One of the things we've discovered in our adult life is a true appreciation for breakfast. Now, we're from hearty midwestern stock, so we've always had an liked a breakfast that would, in our great-grandma's words, "stick to our ribs," but that was generally a once-a-week deal, at most. Eggs (courtesy of Becks and Posh), pancakes (courtesy of 101 Cookbooks), bacon--all that was reserved for Sunday. So our childhood habit of a simple bowl of......

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing)......

We're back from summer vacation -- did you miss us? Last Saturday night we braved a sold out Cafe Du Nord to see two of our favorite obscure indie rock bands: Tilly and the Wall and Now It's Overhead. Apparently Tilly's not so obscure anymore, since there was a line down the block at the venue before doors even opened. Luckily our friend in Now It's Overhead got us in – thanks Andy! We caught......

The concerns over The City's new franchise agreement with Comcast have been bubbling under the surface for a while now, but things are just starting to get nasty. Gerardo Sandoval, in a Bay Guardian editorial estimates that Comcast makes around $100 in revenue from subscriptions, and the current contract proposal would involve about $2.5 million a year to The City -- a $3.5 million lump sum, $5 million for public and government programming and......