Tag: social

Mommy Pai’s Turns Chicken Fingers Into a Scene

admin — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:00:16 +0000

Photo: Evan Sung

Though it’s usually my colleague Tammie Teclemariam who reports from the queue outside the restaurants du jour, I wait on my share of lines — anyone who wants to try the latest places often has to.

Mental reps and truth bombs: How this AI ‘coach-in-your-pocket’ strength trains minds before life’s hardest workouts

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 22:30:49 +0000

Building mental resilience should feel as natural as going to the gym, said Craig Mason, noting his new venture flexes a “performance psychologist, coach in your pocket, 24/7.”

The emphasis: training the mind before crises hit.

Left-Wing Media Spreads Falsehoods About Trump’s New Election Integrity Watchdog

admin — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:04:48 +0000

Anyone who tries to undermine this work, through hit pieces, social media posts, or lawsuits, is working against secure elections.

What to Eat and Drink at This Year’s U.S. Open

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:05:00 +0000

Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images

It’s the time of year when New Yorkers put on their visors and take the 7 train to Flushing Meadows to watch tennis well into the night. Surrounding all the play, the grounds basically double as a (very expensive) food-and-drink festival with surprisingly solid options among all the stalls and celebrity-chef-backed restaurants.

The Spiel Has Become a Scourge

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:00:39 +0000

Photo: George Karger/Pix/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

The other night, at a perfectly nice new downtown restaurant, the server came over to take our order. Even he didn’t look up to the task: “Are you good on the menu, or should I do my spiel and walk you through?” We opted for the Spiel, mostly out of a sense of obligation. We all knew he was supposed to give us the Spiel.

Dan Rosen Sees Ghosts in the City’s Coffee Shops

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:00:45 +0000

Illustration: Adam Mazur

“I have a no-bad-meals policy,” says comedian and Middlebrow co-host Dan Rosen. “If I’ve had a bad meal, it haunts me for the rest of the day. It’s a very dumb and expensive rule, but it’s something to look forward to.

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How to See Grub Street’s Food and Restaurant Coverage First in Google

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:15:39 +0000
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There are many places to find restaurant news. You can make sure New York’s team of experts and critics show up first in your Google search results thanks to a new feature called “Preferred Sources.” Google now lets you manually select which outlets will appear first in the “Top Stories” section on search-results pages, as well as in a dedicated “From Your Sources” section.
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Meta’s billion-dollar KC data center just came online; here’s what the region expects it to generate

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:02:12 +0000

As Meta officially flipped the switch this week on its Kansas City Data Center — making the $1 billion project part of the company’s global infrastructure — the move positions the metro as a hub for cutting-edge tech, said Quinton Lucas.
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Bean around the block: How this Westport coffee shop is cherry picking roasts from its own farm in the Andes

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:26:19 +0000

A hemisphere away from Brett Janssen’s former job at General Motors in Kansas City’s Northland, the now-budding Westport coffee shop owner found a fresh batch of opportunities: his wife, business partner and a transcontinental farm-to-cup Columbian coffee operation.
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Hori Is an Invite-Only Izakaya

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:00:57 +0000
Illustration: Sunny Wu
Down a narrow flight of stairs off a nondescript stretch of East 50th Street, past a ceramics studio and behind a clothing boutique, is the 14-seat restaurant Hori.
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Hori Is an Invite-Only Izakaya

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:00:57 +0000
Illustration: Sunny Wu
Down a narrow flight of stairs off a nondescript stretch of East 50th Street, past a ceramics studio and behind a clothing boutique, is the 14-seat restaurant Hori.
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Five Virginia School Districts Are Losing Federal Funding Because They Won’t Stop ‘Trans’ Social Experiments On Children

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:18:54 +0000
After five far-left Northern Virginia school districts refused to stop forcing “transgender” policies on their students, the U.S. Department of Education is proceeding with suspending or terminating federal funding.
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Bong Is Cambodia by Way of Crown Heights

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:00:16 +0000
Photo: Hugo Yu
That opening a restaurant — even in a restaurant-mad town like this one — is a fool’s errand is so well established it barely needs saying. The costs are high, the rewards few, the work grinding, the success rate minuscule. Want to make money with a restaurant? Sell it to the next sucker.
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This Ex–Enron Employee Thinks He Can Revolutionize College-Football Recruiting

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000
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Startup Crawl returns Sept. 19, marking Startland’s 10-year anniversary with KC innovation focus

admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:02:09 +0000

Kansas City’s largest startup open house is back this fall — celebrating a decade of innovation alongside emerging builders and newsmakers.

Set for Sept.19 and organized by Startland News, Startup Crawl will mark the newsroom’s 10-year anniversary with a high-energy showcase of the city’s entrepreneurial community. The event, presented by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, places dozens of startups — from sports tech to AI — on display in venues across the Power & Light and Crossroads districts.
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