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What to Drink at The Bearded Lady: The Kinky Krown

Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. Chantal MartineauThe Bearded Lady's Kinky Krown​​​The drink: Kinky Krown The bar: The Bearded Lady (686A Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights, 469-232-7333) The price: $9 Ingredients: Plymouth gin, ... More >>

New High Horse Saloon Features Whiskey, Wine on Tap and Great Hair

​ Why wait more than two seconds to show off your new haircut at a bar? Kristi Banister (above) decided to open a boozy extension to her hip, old-timey High Horse Salon called, naturally, the High Horse Saloon. The smart thing about opening a bar next to your salon? You've already got a custom ... More >>

SoCo Fuses Itself to Clinton Hill

Inspiration: available in 100 or 70 proof.​Another day, another restaurant proclaiming its allegiance to the American South, or at least its more deep-fried elements. The newest member of the confederacy is SoCo, a Clinton Hill establishment that takes its name from the likker bottle and its c ... More >>

3rd Ward Is Looking for Restaurateurs "With a Vision"

3rd WardTaxidermy and Edison lamps not pictured​ Those with a burning desire to open a restaurant in the gray area between Williamsburg and Bushwick, take note: 3rd Ward is seeking "experienced, qualified restaurateur[s] with a vision" to submit café proposals for its planned eatery at ... More >>

The Anti-Food Truck Bandwagon Is Getting Kind of Full

​It's been quite a month for food truck haters!

Vesta's Giuseppe Falco Chats With Us About Foodies, Trends, and the Great Edison Bulb Blight

Photo courtesy of VestaA view inside of Vesta, Giuseppe Falco's Italian restaurant and wine bar in Astoria.​Yesterday we chatted with Giuseppe Falco, the owner, with Leo Sacco, of Astoria's Vesta Trattoria and Pachanga Patterson. Falco spoke at length about the neighborhood's changing restaura ... More >>

How to Have a Popular Restaurant? Be Obnoxious!

flickr/Dan DickinsonShorty sent a Twitpic​ Over at the Oatmeal, there's an entertaining list of how to make your restaurant popular, including only accepting cash, picking a ridiculously small venue with just a few tables, giving it an obnoxious name like "The Place," and offering a tiny menu ... More >>

Bob Hope, John Wayne, Cary Grant -- the 1970 Oscars

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 16, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 16 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris OSCAR GOES TO COLLEGE: You could hardly recognize Oscar this year at the celebration of his 42nd birthday. After years of flaunting his nouveau riche vulgarity and grade s ... More >>

Our 10 Best Food-Centric Day Trips

Photo courtesy The Old FieldOld Field Vineyard is worth visiting for the grounds alone​ In honor of the upcoming Labor Day weekend, we devote our top 10 list this week to food-centric day trips. Our list contains a lot of good eating, most accessible by train or bus, all within range for low- ... More >>

Dans Le Noir? Unveils Its Intentions to Its Neighbors

​ Now that its liquor license application has been approved by Community Board 3, Dans Le Noir? is providing a little more information to its Norfolk Street neighbors, promising them a "truly sensational culinary experience."

The Rum House Will Close; Owner Says It May Be Replaced By Something "Shiny"

The Rum House​Another day, another vestige of old and unpretentious New York disappears: According to its owner Thai Dang, the Rum House, the piano bar that has sat in the Edison Hotel on West 47th Street for over three decades, will close by the end of the year. Or possibly even sooner. Long ... More >>

Studies in Hypocrisy: "Green" Restaurateurs Love Them Some Energy-Guzzling Edison Bulbs

Evan Izer/Flickr​"It boggles the mind that in these times of economic hardship and interest in environmental sustainability that restaurant owners would choose the light bulb that uses 5 to 10 times more power than the other bulbs on the market...You can't on the one hand brag how green you ar ... More >>

Ken Jacobs Returns to Edison with 3-D Specs in Anaglyph Tom

Evan Izer/Flickr​"It boggles the mind that in these times of economic hardship and interest in environmental sustainability that restaurant owners would choose the light bulb that uses 5 to 10 times more power than the other bulbs on the market...You can't on the one hand brag how green you ar ... More >>

J. Hoberman's Top 10 of 2008

Evan Izer/Flickr​"It boggles the mind that in these times of economic hardship and interest in environmental sustainability that restaurant owners would choose the light bulb that uses 5 to 10 times more power than the other bulbs on the market...You can't on the one hand brag how green you ar ... More >>

College Leaves its Stain on One's Very Humanity.

Evan Izer/Flickr​"It boggles the mind that in these times of economic hardship and interest in environmental sustainability that restaurant owners would choose the light bulb that uses 5 to 10 times more power than the other bulbs on the market...You can't on the one hand brag how green you ar ... More >>

Razzle Dazzle

Evan Izer/Flickr​"It boggles the mind that in these times of economic hardship and interest in environmental sustainability that restaurant owners would choose the light bulb that uses 5 to 10 times more power than the other bulbs on the market...You can't on the one hand brag how green you ar ... More >>

Razzle Dazzle: Digital Joyride

Ken Jacobs's Amusement Park

Shock Art

Exit Art's 'Electric Lab' show could use a little more voltage

History-Making Footage

Exit Art's 'Electric Lab' show could use a little more voltage

Devastating Doc's Close-Up on Colombian Gang Warfare

Exit Art's 'Electric Lab' show could use a little more voltage

Right Up Your Alley

Freemans channels our forefathers for a more perfect restaurant

Consolidated Edison: A trove of turn-of-the-century shorts

Freemans channels our forefathers for a more perfect restaurant

The Times' Sweetheart Deal

The paper gets huge subsidy, then sells old headquarters building for a huge profit

Decline and Fall and Fall and Fall

In our minds and in our cars: Technology killed the 'literary' reader—again

Khan Edison

Poles scream as chiles explode in the wilds of New Jersey

Mommy and the Man

Poles scream as chiles explode in the wilds of New Jersey

Letters

Poles scream as chiles explode in the wilds of New Jersey

Top Shelf

Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

Music

Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

Celestial Events

Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

Forgotten Silver

Shelf Life

Loophole 101

How Charter Schools Weaken the Teachers’ Union

Outsider Providence

How Charter Schools Weaken the Teachers’ Union

Back That Jass Up

How Charter Schools Weaken the Teachers’ Union

Nation

How Charter Schools Weaken the Teachers’ Union

Nine Powerful Men

City Council Wants a Say in Rent Board Appointments

From Public to Private

Big Changes Planned for City’s Low-Performing Schools

Vanity Fare

Big Changes Planned for City’s Low-Performing Schools

Savage Art

Princetonians go postal over '30s mural

Are We The World?

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

Ethnic Mysteries Revealed

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

Julian Koster's loop-the- loop

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lion?

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

Return to the Tonic

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

Smoke and Mirrors

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

Sewers of Budapest

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

Last Call

Global Music in the U.S. Faces the 21st Century

Radical Robots

Building the Electronic Future Out of LEGO