Every day at 4:20 p.m. we stuff your pipe with Lil’ Nugs, our late afternoon link dump.
Via the B +B tip line: next Tuesday, the History Channel’s Cross Country Cookout tour is bringing its 80-foot barbecue smoker and grill to Union Square. There’ll be free food from 11:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. This beast can grill 1,000 hot dogs or 500 burgers at one time, so start fasting now. [Bedford + Bowery]
In other meals-on-wheels news, Red Hook Lobster Pound, a beloved stable of Smorgasburg and the Brooklyn Flea, was voted the best food truck in the U.S by the Daily Meal. [Brooklyn Flea]
Some real-estate news for really tall people: a super-sized East Village home originally built for a 6-foot-9 man hit the market today for a neat $6.5 million. [DNA Info]
Meanwhile, 229 new rental units are slated to open up at 50 North 50th Street in Williamsburg. The new building boasts some pretty awesome amenities, including a landscaped courtyard and roof deck, a waterfall, an indoor basketball court and a “two-level fitness mecca.” [Curbed]
A new video shows photographer Shawn Randall Thomas being arrested outside a Bushwick police station today after he refused to tell the cops why he was taking pictures. In response, Scott has filed a complaint against officers arguing that he was unjustly arrested for photographing the building. [DNA Info]
A Change.org petition has been launched asking the city to clean up the Greenpoint Waterfront, mainly by adding more garbage cans in pedestrian areas. [Greenpointers]
Last night in Williamsburg, Kevin Spacey and Willem Dafoe premiered their film “Love’s Routine,” part of the Jameson First Shot competition, at the Wythe Hotel. [Free Williamsburg]
Also via the tip line: “Blackout,” the third episode of new web series “Brunch on Sundays” is out now, addressing important brunch topics such as awkward dates, blacking out and anal fisting. [Bedford + Bowery]
This blog is off to a great start but I just need to say that “Lil’ Nugs” is by far the worst name for a link roundup I’ve ever seen. FWIW.
You might be right, Sam. You might. be right.
Would it help if we changed “nugs” to “nugz”?
Haha, don’t think so. The overall spirit of the name is what gets me. Trying a little too hard to be cool, associating LES/Wburg with weed, associating a daily link roundup with weed when it has nothing to do with weed, etc. etc. This is a Real World Blog, not the livejournal of an eighth grader who just discovered pot.