Month: May 2016

Barano

Start with hand-pulled mozzarella in several varieties, including salted, smoked, and stracciatella. The cheese is served with accoutrements — grilled scallions, eggplant, Lucky’s tomatoes and more — and makes an excellent addition to other starters like meatballs with sheep’s milk ricotta and octopus with farro, celery, pickled radish, pine nuts and mint pesto. House made pastas range from bucatini with rabbit ragu (shown above) to tagliatelle “arrabbiata” with lobster, tomato and stracciatella. Wood-fired pizzas include sauces red to white, but don’t miss the wood-fired mains — especially the spit-roasted lamb leg with carrots, watercress, pine nut and raisin panzanella. End your meal with ice cream from OddFellows Ice Cream Co.

FB Fake News Defeat

Some of the posts on the fake news sites’ pages went extremely viral many months after Facebook announced its crackdown. An Empire News story reporting that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sustained serious injuries in prison received 240k likes, 43k shares, and 28k comments on its Facebook page. The incident was pure fiction, but still spread like wildfire on the platform. An even less believable post about a fatal gang war sparked by the “Blood” moon was shared 22k times from the Facebook page of Huzlers, another fake news site.