Day: July 5, 2024
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A Williamsburg eatery has quickly established itself as a go-to spot in the neighborhood for good vibes and to-go libations.
Please Tell Me is a vinyl bar inspired by classic Japanese listening rooms. Tucked away on Metropolitan Avenue, this cozy spot strives to make the guest’s listening experience that of going to a full bar.
“It’s small and intimate, it’s not a big space. The concept was to pay homage to Japanese Hi-Fi system listening rooms where they are a bar and serve food,” said Eric Griego, co-owner of Please Tell Me. “
For a small space, Please Tell Me packs a huge punch when it comes to its sound system. For the Please Tell Me team, curating the right music for the space was crucial — DJs that have come through Please Tell Me have spun everything from hip-hop and Amapiano, to UK Grime and Nigerian pop.
Photo by Emily Davenport
“I’ve seen DJs around New York for a while and you don’t always get really good curated hip hop and R&B, like the new stuff they don’t play on the radio or the stuff that’s coming from smaller, independent artists,” said Griego. “You really have to go to a club scene to get that kind of good music, especially in this area of Williamsburg. We wanted to bring that to more of a lounge, date night sort of spot.”
Please Tell Me’s bar highlights a selection of natural wine and boasts a selection of cocktails that are made with natural ingredients. The menu features different shareable options, including saganaki (fried halloumi with honey, flaky salt & figs), fava bean hummus (served with grilled snap peas, chive oil, pita crackers), calamari, and croquettes (wild spring onions, gruyere, potato, caramelized ramps).
“Our chef has worked at a number of different places. Our tapas are plated and priced to be shared between two people. We really have gone deep into organic and natural wines that are hard to find in our area,” said Griego.
Please Tell Me’s fava bean hummus.Photo by Emily Davenport
Please Tell Me also does brunch on weekends, allowing guests to really lean into the drink program that the bar offers.
“We have DJs during brunch, it’s much more centered around our drink program,” said Griego. “I think especially in the summer with the good weather, we’ve got outdoor seating and it’s a really nice space to enjoy the weather and get good music.”
Please Tell Me leans into the “hole in the wall” archetype with a literal hole in its wall — okay, it’s not quite a hole, it’s a take-out window that sells wine.
The window is open every Wednesday for Winyl Wednesdays, as well as on Saturdays and Sundays for take-out. The wine is served alongside a selection of Please Tell Me’s mini sandwich options.
The avocado toast from Please Tell Me.
“[New York] extended the legislation that they had for COVID for restaurants to be able to offer patrons to-go beer, wine and cocktails. A lot of restaurants stopped, so we thought, we have a really cute sort of coffee window, we have this wine identity. Let’s do something like that,” said Griego.
Griego and the team partnered with their wine providers to pick out some summer wines and make sandwich options to pair with the wine but also satisfy the law requiring food with to-go alcohol. Soon enough, the wine window exploded in popularity with Please Tell Me’s customers as well as passersby in Williamsburg.
“We get a lot of people just want to stop by, they’re walking their dog or they want to go to the park and we’ll just hook them up with a bunch of natural organic wines to go,” said Griego.
Please Tell Me’s cocktail menu.Photo by Emily Davenport
In addition to Winyl Wednesdays, Please Tell Me hosts a variety of themed events, partnering with local businesses to elevate their nights and brunches even further throughout the summer. The music that is spun will match whichever group is coming in that day, ranging from R&B to Japanese jazz fusion.
“It’s definitely centered around good music, and we’re gonna try and get some of our neighbors involved. Music is almost a part of the menu, and that comes with different groups,” said Griego. “If you’re someone who likes music, Iikes to go out to eat and maybe leave that door open to dance, what we’ve got is like a really good date night spot for that exact kind of vibe.”
Please Tell Me is located at 749 Metropolitan Ave. For more information, visit pleasetellme.nyc.
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Brooklyn detectives continue to hunt for the suspect who shot and killed a man in front of an apartment building on the Fourth of July.
Law enforcement sources said Kaylon Baugh, 22, of East 21st Street in Brooklyn was gunned down near 2126 Dorchester Road in Flatbush at about 1:58 p.m. on July 4.
Officers from the 70th Precinct, in responding to a 911 call about the shooting, found Baugh conscious and alert, but with a gunshot wound to his groin.
Baugh’s condition, however, took a turn for the worse. EMS rushed him to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Police investigate a fatal shooting in Flatbush, Brooklyn.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
The motive for the shooting remains unknown and under investigation, So far, no arrests have been made. Police have yet to provide a description of the shooting suspect.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org, or on X (formerly Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
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I wrote yesterday about how this election has startling echoes of 2016, but why it’s likely to have a different outcome. It’s important to remember that the first year and a half of the 2016 election, and the final nine days of the 2016 election, were two entirely different beasts. If the last minute Comey letter hadn’t happened, we’d have won. On the other hand, if the media hadn’t spent the first year and a half constantly lying about the election, the door wouldn’t have been open for the Comey letter to change the outcome.
But here’s what stands out this time around. In 2016 the media seized upon the Hillary email “scandal.” In so doing the media ignored numerous much more serious Trump scandals. Here in 2024 it’s much more on the nose. The media is actively pretending that Biden is senile because he had one bad performance while he was sick. Yet based on his past fifty public appearances, Trump actually is senile.
It would be like if the media were overhyping Hillary’s nonexistent email scandal in 2016 while ignoring the fact Trump had a much more severe email scandal. It’s that much on the nose this time around. Trump is so deep into dementia, he thinks Nikki Haley is Nancy Pelosi. Trump is so deep into dementia, he thinks Ronny Jackson is Mike Johnson. Trump is in fact so deep into dementia that he often thinks Biden is Obama, and at other times thinks Biden is someone named “Bride.”
Yet even though Trump is so blatantly senile that he literally doesn’t know who he’s running against, the (entire) media (on both sides) is intent on falsely portraying Biden as the senile one, and going so far as to make up fictional storylines about the Democrats trying to shove a senile Biden out the backdoor.
The crazy part is that even as Democratic Party leaders loudly rally around Biden, it’s Trump who faces a delegate revolt at his convention. The Washington Post even quietly wrote about the steps the Trump campaign has been taking to try to fend off a delegate attempt at replacing him on the ticket. But still, the media is now loudly screaming about Biden supposedly being replaced when no such thing is happening, and ignoring its own recent reporting about Trump being in danger of potentially being replaced.
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Tensions between neighbors Pakistan and Afghanistan are running high as the Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said this week that his country plans to continue launching cross-border attacks as part of a new military operation to curb terrorism. The comments mark a notable shift for Pakistani officials who, until now, had only admitted to one such cross-border strike in March.
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“We won’t serve them with cake and pastries. If attacked, we’ll attack back,” Asif told the BBC.
Pakistan has experienced a surge in violence since the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, unilaterally ended a ceasefire with Islamabad in November 2022. Last year alone, more than 700 attacks killed nearly 1,000 people.
The Pakistani government accuses the Afghan Taliban of providing a safe haven to the TTP. In recent years, Islamabad has made various attempts to contain the TTP, including talks, erecting a border fence between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and applying pressure on the Afghan government to stop assisting the militant group. This included the expulsion of over 500,000 Afghan refugees last October, with a second phase to expel another 800,000 commencing earlier this month.
Yet experts tell TIME that Pakistan has little power to stem the violence that overwhelmingly afflicts its two border regions with Afghanistan. That’s because Islamabad can no longer leverage the wartime support it offered the Taliban during the U.S. war in Afghanistan to help rein in the TTP. “Pakistan finds itself in a predicament largely of its own making—the Taliban leadership that it supported throughout much of the 20-year insurgency in Afghanistan is now sheltering militant groups targeting Islamabad,” says Joshua White, a professor in international affairs at Johns Hopkins University.
Read More: Why Pakistan Fails to Stop Jihadi Attacks
What’s driving tensions between the former allies?
While relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been fraught in recent years, two underlying tension points—the border and cross-border violence—have been longstanding.
“No Afghan government, including the current Taliban regime, has recognized the [official] border since Pakistan’s independence,” says Michael Kugelman, the director of the South Asia Institute at the Wilson Center. “And each side has long accused the other of sheltering terrorists that carry out attacks in the other country.”
The colonial-era Durand Line, which stretches over 1,640 miles, officially separates Pakistan from Afghanistan. Afghanistan has never recognized the border but the Taliban has come out more strongly on the issue, and numerous skirmishes have erupted between Taliban fighters and Pakistani soldiers putting up border fencing, leading to the closures of border crossings. “Border tensions have sharpened because the Taliban have been especially aggressive in asserting their position,” Kugelman says.
The border cuts through tribal areas dominated by the Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in the border regions of both countries. Pakistan has vowed to complete the barbed-wire fencing along the internationally recognized border, which the Taliban says separates families.
With the war in Afghanistan no longer at play, the Taliban does not need to depend on Pakistan for sanctuaries and other wartime support. Instead, it seeks more legitimacy back at home, where many Afghans have long distrusted the Pakistani government. “By lashing out at Pakistan, the Taliban hopes to buy some goodwill from the Afghan public,” Kugelman says.
Will tensions ease soon?
Despite the tensions, the two countries are engaged in regular diplomacy. During recent talks hosted by the U.N. in Doha, Pakistan’s special envoy to Afghanistan met with the Taliban, while Ishaq Dar, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, has said that his office plans to visit to Kabul in the coming months. “Make no mistake, Afghanistan has not been ignored by this government,” Dar said.
Read More: Afghanistan, One Year On From U.S. Withdrawal
But border tensions are “too contentious and complex to resolve anytime soon,” Kugelman says. Tensions may soar further if Pakistan’s new military operation leads to more frequent and sustained force at the disputed border.
Pakistan government sources who spoke to the BBC have suggested that the country’s new military operation directly stems from pressure from China. Many Chinese nationals are working on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects in Pakistan as part of the Belt and Road initiative. In March, five Chinese engineers in the northwest of the country were killed when a suicide bomber, who Pakistan alleged was an Afghan national, rammed a vehicle into their convoy.
At the same time, Beijing has ample leverage over the Taliban due to China’s capacity to invest in sanction-hit Afghanistan. “If Beijing, dangling that incentive of investment assistance, is able to convince the Taliban to curb militancy, both domestically focused in Afghanistan and cross-border in Pakistan, that would help both China and Pakistan,” Kugelman says.
