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“I have been thinking for years about how to use the building differently because it just sits for so many hours in the week,” Feargal says about the coffee service at the Monk. Like so many other operators we’ve interviewed since March, his desire to keep his staff employed in COVID Times spurred McKinney to try something new. The extra non-alcohol sales also help ensure The Monk remains under the 51% threshold for alcohol sales to be considered a legitimate restaurant. As much fun as the service industry can be, it’s also a gossipy place where people hold ridiculous grudges and tak...

Finding myself on Shady Brook for maybe the first time since I lived in The Village last millennium, I recently diverted to a tiny spot highly recommended by a friend of Ethiopian descent: Abeba Foods To Go, also known as Abeba Grocery. The first thing you notice upon entering is that Abeba is really a grocery store stocking Ethiopian staples like lentils and spices and prepared foods in a cooler case. These are also Eritrean and Sudanese staples because of the circular persecution of refugees in those three countries. Abeba takes the Lone Star Card like other grocery stores, and one patron ...

Christopher Nolan didn't want my first viewing experience of Tenet to be from the comfort and safety of my home. He wanted me to see it on a big screen, where all his big time-inverted action set pieces could be seen in all their bigness. And, to an extent, I understand. He put a lot of work into making a big movie and wants me to see it very big. But, because of the state of our world, I waited to watch it when it arrived on streaming services in December. I watched it on a 45-inch TCL TV with a Sonos sound bar at 9 a.m. on a Tuesday. I had to take a break to go to a meeting. The sun put a ...

Question came up yesterday. how do the feds feel, all the federal prosecutors that work so hard to get convictions, to get people to plea out -- how do they feel when a pardon swoops in like this? >> well, ordinarily there's a process that the justice department undergoes before a pardon is granted, and the prosecutor's office, the u.s. attorney's office that handled the case gets an opportunity to provide input. the judge who sentenced the person gets an opportunity to provide input. then the president decides what he wants to. but at least that office had a chance to explain. >> that's ip no...

Part of this huge piece of american infrastructure. this is what it looks like in normal times when it's dry, when they're not using the spillway. this is what it looks like in normal times when it's on, when they are putting water down that spillway, very dramatic, right? but on tuesday afternoon this week, this is what it looks like again, normal times, tuesday afternoon this week something went wrong at the oroville dam and instead of the spillway looking like this, like it always does, like it has since ronnie and nancy reagan opened that up in 1968, for the first time ever this tuesday it...