Fourth of July

Pumpkin Ale In August Is Stupid: Let's Take Back the Seasonal Beer

If you can't tell, that's Harpoon's Summer Ale directly next to UFO's Pumpkin Ale [See More Beer UP: Budweiser: Why It's My "King" | Troegs Troegenator: Terrific, Tasty, and More T-Words] The other day I found myself in the beer aisle of one of my favorite grocery stores. They have an awesome, awe ... More >>

10 Things You Should Know About Summer Reading

Summer reading is as beloved a seasonal tradition as splashing in broken fire hydrants, playing on sidewalk slip-and-slides, barbecuing on fire escapes, and watching Fourth of July fireworks from a tenement rooftop. Teachers and librarians say the practice is integral in preventing what's called "su ... More >>

The Second Annual Indie-Pendence Day Festival

July 4th Restaurant Deals: Special Menus Fireworks Viewing Party

Some Independence Day deals around the city... Fireworks Viewing Party Hudson Terrace will host its annual Fireworks Viewing Party. In addition to front row seats to the most spectacular west side views of the fireworks, an Independence Day BBQ will be served along with a four hour open bar. For mo ... More >>

PATRIOTIC PEEP SHOW

The land of the free and the home of burlesque

REEL PATRIOTS

Rooftop Films answers what 
it means to be American

36th Annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks

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Fourth of July Fireworks in Time-Lapse

Fireworks in Five Seconds--NYC from John Huntington on Vimeo.Already feeling nostalgic for the Fourth of July as you reach the end of your first day back to work? Watch this 20-second time lapse made of the sunset and Macy's fireworks over the Hudson River. It will make you long for a hamburger and ... More >>

Rightbloggers Celebrate 4th of July by Unmasking Jaycees, Firefighters, And Other Traitors

However you're celebrating the birth of America this Fourth of July weekend, we hope you'll spare a thought for those unfortunates whose enjoyment of our hard-won freedoms is cruelly limited. We refer not to the indigent or the oppressed, but to rightbloggers whose Independence Day essays show tha ... More >>

Our 10 Best Classic American Dishes and Where To Find Them in NYC

​Some of the country's finest New England clam chowder is found at the Grand Central Oyster Bar. America can be justifiably proud of its national menu, reflecting contributions that began with the Native Americans, expanding and intertwining with the favorite foods of successive waves of immi ... More >>

Ten Crucial Fourth Of July Jams, As Chosen By "Along The Watchtower" Author Constance Squires

​Along The Watchtower, the debut novel by Constance Squires, is a story of an Army brat whose tumultuous upbringing was kept steady in part by her discovery of rock and roll. It's published Tuesday, and in honor of its impending release and the coming holiday—don't forget, Monday's Ameri ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Big, Bad New Gutbombs; Beer Myths Busted

This week in food blogs ... Eater mapped out the city's biggest, baddest new gutbomb dishes. Frito Pie, anyone? Grub Street busted eight myths about beer. For one, it's not always vegetarian, folks. Midtown Lunch noted that, despite a crackdown on food trucks in Midtown, there are still quite a f ... More >>

Posts of the Week

As we submit to the welcoming embrace of the holiday weekend, let's cast a brief glimpse back at the week preceding it ... The Union Square Café's Carmen Quagliata talks cookbooks, culinary influences, and his favorite and most hated foods. Our 10 Best Classic American Dishes and Where to F ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Classic American Dishes and Where to Find Them

​Will fried chicken make our list of 10 Best Classic American Dishes? Here is Riverpark's rather fussy rendition. This weekend is the Fourth of July, our most sacred secular holiday, and now is the time to celebrate iconic American foods. While our favorite national dishes don't quite have t ... More >>

TOP DOG

Watch competitive eaters bunnin' for the championship

RED, WHITE, & YOU

More things to do on your day off!

The Feelies

Public Art Keeps One-Upping Itself in Weirdness, Blowing Our Minds

​Many of New York's public art spectacles are either temporary (the Gates, the Waterfalls) or permanent and established (the Wall Street Bull, the LOVE sculpture). Chicago, however, takes serious risks with its urban centerpieces. Take their latest offering: a human eyeball (well, not really h ... More >>

Your Sexy Spy Roundup, From B to P

​ We already know that Mother Russia's sexiest spy, Anna Chapman, is, well...sexy. And sometimes topless. But there have been plenty of other good looking spies in fiction, movies and throughout history. And we're feeling patriotic on this day after the Fourth of July, so...how 'bout a roundup ... More >>

Happy Hour at Flex Mussels: $20 Moules & Frites (Oh, and Happy Belated Canada Day)

naminami/flickrFlex your mussels at happy hour.​ While most of us are gearing up for Fourth of July this weekend, a few expats of the Canadian variety are still recovering from yesterday's Independence Day celebrations. Join Prince Edward Island transplant, Flex Mussels, for a belated happy C ... More >>

Sonny Franzese's 4th of July Plans: Freedom and Fireworks

​Living gangster legend Sonny Franzese was wheeled out of federal court in Brooklyn earlier this afternoon, on his way to enjoy the Fourth of July weekend while still a free man. The 93-year-old mob veteran's continued freedom is thanks to the jury which finished its fourth day of deliberatin ... More >>

The Top Three Worst Ways to Spend July 4th Weekend, via Craigslist Postings

​Fourth of July weekend plans? We've done some dirty work and uncovered the top three things you don't want to do via Craigslist, since the people-driven site never fails to advertise some of the worst /strangest /most entertaining /life-sucking gigs on the planet. Such a democratic forum reve ... More >>

The King of Truffles Has Died; Blue Marble Pier 1 is Delayed

​Britain's health chief openly attacked Jamie Oliver for the campaign he inspired to make school lunches healthy, claiming that the number of kids eating school meals dropped since the menu overhaul. [NY Daily News] Paolo Urbani, known in Italy as "Re del Tartufo" -- the king of truffles -- d ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The-Dream, Miley Cyrus, the Great Dancehall Freeze Out, Jazz Consumer Guide, and More

Courtesy Def-Jam Records In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla marvels at the brilliant stupidity of r&b lothario The-Dream. Theon Weber examines the calculated rebellion of Miley Cyrus. Jesse Serwer reports on the Great Dancehall Freeze-Out of 2010, during which many of Jamaica's biggest act ... More >>

Water Slide Beach

READY, SET, EAT!

Joey Chestnut aims for hot dog glory

Bad Trends: Unruly Youths Running Around Trying to Blow Stuff Up

​Kids! Seems that old Drano explosives trend is kicking up again. According to the New York Post, seven of these makeshift bombs (soda bottles filled with Drano and bleach, or possibly aluminum foil) were planted outside a Washington Heights public school over the weekend. The Daily News repor ... More >>

Gobot Cosplay & Those Sad Homemade Cabbage Patch Kids : Studies in Crap on the '80s Most Disappointing Toys

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. ​ Doll Baby Pattern Book Author: Martha Nelson Thomas with Marla Strecker Date: 1 ... More >>

THRASH COURSE

Drag yourself back to the Cro-Mags

Better to Look Good than Be Good for Tom Ford's A Single Man

Kaboom! Bloomberg Brags on Fireworks Arrests -- But Exploded Evidence May Blow a Big Case

Two days before Independence Day weekend, Mayor Mike Bloomberg commemorated the July Fourth holiday by proudly annoucing a law enforcement success: so far this year, the city had confiscated 1,000 cases of illegal fireworks, and arrested 55 people who had possessed or trafficked them. In making ... More >>

Statue of Liberty is Booked Up for the 4th; Enjoy Heartwarming Stories About It Instead

After announced previously, this 4th of July weekend America will reopen the crown of the Statue of Liberty to visitors. If you haven't reserved tickets already via the official website already (warning: there are others peddling tickets, either as scalpers or as scammers), forget it -- at this wri ... More >>

Happy (War on the) 4th of July!

We all know about the War on Christmas -- the annual struggle of Bill O'Reilly and others to keep people from treasonously wishing you "Happy Holidays" instead of acknowledging the birth of Our Lord. But did you know about the War on Independence Day? Stephen Colbert made a joke out of it on his ... More >>

Mayor, Cops Warn Against Illegal Fireworks, Rooftop Parties, Fun

We know homemade fireworks are illegal in this town, but we were hoping that, with tourism down this summer, they might go a little easier on 4th of July street pyrotechnics. Alas, Mayor Bloomberg and the cops remain on our ass about it -- in fact they're even against rooftop parties to watch the Ma ... More >>

This Weekend! 4th of July Edition

It's our country's birthday this weekend. Thursday, the Celebrate Brooklyn festival hosts Puetro Rican pop star Obie Bermudez at the Bandshell; he paid his dues working a Bronx laundromat job for three years. Luke Temple earned his weight by pulling hours at a candy store; Friday, he fronts Here We ... More >>

'Summertime Classics: Born on the Fourth of July'

GOODBYE 21ST CENTURY

Sonic Youth set off fireworks

Cred Sheet

Stuff You Need to Know to Avoid Cultural Ostracism

Play War

Kumagames.com's unique ripped-from-the-headlines conflict games

Rockie Weekly Horoscope June 30-July 6

New Yorkers Are Americans, too

The perfect Independence Day dinner—no grill required

Larceny? Grand!

Try to report a crime, and you can feel like a criminal

Books

Grannies, Fatties, and Pregger Peeps!

Independence Daze

Parties with a bang

Sports

Independence Daze