Bodega Cat Bracket: Your Photos
If college basketball players were any better at killing mice in delis, they’d be bodega cats. That’s why this year, we put together a tournament of champions for our city’s feline guardians of the...
View ArticleOpting Out of Testing?; Umpire Doug Harvey; Bodega Cats!
New York State tests begin this week for students in third through eighth grades. WNYC’s Yasmeen Khan discusses the exams, now aligned to "common core" curricula, and whether more students will be...
View ArticleInside the World of Bodega Cats
WNYC is running a vote to find NYC's best bodega cat -- with the next round of voting starting today. Brian Lehrer Show producer Jody Avirgan discusses the laws around bodega cats, whether they are...
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This Is Your Bodega on Gentrification
When Jesse Itayim’s landlord hiked his rent 250%, forcing him to consider closing the deli that his family had run for nearly 25 years, a few clever neighbors (and bodega regulars) from his...
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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
This week in “Thanks, Internet” — A bodega owner fights the power/gentrification, songs that stop after saying "stop," Chris Pratt paints murals, Fetty Wap meets Doug, and Chris Rock weighs in on the...
View ArticleFamily of Bronx Man Killed by Police Gun to File Suit
Relatives of a Bronx bodega worker, who was killed when a panhandler grabbed a police officer's gun, filed notice that they plan to sue the city for up to $20 million in a wrongful death case.Wali...
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Yemeni Businesses Shut Their Doors in Protest of Trump Policies
Sulaiman Al-Audi, who works as a cashier at Best and Tasty Grocery on 143rd Street in the Bronx, was born in Yemen but has been in the U.S. since 2002. But now, he said, he feels unwelcome...
View ArticleThe Buttered Roll: Charming New York Institution or Nah?
You've gotta give it to the buttered roll: It's not trying to be anything more than it is. It's a deli-and-bodega staple, a morning go-to, a small-coffee accompaniment. It's cheap. It's...
View ArticleNew Yorkers Say: Keep Your Start-Up Lingo Away From My Bodega
A new start-up wants to put futuristic vending machine-style pantries in building lobbies, with non-perishable goods like chips and toilet paper for sale. The name of their start-up concept:...
View ArticleWeekly Music Roundup: kwes, Chvrches, and Sidi Touré
Week of March 5: This week, a moving Oscar performance, Malian rock, and Brooklyn punk.The Oscars: Best Song and Best Score Are Upstaged by Eddie Vedder It was no surprise that the award for Best...
View ArticleArt-Rock for a Good Time with the Band Bodega
NYC-based art rock quintet Bodega (previously known as Bodega Bay) are the model of modern tongue-in-cheeky post-punk band. With politically-minded personal commentaries on masculinity, consumerism,...
View ArticleWatch: "Bookmarks" by BODEGA (Live In Studio)
NYC-based art rock quintet Bodega (previously known as Bodega Bay) are the model of modern tongue-in-cheeky post-punk band. With politically-minded personal commentaries on masculinity, consumerism,...
View ArticleWeekly Music Roundup: Mitra Sumara, Future, and "The Immigrants"
Week of July 9: This week: rollicking Farsi funk, a melancholy Future, and Kate Bush looks to the past.PREMIERE: Farsi Funk From NY’s Mitra Sumara Something wonderful happened in the 60s and 70s when...
View ArticleBernie Speaks to Trump Voters on Fox; Yemeni Bodegas Protest the Post; David...
Coming up on today's show: Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held a town hall on Fox news Monday night to speak directly to Trump voters. Gabriel Debenedetti, New York Magazine national...
View ArticleWeekly Music Roundup: The Hold Steady, Ala.Ni, Ikebe Shakedown
Week of Aug. 19: This week, The Hold Steady channels Led Zeppelin; the singer Ala.Ni celebrates our differences; and another lost album by John Coltrane is found.The Hold Steady Release New LP;...
View ArticleGuns for Bodega Workers?
Ydanis Rodriguez, Council Member for the 10th District of the New York City Council, talks about his pitch to make it easier for bodega owners to obtain guns, following the murder of two Bronx deli...
View ArticleGood Things: Snow Day Bodega
WNYC's Amy Pearl loves the snow. Several times a day, she trudges over plough mountains and fords slush rivers in order to walk her dogs. But after a couple of trips to the park, she heads to her...
View ArticleBodega at Baby's All Right
Bodega at Baby's All RightThurs., Sept. 2. $15.New Yorkers love their bodegas. And NY punk fans love their Bodega, the arty Brooklyn rock band whose songs are smart and catchy. Bodega gives the...
View ArticleWeekly Music Roundup: Jenny Hval, Kojey Radical, and Flor De Toloache
Week of March 14: This week, a new sound for Jenny Hval, a new album by Kojey Radical, and a new look at an Argentine hit from Flor De Toloache. Plus, Ukrainian War-metal and black metal...
View ArticleBodega – "Doers" (Weekly Music Roundup)
Bodega – "Doers" (Weekly Music Roundup)The Brooklyn art-punk band Bodega makes smart, witty songs driven by brawny guitars and drums. Now they’ve released Broken Equipment, and album that takes aim at...
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