I think this Nacho Mac & Cheese recipe from the March issue of Bon Appetit sounds amazingly yummy! Dinner at my place soon??
Awesome FREE new tool for us NYCers February 26, 2007
(photo by Kaldoon)
Check out this new Google SMS-like tool from New York mag…
You can text the name of any restaurant in the city to GONYC (46692) and you get back the address, phone number and whether it’s a “critic’s pick”!
Plus, you can even just send it a neighborhood, plus food type (“midtown japanese”) and get back 12 choices. V. cool. I hated typing in zip codes into the Google service. This one’s all ours!!
(via Grub Street)
Oscar Red Carpet Webcast! February 25, 2007
We are starting late and we have already missed some good humor, so let’s review.
Kelly Preston: That dress is not quite right for the Oscars. Some suggest that it would be okay for the Golden Globe or some lesser show. I maintain that it’s perfect for doing a strip tease for her gay husband. Yo, she’s crazy.
Leo just arrived. We learn that Your Mom is back on the Leo bandwagon! And he’s hot…
Oooh, pretty green dress, who is wearing it? Agh, Celine Dion. Group 
groan.
Another pretty green dress on Sasha Baron Cohen’s fiancee.
Gwyneth, cut your hair, sister.
Ryan Seacrest cried during the Devil’s Wears Prada? I don’t like to make gay jokes (except for about John Travolta), and I can’t say lame after that woman in the museum yelled at me about it. Sooo, I will say he is just O-D-D.
I Am Your Mom (who we will call E) says Ryan Seacrest is embarrassing. IAYM accidentally calls him Ryan Atwood. Discussion of The O.C. ensues. The Host Couple, Ms. M and D haven’t seen the finale, so shhhhh. Cause the finale was so unpredictable.
Err, a ticker writer just said “Get Well, Britney.” Yeah, good luck with that.
Abigail Breslin looks like a pretty, pretty princess. I think her dress is by Tinkerbell. Ms. M loved her in Signs.
Turns out Your Mom is BFF with Forest Whitaker. She sent him Lakers jerseys. Cause they like to hang like that.
Cate Blanchett: A chorus of “Aww, she’s so pretty.” She makes a 
funny AND makes Ryan look silly. Awesome.
Eddie Murphy: Looking good Eddie. Hey, where is Melanie Brown, asshole; home with morning sickness? [And our feud continues.]
Clive Owen is hot. He’s hot. Hot. Nothing else to say that.
D didn’t know that Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman were married. How is that possible? D is way out of touch.
Switch to ABC. Goodbye Ryan Seacrest. Go ask your awkward questions elsewhere. You will have plenty of chance at the 107 American Idol shows next week.
Bump watch for Naomi Watts. Is she or isn’t she. Either way, she looks gorgeous in her dress.
Jennifer Hudson: Everyone loves the pockets in their awards dresses these days. I don’t know how I really feel about the dress, but E is pro.
IAYM is pulling for Alan Arkin. Just read today that son Adam directed the third part of the recent Grey’s Anatomy trilogy. Definitely the best of the three eps.
All are agreed that Beyonce should fire her mom as “stylist.” The girl makes some Bad Choices (trademark pending).
Penelope looks amazing in Versace. The color is a bit too neutral — but she pulls it off. 
It’s the dark hair. On the other hand Kate Winslet looks a little washed out in that pale green.
Cameron looks gorgeous in white. And, those emerald earrings are the perfect accessory. Not 
sure why she’s presenting though… She’s in Valentino tonight.
Ryan Gosling is hot. Apparently Rachel 
is working, so he’s at the show with mom and sis. Adorable. Mmmm.
Jada does not pull of that dress. the color is bad, the fit is too severe. Will and the son look very dapper.
Eddie — “Armani does not make a nah-vy suit.” heh.
We have to give a big shout-out to Stirrings watermelon martini mix. This sh*t is good — and getting us through the red carpet. (Um, E, let’s leave the PR hat at home…)
The three amigos — the Mexican directors. Strange name, but okay. LOVE Cuaron. Great Expectations, The little Princess, Harry Potter 3. ALL FANTASTIC. I (E) am still dying to see Children of Men.
I’m reconsidering Kate’s green dress. All together, in full, she looks quite beautiful. Little 
Children is another I haven’t seen yet. Apparently, D would pick Naomi over her — she was “so chunky” before. Ugh. Men. Kate is gorgeous. And real. And, got to sleep with Patrick Wilson. D also wants to bang Helen Mirren. She’s hot. Aged most gracefully.
Oh boy! It’s starting. Get ready for four hours of tedium and more tedium. And, with any luck, good commercials. The Oscars are the new Super Bowl.
BARF!!! February 23, 2007
noelle if you are reading this, please stay away from taco bell!!
via yahoo.com
Rats run wild in KFC-Taco Bell in N.Y.
NEW YORK – A dozen rats were caught on video scurrying around the floor of a New York City KFC/Taco Bell restaurant early Friday, running between counters and tables and climbing on children’s high chairs.News crews flocked to the windows of the
Greenwich Village neighborhood restaurant, which hadn’t opened for the day. By midmorning, the footage was all over the Internet and television news shows, with onlookers giving a play-by-play from the sidewalk as the rodents moved about.“He’s coming for his close-up,” one bystander said as a rat came near the window.Employees came to work, but no customers were allowed in as health inspectors arrived.There was no answer at the phone number displayed in neon on the store window below the words “We Deliver.”“This is completely unacceptable and is an absolute violation of our high standards,” KFC and Taco Bell said in a statement. “This restaurant has been closed and we are addressing the issue with the franchise owner. We will not allow this store to reopen until is it completely resanitized and given a clean bill of health.”The chains said construction in the basement on Thursday “temporarily escalated the situation.”The city Department of Health had inspectors at the site on Friday, said department spokeswoman Sara Markt. She said the restaurant had passed inspection in December, but a violation was issued to the restaurant owner about “evidence of rats” — which meant only droppings at the time.Markt said the owner of the franchise is listed with the department as ADF Fifth Operating Corp.Rats have long been a problem in New York City, with such a dense population and such a large and readily available food supply for the rodents. They are frequently scampering through subway tunnels, rooting through trash, dashing across parks and burrowing into the walls of apartment buildings.But it is rare to see so many rats congregating in one place in such public view.Yum Brands Inc., based in
Louisville, Ky., owns the Taco Bell and KFC restaurant chains.Last week, it was reported that Taco Bell sales had slumped after a widely publicized E. coli scare, but that international sales helped Yum Brands in the company’s fourth quarter.The E. coli outbreak late last year caused more than 70 Taco Bell customers to become ill. Federal officials said in December that the most likely source of the illnesses was lettuce. Taco Bell took precautions by changing its suppliers of lettuce and cheese in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania andDelaware.
I love me some bubbly!
Any opportunity to have Champagne, Cava, Prosecco — I’m in. Sometimes it’s good to spice it up… bellinis, Champagne cocktails, etc. I usually experiment with simple syrup, juice, vanilla, etc. If you’re not that adventurous, Stirrings has some good options. I particularly like their peach bellini.
Interesting theory February 22, 2007
And with this, I have reached my allotment of Grey’s related postings for the week.
PopWatch’s ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ conspiracy theory
It could just be the washed-up carcass of Meredith, but something about Grey’s Anatomy smells fishy here at PopWatch HQ. ABC announced today that Taye Diggs has joined the Grey’s spinoff about mighty neonatal surgeon Dr. Addison Montgomery. So think about it: creator Shonda Rhimes wants Isaiah Washington outta there, but needs a sneaky way to do it besides a straight-up firing. So she can introduce Diggs’ character in a Grey’s epiosde that will serve as a back-door pilot to the Addison spinoff, and she can quietly write Washington out at the end of the season by breaking up Burke and Cristina (Sandra Oh, pictured). Then, if the Addison show isn’t a great big hit (or if it never gets off the ground in the first place), she and Taye can merge back into the Seattle Grace lovefest, and there’ll be a new attractive black man who is not a known homophobe on Grey’s. The switch can be blamed on story lines and development decisions. With all the glam publicity sure to accompany all of this, it’s a win-win for ABC.
What do you think? Are we being overly conspiratorial, or is this a plausible scenario?
IAYM’s Obsession with Matt Damon grows . . .
But why? Maybe it’s because I think he is great in all the movies he is in, but seems to never get the glory. Maybe it’s because he is cute as a button with his boyish charm and All-American good looks. Maybe it’s because I know he has [removed on the advice of counsel]. Anywhos, I had seen this before, but thought the general IAYM-viewing public might want to see it too.
Rehab As Revolving Door
Okay, after this, maybe we should have a quota of Brit-Brit posts. Much like J.G. Melon, too much Brit is not a Smart Choice (trademark pending).
Britney Spears back in rehab yet again
Spears is testing the ”third time’s a charm” adage by heading into rehab for the third time in a week. Mark Vincent Kaplan, a lawyer for Spears’ ex-husband, Kevin Federline, confirmed she has entered a treatment facility. Spears just left an L.A. rehab center on Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after checking in, and before that, reportedly checked in and out of a facility in Antigua late last week. This third brush with rehab forced Spears to cancel a custody hearing with Federline.
Karev who?
The new Grey’s spin-off seems to promise as much eye-candy as the original. Hottiehothothot Taye Diggs has signed on to the show! Yea! For those of you keeping score at home, that’s two Tony-winning actors in the Grey’s family. (Well, Rent won the Tony and he was in it, so I am counting that…)
Diggs to star opposite Walsh in Grey’s spin-off
Taye Diggs has been tapped to star in the Grey’s Anatomy spin-off currently in the works. No details are available on his character. Grey’s will set the stage for the spin-off, which will focus on Kate Walsh’s character, Dr. Addison Shepherd, via an expanded two-hour episode scheduled to air in May in which Dr. Shepherd will consider an exit from Seattle Grace. Grey’s writer and creator Shonda Rhimes is writing the episode and is expected to write the potential spin-off as well.
We’ll Miss you Seth!
And, Summer, and Sandy (greatest TV dad ever!), and Ryan, and Taylor. We could go on! But, the Boston Globe has a nice piece on Seth.
ironic and fun ‘O.C.’ died oh so quickly
What did “The O.C.” have that no other angsty teen soap with an emo soundtrack had? What caused this Fox series, which airs its final episode tonight, to immediately render every other “Dawson’s Creek” knockoff unbearably turgid and so 1990s?
Seth Cohen .
Seth was the embodiment of pop cultural awareness and TV meta-humor. Perfectly inhabited by Adam Brody , Seth made “The O.C.” into ‘ ‘ ‘The O.C.,’ ” with comic air-quotes around every melodrama that hit the denizens of Newport Beach, most of them spoiled and beautiful. Through the sarcastic Seth, show creator Josh Schwartz was able to turn “The O.C.” into a peanut-gallery commentary on itself. Seth was a one-man “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” making fun of “The O.C.” while living through its cliches and absurdities.
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