African-Americans are right-brained, subject-oriented in their learning style. They have a different way of learning."
Now we have Donald Sterling ordering his girlfriend not to sully his basketball games with black people: "You can sleep with them. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it… and not to bring them to my games."
So according to Democrats and their supporters, African Americans are: uppity, immature, stupid, inarticulate, dirty, incapable of speaking proper English, lacking in dignity, ugly, congenitally emotional, unskilled, tokens, and good only for a romp-in-the-hay. Do I have that about right, Dems?
Meanwhile, the left is in a tizzy because Bundy suggested that black people are capable of accomplishing more than staying home and collecting Democrat-sponsored welfare checks.
Note how the media left out the parts where Bundy insisted that he would never want this country to go back to slavery; where his black bodyguard declared that Bundy was not racist and that he would take a bullet for him; or where Congress of Racial Equality spokesperson Niger Innis admitted that Bundy had made "an important point." Liberals are just upset that Bundy wants to hold blacks to the same standards as whites.
Other examples of "racism" in which Republicans used inartful phrasing to discourage black dependency:
In 2012, Newt Gingrich called Obama "The greatest food stamp President in American history"—because, um, he is—and was promptly labeled racist.
Also in 2012, GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney gave a speech to the NAACP in which he decried welfare dependence: "I am also a believer in the free-enterprise system. I believe it can bring change where so many well-meaning government programs have failed. I've never heard anyone look around an impoverished neighborhood and say, 'You know, there's too much free enterprise around here.'" For this he was rudely booed, then accused by mentally ill liberals like Lawrence O'Donnell of having tried to elicit boos so he could play the footage in racist districts.
In just about every radio show he's ever done, Rush Limbaugh is accused of racism for saying crazy things like "Continued unemployment benefits increases unemployment."
That all you got, Dems?
Every party has its loose cannons. I'm just glad that those in our party who speak inelegantly invoke controversy for envisioning a world in which races are held to the same standard, rather than one in which minorities are perpetually treated like children.
Related articles
- Cliven Bundy And The Real Racists (personalliberty.com)
- Bundy, Sterling and a 'nation of cowards' (washingtonpost.com)
- Modern racists just repeat conservative talking points: Donald Sterling, Cliven Bundy and the ugly face of GOP policies (salon.com)
- John Oliver Talks Cliven Bundy & Donald Sterling On 'Last Week Tonight' Premiere (huffingtonpost.com)
- "Donald Sterling and the Neverending Fantasy of 'Democrat' Racism/Oh, how eager the conservative press is to call Donald Sterling a Democrat!" (althouse.blogspot.com)


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UK article about someone's kid liking to play with guns
Guns an' Boys
Turning a blind eye to the 'shoot outs' while the apple of her eye was in nappies, Josie Barnard found her son's 'inalienable right to bear arms' took on a different hue when nursery became part of the scene..
Saving the universe
When I was a shiny new parent and my son was a rosy cheeked baby, almost any toy I gave him made him gurgle with pleasure - rattle, cuddly animal, teddy bears tea set - and I suppose part of me thought it would always be that way. Hed like what I'd like him to like.
Not that I had a clear idea of what I wanted him to play with. But I did know I didnt want guns to feature. Some chance ... As soon as he could get a long piece of stickle brick to stick to a short one he was playing with guns.
And he was surprisingly specific about the sound they made - not 'bang' or 'pow' but 'pee-ow', again and again, 'pee-ow', 'pee-ow'.
I did consider banning guns, for about a millisecond. Id have had to keep him in an empty room with his hands strapped to his sides. Instead, I took the "turn-a-blind-eye" approach. That didn't work either. There was only so long I could ignore battles raging in my own living room, especially when my son had decided I was the 'baddy'. So we'd go out, maybe to the park strewn with twigs, in my son's hands, 'guns', which he'd aim and fire at passers-by. Some of the looks we got were surprisingly nasty. And he was only brandishing a twig.
In any case, it was all very well me turning a blind eye, but soon he started nursery. And at nursery, the ban on guns was serious.
Of course, it didn't mean superhero games didn't happen. The mini-Batmen and Power Rangers just had to go undercover, saving the universe furtively, behind the climbing frame, over in the trees. And avoiding the teachers meant avoiding the computers, the water play area, the drawing tables: all the places the teachers wanted them to go.
One day I was sitting with my son while he drew a spaceship. A teacher came over, and, oh, she lavished him with praise - until he drew a gun on top. And suddenly he was being given a lecture on why guns were bad. And she was his favourite teacher.
So at home, he wanted guns? Fine. Play-fights? Every morning. He'd leap off the bed and swing from the clothes rail, tumble-turn across the floor on his way to laser blast the baddy escaping up the bookcase. But, then he noticed that stretched out on the floor like that, he was the shape of a '1', and if he curled round and bent his knees, he was a '2', and suddenly he was being numbers, right through from 1 to 10. In fact, he got so excited he ran downstairs and actually started to write them, with a pen.
At nursery, though, he was still busy avoiding the teachers. It must have been the very quietness of the rooms that set them thinking. Apart from the odd glimpse of trainers running through the bushes, the only sign that my son and his friends were there at all was that the capes from the dressing up rail were gone. So, at school, the ban on guns was lifted.
Once being a superhero was OK, violent mayhem didnt break out, but instead, saving the universe led the children inside, to the drawing table to make a back-drop, or, to the cutting table to make a mask. The mini- Batmen and Power Rangers were doing all the things the teachers had wanted them to do in the first place.
And anyway, what a hypocrite I was being. I'd spent half my childhood running round the Yorkshire moors playing cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, using cap guns and bows and arrows that could give quite a sting. And there I was objecting to my son waving a carrot.
Of course now that Id quite happily give him a whole toybox full of plastic Smith and Westerns, he's grown out of them. If only I could find reasonable grounds on which to object to footballs ...
Interesting . . . Are they saying that people actually came around, and realized that it's natural and normal for boys to like to play with guns, and that it's not an evil thing?


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I come from Beirut, the lovely, viable, outgoing capital of Lebanon. In my opinion, design is a means of expression of the human nature. The human nature, energy & soul is one all over the world. Basically what differs is the style in which this design is relayed, this style vaires according to each culture, the language, traditions, standards, usage of colors, meanings related to it, etc. The more the people are open, have an open spirit, the more the design is one, but only with a style that differentiates it from the rest, just like everything related to art, like music, cooking...it's intuitive and related to our essence.This essence is the same everywhere.
Everything is design and layout and they come with a special breath, the breath of the maker mixed with that of the beholder.
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Where are Idaho ads, election sections?
Question: I live in Kellogg and when i first started receiving The Spokesman-Review, I would get some of the Coeur d'Alene coupons in Wednesday's paper (for example, the Papa Murphy's coupon book.) I stopped getting them after about a month. How come?
Also, I noticed the voter's guide to all of the running parties for Washington. Will the S-R do one for Idaho as well, since I'm sure you have many Idaho subscribers? -- Dawn Turcotte, Kellogg
Answer 1: It is up to the advertisers where they distribute their coupons. Of course we would love them to go everywhere - it means more revenue for us! But the advertisers determine where their inserts will go.
We have often found that if the readers call the advertisers and talk to them about not receiving their ads, it may help that advertiser rethink where they will distribute their inserts. -- Bob Myklebust, display advertising
Answer 2: We will be publishing a voter's guide for Idaho voters prior to the November election. We haven't decided yet if it will be a separate section or several pages in the regular paper. -- Steve Smith, editor


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Little Terrors 15 coming up Wednesday
The fifteenth edition of Little Terrors, a monthly showcase of horror short films co-presented by Rue Morgue and production company Unstable Ground, is coming up this Wednesday, January 23 at Magic Lantern Carlton Cinema (20 Carlton Street, Toronto). Enjoy two full hours of the craziest, goriest, most disturbing and off-the-wall short films the genre has to offer, followed by an in-depth Q&A/meet & greet with some of the filmmakers. The 18+ event starts at 9 p.m.
January's theme is Everyday Evil.* Here's the full lineup for this month's event:
Split the Check (7 minutes)
DIR: Patrick Rea
Little Terrors alumnus director Patrick Rea (Get Off My Porch; Time's Up, Eve; Do Not Disturb) returns. A night out at a fancy restaurant turns dangerous for a party of guests.
PWCA (10 minutes, premiere)
DIR: Jesus MagGot
A reporter investigates a famous doctor and cult leader. Produced by David Dollard.
Killer Kart (15 minutes, premiere)
DIR: J. Feeney
The shopping cart – four wheels, one basket, and tonight, for the closing crew of a small-town grocery store, a blood-spattered aluminum nightmare.
Vicki (14 minutes)
DIR: Bill Palmer
A loving, comedic homage to John Carpenter's Christine, and '80s horror in general. From the director of The Living Want Me Dead. Previous selection of Toronto After Dark.
Garlic Bread Man vs Superbo Lasagna Man (5 minutes)
DIR: Darryl Shaw
No description would be suitable. Enjoy. Previous selection of Toronto After Dark.
Game (8 minutes)
DIR: Josh MacDonald
Three psychotic rednecks chase a helpless girl through the woods, unaware of the danger that lurks nearby. Directed by Josh MacDonald, writer of The Corridor. Previous selection of Toronto After Dark and Fantastic Fest.
DeadBox (9 minutes, premiere)
DIR: Richard Karpala
It's the better way to watch movies. Late fees may be killer.
Death Scenes (7 minutes)
DIR: Joel Morgan
From the creators of LT favourite Suckablood comes a police interrogation gone horribly wrong.
Eaglewalk (30 minutes)
DIR: Rob Himebaugh
Highly entertaining throwback to '80s camp slashers, with a fun twist: Bigfoot.
*The poster this month is unpublished artwork from late artist Kevin Hutchinson.
As usual, links aplenty:
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In 1962, in response to the outcry over the razing of the original Pennsylvania Station, which was beautiful and much beloved, Mayor Robert Wagner established the Landmarks Preservation Commission. In 1965, despite vigorous opposition from the real-estate industry, the commission became permanent. Initially, this seemed like a small sop to preservationists. The number of buildings landmarked in the commission's first year, 1,634, was modest, and the commission's power was checked by the city council, which could veto its decisions.
Yet, like entropy, the reach of governmental agencies often expands over time, so that a mild, almost symbolic group can come to influence vast swaths of a city. By 2008, more than 15 percent of Manhattan's non-park land south of 96th Street was in a historic district, where every external change must be approved by the commission. By the end of 2010, the commission had jurisdiction over 27,000 landmarked buildings and 101 historic districts.
In 2006, the developer Aby Rosen proposed putting a glass tower of more than 20 stories atop the old Sotheby Parke-Bernet building at 980 Madison Avenue, in the Upper East Side Historic District. Rosen and his Pritzker Prize–winning architect, Lord Norman Foster, wanted to erect the tower above the original building, much as the MetLife Building (formerly the Pan Am Building) rises above Grand Central Terminal. The building was not itself landmarked, but well-connected neighbors didn't like the idea of more height, and they complained to the commission. Tom Wolfe, who has written brilliantly about the caprices of both New York City and the real-estate industry, wrote a 3,500-word op-ed in The New York Times warning the landmarks commission against approving the project. Wolfe & Company won. In response to his critics in the 980 Madison Avenue case, of whom I was one, Wolfe was quoted in The Village Voice as saying:
To take [Glaeser's] theory to its logical conclusion would be to develop Central Park … When you consider the thousands and thousands of people who could be housed in Central Park if they would only allow them to build it up, boy, the problem is on the way to being solved!
But one of the advantages of building up in already dense neighborhoods is that you don't have to build in green areas, whether in Central Park or somewhere far from an urban center. From the preservationist perspective, building up in one area reduces the pressure to take down other, older buildings. One could quite plausibly argue that if members of the landmarks commission have decided that a building can be razed, then they should demand that its replacement be as tall as possible.
The cost of restricting development is that protected areas have become more expensive and more exclusive. In 2000, people who lived in historic districts in Manhattan were on average almost 74 percent wealthier than people who lived outside such areas. Almost three-quarters of the adults living in historic districts had college degrees, as opposed to 54 percent outside them. People living in historic districts were 20 percent more likely to be white. The well-heeled historic-district denizens who persuade the landmarks commission to prohibit taller structures have become the urban equivalent of those restrictive suburbanites who want to mandate five-acre lot sizes to keep out the riffraff. It's not that poorer people could ever afford 980 Madison Avenue, but restricting new supply anywhere makes it more difficult for the city to accommodate demand, and that pushes up prices everywhere.
Again, the basic economics of housing prices are pretty simple—supply and demand. New York and Mumbai and London all face increasing demand for their housing, but how that demand affects prices depends on supply. Building enough homes eases the impact of rising demand and makes cities more affordable. That's the lesson of both Houston today and New York in the 1920s. In the post-war boom years between 1955 and 1964, Manhattan issued permits for an average of more than 11,000 new housing units each year. Between 1980 and '99, when the city's prices were soaring, Manhattan approved an average of 3,100 new units per year. Fewer new homes meant higher prices; between 1970 and 2000, the median price of a Manhattan housing unit increased by 284 percent in constant dollars.
The other key factor in housing economics is the cost of building a home. The cheapest way to deliver new housing is in the form of mass-produced two-story homes, which typically cost only about $84 a square foot to erect. That low cost explains why Atlanta and Dallas and Houston are able to supply so much new housing at low prices, and why so many Americans have ended up buying affordable homes in those places.
Building up is more costly, especially when elevators start getting involved. And erecting a skyscraper in New York City involves additional costs (site preparation, legal fees, a fancy architect) that can push the price even higher. But many of these are fixed costs that don't increase with the height of the building. In fact, once you've reached the seventh floor or so, building up has its own economic logic, since those fixed costs can be spread over more apartments. Just as the cost of a big factory can be covered by a sufficiently large production run, the cost of site preparation and a hotshot architect can be covered by building up. The actual marginal cost of adding an extra square foot of living space at the top of a skyscraper in New York is typically less than $400. Prices do rise substantially in ultra-tall buildings—say, over 50 stories—but for ordinary skyscrapers, it doesn't cost more than $500,000 to put up a nice 1,200-square-foot apartment. The land costs something, but in a 40-story building with one 1,200-square-foot unit per floor, each unit is using only 30 square feet of Manhattan—less than a thousandth of an acre. At those heights, the land costs become pretty small. If there were no restrictions on new construction, then prices would eventually come down to somewhere near construction costs, about $500,000 for a new apartment. That's a lot more than the $210,000 that it costs to put up a 2,500-square-foot house in Houston—but a lot less than the $1 million or more that such an apartment often costs in Manhattan.
Land is also pretty limited in Chicago's Gold Coast, on the shores of Lake Michigan. Demand may not be the same as in Manhattan, but it's still pretty high. Yet you can buy a beautiful condominium with a lake view for roughly half the cost of a similar unit in Manhattan. Building in Chicago is cheaper than in New York—but it's not twice as cheap. The big cost difference is that Chicago's leadership has always encouraged new construction more than New York's (at least before the Bloomberg administration). The forest of cranes along Lake Michigan keeps Chicago affordable.
Most people who fight to stop a new development think of themselves as heroes, not villains. After all, a plan to put up a new building on Madison Avenue clearly bugs a lot of people, and preventing one building isn't going to make much difference to the city as a whole. The problem is that all those independent decisions to prohibit construction add up. Zoning rules, air rights, height restrictions, and landmarks boards together form a web of regulation that has made building more and more difficult. The increasing wave of regulations was, until the Bloomberg administration, making New York shorter. In a sample of condominium buildings, I found that more than 80 percent of Manhattan's residential buildings built in the 1970s had more than 20 stories. But less than 40 percent of the buildings put up in the 1990s were that tall. The elevator and the steel-framed skyscraper made it possible to get vast amounts of living space onto tiny amounts of land, but New York's building rules were limiting that potential.
The growth in housing supply determines not only prices but the number of people in a city. The statistical relationship between new building and population growth within a given area is almost perfect, so that when an area increases its housing stock by 1 percent, its population rises by almost exactly that proportion. As a result, when New York or Boston or Paris restricts construction, its population will be smaller. If the restrictions become strong enough, then a city can even lose population, despite rising demand, as wealthier, smaller families replace poorer, larger ones.
Jane Jacobs's insights into the pleasures and strengths of older, shorter urban neighborhoods were certainly correct, but she had too little faith in the strengths of even-higher density levels. I was born a year before Jacobs left New York for Toronto, and I lived in Manhattan for the next 17 years. Yet my neighborhood looked nothing like low-rise Greenwich Village. I grew up surrounded by white glazed towers built after World War II to provide affordable housing for middle-income people like my parents. The neighborhood may not have been as charming as Greenwich Village, but it had plenty of fun restaurants, quirky stores, and even-quirkier pedestrians. The streets were reasonably safe. It was certainly a functioning, vibrant urban space, albeit one with plenty of skyscrapers.


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There was once a time when I found violence to be a necessary evil and little more than a means to an end. It wasn't like I was a stranger to it, but it never played a large part in my life and I was glad to keep it that way. These days I feel like it consumes my very being. Skills I thought I had honed for my own protection are being contorted and used to benefit someone else. Every night I am sent to carry out the dirty business of people I have never met for money. I am little more than a sinister puppet in a chicken mask; too deep in to quit with my sanity hanging by an ever weakening thread. The only way to get out now is to find the one who holds the strings. And sever them for good.
If you think that indie games are incapable of delivering pulse pounding action on a par with full price triple A titles, then you've never played Hotline Miami. Sure, it may seem like little more than a top down retro throwback that involves murdering wave after wave of mafia hit men, but if you strip back this carefully crafted veneer then you'll find a profoundly unique experience hiding underneath. That's not to say that there aren't a lot of gangsters to kill.
In fact, shooting people in the face is what you'll be doing for the vast majority of the time. Well, that and stabbing, shot-gunning, baseball-batting, samurai-swording and all manner of other nasty things. Hotline Miami is first and foremost a celebration of all things violent, and even though the visuals aren't much more detailed than Grand Theft Auto 2, they are leaps and bounds ahead of it in terms of varied death animations. Skulls explode, intestines splatter across the floor, limbs detach from their hosts, throats get cut and faces lie emblazoned with the ghosts of their last screams. Trust me when I say that this isn't one for the squeamish.
If you can get over this slightly off putting factor however, Hotline Miami has some incredibly addictive gameplay to be enjoyed. Character movement is controlled using the standard "WASD" directional keys and weapons are aimed using the mouse. This sounds like it should be an intuitive control scheme, but it is more commonly associated with first person shooters. Getting used to aiming like this from a top down perspective is a lot like trying to pat your head and rub your belly at first, but once you're there you'll find it almost second nature.
If you can get past these early stages without rage quitting, you'll be glad that you did stick with Hotline Miami. Some of the later chapters are truly the stuff of legend in terms of difficulty, and fighting your way past insurmountable odds using inventive methods of execution is an unforgettably unique gameplay experience. Run out of ammunition? No problem! Just throw your empty shotgun at your attacker and take theirs. Don't have any weapons? No worries! Just knock them over and pummel their face into a fine paste with your fists. Chaining combos together and disregarding your own personal safety is rewarded in Hotline Miami with new animal masks to wear. As well as looking cool, these masks have passive abilities like awarding extra health points or ammunition and are important for progressing to the later chapters.
If I was being a particularly unfair reviewer, I could find some faults with Hotline Miami. Even though there is nothing significantly wrong with the gameplay itself, the experience does suffer somewhat from the occasional bug. The most jarring of these is the way the frame rate dips drastically if there are too many animations occurring onscreen at once. In one particularly difficult stage, the frame rate was so slow that I didn't know I'd been killed until about two seconds after the shotgun blast had discharged in my direction. In a game where lightning fast reaction times are everything, this is a pretty crucial thing to get right. The AI at times is also pretty patchy, although this can work hilariously to your advantage.
The genius of Hotline Miami lies mostly in its story. You play as a nameless protagonist who is more than a little gifted in the art of killing large numbers of people singlehandedly. At the start of each mission, you receive a cryptic answer phone message and have to manually manoeuvre your character from his apartment to a waiting car. This may seem a little odd at first, but as the story goes on things change in the appartment to reveal more and more about your character's personal life and what is going on inside his head. Sections like this are a nice method of breaking up the pace of the game and they undoubtedly add a lot of context and meaning to the hectic slaughter fests.
There are other interludes to. After each mission, your character visits pizza houses, video stores and bars in an effort to drown his sorrows and forget the horrendous things that he has seen. Before long, cracks start beginning to appear and his sanity is called into question. Visions of the people that he has killed start to encroach upon his real world surroundings. You inevitably start to wonder if there is perhaps more to the story than meets the eye. Maybe those incredibly creepy characters in the animal masks have the answers. Or maybe they just have a never ending stream of questions.
Hotline Miami will inevitably draw many comparisons with the 2011 film Drive. Both stories are centred around a mysterious protagonist who has an unerring knack for dispatching people, a love for fast sports cars and a significant other's honour to defend. They also share the same appreciation for offsetting periods of quiet downtime with explosive violence for greater dramatic effect. The closest comparison that I can draw though is in the style of the soundtracks. Hotline Miami, like Drive, has a fantastic mixture of electronica and dance music. This permeates throughout the experience, making you feel like the coolest man alive as you lay waste to scores of enemies and egging you on for just one more try if you hit a particularly tough stage.
Hotline Miami is a very special game. There aren't many full priced titles out there that can deliver the same kind of adrenaline fuelled gunplay and even fewer that can offer its brand of introspective storytelling. This is a game that will challenge your perception of what can be achieved by indie developers, but more importantly it has a story that will stick with you for a long time to come. Killing isn't easy, but Hotline Miami may make you think otherwise.


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'I Want My MTV' Authors Pick 1991's 10 Best Videos
Nineteen-ninety-one was maybe the most chaotically diverse year in MTV's history, the real story being that that multiple stories were being shouted simultaneously. Despite the myth that grunge killed hair metal, the shiny suits and elaborate sets of Nelson's "After the Rain" sidled up next to the rusty monochrome minimalism of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Guns N' Roses were trashing cars for "Don't Cry" and Extreme didn't need "More Than Words." More than ever before, MTV's pop playlist was being crashed by hip-hop (via Naughty by Nature), metal (via Metallica) and "Rico Suve" (via Gerardo). Madonna, Chris Isaak, Marky Mark, Public Enemy and the Chili Peppers made black-and-white videos cool again — though Hammer was still blowing bazllions to dance with the Addams Family. No one knows more about music videos than former SPIN editor Craig Marks and SPIN contributor Rob Tannenbaum, the authors of I Want My MTV, the definitive, exhaustive, hopelessly readable oral history of the music video revolution (find it in our holiday gift guide!). We had them follow us down our nostalgia wormhole and pick the 10 best clips from a year of "Good Vibrations" and Color Me Badds. Come on join the joyride.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Give It Away"
Marks: Directed by Stéphane Sednaoui. He actually did some photo shoots for SPIN back in the day. Frankly, and I'll speak for Rob here, neither of us are huge Chili Peppers fans, but I think it is a great video. It's the first one where they really got it right... Flea admits they really didn't know what they were doing as far as videos go. They just sort of jumped around and acted like west coast frat boys, punk rock frat boys. Stéphane really gave them an aesthetic: he put them in a desert, spray-painted them, and let them do their hippie, weirdo-glam thing... Interviewing Flea was like interviewing Ad-Rock in that he was very earnest. The kind of goofy thing has been long exorcised from his personality, at least in an interview format.
Tannenbaum: I think once you reach middle age, being known as the guy who head-bangs wearing only a tube-sock on your dick is something you want to distance yourself from a little bit.
Marks: At least I do.
Guns 'N Roses - "Don't Cry"
Tannenbaum: "Don't Cry" is part of the Use Your Illusion trilogy, which everyone involved just absolutely fucking rolls their eyes at. The group's manager Doug Goldstein said, "To be honest I blank on what the Use Your Illusion videos cost because they all seem like the same video to me." There's so much shit going on in "Don't Cry" that it almost begins to feel like a joke. There's all this ominous symbolic imagery that races by so quickly it just can't mean anything. There's a baby and then there's a black crow, and there's Axl marching through a snowstorm, then there's a gun, and a cemetery, and helicopters, and a cat-fight between two women, which everyone in the band finds hysterically funny.
Marks: Weren't these based on a book he read?
Tannenbaum: He wanted to do something with a friend of his... It's not Josh Richman, although he is credited at the beginning of "Don't Cry" as a co-writer. Which is another funny thing about "Don't Cry." It has opening credits? Which is just so fucking pretentious. This was the part where Axl becomes an auteur, and it probably is the beginning of the end of the band. Not only is he spending all of the band's money — he's spending a million dollars per video — he's showing up late to all of them.
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Marks: That is a no-brainer. We couldn't interview Kurt, obviously, but what was interesting was interviewing Sam Bayer, who directed the video. He explicated the fact that he and Kurt did not get along at all. Kurt hated him.
Tannenbaum: I mentioned to Dave Grohl that Sam Bayer had felt that Kurt hated him, and Grohl laughed and said, "Welcome to the club."
Marks: This was Sam's first-ever music video, which is kind of amazing, if you think about it. [Bayer] recruited the cheerleaders from various strip-clubs in L.A., and Kurt found them to be too pretty. Bayer was shocked. The strippers all had bruised knees and yet Kurt thought that they were too standard... When the video was shot and ready to be edited, Sam Bayer was obsessed with the janitor and the other sort of ancillary characters in the video. Every time he gave the label and Kurt a cut to look at, there wasn't enough Nirvana in it. They fired him from the job and gave it to this editor that David Fincher works with all the time [Angus Wall], so an Academy-Award-winning film editor is the one who actually edited "Smells Like Teen Spirit." For a year all Bayer got were calls from people who wanted the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" look. And he made an Ozzy video that looked like it, he made a Ramones video that looked like it. As Bayer puts it, all the videos of the time had been in this sort of "Fincher blue," that dusky blue and green lighting. Then Bayer came along and his video was all yellow and brown like a dirty couch.
Public Enemy - "Can't Truss It"
Tannenbaum: A difficult video to watch. Public Enemy's videos were always counter-programming what was going on in other hip-hop videos. I think "Cant Truss it" is specifically a reaction against MC Hammer. Hank Shocklee, who was a producer in Public Enemy, talked about how rap was on an affluence kick, so he wanted to remind rap fans not only what the roots of hip-hop were, but what the roots of the black experience in America were. They made a video that was about slavery. It's the only video I know of that alludes to rape, and there is whipping, and it ends with a lynching. A little bit like Madonna, they were daring MTV to play it or not play it. Chuck said, "We learn about slavery in every high school, but they don't repeat it like a video. You learn it, you take a test, and you move on. But videos repeat over and over again." So he had this very canny idea that music videos were a good way to teach history to kids by virtue of the fact that it wasn't just, "we're going to spend a week talking about Alex Haley."
Tom Petty - "Into the Great Wide Open"
Marks: Petty, out of all the people I interviewed, was the most surprisingly enthusiastic about music videos. He really loved making music videos for the most part. His daughter now is a video director; she did the Beyoncé video, "Countdown." "Into the Great Wide Open" had a lot of stars in it. It was possibly the first time a lot of MTV viewers were introduced to Johnny Depp, who plays the lead, Eddie Rebel. The video is loosely based on Axl Rose, who Petty knew through MTV when he and GN'R played "Free Fallin' " together for the VMAs.
Tannenbaum: I find Petty to be really interesting in the larger history of MTV, because he's a guy who, a lot like ZZ Top, was not really great looking or particularly young, but figured out his own place on MTV. Like Phil Collins, or Huey Lewis. They did it by being goofy. It's hard to say how Petty did it.
R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion"
Tannenbaum: "Losing My Religion" is a great story because it was almost a huge failure. The guy who directed it, Tarsem Singh, said the first eight hours of the shoot were just dreadful. He ended up in the bathroom vomiting because he was so upset with how it wasn't working out. And it wasn't unusual for directors to be vomiting, but it was usually because of drugs, not because of stress. He had some really elaborate ideas for the imagery. It was a mix of Russian Constructivist imagery, Caravaggio paintings, and this Indian ideal of angels and gods. But the thing that comes to my mind first is Peter Buck, and what a fucking horrible time he's having in this video. No rock star has ever looked so unhappy in music videos than Peter Buck. And Stipe talked about that with us too and said it was kind of a joke within the band.
Marks: I also think it's a total star turn on Stipe's part. That's one of the things the video did, it really made him one of the most charismatic people in music. What those who cultishly knew before, the video brought out in front of everybody across the country. And he was a good dancer.
Tannenbaum: Though he admits he basically stole that from David Byrne.
Metallica - "Enter Sandman"
Marks: Directed by Wayne Isham, who did all the famous Bon Jovi videos. Basically the story is they wanted the video to be about things you had nightmares about, so the band, Lars, James, Wayne and Wayne's production partner all sat in a hotel room and came up with all these different nightmare scenarios... There's good stories in the book about the kids who sort of played stuntmen in the video. There's the stuntboy at the end who is chased by a Mack truck. He's the son of a super famous stunt man who just died not too long before.
Tannenbaum: The kid was Troy Robinson and his dad was Dar Robinson.
Marks: When the kid makes that move where he jumps out of the way of the truck at the last second, which all actually happened, all his dad's stuntman buddies were there to high five him and cheer him on. It's kind of a beautiful story.
Chris Isaak - "Wicked Game"
Tannenbaum: Chris Isaak, "Wicked Game" is the pinnacle of "let's put a hot chick in the video," which I'm convinced REO Speedwagon invented before MTV. There's a video where they have a hot female psychiatrist, and it's absolute tokenism that the psychiatrist is a hot woman. It's also an interesting landmark because of who directed it, Herb Ritts. Especially in the first few years of MTV, directing a music video was not something you were proud to have done. If you were directing music videos it was because you were essentially unemployable at anything else. Herb Ritts was one of the two or three most famous fashion photographers at the time, and it was a career move for a fashion photographer... People always talk about this being one of the sexiest videos of all time. Chris Isaak had an interesting perspective on it. He said the theme of the video is that Helena Christensen is just totally ignoring him throughout the whole thing. So It's interesting that people find a beautiful Danish model ignoring a man to be sexy.
Marks: Well, it's a little sexy when they're topless
Tannenbaum: Well, yeah, they're both great looking. I don't know about Craig but I'd probably have sex with either one of them. But they're not staring lovingly into each others eyes. She looks so fucking bored that at one point she just starts staring into her chipped fingernails. It's like, "Hmm... Kiss Chris Isaak, or go get a manicure?"
Geto Boys - "Mind Playing Tricks on Me"
Marks: One thing about Yo! MTV Raps specifically and MTV's late-but-still-important adaptation of hip-hop, that's when people found out that Seattle hip-hop existed, when you saw a Sir Mix-A-Lot video, and the first time you found out there was hip-hop in Texas when the Geto Boys. Scary video, I think. Especially the Bushwick Bill scene at the end when he's the evil trick-or-treater. It's a very literal video; If there's a line in the song you see it visually represented in the video. It's not elegant. It's dark and dank and you imagine that's the way those dudes sort of lived, a little bit. It's about paranoia, and that's the feeling you get after watching it.
Madonna - "Justify My Love"
Tannenbaum: My favorite quotes about "Justify My Love" came from [actor] Tony Ward, who's in the video and was dating Madonna at the time. He talks about them spending a lot of time watching old Italian movies. Fellini, Rossellini, and that Pasolini movie that's got the shit-eating in it. He also says the idea of "Justify My Love" came from him, which, uh, hmmmmm, not so sure about that. Maybe, although I'm not sure about how large his other body of video work is.
Marks: He was fantastic in one of Belinda Carlisle's videos.
Tannenbaum: One of the cool things about "Justify My Love" is that it's in black and white, and '91 becomes a big year for black and white in MTV. Just because, as in a lot of pop music, if you want to be cool you have to do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. So huge Technicolor videos had become really significant with intricate lighting, and Jean-Baptiste Mondino, who directed this, went back to black and white. The video is just pure provocation. There's no plot to it, there's no relationship to the song, and in fact it's a pretty lousy song... I remember seeing it and even though I was way past the point of being 13 years old at the time my reaction was really like a 13 year old, like, "They're really doing it!"
Marks: There's no Madonna quotes in the book. There's no great mystery, she just declined to be interviewed. We didn't rent a plane or anything and skywrite, but she doesn't do a lot of press these days.
Tannenbaum: We offered to make out in front of her in spirit of the "Justify My Love" video.


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I started compiling information for this article before the unveiling of the iPhone at MacWorld on Wednesday. As a result, I had to modify a couple nominations for the Top 5 Concept Add-on Ideas for the iPhone. Originally, this was supposed to be for the iPod, but I think its best suited for the iPhone now. There's no doubt that Apple's new iPhone comes with spectacular features and functions. Nonetheless, here are concepts some people and iPod Legends would like to see in the next generation iPhone. Let's start with #5.
5) Commercial GPS, an ever expanding market that's becoming more popular every day. Finding your way around has never been easier. Now that we have an all-seeing eye guiding us, it's almost impossible to get lost. Thus, commercial GPS on the iPhone would be extremely practical and is our #5 nomination. (Image courtesy of NASA)
4) Coming in at #4 is voice recognition. Two things come to my mind: 1. Note Taking, and 2. Universal Translator. These two options will probably be most popular among those who travel for business a lot, but still will hold useful options for the majority. Note taking by voice will cut the slow speed of writing or typing while still giving you an electronic copy of your notes. Next, the universal translator eliminates the need for a human translator or carrying a bulky dictionary.
3) The ability to receive and send a TV signal or FM/AM signal wirelessly from the iPhone will be our third nomination. Beef up the iPhone with this feature and you can be watching and listening your favorite shows and music anywhere with a TV or stereo, and could easily be integrated with the just-unveiled Apple TV device.
2) #2 on the list is a little farfetched, but it was too cool to pass up. A portable projector small enough to fit into your pocket has not yet been invented. However, once this technology is developed, combining a portable projector with the iPhone would make the iPhone worthy to be called an all-in-one device. A portable projector small enough to fit into your pocket….. I must be dreaming.
1) Last, but perhaps the most practical, feasible, and possible concept is a credit card. No, no, I don't mean the flimsy plastic thing, I mean the iPhone! Imagine going to a store and swiping your phone to pay for your purchase. Actually, you don't have to imagine. In fact, in some places in Japan, the phone is being used to pay for daily goods by utilizing RFID tags. Some normal plastic credit cards in the US are even using RFID tags to "wave" the card rather than swipe it. It may just be the next big thing…. (Image courtesy of Microsoft Clipart)
There you have it. Our Top 5 Concept Add-on Ideas for the next generation iPhone. Imagine it, and embrace it! 'cuz these concepts will be in your hands in no time!
What do you think? Have suggestions? Comment below.


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Inside the World of B&H Photo
We're huge fans of B&H Photo and Video, the famous camera shop run by Hasidic Jews in the center of Manhattan — one of the best shops in the industry, frequented by photo nuts and Hollywood camerapeople. And today, this news is hitting the web: Somebody purchased a used camera there with a used memory card. On the card was a roll of photos taken behind the scenes of a friendly — but notoriously publicity-shy — operation.
Linhberg, who bought the camera, posted the photos on his blog. His site seems to be running slow, so here are a few, courtesy of PetaPixel, who reposted them:
We speculate that it might be part of a covert campaign for the new reboot of the science-fiction series Little Fuzzy, which has also included ukulele love songs and stuffed animals. Because, well, Hasidim are little and fuzzy.
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Fisheries Department says it can fine them only if the order is notified
Among the hundreds of colourful fishing boats jostling for space at the Old Port, Bunder, only a handful have the sober colours of blue and white. Oddly sticking out from the rest of the boats, most decked in gaudy colours, these boats represent only around 10 per cent of more than 1,500 trawlers that ply from the district to have implemented the colour-code order as dictated by the Centre and the State government.
The order, received by the Fisheries Department in June this year, seeks to colour-code boats in each State to make stray boats identifiable.
For Karnataka, the fishing trawlers and boats would have to paint their cabin blue while the lower and upper portions would be painted black and white.
"This is a slow process. Since it is not statutory yet, very few fishermen are taking initiative to do it. Only around 200 boats may have been colour-coded till now," said Suresh Kumar Ullal, Deputy Director of Fisheries Department.
With no subsidies or penalties for implementing the order, the department had resorted to sending notices to diesel depots and the fishermen's unions giving a duplicitous deadline of August, even threatening them of penalties — including diesel subsidy cuts — if the boats were not painted by then.
Conceding that even this "pressure tactic" did not work, Mr. Ullal said the department hoped to fully implement it before the next rainy season.
"The fishermen will only wake up when the order is notified, and the Coast Guard starts catching them for not colour-coding. After notification, perhaps, we can impose penalties and this will speed up the process," he said.
Long queues
Blaming the slow implementation on the apathy of the department, Loknath Boloor, president of the Yanthrika Meenugarar Prathamika Sahakari Sangha, said that if fishermen violate the rules, it was up to the department to take action. "If the fishermen are reluctant to paint the new colours, then should not the department apply pressure on them by taking action," he asked.
However, Chandra Suvarna of the Mangalore Trawl Boat Meenugarara Sangha, expressed confidence in the boats colour-coding by May, saying that many boats were waiting for "long queues" to reduce.
"There are not enough places to get the boats painted now and the existing places have long queues. I am sure that when the queues reduce, and when all boats come for their repairs and overhauls, the implementation of the order will be complete."
Meanwhile, the Fisheries Department has said security would be bolstered after the distribution of 19,000 smart cards for fishermen in the district in the coming month. "Even in this, there was reluctance from the fishermen. But when it became clear that the Coast Guard would penalise them, they agreed to the Smart Cards. With the full implementation of the colour-coding and smart card, it would be difficult for unregistered boats to operate," said Mr. Ullal.


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I was so happy today because
I got my bird back and my boyfriend.
Then I found out my now exbf is actually
going out with my older sister (which
he claimed he would never do and she's
dated literally all of my bfs already)
and so he's lied a hell of a lot
and he still doesn't know that I know
they're going out.
Should I seek revenge?
no, be the better person. confront him about it, but dont be a bitch about it and just be mean.
"Never apologize for saying what you feel. It's like apologizing for being real."
does u'r sister have a thing about u'r sloppy seconds?
I don't think revenge is the way to go,its just not cool.Confront him about it.And what is up with your sis dating your boyfriends can she not find a guy of her own???
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent-Eleanor Roosevelt
If the bird returns...it is yours to keep...
Great...Now about that boyfriend...hummmmmm
confront the sister and the boy friend but do not be angry
with them...belittle them in the sence of ...cant find your own
girlfriends so you have to date the sister of the old girlfriend?
or the like...be gentle...and not mean...but sock it to em.
Genius is not a sign of intelligence, but rather
that of common sense.
The pattern I'm wondering about is that no matter what happens, you always have something to be upset about. If you're not dating them anymore, who cares if they date your sister?
I'm a total myspace whore (and by whore, I mean I use it to sleep with people, I'm not on it often), so ADD ME AS A FRIEND
btw i know ppl here are against revenge but i'm a fan of it so like go for it, and tell me all bout it coz i think it's funny
As the old proverb goes "revenge is a dish best served cold". In other words if you are going to seek revenge you have to be willing to withold all compassion and mercy. The question for you then is are you really willing to inflict on another? Furthermore think of the moral damage it shall do to you.
"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes."
- The Iliad (bk. XX, l. 315), (Bryant's translation)


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Gage and Tollner
Gage and Tollner Restaurant
Gage and Tollner site, October 2008
Location | 372 Fulton St., New York, New York |
Coordinates | 40°41′28″N 73°59′17″W / 40.69111°N 73.98806°WCoordinates: 40°41′28″N 73°59′17″W / 40.69111°N 73.98806°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1875 |
Architectural style | Italianate |
Governing body | Private |
NRHP Reference # |
82003362 [1] |
Added to NRHP | June 3, 1982 |
Gage and Tollner was a restaurant on Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. It had been in business since 1879 and in the same location since 1892 until it closed on February 14, 2004. The Brownstone where it was housed has been in existence since 1875.[2]
It was built about 1875 and is a four story late Italianate style brownstone building. The painted wood storefront was probably added in 1892 when the restaurant opened. It includes a portico with modified Doric order columns. The interior retains the original Victorian design including Lincrusta-Walton wall covering.[3]
Gage and Tollner's began when Charles Gage opened an "eating house" at 303 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, in 1879. In 1880, Eugene Tollner joined him and the restaurant became known as Gage and Tollner's in 1882. The restaurant moved to 372-374 Fulton Street in 1892.[4]
It attracted customers like Diamond Jim Brady, Jimmy Durante and Mae West. In the 1980s it was bought by Peter Aschkenasy who brought in famed chef Edna Lewis. She helped "transform" the restaurant by adding her famed Southern cuisine, such as cornbread, catfish and a "legendary she-crab soup".[5] Joseph Chirico, who owned the restaurant since 1995, made the hard decision to close the restaurant since "the business was dragging every day."
Shortly after it closed, T.G.I. Friday's moved in.[6] T.G.I. Friday's vacated the space in 2007.[citation needed] After gaining interior design approval from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission,[7] an Arby's franchise, owned by Raymond Chera, opened at the location on January 21, 2010.[7] In August 2010, the Arby's franchise closed.[8] As of 2012 the space is inhabited by a discount costume jewelry and leather coats store. Most of the antique fixtures have disappeared or have been covered up by modern lighting and fixtures.
It had 36 gaslamps, meaning it could stay open in a blackout, cherry framed mirrors and tables made of mahogany.[2]
Beginning in the fall of 1995, Chirico made some renovations and closed down the restaurant until April/May 1996. He said "he has tried to retain the historic flavor of the restaurant while providing modern amenities."[9]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1] The interior had been granted landmark status by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission.[10]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
- ^ a b Fulton Street, Forgotten NY Streetscenes
- ^ Anthony W. Robins and Anne B. Covell (February 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Registration:Gage and Tollner Restaurant". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-02-20. See also: "Accompanying three photos".
- ^ 1956 Restaurant Review
- ^ Eat and Be Merry; On Saturday 2 Classics Die
- ^ Gage & Tollner Transforms to T.G.I. Friday's
- ^ a b Kaufman, Sarah R.; Sederstrom, Jotham (March 11, 2009). "Arby's to move into famed Gage & Tollner digs in downtown Brooklyn". Daily News (New York).
- ^ Fulton Mall Arby's Calls It Quits
- ^ Gage & Tollner: The Same, but Different
- ^ Where White-Cloth Dining Faltered, Chain Looks to Thrive
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