What 170-Year-Old Champagne Tastes Like

Champagne connoisseurs now know what the oldest recorded champagne tastes like. Discovered five years ago in a Baltic Sea shipwreck, bottles of still-corked bubbly were finally popped open for taste-testers to try out. Through labels and branding still visible on the bottles, researchers were able trace them all the way back to the 1830s or 1840s, probably from the champagne houses of Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, …

Revisiting the American Dream

When evaluating the state of the American dream, especially in light of consistently troubling news from all reaches of the country, there’s quite possibly no better way to gain an understanding than taking to the road. This is exactly what first-time filmmaker James Marshall (who also happens to own West Village restaurant White Hall) undertook. On a quest to evaluate the current state of American’s …

Rosie the Riveter Model Dies at 92

Mary Doyle Keefe, the woman who posed for Norman Rockwell’s iconic 1943 painting “Rosie the Riveter,” died yesterday at 92 years old. Keefe’s image was a symbol for the millions of women who went to work on the home front during World War II. She posed for Rockwell when she was just a 19-year-old telephone operator and, while she was a petite woman, Rockwell depicted …