Fleet Week in NY! En route to airport :( (Taken with instagram)
Just when you thought the world’s pizzamongers couldn’t pack any more mind-boggling ingredients into a pizza crust, they did. Pizza Hut Middle East has just introduced their latest heart attack on a plate, the “Crown Crust Cheeseburger Pizza.”
It’s actually fairly impressive. In a few short years, our gastric masterminds have gone from “hey, let’s stuff a pizza crust with cheese” to “hey, let’s stuff a pizza crust with hot dogs” to “hey, isn’t this what the Mayans warned us about?” Their piece de resistance, the Crown Crust Pizza features entire cheeseburgers set around the outside of the pie, acting as “gems” around the “crown.” The pizza itself is covered with traditional burger toppings like lettuce, tomatoes, ground beef and a special sauce.
For the more health-conscious, to use the loosest possible definition of that term, there’s a chicken fillet version, slathered in barbecue sauce and green peppers.
The original incarnation of the Crown Crust Pizza, Eater reports, first congealed in 2010, and featured alternating “gems” of meatballs and Philadelphia cream cheese balls stuffed in the crust.
The Whitney Biennial is being held at the Whitney Museum (up on 75th Street) from March 1st to May 27th. A collection of sculpture, paintings, installations, and photography (including some live performance art: theatre, dance, music, and films) by a multitude of artists will be showing during this time period. The biennial is the artists’ reactions to contemporary art in America. The Biennial is in its 76th in the series of Biennials and Annuals held at the Whitney, but for the first time since the museum opened, an entire floor will be given to the Biennial for the ever changing performances, events, and residencies during this time period (keep an eye out on their website for what’s going on!)
This week the Whitney is screening Ocean by Charles Atlas, a filmmaker with a strong relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Ocean is the last living record of Cunningham’s dance performance productions. See a little preview of it below:
Also showing this week is Les Goddesses by Moyra Davey. Davey’s work is two part: one being a chilling film of herself listening to a recording of her essay “The Wet and the Dry” through headphones, and giving voice to the words as she hears them. The essay is a story of how her life compares and contrasts to the life of 18th century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and her sisters. The second part are the photographs Davey has collected that were part of her research on Wolstonecraft. Together it is becomes a narrative of research into self reflection.
And that’s all that’s happening this week for the Biennial (not to mention the countless amazingness that is aptly named Singular Visions, if you haven’t seen the 12 piece exhibition you must..I say MUST..go), the screenings and galleries change every week. So again I say, keep checking the Whitney website for updates and calendars.
Happy Easter! These are a great way to reinvent a traditional Easter ingredient.
It’s sort of like chocolate yogurt. The combination of two of my favorite foods, but the mixture is unconventional. However, you don’t know how good it is until you try it.
I’m not one to limit my fun because of calorie counts. However, I think it’s worth noting. Lucky for me my go-to drinks are already low on calories, yay gin-tonics and vodka-sodas. But I must clarify, do vodka-diet sprite if possible, the touch of lime is great. I’ll just save my pina coladas for those special occasions, when I’m on a beach.
What I found while browsing online at work. There is a growing obsession with food trucks in Washington DC since trucks have recently been able to obtain permits. However, I am happy to admit that New York City has some of the best food trucks on the East Cost! And I’m not bias just because I’m from the City. There’s a food truck for every mood and craving, from gourmet ice cream to burgers to schnitzel :)
This image can cheer up anyone’s day. The delicacy of the floral frosting conveys emotion! It’s just that pretty.
(Source: leilockheart)