Apparently, it is still news when a Brooklyn bar bans babies. In this case, it’s the Double Windsor, which asks that after 5 p.m., everyone be above the legal drinking age (that’s 21, in case you’re wondering). Quoth the New York Post: Double Windsor co-owner and chef Paul Cacici said the bar, which opened in …
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Q&A: Bambu, the Filipino Mos Def
The last time I interviewed a rapper, it was 50 Cent in a piece for a much larger media outlet than our humble Wagon of Dads. L.A.-based Bambu, formerly of Native Guns, may not be as big a name, but he is hands-down the best socially conscious Filipino-American rapper there is, because he freestyles like this and this …
Lazy Parents: I Resemble That Remark
A funny little thing from the Daily Mail, (via the Times’ Motherlode blog): it seems that there has been a bit of a kerfuffle lately in merry ye olde England town over what parents choose to wear when dropping the laddies off at school. Too much pajamas! How can you have any pudding if you’re …
What Almost Made Me Cry Today: Underwear Edition
Spent some time on a small household project: refinishing an old chair my wife bought a few years ago. (Danish Modern, oil finish, very nice.) Those hand-rubbed finishes you see in the furniture ads require lots of rags (plus elbow grease), and I grabbed a handful of them from the bag of worn-out clothes we …
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