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This Week's Top Stories: Eater Inside: Costata · The Great GoogaMooga 2013 · Critic Robert Sietsema Axed From the Village Voice · The Gatekeepers: Balthazar's Arnaud Jean-Baptiste · Eater Inside: River Styx · Untouchables: Anita Lo's Foie Gras Soup Dumplings at Annisa · Updating the Cocktail Heatmap · People Go Nuts for Dominique Ansel's Cronuts · New York's 11 Top Free Agent Chefs, 2013 · Eater Inside: The Fourth · Restaurants That Are Still Closed Because of Sandy · Chef Shuffles: Jason Hall Leaves John DeLucie's Crown Group

**** CHERRY GROVE GOSSIP **** Bianca Del Rio With Josh Hart, Susan Levine And Sable Scities The Staff Of Dune Point Another great year for DJ Susan Levine and another birthday to celebrate for New York's top spinner. This year Miss Levine not only hosted the grand opening of Cherry's On The Bay in Fire Island, she celebrated her birthday bash with a wild night of shows and top songs. This club was packed and the crowd was wild. Sable Scities aka Timothy Byars and Bianca Del Rio hosted from the stage and went after audience members with a vengeance. The staff of Dune Point Fire Island also joined the fun, by jumping onstage and singing Happy Birthday in Czech. Since nothing ever stuns Queen Susan Levine, except when I make a bad pot of coffee, she was thrilled by Petra Brehl and her mother Sona Pavlasova Ceska's staff of Czech beauties singing the famed song in their native language. What could be better on a beautiful night in Cherry Grove? Spotted in the audience was the oldest intern on The Elvis Duran Show, Johny Pool. Johny has fans worldwide. Tourists come from all over the globe to taste Johny's famous drinks, this guy is a legend. Logan Hardcore was spotted working the crowd and our favorite Cherry Lane Cafe bartender Josh Hart, was in full swing presenting Miss Levine with her birthday cake. The dance floor was packed and once again Miss Levine really brought out the top hits on a wild Fire Island night. Get ready America, Queen Levine is really on the top of her game this year and no one gets the crowd moving like her! Photos By: James Edstrom

Long-boiled pork-bone broth so rich it could fell an ox. Excited staffers shouting something at you in a foreign language when you walk in. Loud, frantic noodle slurping. Ah, yes, it must be another authentic tonkotsu-style ramen shop. This one, however, the first New York branch of a Tokyo-based mini-chain, is already a bit of a sensation in Los Angeles, where there are three locations. It arrives in the West Village early next month with a letter of recommendation in the form of a rave review from Pulitzer Prize-winning L.A. food writer Jonathan Gold. Among food geeks, that is something like the equivalent of three Michelin stars, but even better. There are 56 seats, plus nine more at the counter. So go ahead and start brainstorming an Ippudo-style line-waiting strategy. 24 Greenwich Ave., nr. 10th St.; 646-329-6856 *This article originally appeared in the May 27, 2013 issue of New York Magazine. Read more posts by Robin Raisfeld and Rob PatroniteFiled Under: openings, jinya ramen bar, ramen

The Daily News is trying to get aboard the Exaggerated Trend Piece train (owned and operated by the New York Times) with a scoffing story on tepees, apparently the latest eye-rolling fixture in "hipster" households. [ more › ]

If Miles Davis is the improbable muse behind Eleven Madison Park, could Charlie Parker be the creative inspiration—in name, at least—for Charlie Bird, a new, Italian-accented restaurant slated to open this week in the South Village? The venture is a collaboration between chef Ryan Hardy, late of Aspen’s Montagna at the Little Nell, and Robert Bohr, a sommelier and wine-cellar consultant best known for his bull-market reign at Cru. Here, they celebrate their urban terroir in a space discreetly tagged with street art and decorated with Lyle Owerko’s boom-box photos. Hardy’s menu applies Italian technique to local ingredients in crudi like Long Island fluke with pickled walnuts and cult Tuscan olive oil; small plates of lamb tongue and fried zucchini blossoms; and seasonal housemade pasta, like cappellacci with ramps, peas, and guanciale (pictured). And the 100-bottle wine list reflects the collective tastes of Bohr, Momofuku wine director Jordan Salcito (his wife and Charlie Bird investor), and acting sommelier Grant Reynolds. 5 King St., entrance on Sixth Ave.; 212-235-7133 Dinner Menu [PDF] *This article originally appeared in the May 27, 2013 issue of New York Magazine. Read more posts by Robin Raisfeld and Rob PatroniteFiled Under: openings, charlie bird, robert bohr, ryan hardy

Anyone who was hoping to indulge on a few foie gras doughnuts this weekend at the now cancelled Googamooga, chin up. Justin Warner's Do or Dine has a special offer for you: flash your Sunday ticket to The Great Googamooga and you'll get your very own foie gras doughnut, half-off. [Twitter]

[Photo: Instagram/Northern Spy Food Co.] The people at Superfly Presents pulled the plug on day three of The Great GoogaMooga food and music festival at around noon today because of bad weather. In a statement, Superfly explains that the group and the Parks Department made the decision "in the interest of safety and prevention of damage to the park grounds." Many of the chefs and restaurateurs that were participating in the fest voiced their thoughts about this on Twitter, and some of the city's big writers and critics also commented on the news this afternoon. Find a roundup of the top 15 tweets below, as well as information from Superfly co-founder Jonathan Mayers about how the company plans to work with the vendors to make up for day three. This afternoon, Eater asked Superfly co-founder Jonathan Mayer if the company is going to offer any reimbursement to the restaurants that prepared food and set up shop today. His response: Well, right now, we're closing down operations, but we'll be working with the restaurants, sitting down with them, and working through the issues. We have a good track record of being fair with vendors, and artists. Our whole intention behind doing this festival was to celebrate these restaurants and local business...We want to support and be a good partner with these restaurants. We want to do the right thing. We're still finalizing things and assessing operations.So, no word yet on whether the vendors will actually get any financial help to cover the food and labor costs from today. But if you are one of the unlucky vendors who set up shop today only to find out that the event was cancelled, expect a call from someone at Superfly soon. Christophe Hille of Northern Spy Food Company tells EV Grieve that his restaurant lost around $10,000 this weekend. UPDATE: Superfly also passes on this statement: "GoogaMooga is all about supporting local businesses and our intention is to do right by each vendor. In the coming days, we will be sitting down with all our partners to find financial solutions." Here's how the news of the cancellation played out on Twitter: Mile End, right before the gates were supposed to open: Superfly announcing the cancellation and the refund policy: One festival goer points out that Superfly sent out an announcement about ticket availability this morning: From Allison Robicelli: Chef Andrew Carmellini: One of the members of De La Soul sends a message to fans: Northern Spy Food Co.: Bloomberg's Ryan Sutton: Mr. Sutton offers more thoughts on GoogaMooga on his blog, The Bad Deal: "Maybe we don't really need GoogaMooga's particular brand of an NYC food festival because maybe it's just bringing together NYC restaurants we can already visit any day of the week, except here, they're outside...Maybe restaurants will realize this could all be harmful to their brands and harmful long established customer relationships?" The people from Pig and Khao respond to Sutton's question: From the Pork Slope crew: Blogger/Author Emily Gould: The people behind Pizza Moto send word that City Harvest might pick up some of the extra food. Heritage Radio Network: The people from Luke's Lobster are trying to make the most out of the situation: Team Seersucker: · All Coverage of The Great GoogaMooga [~ENY~]

Here's a very thin silver lining for anyone who was rained out from day three of The Great GoogaMooga: all unused drink tickets will be refunded. If you want your money back, all you have to do is send an envelope with any unused beer and wine pavilion tickets and a copy of the receipt for your Sunday ticket to Superfly's GoogaMooga offices, to the attention of Ticket Reimbursements, by June 17. That address and the return policy can be found here. [Brokelyn] [Photo]

An NYPD Lieutenant and his subordinates in the Brooklyn North Narcotics squad have cost New York City taxpayers more than $1.5 million in settled lawsuits. According to a lengthy Daily News investigation, 37-year-old Lt. Daniel Sbarra was promoted and given a pay raise in 2011 despite a litany of complaints leveled against him alleging that he and his officers used excessive force, racial slurs, and illegal searches. Sbarra, who is apparently a Pearl Jam fan, has had 30 CCRB complaints filed against him—91% of the NYPD's 35,000 uniformed officers have fewer than five, only 54 have more than 21. [ more › ]

"This is it children, this is it!" you yell at your four grandkids, pointing to the display on the Google Wall of your micro apartment in New-New-Double East Queens. "We once read articles like these about how the rich were pushing us out of the city and what did we do? We did nothing but gawp at the shiny glass of their luxury towers!" But it's no use. Your progenitors don't care about some story that was in The New Koch Times so very long ago. They're busy cramming Smile Goop™ into their orifices, oblivious that the borough that could have been theirs to thrive in is now a giant, gilded bidet for Russian ore speculators. [ more › ]