2010

As I find myself not traveling somewhere this weekend – my next trip is Miami in three weeks –  I thought now would be a good time to just go through the RSS feeds and both my personal and Hidden Track twitter feeds to see what is happening in the food world.

BoozyNYC tells us what to drink at Dram in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Based educated us on where to find Local, Organic, Affordable Food.

For anyone who lives near McCarren Park, there is a new coffee bar opening at 595 Union Ave. (via Brownstoner).

If you were thinking of doing a Pumpkin Ale Taste-Off, don’t sweat it, Sarah DiGregorio of the Village Voice tasted, rated and reviewed five different ones.

Serious Eats posted their NYC Food Events for the Weekend (and Beyond).

READ ON for more of this week’s F4tF…

Every December since 2003, Umphrey’s McGee guitarists Jake Cinninger and Brendan Bayliss have performed a unique acoustic show at an intimate venue to benefit a charity. This year’s Brendan Bayliss

Kings of Leon return to NBC’s Saturday Night Live this weekend just days after the release of  Come Around Sundown. Saturday’s episode marks KoL’s second appearance on SNL as the

We would like to welcome poster collector Matt Quinn to talk about ten of his favorite framed Phish posters done by Link David of Frame Fetish…

Merit badges, shot glasses, postcards, stickers and t-shirts are among the myriad of collectible band memorabilia that Phish graces fans with these days, though the original king of concert merchandise – the poster – still reigns supreme. And while sometimes it seems like Phish fans purchase these incredible pieces of art for the express purpose of filling their closets with cardboard tubes, some of the lucky ones do actually make it into a frame and on to a wall, visually forcing subconscious recalls of random nights of musical madness in that went down in venues across the country.

Most of these fans will end up wandering down to their local craft shop  and  – IMO – will overpay for a sub-par frame job. A few years ago, I was lucky enough to be turned on to a framer unlike any other I’ve encountered before or since, Link David, the one man operation based out of SoCal known as Frame Fetish.

Link hand crafts frames and matting, incorporating themes and colors directly from the art, weaving the two into a single cohesive piece. With prices running surprisingly close to what you would pay for a basic frame job from a craft store, if you’ve got something special in the closet that deserves the red carpet treatment, Link is the man you want to handle it. Check out these images below to see exactly what he’s capable of…

1. Power – Pollock (1997)

READ ON for nine more amazing frame jobs…

Way back in March of 2007, I had the pleasure of catching a Gene Ween solo show at the Gramercy Theatre here in NYC and I really enjoyed the way