Shtick in a Box: Paper charts the viral rise of the Lonely Island trio, proclaiming them the Internet’s biggest stars.
Batter Up: The 15 most exciting new stadium snacks in major league baseball, according to First We Feast.
Unserious Style: Esquire chats with today’s generation of comedians about how onstage style still matters today, just in a different way.
On the Ropes: Valet makes the case for picking up a jump rope as part of your fitness routine.
Up and Downey: Riding the roller coaster of Robert Downey Jr.’s style evolution, courtesy of GQ.
Next Generators: Well Spent’s newest contributor (and rising star cordwainer) Kyle Rancourt laments the youth’s waning interest in American craftsmanship.
Porsche It to the Limit: In 1983 a car was unveiled that would still be considered a technological marvel today, 30 years later: the Porsche 959.
Fries with That: The BBC goes deep into the history of fish and chips.
Batten Down the Hatches: A Continuous Lean showers praise on the outdoorsy outerwear brand Batten Sportswear.
The Bell Tolls: The harrowing tale of one woman’s destiny with Taco Bell’s latest chimera, a Cool Ranch Doritos Loco, as played out on a subway platform.
Super-Short Film: A few enterprising filmmakers have been honing their Vine craft—and Vulture rounds up the best six-second movies out there.
Back to Vegas: And now, the teaser trailer for the third and final installment of the Hangover trilogy.
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Jacket-ology: GQ seems to agree with us about the denim jacket being a spring must-have: here’s a roundup.
Pickup Artist: For any aspiring pickpockets, Cool Material has assembled the seven seminal instructional videos on the subject.
Your Producer Credit Awaits: Daily Details rounds up the five films worth backing on Kickstarter.
Fresh Direct: Sample the finest restaurants around the country without having to leave your home—thanks to this list from First We Feast and the magic of mail-order food.
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Dinner plans: you’ve got ’em.
Tapas with friends. Family-style Italian feasts. Surf-and-turf date nights. Late-night tacos. Bottomless mimosa power brunches. All of which have one thing in common: other people.
Which, one could argue, is the entire point of eating. Hell, entire books have been written on this subject. But those who fear the company of no one are missing out on a truly noble and gratifying experience.
Which is why every once in a blue supermoon, it’s a good idea to dine alone. Not because you have to, but because you can. And just because you’ve chosen to spend the night in your own good company doesn’t mean microwavable burritos on your couch—in fact, we believe it should prompt the opposite.
And so allow us to present: the Gentleman’s Guide to Dining Alone.»
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Feel the Burn: Wells Tower comes to grips with his father’s mortality and has his own first middle-aged experience—all while at Burning Man.
Fits the Bill: Southern gent and designer extraordinaire Billy Reid sits down with Gilt Manual to talk menswear and drink bourbon.
Do as the Roman: Our old pal Roman Coppola shares his cultural diet with Details.
Tick Talk: Some good pointers for the beginner vintage watch collector, courtesy of Gear Patrol.
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Here we are: the height of feasting season.
That means your focus for the next month is fitting in as many dinners as humanly possible. But be forewarned: increased feasting frequency means busier kitchens and a higher chance of culinary errors—namely in the form of undercooked eggs, overcooked steaks and rogue hairs.
In seasons past, you may have let these sorts of things slide. But this year, you’re winning the holidays. And that means exercising your God-given right to eat dinner the way it was intended to be—even when it means sending it back. It’s an essential move, but not without risk: it can irritate your server, create tension among your dining companions and seriously diminish your dining-out cred. Unless you do it correctly.
Herewith, a five-point plan to knowing when and how to give your chef a mulligan.»
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Thanksgiving Day is so close, we can nearly taste it. Mr. Hitchcock is so excited, he’s overcome his aversion to birds. It’s undeniable—the holidays are upon us.
Time to get started on a good six-week bender of reckless food consumption, unabashed merriment and some family-appropriate debauchery. Please leave the resolutioning and course correcting for January 2, 2013.
As a first step, start updating your holiday kitsch.
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via Visual OptimismLeather, Man: A handy visual guide to help you learn your leathers—from bridle to patent. [Valet]
Tony, Toni, Toné: The style evolution of the wanderlust food critic, Tony Bourdain. [A Headlong Dive]
What Would Woody Do: Waxing poetic on the match made in autumnal heaven that is a corduroy blazer and chinos. [Put This On]
And… Twins: The Olsen twins explain to The Wall Street Journal how they’ve learned from menswear’s “investment pieces” ideology. [WSJ]
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via The LibertineIn Vest Now: More love for lightweight vests—Valet runs down a few more options for the season. [Valet]
Chew on This: The bond between menswear and food grows ever stronger as Complex has just launched a site dedicated to food. [FirstWeFeast]
No Sweat: Philadelphians win the award for being the most sweatpanted people of our nation, according to this recent study. [Time]
Silver Spooner: You already know what your boots say about you, but here’s what your spoons do. [The Atlantic]
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With heavy hearts (and arteries) yesterday we said goodbye to the Prime Burger, one of the last remaining greasy spoons in Manhattan. While our beloved, 74-year-old burger joint couldn’t be saved, its short-order slang must live on.
Diner lingo is by no means exclusive to the Prime Burger—temperamental waitresses and short-order cooks have employed the lippy jargon since the late 1800s. While at times crass (and mildly racist), there’s something undeniably comforting about a gum-smacking gal named Flo commanding some invisible force in the kitchen to “burn one, black and blue, and drag it through the garden.” (Well-done cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato and onion.)
Who knows, these may come in handy the next time you’re short on the bill…»
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This inspiring diptych comes from our favorite Tumblr of the day, Coffee and the Newspaper, which joins up handsome menswear pics with even more handsome close-ups of food. They haven’t tackled oranges yet, but it’s only a matter of time.
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We usually focus on the “wearing fuzzy things” approach to winter, but there are plenty of other tricks for getting the colder half of the year unchilled, starting with your dinner plate.
So in honor of the dropping temperature, we’d like to walk you through the basics of one of our favorite winter foods: chili infused with the Bhut Jolokia, the hottest pepper on earth.
It’s a little dangerous…but it’s worth it.
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Copyright Bill EwingAs connoisseurs of history, we sometimes find styles, habits and turns of phrase from the past that we wouldn’t mind bringing back to the present, Doc Brown-style. This time around, we’re dusting off the continental breakfast.
We like rituals. Pomp. Circumstance. The more accoutrements—the silver service, the folded napkin—the better.
And while the standard breakfast ritual has been whittled down to “coffee and something else,” we’d like to make room for something a bit more elegant. Nothing that would involve any elaborate stove work, just a bit of culinary ceremony at the start of the day…or what is commonly known as the continental breakfast.
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We don’t like playing etiquette police, but lately we’ve been seeing a lot of confusion around the proper role of cell phones at dinner. In particular, a certain tech blogger seems to be on his way to defining this as the new normal.
But it isn’t. And it’s not going to be.
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via Fashion CopiousCross Dressing: A blogger comes forward with his style secret: wearing women’s ballet socks under boat shoes for a sockless look. The internet at large has yet to heartlessly ridicule him. Well played all around. [A Trip Down South]
Against Food: B. R. Myers has had enough of foodies. We’ll believe him when he pledges to eat nothing but porridge. [The Atlantic]
There Goes Sunday: Criterion comes to Hulu Plus with 400 Blows and a mind-blowing number of Zatoichi movies. [Criterion]
Saddle Up A photoessay of a motorcycle ride to San Quentin. [Apropos Foto]
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Postcards From the Edge: Christopher Hitchens stares down death with characteristic wit. We’re pulling for you, sir. [Vanity Fair]
Too Many, By Any Standard: Google Books has determined that there are 128,864,880 books in the world, which makes Twilight seem like maybe not such a big deal. [TechCrunch]
Take That, Anthony Bourdain: If you are ever moved to sample exotic cuisine, steer clear of these ten items. [Uncornered Market]
Wisdom of the Ages: Glenn O’Brien weighs in on marital fashion choices. The key line: “Before you tell your wife that what she’s wearing is preposterous, decide if you really want to suffer horribly for the next few days.” [GQ]
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Range Life: She seems underdressed for farming. [Refinery29]
A Gentleman’s Guide to Not Getting Sauce on Your Face: The mechanics of eating a chicken wing, explained. Seriously, take notes. [Lifehacker]
Smash!: If you only watch one forklift catastrophe video today, make it this one. [Gizmodo]
Glow in the Dark: Seeper Interactive takes over Branchage, UK with one of the more impressive light shows we’ve seen.
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The Hef Rides Again: We can’t help but feel that some line has been crossed. [Empire Movies]
A Hack: Michael Pollan graces us with still more rules to live by. Since he doesn’t mention candy corn specifically, we’re going to assume it’s ok. [Lifehacker]
It was a Dark and Stormy Post: Secret Forts gets a turn in the spotlight. [Choosy Beggar]
Heart on Sleeve: Gitman Brothers takes us through their label archive, via an oxford button-down. [Selectism]
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Go, Joe: Sienna Miller looks great in black and white. [World’s Best Ever]
Buzz, Buzz, Zoom: Tesla Motors makes it out of the red and into the black, astonishing just about everyone. Time for an electric drive? [Gizmodo]
Worst. Meal. Ever.: In the wake of their beloved Chihuahua’s passing, America’s chefs are coming out strong against Taco Bell. [Esquire]
At the Movies: Heath Ledger’s final performance promises to be the weirdest goddamn thing you’ve ever seen. [Vulture]
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As you may have noticed, the internet’s gone a bit bacon crazy in the past year or so. But we always assumed it would stop before it got dangerous.
We were wrong.
This is the latest entry in the bacon wars, a protein-packed cannoli of death known as the Flaming Bacon Lance. It’s made entirely of prosciutto—which we like to think of as weapons-grade bacon—and it spits enough flame to melt through a stainless steel tray.
There’s even a cucumber model for a vegetarian equivalent…but somehow it’s just not the same.
We’re well-acquainted with the internet’s insatiable love of bacon, but we’re still glad to see it getting a bit of play in the mainstream press.
Over the past few months, there’s been a web-based rush to invent the most bizarre bacon creation possible (if you were wondering, it’s here) but as strange as the creations seem, the impulse is simpler than you might think. Bacon has always been a bizarre food. It just took the web to show us exactly how bizarre it was. And as usual, the web got a little carried away.
Then again, we’re pretty happy about this…so it’s not all bad.
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It’s all about medium in the art world these days. And as far as mediums go, it’s hard to get hotter than grease.
So it’s not surprising that we ended up with this grease-based Mona Lisa. More surprisingly, it only took ten double burgers to paint the twelve foot likeness. It’s more PR stunt than art—the idea is to show how much grease is actually in one of those things—but Mona herself may be too alluring to make the stunt work.
To be honest, we just feel hungry.
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As the Web 2.0 era progresses, the overshare is getting more and more refined. It’s not enough to tell your friends where you are at all times. You tell them what you’re doing, how you’re feeling, and most importantly of all, what you’re eating.
Into this unsavory mix comes FoodFeed, a twitter mod devoted entirely to what you, and others like you, are eating right now.
In addition to providing dieticians with some fascinating research fodder, we can’t help but think it’ll be useful to the restaurant industry. Also, as research will confirm, there are currently two people eating jello and one person eating soap.
O brave new world…
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The Blessed One: Marissa Miller is so hot, her body’s natural response is to cool itself by sweating profusely. [Egotastic]
Fatty Foods: These chain restaurants’ menu items will have you busting your gut before you know it. Avoid them at all costs. [The Bachelor Guy]
Slam Dunk: The new line of Nike SB’s debuted, and if you’re a fan of sneakers, you’re gonna need to cool your boots after looking at these photos. [High Snob Society]
No Longer A Mystery: A breakdown of famous designers’ names and the proper way to pronounce them. Now you’ll know, just in case you ever need to impress a model. [Haute Concept]
Kanye’s Inspiration: Meet the sunglasses that started a movement… A very colorful movement. [Men.Style]
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Style: some people have it, and some neighborhoods really have it. To show you what we mean, we’ve partnered with Cadillac to present Style Shifters—a five-part, in-depth look at what the hippest gents in some of the country’s coolest neighborhoods are wearing now. Our intrepid photographers have roamed the streets in search of the most stylish guys around. Herewith, a few photos of what they found...
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is home to some of the country’s best bars and coolest restaurants—and, of course, some of the best menswear shops in the world. Naturally, you’ll find more than a few stylish individuals perched outside those locations (and no, not all of them are Billyburg hipsters). See what we mean below...
Style. The Mission’s got it. Union Square’s got it. But each of them goes about having it in a different way—the Mission rocking a more bohemian coffee shop vibe, Union Square hosting some of the best higher-fashion shops (and shoppers) on the West Coast. We rounded up a few of the most stylish folks from both. Have yourself a gander below…
Forget everything you know about Miami style. Today’s Miamian is more LeBron James than Crockett and Tubbs—as you’ll soon see in our next edition of Style Shifters…
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