New york city department store

The smoker at Cherry Block is firing up once again. The highly anticipated restaurant concept from Felix Florez, the veteran rancher, butcher, chef and sommelier who pioneered the ranch-to-table dining scene in Houston, is now open for lunch and dinner daily at the Stomping Grounds in Garden Oaks. Florez, whose family operates meat distributor Falcon Lake Farms, first focused on a direct-to-consumer approach, offering Houstonians attractive prices for his quality, locally sourced meats. In 2019, the hospitality pro opened a small Cherry Block counter inside Bravery Chef Hall, where he smoked his fare onsite, delivering cuts of steak galore, a sausage-filled gumbo that garnered a cult following, and imaginative dishes like chicken fried steak bites with a pork rind coating. The Cherry Block counter shuttered in 2021, but Florez's concept returned with a shopper's stop in Katy, coined the Cherry Block Craft Butcher and Texas Market, where guests can find free range Texas meats … [Read more...] about 5 fast facts about the new Cherry Block Smokehouse, now open in Houston

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge decried New York City’s problems with electric and gas-powered bikes on Wednesday as he sentenced the electric scooter rider who crashed into “Gone Girl” actor Lisa Banes to one to three years in prison for his manslaughter conviction. Brian Boyd, 27, was led away in handcuffs after sentencing in Manhattan state court by Judge Gregory Carro in the death of Banes. She was struck by the scooter Boyd operated as she crossed a midtown Manhattan street in June 2021. She died 10 days later at a hospital. Carro said Boyd sped through a red light, struck Banes and fled to a bike shop, where he drank a beer. The judge said the city “has a problem” with the motorized bikes and he wants drivers of unregistered and unlicensed bikes to know they can go to jail when they do harm. Traffic fatalities have been on the rise in the city. Transportation Alternatives, an advocacy group for safer streets, found that they rose 44 percent in New York City during the first … [Read more...] about Judge bemoans NYC’s bike hazard in ‘Gone Girl’ actor’s death

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 3 Long before the phrase ignited a global reckoning, Kaia Naadira had already recognized the power of "me, too." As Naadira grew up, those words reverberated through their childhood home in Selma, Ala., where their mother, activist Tarana Burke, founded the movement in 2006 to support Black and Brown women and girls who had survived sexual violence. "Even before this moment, the work was so impactful in our community," said Naadira, now 25. "There were so many girls in our community who didn't have a language for things that they were going through and had no place to talk about what they were going through." This fall marks five years since #MeToo exploded into a worldwide movement of solidarity, revealing the breadth of sexual harassment and assault stories around the world. But while the movement was started largely for them, many Black survivors felt sidelined in the media's … [Read more...] about Five years after #MeToo, Black survivors mobilize for themselves

Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes ripped through parts of the South between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, with one in the swarm of twisters killing at least two people in Alabama. While authorities on Wednesday were still assessing the storms' effects, the majority of the damage appeared to be sprawled across Alabama and Mississippi. In spots across the pair of states, residents were surveying mangled homes after storms left only their frames. A tornado struck just north of Montgomery County in the Flatwood community, killing two people - a 39-year-old woman and her 8-year-old son, according to Christina Thornton, director of the Montgomery County Emergency Management Agency. One individual, the husband and father of the victims, was taken to the hospital for his injuries. Thornton said several homes in the Flatwood area were damaged by fallen trees. The damage "is isolated to that area," Thornton said. "All homes have been checked." The National Weather Service … [Read more...] about At least two killed during tornado outbreak in South

The only person charged in the 2020 killing of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, a soldier at Fort Hood in Texas, pleaded guilty Tuesday to four counts including accessory to murder after the fact. Cecily Aguilar, 24, faces a maximum possible penalty of 30 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $1 million fine, prosecutors said. She pleaded guilty to one count of accessory to murder after the fact and three counts of false statement or representation. Guillen, 20, was last seen April 22, 2020, at Fort Hood, the nation’s third-largest Army base. Prosecutors say she was repeatedly struck on the head with a hammer by another soldier, Spc. Aaron Robinson, who killed her and hid her body in a large box. Robinson had been detained, but he escaped and killed himself with a pistol days before charges were announced in July 2020. Guillen’s case drew outrage from many, including celebrities, lawmakers, women in the military and Latinos. An Army investigation found “major … [Read more...] about Woman pleads guilty in connection with killing of Vanessa Guillen at Fort Hood

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 110 Houston City Councilman Larry Green was found dead at his home late Tuesday morning, prompting an outpouring of sadness from City Hall to the southwest Houston district he represented for more than six years. The cause of death was not immediately known, … [Read more...] about Councilman Larry Green remembered as a friend to his district

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 30 BEIJING (AP) — Jiang Zemin, who led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth, died Wednesday. He was 96. Jiang, who was president for a decade until 2003 and led the ruling Communist Party for 13 years until 2002, died of leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai, state media reported. His death comes after the party faced its most widespread public show of opposition in decades when crowds called for leader Xi Jinping to resign during weekend protests of anti-virus controls that are confining millions of people to their homes. A surprise choice to lead a divided Communist Party after … [Read more...] about Jiang Zemin, who guided China’s economic rise, dies