Healthy Alternatives for the Grill
Fruits and other unexpected grilling options for outdoors and in
While a self-made dinner can significantly cut calories, lighting up an apartment-friendly grill instead of a frying pan can do it best. With some minor tweaking, a summer meal can be more than high-fat burgers and sweet marinades. Foods that aren’t typically cooked outdoors, like tempeh and pineapple, can be grilled to heart-healthy perfection with just minimal effort. “Being healthy doesn’t mean you have to compromise taste,” said Vladimir Grinberg, owner of East Village restaurant The Organic Grill.
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It’s Not You (the Animals), It’s Me
Vegan diets are attracting more people for health, rather than moral, reasons
Let’s face it—it’s going to be a long time before New Yorkers abandon their search for the best burger, their love for Peter Luger or their yen for Mister Softee on a hot summer day.
But lately, less meaty (and creamy) food options have been showing up all over town.
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Gay Wedding Week at Fourth Universalist
By Ashley Welch
The Fourth Universalist Society will host a Wedding Week to celebrate marriage equality from July 24 to July 28.
Beginning on Sunday at 1 p.m., the sanctuary will be open to marry every couple that enters the church’s doors. Ministers, pastoral counselors, musicians and volunteers will be on hand to assure every couple who wants to wed will get married. Prices for the services range from $250 to $350 and include the marriage ceremony, marriage license, the option for pre-marital counseling and a reception with wedding cake and champagne. However, no one will be turned away if they cannot pay.
Summer Treats
Some of the best sweet spots to cool off this season
Never has the city been more alluring to summer staycationers than it is now, with folding chairs in Times Square, movie nights at parks and piers, an elevated public park and, for a food-obsessed gal like me, ever expanding al fresco dining options—from barnacle-encrusted lightships to ball fields. Après eating, you can’t walk one block without a blast of chill air issuing from yet another frozen dessert purveyor. Here is a feast of affordable summer treats—from al fresco drinks and meals to cooling desserts.
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Pets Don’t Sweat
High temperatures can be deadly for Fido
The dog days of summer can be hazardous for your pet. Be a cool owner and help your canine companion beat the heat this summer.
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Toilet Training Whiskers?
Two cat products designed to make the litter box obsolete
By Annie Lubin
When Amy Davids’ cat Frisco died after a heartbreaking battle with cancer in 2008, the feline lover wanted to commemorate her playful companion. So she uploaded a video of him to YouTube. What was a mundane, daily activity for Frisco turned out to be hilarious and bizarre enough to attract 3 million hits and 3,700 comments.
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Adopt the Leiby Initiative and make our streets safer
Unending Good Must Come from Senseless Evil
By Bette Dewing
“If it wasn’t for surveillance cameras, Levi Aron would be free to kill again. These cameras have been instrumental in capturing previous killers, rapists, muggers, bank-robbers and the like. We need more cameras particularly in crime-ridden neighborhoods.”
Just the Facts Ma’am
Don’t criminals learn anything from cop shows?
We should call them New York’s “Findest.”
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Insurance Reform We Really Need
To the Editor:
I have been practicing law in New York for eight years (“Big Bucks in Auto Fraud,” July 14) and have represented more than 1,000 injured people during that time. I have never encountered a case involving a staged accident or insurance fraud. I asked several well-respected attorneys who have practiced law for many years, and none have personally come across an incident involving a staged accident or insurance fraud.
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The Big Lies About the Budget
“A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh…” and a bald-faced, spit-in-your-face lie is still what it is. It is not raining and Republicans have been expectorating in our kissers for years about more than a few things, the latest of which are the “true” causes of our recession and what needs to be done about them.
