Chinese Backstreet Boys lip-sync band, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways: -The Backstreet Boys released “That Way” in 1998. The lip-sync di tutti lip-syncs above was recorded by three students calling themselves “Chinese Backstreet Boys” in 2005. The Backstreet Boys were conceived with a shelf…
This Is How We Do It: Shrimp
RIP Heavy D, who gave us two timeless hits (this one and this one), a lesser hit I like even more than the other two, and one great album title/nickname-of-a-nickname (“Waterbed Hev”). As far as I know, he coined the word “conversate.” He also left us with this, a line I’ve never…
This is How We Do It: Salmon
Dear New York City cyclists, Stop riding the wrong way on the bike lanes. This should be obvious. We’ve been thrown a huge bone by the Bloomberg administration, whose bike-friendly policies
This is How We Do It: Eggplant
NOTE: It’s come up several times in these pages that when it comes to cooking, technique is the thing. Being able to follow a recipe is a skill in and of itself and a very important one; however, at a certain point that method stops teaching you much. To go…