Danny Evins, the lightning-rod founder of the down-home restaurant chain Cracker Barrel, died on Sunday of bladder cancer at age 76 . While his chicken and dumplings will live on in Interstate rest stops across the country, here in New York City, he might be best remembered for some less savory offerings. [ more › ]
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Controversial Cracker Barrel Founder Danny Evins Dies
Cy Young Award-winning baseball pitcher John Smoltz has listed his 22-acre estate outside Atlanta for $7.2M. The 18,000-square-foot main house is joined by an 18-hole golf course, which Smoltz might have installed after making bets at the country club with good buddy Tiger Woods. [Curbed Atlanta]
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On the Market: Cy Young Award-winning baseball pitcher John…
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Well, it turns out people are still smuggling bushmeat —you know, tropical wild game like MONKEYS and BATS—into the country through JFK, and guess what? It’s still dangerous to eat! Because it can spread diseases! And even if they’re not deadly right now, they might be soon! Because it’s happened before, with bushmeat and AIDS! Everybody freak out! [ more › ]
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People Are Still Eating Bushmeat, Spreading Disease
By now you’ve probably seen the video of U.S. Marines urinatin g on dead bodies in Afghanistan. (In case you missed it, we embedded it below.) It’s unclear whether the corpses were Taliban or ” collateral damage ,” but Defense Department spokesman Capt. John Kirby says, “Whoever it is, and whatever the circumstances — which we know is under investigation — it is egregious, disgusting behavior.” Yeah, this kind of thing isn’t exactly ideal for winning hearts and minds, but on the plus side, it’s making John McCain feel bad. [ more › ]
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Marines Peeing On Dead Afghans Make John McCain Sad
Governor Cuomo’s State of the State speech was chock-full of curious incursions into New Yorker’s privacy. And we aren’t just talking about the whole fingerprinting folks who want food stamps debate. Oh, no. Slipped in there amidst all that gambling talk was also a plan to make New York the first state in the country to collect DNA from anyone convicted of a crime here . And that includes misdemeanors like jumping turnstiles. [ more › ]
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Big Brother Cuomo Wants DNA From Jaywalkers, Farebeaters
We all cringed at the recently-released montage of nail-biting car crashes in New Jersey caused by drivers who run red lights. The company who provides the most red light cameras in the country, American Traffic Solutions, noted that 11 people were killed in the state in 2009 as a resulting of red-light running related collisions. But Monmouth County assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon believes that they’re a scam. “They’re ATMs in reverse—your money goes in and it never comes out,” the Republican tells the Star-Ledger. [ more › ]
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Red Light Cameras: Nanny-State Nuisance Or Life-Saving Technology?
Did you know that before this week, the FBI didn’t recognize that men could be raped? Since 1927, rape has been defined by the FBI as the “carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” But thanks to a new provision, that definition is finally being updated. “Rape is a devastating crime and we can’t solve it unless we know the full extent of it,” said Vice President Joe Biden, who worked closely with advocates on the issue. “This long-awaited change to the definition of rape is a victory for women and men across the country whose suffering has gone unaccounted for over 80 years.” [ more › ]
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FBI Finally Acknowledges That Men Can Be Raped
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Today New York Social Diary’s House column visits the bold, graphic Manhattan loft of Kazumi Yoshida, executive VP of design at legendary fabrics firm Clarence House. The space was published in the Feb/March Elle Decor last year; pay extra attention to that bright-yellow Felt chair by Marc Newson. [NYSD; Elle Decor ]
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At Home With Kazumi Yoshida: Today New York Social Diary’s House…