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Jan 17, 2025 | 
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Welcome to City Guides, a paid-subscriber exclusive featuring personal recommendations for my favorite neighborhood spots for drinking and eating around New York City and beyond. Today’s LAST CALL City Guide is brought to you thanks to the generous support of January Spirits. As you might expect, the first month of the year holds a special place for Brooklyn-based January Spirits, named for Janus, the Roman god of the past and future, god of new beginnings, and god of the open door.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
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LAST CALL has a lot of friends and readers in the Los Angeles area, and our thoughts are with the people of Los Angles County who have been impacted by the devastating wind-driven wildfires. The loss of people, pets, homes, businesses, landmarks, and displaced wild animals due to the most destructive fire in Los Angeles history is just heartbreaking. Here are some organizations helping aid victims of the wildfires.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
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I don’t recall if it was a passing comment on Instagram or a mention in her incredibly popular newsletter, but it was probably a few years ago when a very famous bestselling cookbook author threw some shade on grown men who order hot chocolate instead of coffee. Reader, I felt seen, and a but stung.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
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Welcome to the first official LAST CALL dispatch of 2025! We went out with a bang on this week’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Special—which featured a ton of special guest stars—and we kick off the New Year with a look back at some of my favorite bites of 2024.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
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Well, another year is coming to a close in a matter of hours as we tick down to 2025. This year moved way too fast for my liking and I’m not particularly jazzed about starting a new calendar year come tomorrow, but “To everything turn, turn, turn.”This super-sized New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Celebration is our biggest one yet and features a great lineup of special guests sharing their New Year’s Eve plans, favorite traditions, and what they’ll be eating and drinking.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
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Today’s LAST CALL dispatch is sponsored by Vital Farms. Vital Farms is made up of mission-minded people working together to bring ethically produced food from family farms to families’ tables. As pasture-raising pioneers, they’ve grown from a single farm in Austin, Texas to a leading U.S. brand of pasture-raised eggs in the country.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
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I had every intention of having this Christmas Eve missive land in your inbox bright and early this morning but hopefully this “After Hours” LAST CALL dispatch will be worth the weight. Read on for my thoughts on Christmas Eve traditions and this year I’m taking the aux on the third-annual Dive Bar Jukebox Holiday Yule Log, bringing a melancholy of seasonal bangers.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
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Wake the kids, phone the neighbors! It’s time for the third-annual LAST CALL Holiday Special! Read on to learn the story behind why we celebrate this occasion every December 20th (hint: it has do with Martha Stewart), the annual remembrance of the tradition and holiday humor of the much-missed The Late Show with David Letterman Christmas Special, a refreshing Martha-approved holiday cocktail recipe, my Molly Ringwald story, and a very special amaro-kissed Struffoli recipe from LUCA chef and...
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
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In today’s Encore Presentation I’m taking down the paywall on a LAST CALL holiday chestnut first published on December 19, 2022 where I break down, beat by beat, why, in the tradition of Eyes Wide Shut, Syndey Pollack’s 1975 paranoid thrillerThree Days of the Condor should be considered a Christmas movie, and why I watch it every Christmas Eve. I hope after reading this you’ll give it a watch this December (it’s available to stream on Hulu, Paramount+, and Amazon Prime Video).
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
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One standby of the holiday season is that you can count on movies like It’s A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Story, Elf, Scrooged, Home Alone, A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Love Actually, among others, in heavy rotation from Thanksgiving through Christmas. In the spirit of that holiday programming, today’s LAST CALL dispatch is a holiday encore presentation.
