Get yourself some popcorn, because this week Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni is taking the hammer to big shot media power-lunch nest Michael's. Turns out dinner there is an overpriced joke: "I thought Michael’s prided itself on produce. Then I had its appetizer of peekytoe crab with spears of white asparagus, which might as well have been spears of white wax for all the flavor they had....[Michael’s] certainly charges like a serious restaurant, levying a......

Ask Gothamist appreciates all the responses we got to yesterday's query about what the sticky substance is that seems to be covering manhole covers around the city. Almost all Ask Gothamist readers agreed that it was a substance applied to manhole covers by Con Ed in response to the women who was burnt by a manhole cover recently. One Ask Gothamist reader pointed us to the Public Utility Law Project website, where the purpose and......