PRI’s Peabody Award-winning Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen from WNYC often examines the interaction of art and everyday life. This past week, the show, which is “public radio’s smart and surprising guide to what’s happening in pop culture and the arts”  featured Niki Russ Federman in a segment titled, “Aha Moment: John Zorn with a [...]

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People at Russ and Daughters on Houston Street August 30, 3009. By Jason Polan. From the series “Every Person In New York.” It seems like every person in New York is at Russ & Daughters this weekend, picking up orders and watching as salmon is sliced at the counter. The shop is open from 9:00 [...]

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In this week’s New York Magazine, Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld note the New Catch Holland Herring in their “In Season” feature. Note the fantastic illustration of the 3 steps of eating the New Catch in the most traditional way at the Russ & Daughters counter. – Jen Snow

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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 [...]

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Since July, the New York Times has featured a blog, Abstract City, by Christoph Niemann. Niemann is an accomplished illustrator; he does covers for The New Yorker, The NYT Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, and others, and he is also a children’s book author.  Niemann now lives in Berlin with his young sons and his wife, but [...]

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Illustrator Nate Padavick created a series of 17 portraits of the owners of local independent and family businesses and will exhibit the series, fittingly, at Jeffrey’s Meats in the Essex Street Market (120 Essex Street at Delancey Street). Padavick made portraits of the “faces” of business owners — Niki Russ Federman of Russ & Daughters, [...]

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