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Meatball Sandwich Review: Spring Street Natural
Truth is, I don’t go to a lot of places with “Natural” in their names. There’s a Korean grocery in Hoboken, Natural + Plus, that I used to frequent quite a bit—my old roommate and I called it “The Natch.” And I’ve consistently gone to Soho’s Spring Street Natural a few times a year since […]
Yankees Radio Ad Scorecard
The Yankees were playing a midweek “getaway” game yesterday afternoon, so I thought it might be fun to listen on the radio and keep score. If I’m going to pay attention to an entire game, I almost always watch on television. Still, over the course of the season, I’ll hear a lot of play-by-play on […]
Silbert Nobel Submission: “Up the Junction” and the Space-Time Continuum
Or maybe you have to be nominated for a Nobel Prize? Just in case could somebody maybe re-Tweet this? OK thanks. Use the hashtag #physics, as I think that’s where time travel would fit. Before I get into the “meat” of my theory (theorem? proof? I should probably look this stuff up in the FAQs […]
Jack’s 2012 Fall TV Preview
From my childhood and well into adult life, I bought one issue of TV Guide a year: the Fall Preview. I genuinely looked forward to it. I’d carefully read every summary and look over each cast photo. Then I felt well prepared for the slate of new shows—which to sample, and which to skip. So […]
Mama Don’t Take My Soda Bottle Away
Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed ban of greater-than-16-ounce sugary drinks in New York City gave me pause for thought. And it was not the pause that refreshes. Granted, I am a New Jersey resident. But quite often I cross the river into the big town, and when I get there, I like to enjoy a lovely beverage. […]
E-Z Does It
I’m a classic late adopter: DVD, cellphone, smartphone, Chinese baby. So maybe 15 years for me to finally sign up for E-Z Pass is not so bad. I was curious when the system was launched in New Jersey in 1997, but I was skeptical. In the summer of 1999, my forward-thinking friend Maia was imploring […]
Salt on Hands
Sunday night, my hard drive died. I wasn’t overly concerned—I have an external drive and something called “Time Machine” that supposedly backs up my data. And cost wasn’t an issue; after much effort (including zooming in on an upside-down photo of the bottom of my computer to read the serial number) I learned that my […]
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