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“They’re tired of politics as usual,” Sal Albanese, the best chance the Never de Blasio movement has of electing a new mayor, said last night during the first televised debate of the Democratic primary. “It’s always tough to run as a reformer, but I think this time is different.” This time is probably not different. Albanese, a former five- term city councilmember from Brooklyn who is challenging Mayor Bill de Blasio , jabbed and scraped and lashed out at his bête noire during the debate, drawing his share of applause from a sympathetic Upper West Side audience . For watchers of the political scene, there wasn’t much to learn: De Blasio, in Albanese’s eyes, is corrupt; he’s in the pocket of big developers; he’s allowed the city to degenerate into some kind of carnival of woe, but for rich people. De Blasio, who despite his height advantage over Albanese often struggles to be the bigger man, rebutted plenty. His testy side was showing. A progressive Democrat, the first to govern this ...

Last May, I attended the reopening of the former Campbell Apartment, the secreted watering hole tucked inside Grand Central Terminal . To toast the newly refurbished rococo interior , I ordered a Manhattan. My drink came in a rocks glass. On the rocks. “First night,” I thought. “The staff is still green. They mixed up my order.” But, no. That’s how they do the Manhattan at The Campbell. “It’s a personal preference of mine,” said Vincent Mauriello, the managing partner of Gerber Group, which runs The Campbell. “We thought it was important to create our signature Manhattan. A lot of guests, when they ordered a Manhattan, they requested it on the rocks. It was enough that we thought we should serve it on the rocks.” In cosmopolitan New York City, Campbell’s iced Manhattan is an anomaly. Most craft cocktail bars would sooner serve Zima than a Manhattan on the rocks. But outside the most urbane metropolitan areas , the order is fairly common—as is an item considered even more sacrilegiou...

Find out when your favorite shows return—plus, every new series. Most Popular HBO/CBS/Sundance Channel/NBC/ABC Aug 25, 2017 The season of crammed DVRs and binge-watching is upon us again. Not surprisingly, the fall TV lineups reveal plenty of new pedigree programming. Shows like David Simon and George Pelecanos' HBO drama The Deuce and Jane Campion's SundanceTV miniseries Top of the Lake: China Girl will probably become as much a part of the zeitgeist as returning shows like ABC's Scandal ( back October 5 ) and AMC's The Walking Dead (October 22). Also, expect a smattering of shows about real Americans making a difference, be it Lifetime's retelling of the events surrounding the Flint water crisis (premiering October 28) or, out later this year, National Geographic Channel 's adaptation of journalist Martha Raddatz 's book The Long Road Home : A Story of War and Family . This includes fictional programming , like military drama s Valor ( premieres O...