Big Apple Blog Festival

Welcome to the Big Apple Blog Festival (BABF) for February 27, 2006, a representative roundup of the last week's posts by NYC bloggers. Thanks to A Guy in New York for creating this weekly roundup of the best posts from NYC blogs.  It's Suitably Flip's profound pleasure to host this week's installment.

The City So Nice

At Metroblogging NYC, Lisa Beebe managed to find the hands-down scariest theme bar in New York.  Even the sign creeps me out.  Meanwhile at Metroblogging, Chris Trent is feeling that pang of guilt we all feel when we find ourselves squandering the privilege of living in the Big Apple.

New York has the most dramatic, most recognizable skyline in the world.  But it's far from blight-free.  Harleys, Cars, Girls, and Guitars wants to get to the bottom of one of the more pervasive rooftop eyesores.

Amy at NewYorkology and Pamela at Atlas Shrugs reflect on the 13th anniversary of the first World Trade Center attack, which came to pass this Sunday.

On a lighter note, Gotham Gal had a run-in with one of New York's most honest cabbies.  Now if they would stop ripping us off with the EZ Pass.

On a much, much heavier note, Gothamist illustrates just how quickly and horribly you can expect to die when the bomb drops on New York, depending on your neighborhood.

Is New York City starting to feel like a police state?  Cameras everywhere, heightened security, bag checks... are we losing our basic civil liberties?  NYC Photobloggers gives us the most recent example of the ever-tightening reins on public behavior.

Gotham Grub

Slashfood happened upon the latest high-tech way to make ordering pizza take longer.

In other pizza news, A Brooklyn Life discovers Caserta Vecchia, an old-school, warm and fuzzy neighborhood pie joint.

It's hard to screw up a restaurant whose central theme is cheese.  Artisanal is one of my favorite gastro-indulgences in the city and the Big Apple Dining Guide gives us a compelling reason to make reservations tonight.

We had a nicely global-warmed January in New York. Unfortunately, we've paid for it with near nuclear winter throughout February.  But the occasional sunshiny day has led Gridskipper to pine longingly for a Madison Square Park Shake Shack burger, his eyes trained on the real-time "Countdown to Reopening" web clock (21 days to go!).

Politics

Late Final keeps tabs on Gubernatorial hopeful Eliot Spitzer's shifty shifting website.

8 years after changing the way the world looks at interns, President Clinton has ordered up a fresh batch of 25.  Scott Sala at Urban Elephants scooped the mainstream media by days on this one.

Gotham Gazette's Wonkster runs down and rounds up the tenacious controversy of the UAE sea port deal.  Karol at Alarming News weighs in.

Modern Fabulosity isn't willing to play Hillary Clinton's dangerous game.

Daily Heights sates your conspiracy lust.  This week's theme: affordable housing.

Blogs, Blogging, Bloggers

Few pop culture phenomena have captivated the blogosphere more than 24.  And few bloggers have been more captivated by it than The Man at GOP and the City. This is the consequent inevitability.

Suitably Flip started doing a little stripping on the side.

Citizen Journal's Bill Lalor gets his irony on with a post examining "Top 10 reasons I haven't been posting".  (I think the real reason may be that the 7 key is missing from his keyboard.)

Exit Zero has found the latest must-have blog metatool.

Gallimaufry

Gentlemen prefer blondes.  So did Og.  Ace of Spades has details.  But as Steve Silver points out, that doesn't mean they can't be vacuous.

On Probation couldn't be happier for the Powerball winners.

This week, Donald Trump unloaded on Martha Stewart.  Or he pretended to unload on Martha for cheap publicity.  Either way, Jossip was watching.

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