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Bill Cunningham New York Movie

By Charlene Jaszewski On July 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’ve been a fan of the Sartorialist’s blog for a while now. The Sartorialist (Scott Schuman) is a photographer of street fashion in New York and other cosmopolitan cities around the world. Little did I know, he was not the first to do this. The master of the fashion and [...]

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Bill Plympton: Independently Animated

By Charlene Jaszewski On May 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment

If you attended the lecture from animator Bill Plympton at Museum of the Moving Image the other night, the word that is indelibly burned into your brain is INDEPENDENT. Plympton was joined by David Levy, his friend and co-author of the new book about his life and art, Bill Plympton: Independently Animated.
Plympton [...]

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Queens Kickshaw-A Welcome Coffee Addition to Astoria

By Charlene Jaszewski On March 28, 2011 · 1 Comment

Queens may be a secret gem of ethnic foods, but it’s sadly lacking in coffeeshops with character. That’s all over with the opening of Queens Kickshaw!

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You're a real New Yorker if…

By Charlene Jaszewski On January 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I was just made aware of this How I Met Your Mother episode in which they say what they think makes a “real” New Yorker:

So we’ve got:

1. Stole a cab from someone who needed it 2. Saw a Woody Allen movie 3. Killed a cockroach with their bare hands

I would [...]

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How Charlene popped her competition cherry at BAKED and Brooklyn Kitchen

By Charlene Jaszewski On November 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment

If you are friends with me you know that if a dinner or birthday party occurs, I am the designated dessert-bringer. I have many treats in my repertoire, but most of them involve chocolate. Oddly enough I’ve never entered any contests, but one day on my Facebook page BAKED (awesome bakery out [...]

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New York Random Meet Story #11

By Charlene Jaszewski On August 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I go to Max Brenner to meet my friends @amyvernon and @cozywallet for some noms. Dahlia has brought her friend David, CEO of Postling. An hour in, two other ladies arrive, one is David’s girlfriend, the other is Jenn. We ask the usual questions about what we do, and somehow i get to talking about [...]

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Penguins and pork; a day at the Brooklyn Flea

By Charlene Jaszewski On July 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I like to be surprised, so I like to let some time pass in between my Brooklyn Flea visits, so vendors can rotate and I can be delighted by new things. Today my Brooklyn Flea companions were my Twitter friends (converted to IRL today, whee!) Betsy (@btreinen) and Christine (@christinetaffe). First [...]

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Greenpoint Food Market: Victim of its own success

By Charlene Jaszewski On June 26, 2010 · 1 Comment

I remember watching Sex and the City before I lived in NYC and they would joke how “you’d better go to this restaurant before the Times writes it up and ruins it.” I had no idea how literally that is true.

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Cool stuff I liked this week May 17

By Charlene Jaszewski On May 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I didn’t have many deep thoughts last week so how about a roundup of some cool stuff I discovered?

Cool Neighborhood Stuff Little Soap Shop in Astoria

On Saturday I hung out with my good friend Meg (of weheartastoria.com and harmoniousbelly.com) and we puttered around Astoria. She took me to her [...]

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Food Fair Lessons Learned

By Charlene Jaszewski On April 17, 2010 · 3 Comments

I’ve been making treats for years, and I’ve even sold them casually through retail, but this is the first time I’ve sold them at a booth at a food market. Here are some of the things I learned from being a vendor at the Greenpoint Food Market.

Before [...]

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