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10 Best Dive Bars in New York, Readers' Edition

When we recently shared our 10 Best Dive Bars, including classics like Sophie's and the Times Square hole Jimmy's Corner, we also asked readers to nominate their own choices, via hashtag #vvdivebars and comments. Dive bars are personal -- every neighborhood has a great one, and every New Yorker has ... More >>

Emeche Cupcakes Puts Booze in the Buttercream: Taste 'Em This Weekend

How can you make the innocuous cupcake all grown up? You spike it, of course. And besides a simple chocolate high, everyone would surely love a little buzz from their dessert. Emeche Cupcakes ("emeche" meaning tipsy en Français) is a tiny bakery brought to Brooklyn by Chicago native Janell Richmond ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Fatty Crab Boil, Omnivore Food Festival

Tuesday, September 18 Crab Boil. Fatty Crew Hospitality Group announces the seventh anniversary of Fatty Crab this month. To celebrate, the restaurant will be hosting a Maryland-style crab boil from September 17 through October 17. It's serving blue crabs with "Malay old bay" seasoned water, steamed ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Free Cocktails, Beer Dinner

Monday, September 10 Free Cocktails. From 5 pm to 7 pm head over to Carmine's bar on the Upper West Side for complimentary samples of Absolut Harvest Punch, a autumn cocktail made with Absolut Orient Apple Vodka, Canton ginger liqueur, cranberry and lemon, and the herbaceous Plymouth Gin Rosemary Re ... More >>

Live: Little Dragon Plays "The Hottest Club On Planet Earth"

Little Dragon Le Baron Chinatown Thursday, May 3, 2012 When getting ready to see Swedish dance fiends Little Dragon at Le Baron Chinatown, I really only had one question: Would I actually get in? Yes, I was assured by one of the event's men behind the curtain, Fabien Moreau, but I didn't want to be ... More >>

Dwayne Milan From RuPaul's Drag Race Speaks!

A great dancer and all-around nice person, Dwayne Milan captured hearts and minds on the Logo show RuPaul's Drag Race. Dwayne was bumped from the show this week, but he says, "It's OK if you fail to win. In regards to the competition, I realized it, embraced it, and can move on with peace of mind." ... More >>

Dreamy Photo Of Me In Absolut Book

A new book details Absolut's history as the cool, artsy vodka for the nightlife crowd, complete with devilish recipes. And in it, there's the above photo of me looking surprisingly creamy and dreamy, maybe because even then I only drank in massive moderation. Says the text:

Absolut Wine? Say It Ain't So.; Yet Another Baby Gets Served Booze

​Absolut Wine? Not quite, but the Swedish vodka maker has paired up with Brancott Estate to release a 'sparkling fusion' of vodka and Sauvignon Blanc. [Decanter] A number of Long Island wineries have hired chefs, despite the state law that, in most cases, limits them to serving finger food. [ ... More >>

Brooklyn Gets a New Vodka; Can Wine Protect You From Sunburn?

​Sean "Diddy" Combs' entourage was stopped by French customs for trying to bring too much of his Ciroc vodka into the country. [NY Post] A look at boxed wines found that offerings from Wineberry and From the Tank by Jenny & François Selections were best. [NY Times] Lucas Bols, the Dutch gen ... More >>

Way Station's Andy Heidel Talks About Flaming Moes, Dr. Who-Themed Cocktails and His Infamous Stroller Manifesto

​The first clue that Prospect Heights bar Way Station isn't your average drinking den is the giant blue TARDIS (the time-and-space traveling machine from the BBC's Doctor Who television series) sitting there as soon as you open the front door. Also present: custom steampunk devices, Victorian ... More >>

Martha Stewart Gets a Cocktail App; San Francisco Gets an Absolut

​Beer-happy picnickers were not too happy at this Sunday's first annual Brewers' Pic Nyc at Governors Island about having to wait for a whole extra hour before they could start drinking. Organizers were apparently confused about New York's blue laws, which were changed in 2006, making it legal ... More >>

Vodka Tampons Hit Germany!

​America is always ahead of the trends. Teens here have experimented with liquor-soaked "vodka tampons" for decades! But now this inadvisable phenomenon is finally hitting Germany, maybe as retribution for past transgressions. Kids are apparently dousing their Kotexes with Absolut and shovi ... More >>

Someone Has Finally Made a Jell-O Drinking Glass

The Way We See the WorldSo jiggly, so meta.​Given the developed world's fondness for combining vodka with Jell-O, it was only a matter of time until someone figured out how to pour vodka into an actual glass made of Jell-O.

A Grilled Cheese and A Beer at The Emerson in Clinton Hill

The Emerson, on a recent night.​Clinton Hill's bar scene has been heating up lately with Fulton Grand, which opened at its namesake intersection this past summer, and the forthcoming Hanson Dry, a cocktail bar that was supposed to open this past weekend, but was still dark and papered over on ... More >>

Albert Trummer Sued by Apotheke Partner; Bed-Stuy Teens Not Feeling Spike Lee's Brooklyn Absolut Vodka

​Albert Trummer's partner at Apotheke is suing him for ignoring orders to stop using booze to light up the bar for his signature pyrotechnic tricks. [NY Daily News] A new study in the U.K. claims that alcohol is more harmful a drug than crack. Of course, the study was authored by Dr. David Nu ... More >>

LE SWEDE, C'EST CHIC

Sustainable fashion design from Sweden

Bloggers Can Be Sellouts, Too, But Mostly They're Just Poor and Underloved

​The bro who iced the New York Times set his sights on greedy bloggers in Sunday's Week in Review. He presented shameless shillers with a 22 oz Smirnoff Twisted Rasberry -- metaphorically. "As blogs take their place alongside traditional media," writes J. David Goodman, Times blogger, "their w ... More >>

Spike Lee Helps Create Absolut Brooklyn, a Vodka for Bed-Stuy

Brooklyn booze?​Brooklyn now joins the ranks of burgs with their own branded Absolut vodka, including New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Boston. Absolut Brooklyn was conceived with the help of Spike Lee, who still lives in the borough. (The house number on the stoop depicted on the bottle's label, ... More >>

Locally Produced Bootlegger Vodka Coming Soon to a Liquor Store Near You

New York gets a new, old-timey vodka.​There's been a lot of talk about the backlash against the backlash against vodka lately. The supposedly odorless and colorless spirit may not be the antitheses to the current cocktail culture Renaissance, after all. So, go ahead and let yourself get excite ... More >>

Haiti's Rum Industry to Rebuild; Not All Nut Liqueurs Should Be Ignored

​ Several states with tight control on liquor sales, such as Virginia, Vermont, and Mississippi, are considering a change in legislation that would privatize the distribution of alcohol, either by auctioning licenses to private companies or selling distribution centers. [Wall Street Journal] ... More >>

Booze News: Protein-packed Vodka & Terroir Debunked

​A new vodka is being launched out of San Francisco. And it's packed with protein. Devotion Vodka is the "first-ever 80-proof, four-column-distilled vodka with the benefits of [added] protein made in the United States." Patent pending. [Reuters] In other vodka news, Absolut and Smirnoff are g ... More >>

Crosby Bar: Land of the $18 Cosmo

Today, Eater ran a compilation of the early buzz about the recently opened Crosby Bar, in the Crosby Hotel. Generally, people have found it mediocre so far. It so happened that Fork in the Road was at Crosby Bar last night, for work-related reasons. The cocktail list is so ridiculous, it almost see ... More >>

Taconic Crash: 1.75 Liter Absolut Bottle in Car; Driver Drunk, High

​Westchester County officials spoke to the press today about the crash last week caused by Diane Schuler (pictured) running her minivan the wrong way on the Taconic,State Parkway, and it confirms what the toxicology report revealed: that Schuler was drunk and high when her bad driving killed h ... More >>

Finlandia Mails Out Peel 'n Lick Samples of Upcoming Tangerine Fusion

On the heels of the Absolut Mango launch, Finlandia has already started gearing up for its new Tangerine Fusion flavor expected to drop in May. The flavored vodka will be available exclusively in duty free shops and is the latest in Finlandia's line of fruit-flavored vodkas, which includes lime, m ... More >>

Press 1 for English, Pendejo

And boycott Absolut for caving like craven Swedes!

Gov. Spitzer In Room 871, With the Mini-Bar

In da Club

Dial D for . . . Huh?

Drunken cell-phone calls on campus—and online

Packing a Punch

Preferred drink of the cheap, lazy, and incredibly sophisticated

Parade Fatigue

To march or not to march? That is the Gay Pride Day question.

Green Apple Martinis Are So Two Years Ago . . .

And other riveting revelations from our spring cocktail report

A Case for the Thrifty

The party planner: Where to find booze on a budget

Warming Effect

Cold-weather cocktails heat things up

NY Mirror

Moustachioed Gents in Chef Smocks Mix Up Classy Cocktails

Take It Inside

Hitting the bottle or taking on a full plate? These safe havens will help you survive the fall.

Shh! A Williamsburg bar wants to remain below the radar

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Ohh, behave!: Shall we Shag now or Shag later, baby?

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As the world turns: The floor is spinning before your head is

Booze Cruise

Ten Inventive Signature Cocktails Shake Things Up This Fall

Fair-Weather Friends

Best Bets for Boozing in the Breeze

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