Have you ever wanted to dine on delicious pastas underneath an Illumination Lawn? If you head to Lincoln Center and really want to treat yourself to a luxurious brunch, enter Lincoln, the Italian restaurant tucked underneath a shimmering parabolic swath of grass. more ›

This week Sam Sifton at the Times shares his disappointment with Lincoln, the ambitious and expensive new restaurant in Lincoln Center from Jonathan Benno (Per Se). In a review headlined "Because the Fat Lady Has to Eat," Sifton awards two stars to a venture that clearly had four star dreams. "That Mr. Benno can cook is hardly in question," Sifton says. "But such success in the kitchen does not mean Lincoln yet works well as a restaurant. On that score, Mr. Benno and the Patina Group still have some distance to go. They have built a restaurant that lacks a center — a restaurant in which it is possible to eat well without really having a good time... A single scallop, perfectly cooked alongside sunchokes and almonds, makes up an appetizer dish that costs $24." more ›

On Friday, Lincoln Center's prestigious new restaurant, Lincoln, opens for the swells. This is kind of a big deal because the chef is Jonathan Benno, former chef de cuisine at Per Se, and because it's an enormous, ambitious fine dining restaurant that's opening without the financial backing of a hotel, which is not too common these days. But we just think Lincoln's cool because it's located underneath that new "Illumination Lawn" like a hobbit hole, and it bears the same name as our favorite They Might Be Giants album. more ›

With President-elect Barack Obama getting ready to become Commander in Chief, he will have to contend with the wily Photoshop inclinations of the NY Post during his term. Today, the Post is pretty easy on him, putting him in Abraham Lincoln-style garb (no beard, though) for its story on how some Obama inauguration festivities will harken back to Honest Abe's day. For instance, how "Obama will place his hand on the same Bible that Lincoln used at his first inauguration and "Obama will travel by train from Philadelphia to Washington, DC - part of the route taken by Lincoln during an 1861 trip"—not to mention that the Congressional Inaugural Committee's luncheon will have items like "a seafood stew in puff pastry - including scallops, shrimp and lobster - in honor of Lincoln's love of seafood." Well, this year a bicentennial celebration of all things Lincoln. more ›