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Hanukkah and Christmas make for a delightful mashup — so why not celebrate it all?

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Hanukkah and Christmas make for a delightful mashup — so why not celebrate it all?

Wait. Christmas and the first night of Hanukkah fall on the same day this year? December 25th! Thank God! Finally! Can we please keep this up?! My extended family is a mishmash of Jews and Catholics, all committed to their own customs and traditions. At long last, we can stop running to different homes to … Read more

Big, beautiful Cafe Carmellini is NYC’s most delightful new restaurant — melding the glam Gilded Age & go-go 1980s

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Big, beautiful Cafe Carmellini is NYC’s most delightful new restaurant — melding the glam Gilded Age & go-go 1980s

Big, beautiful and booming Cafe Carmellini is the city’s most delightful, crowd-pleasing new restaurant in ages. It brings back the joyful New York before Covid-19, illegal pot shops and the migrant invasion. It’s a miraculous marriage of the19th Century Gilded Age and Wall Street’s junk-bond era, but without 1880s social snobbery or 1980s excess. The brasserie swirls nightly … Read more