The benches are back!  After a debacle with a small - yet strong - dog, outdoor seating has returned to the Russ & Daughters’ storefront on East Houston Street, just in time for Spring!  Join us for bagels on the benches.
Catch up on the story, previously on Lox Populi: And the Dog Ran Away with [...]

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Customer Dan Ryan sent us this adorable photo.  In it, he carries Vivienne Rose Ryan, who is 14 months old, in a shopping bag from Russ & Daughters.  “She loves your whitefish!” Dan says.
And we love seeing your photos!  Send us your photos, videos, stories, recipes, anecdotes, etc. -  info(at)russanddaughters.com.  We’d love to feature you [...]

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Congratulations to April Bloomfield! She was just named “Best New Hand at Seafood” in Time Out New York’s 2009 Eat Out Awards.  For the magazine’s photo shoot, Bloomfield chose “working behind the counter at Russ & Daughters” as her scene.
The magazine set up the photo shoot for their article about this year’s award winners with [...]

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Neil LaBute’s Reason to Be Pretty opens on Broadway tonight.  Taylor Antrim interviewed Piper Perabo, for Men’s Vogue, about her long-awaited Broadway debut:
“With breezy sophistication, she offers critical assessments of the latest New York museum shows, the pace of gentrification on the Lower East Side, and where to get the best pickled herring in the [...]

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We are lucky to hear wonderful stories and to see great photos from customers all the time.  Some stop by the store to share, some e-mail, or call. Some customers post things on Flickr or Twitter or Vimeo.  But I recently opened my e-mail and was totally surprised by a delightful — and delightfully odd [...]

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There was lots of buzz in the papers and on the blogs today about Chef Marco Pierre White. The Chopping Block, his new reality show, premieres tonight on NBC.  About halfway into Carla Spartos’s article, “Chop Chef,” in the New York Post is this gem: “No wonder White counts Russ & Daughters as his favorite [...]

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Friends and neighbors of Russ & Daughters are up to great things. Here’s a Russ & Daughters To Do List for tonight.

The shiny new 92Y Tribeca presents Comedy 2.0: Video Series on the Web: a panel and clip show moderated by Gabe Delahaye and featuring the creators content for The Burg, Barely Political, College Humor, [...]

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From Sunday’s New York Post:
MY NEW YORK: LEONARD LOPATE
WNYC radio host Leonard Lopate is both the quintessential New Yorker and a foremost authority on the city’s ever-changing culture. A Bed-Stuy native who spent 25 years in Chinatown before fashionably repatriating to Brooklyn, he’s partaken in all aspects of the city’s shift. And with interview guests [...]

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Customers keep coming in and asking what happened to our bench, and when we tell them, they don’t believe us.  It does sound like a child’s excuse, but, well, a dog did actually run away with our bench. She didn’t get too far, though.
I was standing at the counter cutting fish, which is what I [...]

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Friends and neighbors of Russ & Daughters are doing great things.  So here’s an R&D To Do List for the next few days.  Be sure to say “hello” if you see us at any of these events.

TONIGHT.  Ben Karlin edited a hilarious book - Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me - and tonight [...]

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