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Drink Cheaply at Destination Bar & Grill, Lion's Head Tavern, and The Charleston

If the almost-blue moon sighting brought out the animal in you--or if it was just too bright to sleep--relaxing with a cheap drink might help bring you back down to earth. Here's a round-up of our favorite spots around town to grab a cool drink special this week.

SPEAKEASY ISLAND

A party for old sports 
and flappers

City Grit's Sarah Simmons: "You Can't Be in the Boys' Club if You're Not a Boy"

City Grit chef-owner Sarah Simmons yells out questions about an upcoming event, looking up from her laptop in search of an answer from one of the members of her team. She's seated at a long, rickety table on one side of her basement kitchen, and every once in a while, she'll call out to Matt Jenning ... More >>

The 10 Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 6/14/13

For more shows throughout the weekend, check out our New York Concert Calendar, which is updated daily.

'Jazz Age Lawn Party'

Q&A: Blue Hill's Katie Bell on How to Create a Stellar Beer List

After securing a finalist spot for several years running, Blue Hill picked up a James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant earlier this week, putting it in the company of Eleven Madison Park (2011), Daniel (2010), Jean Georges (2009), and Gramercy Tavern (2008). For those who have followed the res ... More >>

A Dude's Dream Comes True Aboard the Holy Ship!!

Aboard the Holy Ship!! one gets to mix and mingle with the slew of big-name DJs. "Hey there's Zedd in line for pasta salad. Oh wow, there's Dillon Francis in the elevator. Oh damn, Diplo is out on the beach swimming with all the fans." "Jackbeats just bought all those people shots!" See also: - H ... More >>

Our Most Hated Halloween Candy

Trick or--wait, what? You only have Mike & Ike's? No thanks. Oh to be young and have your candy options controlled by those oddball neighbors. We know, it was a drag. But grown-up Halloween means never having to eat anymore off-brand Good and Plentys. So we've taken a Fork in the Road poll to find ... More >>

South Carolina Beckons! Do You Dare?

Yesterday, I went all the way to South Carolina by way of the New York Palace Hotel on Madison Avenue, enjoying a delightful lunch of that state's cuisine, served to promote tourism to the open-minded NYC press. We learned all kinds of stuff about S.C.'s roaring rapids, golfing opportunities, beach ... More >>

Live: !!! And Lenny Williams Get To Collaborating At Lincoln Center

!!! w/Lenny Williams Damrosch Park Bandshell at Lincoln Center Thursday, August 9 Better than: Reading the subtitles. Audience members seated at Damrosch Park last night looked alarmingly composed at first gander, perhaps sedated by the soulful stylings of R&B singer Lenny Williams. It was a dubi ... More >>

Q&A: Jonathan Toubin On His Record Collection, Moving To New York In The '90s, And Wanting To Make Culture

Some DJs are quiet, let-the-music-do-the-talking types, but not Jonathan Toubin. Interviewed for this week's Voice profile, the 4Knots Music Festival Afterparty host was enthusiastic and opinionated, generating a novella's worth of transcript. More highlights from our conversation are below, as Toub ... More >>

Q&A: Violent Bullshit On The Story Behind Their Name, OFF! Not Being Hardcore, And Their Parents Coming To Their Shows

Violent Bullshit is, indeed, the shit. The band's five members—vocalist Jayson Green, dueling guitarists Byron Kalet and Andrew Reuland, bassist Matt Cash and drummer Dan Crowell—profusely bleed hardcore and its ethos on their face-ripping, manically ragin' yet ridiculously meticulous 14 ... More >>

ALL THAT JAZZ

Great Gatsby! It's a lawn party

What To Eat at Big Apple Barbecue Block Party: Scott's Bar-B-Que From Hemingway, SC

Rodney Scott's pulled pork, at Scott's Pit Cook Bar-B-Que in Hemingway, SC When I was in South Carolina last October, I did what I always do when finding myself in a barbecue state - drive crazily from place to place sampling every kind of 'cue I could get my hands on. My companion was the The Pal ... More >>

Doubting Thomas Cruise Control

Takeout Your Valentine's Meal Part Deux: Pairings

FlackJacket2010 / FlckrHave a few drinks to loosen up, but go at your own pace. Don't want to end up like this guy.​You have a plan for Tuesday and now you're ready to stick with it. Ready for your next assignment? Beverage pairings!No romantic meal is complete without a little (or a lot) of booze ... More >>

R.I.P., Uncle Chichi, You Old Dog

Uncle Chichi, circa 2000 (via Facebook)​According to the New York Times, there is a sad bit of information to impart today. Uncle Chichi, a West Village toy poodle who may have been 24, 25, or 26 years old, who had been battling cancer (sadface), and who was unquestionably adored and adorable, ... More >>

South Carolina Barbecue: A Few Thoughts

Like the sign says, Dukes Bar-B-Q in Walterboro, South Carolina. The pig on the front lawn isn't real, but the people are. In two trips to South Carolina in the last decade, I've spent much of my time crisscrossing the state and looking at the barbecue there. Yes, sometimes just looking at it.

Truman Capote's House On Sale at Rock-Bottom Prices!

70 Willow Street ​Run, don't walk to go buy Truman Capote's former home in Brooklyn Heights. The property at 70 Willow Street where Capote once drank martinis all afternoon long has been on the market for some time, but as Curbed noted today, the asking price has taken a dive from $18 million ... More >>

Ten New York Bands You Should See At This Weekend's Northside Festival

Making Friendz (aka Tami Hart) plays Shea Stadium tonight.​Northside Festival starts tonight! Finally, your very own chance to see the best emerging local bands taking over Brooklyn bars for four nights... or as we like to call it, "pretty much every weekend in New York ever." We here at Sound ... More >>

Live: Phobia Turn The Charleston Into A Seething Pit Of Grindcore Rage

Hope you don't mind being repeatedly punched in the face. Pics by Daniel.​Phobia The Charleston Thursday, March 10 Last night 21-year Orange County grindcore veterans Phobia turned their 90-second blasts of anger, hate, and bloody-mouthed frustration into goddamn national anthems, tapping int ... More >>

Week In Review: "In Reality, There Is No Greatest of All Time"

​"In reality, there is no greatest of all time," wrote Prodigy, wisely from prison. This sort of wisdom resonates in a week during which Phil Collins says "That's All" (sort of) to his epic career, and the Dropkick Murphys make a confusing Billboard Top Ten debut with an album called Going Out ... More >>

Penguin Prison on Touring With Girl Talk: "I Would Like 15-Year-Olds to Like My Music Too"

Todd Owyoung for the Riverfront TimesPenguin Prison opening for Girl Talk at the Pageant Girl Talk shows are the sorts of underage blitzkriegs in which everyone gets hit with more ass than a toilet seat, so one would have to imagine that touring with Gregg Gillis and his neon busload would be, uh, ... More >>

NYPD Joins Rest of Nation in Cutting Back on Horses, Because It's 2011

"It seems like horses are always among the first to go when it comes to budget cuts," an expert source tells the New York Times today about the decrease in mounted police units across the country, from San Diego and Tulsa to Boston and New York City, where we're down to 79 police officers and 60 hor ... More >>

Murderer Rosario DiGirolamo's Google Search for 'Lethal Karate Blows' Uncovered, Forces Him to Plead Guilty

​Rosario DiGirolamo was sentenced yesterday in New Jersey to 25 years in prison for killing his mistress, Amy Giordano, in 2007, cutting up her corpse, and dumping the pieces in the water at Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve in Charleston, Staten Island. A Google search for murder methods led the ... More >>

Killmeyer's and the Kreischer Mansion: Meat and Murder in Staten Island

​The haunted Kreischer mansion was built in the 1880s. I always have an amazing time when I sojourn in Staten Island, but the experience often turns gothic at some point. That was the case recently when I recruited a friend who scouts movie and photo locations to join me on a re-visit to Kill ... More >>

Memphis Has The Dumbest and Ugliest People in America

​The city, not the Broadway show. According to a survey on TravelandLeisure.com, which rated 35 cities, Memphis came in dead last for both "Attractive People" and "Intelligent People," though it came in first for "BBQ". Gosh, you'd think if the folk are hideous, at least they'd be smart--and ... More >>

Noémie Lafrance’s Melt Ends the Summer, DanceNow Heralds the Fall

Gooey doings under the Manhattan Bridge, plus a choreography sampler at DTW

The Jazz Evangelism of Woody Allen

Clarinet in hand, the director defends one of America's disappearing art forms

GOP Purge Continues with Graham Censure, Conservative Challengers

​It looks like the call by Erick Erickson of RedState to "purge" the Republican Party in the wake of the NY-23 loss is getting some traction: the Charleston County, South Carolina GOP has actually censured Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for cooperating with the enemy, that is, the Democrat ... More >>

Garden & Gun Shows Evidence of More Trouble for Food-Related Magazines

​Food-related magazine woes have not been limited to the Conde Nast building. The wonderfully named Garden & Gun, the Charleston publication that covers, among other topics, the food of the New South, is having trouble, too: a letter from the president and publisher details the decision to ski ... More >>

Jenny Sanford is done talking about her husband until her book comes out

​South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford re-emerged into public life at the Susan Komen Race for the Cure in Charleston today. She says she's not going to discuss her marriage any more. Sanford, who is living separately from her husband, has a contract with Ballantine Books for an upcoming me ... More >>

Sriracha, Spotted Everywhere

While eating with my in-laws at a stodgy fish restaurant in suburban Massachusetts, I asked the waiter for Sriracha, almost just to see what he would say. But he nodded knowingly, and brought out a dish of the red, garlicky hot sauce. That's when you know that Sriracha has hit the mainstream. That, ... More >>

Susan Marshall and Sally Silvers Entrance the Eye

Dirty Blonde: Where to Drink in 2009

Even bars get sequels now

How Obama's Hopesters Took Ohio

An ailing factory town votes for change

Dark Knight Even More Cursed

Clip Job: Mrs. Tallmer Begins 'Voice Feminine'

Club Midway on Avenue B: Reopened, Padlocks Off

Mine Safety: Digging for Answers

Early probe of the Sago disaster raises explosive questions

Coal Miners' Slaughter

Weak government, strong industry in the West Virginia disaster

1966–1975 Peace & Protest

From the Summer of Love to Women's Lib, Gay Rights and Black Panthers

Unnatural Disaster

Morning Report 8/20/05
Bangladesh Bomb Blasts? Sew What?

Riots, Gutballs, and Scumbags (A Debate Continues)

A John Edwards Almanac

Notes from a year with the man who would be veep

The Right Stuff

How Bush Met His Maker in South Carolina