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10 New York pizzerias make Italian guide’s 2024 list for best pizza in United States
It’s no secret that New York has some of the best pizza in the United States — and that’s not just residential bragging. 50 Top Pizza, an Italian guide dedicated to finding the best slices and pies of heaven around the world, just released its top 50 pizza places in the United States. Guess which state claimed a fifth of the rankings?
2 NJ pizza joints named among best 50 in U.S.
Two New Jersey pizza shops just received some major love about their quality. One won’t surprise you, but the other one might. There’s an Italian website called 50 Top Pizza which honors the worthiest pizzas all over the planet. They’ve done write-ups on the best pizzas in Latin America, the best pizzas in Europe, the best pizzas in Asia-Pacific, etc.
Monkey business! Meet Ticky, NYC’s viral-sensation tow-trucking primate
It’s a jungle out there — just the way she likes it. A 3-year-old spider monkey named Ticky recently made a hilarious special appearance in The Bronx — clad in a diaper while frolicking around her owner’s tow truck. “Everybody wants to take pictures with her,” said “Junior,” 40, to The Post on Monday, referring to his gangly buddy, who occasionally accompanies him for his business, Bronx towing company CBC Automotive. Junior, who didn’t want to give his last name, said his unusual companion is the realization of a childhood dream. Neuralink employee was scratched by monkeys infected with herpes and fired after she...
Doris Duke – Wealthiest Woman In The World
From 1925 through 1967 the legendary San Remo Tavern was open day and night for business on the northwest corner of MacDougal and Bleecker Streets in the Village – across the street on the southeast corner was another Café, the Figaro, which – after being closed for several decades and gaining a certain kind of legend status itself (Sam Shepard and Sally Kirkland were waiters there in the 60s) – is open again. From the middle of Prohibition through the Great Depression and WWII, and on into the 50s and 60s the San Remo thrived, attracting a crowd of poets, painters, playwrights, musicians and actors. Some of these luminaries were Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, William S.Burroughs, Miles Davis, Frank O’Hara, Jackson Pollock, Judith Malina and Julian Beck and so many others. One night the actor Warren Finnerty (The Connection) slipped a magic mushroom (psilocybin cubensis) in a glass of apricot nectar and insisted I drink it – but that’s another story. Another night, the Saturday night after the mid-week opening and the unanimous rave reviews had come in for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the crowd at the bar included several of the above as well as Simone Signoret and Leonard Bernstein there to see the new wunderkind of the American theater, Edward Albee, who wandered in fashionably late in a white cable knit turtleneck sweater, an outfit vaguely reminiscent of Eugene O’Neill. Which is also another story. The story here however, and one I have never told before, is the amazing adventure I had with some pals which started out at the San Remo and ended up at the largest private estate on the east coast where we all spent the night under the same roof with Doris Duke, who when she was young was called the world’s richest girl, then the world’s wealthiest woman – and then in an unauthorized biography written by her accountants, “…shall we say the world’s richest person?”
Shout Out to Illinois – Home to 2 of the Best Pizza Restaurants
The million-dollar question. New York or Chicago, who has the better pizza? Well, the New York Times says there are 2 pizzerias in Illinois you have to visit. Pizza is that one food I feel that you can't make wrong. No matter if you get a slice at a gas station or a restaurant, we all have that one place that office (what we think) is the best for pizza.
How to Dine at Rao’s Without a Reservation
In the twenty years that I’ve lived in New York, I’ve tried to visit any bar or restaurant with an interesting ambiance or story, but the prospect of entering Rao’s — East Harlem’s famous Italian restaurant and the producer of my jarred vodka sauce of choice since I was twelve — has intimidated me.
N.J.’s Renauld White, barrier-breaking model and ‘Guiding Light’ actor, dead at 80
Renauld White, a model and actor from New Jersey and trailblazer in the world of fashion, has died. White, 80, was the first African American male model to cover GQ magazine in 1979. The Newark native worked with designers including Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Jeffrey Banks, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna...
NJ101.5 listeners have voted for the best ‘dive’ bar in NJ
Thousands of votes came pouring in on Friday and through the weekend after we announced the finalists in the four-region contest to find the best Jersey dive bar. We ended up with five finalists because of a rare tie in Central Jersey between Ellery's in Middlesex Boro. and Lagoda's Saloon...
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