This Month’s Google Deep Dive

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The Strangest, Yet Somewhat Factual, Urban Legends About New York As we tailspin into 2023, let us find comfort in no matter how bumpy the landing, the year end finale was adequately numbed by highly caloric cocktails, finger foods that don't subscribe to portion control, reliving family traumas, and the yearly reminder that for the majority … [Read more...]

What’s Rick Lawton Been up to?

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In Key West Redefining the Continental Breakfast Our body's tolerance of, desire for, availability to, and profit from alcohol is a constantly changing narrative in our lifetime. It starts as a naivety of, as I had no idea what alcohol was as a kid yet there was no humanly possibly way my dad sat through 8 years of my quarterly children's … [Read more...]

Something Literally No One Asked For

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A Shrimp Cocktail Crawl Around Downtown Manhattan I hereby decree that we, the millennial womenfolk, have reached a verdict on our decision regarding what food we will shamelessly obsess over, order in hazardous excess, waterboard our social media followers with troves of, and consume until it becomes a facet of our psyche. Avocado Toast, … [Read more...]

Real Estate Questions I Get Asked at Inopportune Times

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When Is the Market Going to Tank? There's nothing like ending a long week with a lazy late-in-the-day martini and a conversation you force upon someone else about doomsday cults or the three hour deep dive you recently went on concerning the commercialization of Mount Everest. Against your best attempts to steer the discussion away from work … [Read more...]

Your Healthy Dose of New York History

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In Case Anyone Else Has Stopped to Think About How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built At UChicago, we had a handful of sardonic "mottos" that were plastered on the sweatshirts of students wherever you turned. Campus favorites were "Where fun goes to die", "Where the odds are good, but the goods are odd”, and “Where the squirrels are cuter than the … [Read more...]