I have two big obsessions out of Baltimore these days.
1. Rye Rye
2. The 5th and final season of the gritty HBO series The Wire. Here are the first four seasons in four minutes to get you up to speed. 
Charm City Represent.
When Patrick Met Jean.
Two for Eight at Dorsia.
Ever since Google decided to allow users to easily create Google Maps mash-ups, my friends and I have been creating maps to project our varying NYC obsessions for better or worse. Below is a running list of new/cool restaurants and bars to try; giving NYC restaurant snobbery a Mountain View twist.
Feeling It: 1950s and 1960s.
My PR inspiration Sidney Falco…
More early sixties Jazz after the jump…
Midtown Babylon.
Lately I have been enamored with 1950s and 1960s New York. The new AMC series Mad Men has been a spark for my interest in the well-suited and gin-soaked era. The style of Donald Draper and Roger Sterling must have made its way to the inspiration boards of Thom Browne and maybe even to my good friend J. Press for Fall 2008.
