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Georgia

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Live: Lambchop And Yo La Tengo Bring The Quiet To (Le) Poisson Rouge

    Lambchop w/ Yo La Tengo (Le) Poisson Rouge Thursday, April 19 Better than: A slow, sensuous makeout session, punctuated by the occasional slow, sensuous yawn, which ideally is taken more as a sign of relaxation than boredom, but whatever, stop reading so much into it. Well here unfolded a lovely ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Barbara Cook: I Couldn't Wait To Leave Atlanta!

    I used to swing by Atlanta now and then and loved the drag bars and the big gay dance club, not to mention the chance to flounce my New York derriere around the hoity-toity Peachtree Plaza. But legendary singer Barbara Cook had a much worse time there. Barbara is performing "Let's Fall in Love," a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    Case Study: Celebrity Sandwich Dedications

    Dedicating a sandwich on your menu to a celebrity is usually a good idea, as long as you don't go about it like a complete idiot. The name of the dish will be instantly memorable and who doesn't want to eat a sandwich that reminds you of Woody Allen or Salma Hayek? But, as we found out over the week ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Under the Toque: Batali Settles Suit, New Prune Cookbook in the Works

    Chef shuffles and kerfuffles this week: Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich have agreed to pay $5.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of their restaurants' employees who claimed that the owners deducted the equivalent of 4 to 5 percent of the total wine sales from the tip pool and pockete ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Georgia Jilted by Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum; CNN Cancels Debate

    Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum are just too busy for Georgia and pulled out of a final debate before the Super Tuesday Primaries, so CNN canceled the Republican showdown scheduled for March 1, Slate notes. Romney and Santorum, who are pretty much neck-and-neck in polls, basically decided to blow of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Brooklyn's Kavkaz: Six Delectable Dishes

    Fried lamb tongue with a gravy boat of sour cream This week, Counter Culture ascends the dizzying heights of Kavkaz, a place that slings the cuisine of the Caucasus Mountains -- places like Georgia and Azerbaijan. The menu is dotted with tongue and testicles, but there are also easier-to-love keba ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 25, 2012

    SAY MY NAME

    2 Chainz makes his NYC debut

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    The 10 Best Cover Songs Of 2011

    Tell your children not to walk Wye Oak's way. ​2011 was a year of looking back relentlessly, whether you were awash in Remember The '90s nostalgia or getting down at a New Kids On The Block show or watching Lady Gaga try to bring back the variety-hour era with her whacked-out Thanksgiving spec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Live: Patti Smith Honors Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe At The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Photos by Emmanuel Garcia; more below.​Patti Smith Metropolitan Museum of Art Friday, December 2 Better than: Whatever Met gala I'll never be invited to. About three-quarters of the way through an impossibly good, set-closing rendition of "Gloria," Patti Smith tried something new—and fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    Mike Bloomberg Marries Advisers Jonathan Mintz and John Feinblatt at Gracie Mansion

    ​This blogger has been to a lot of weddings. This blogger, however, was keenly excited to see 1. Mayor Bloomberg marry someone, someone not his daughter or a former mayor (the two types of people he had once vowed he would only marry), and 2. To partake, even in a small way, in the first same- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Q & A: Chunklet's Henry Owings On The Indie Cred Test, Not Being A Hipster, And Paying Tribute To Jerry Fuchs

    Ian Cone​The 100 Biggest Assholes in Rock Issue, The Shit List Issue, The Overrated, The Rock Bible--Chunklet mastermind Henry Owings redefined the 'zine aesthetic with his deliciously wisecracking, ass-chewing tongue, dumping on everyone and their mother while taking a little bit of time to e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    No. 21: Chicken Tabaka at KeBeer

    ​Who flattened my chicken and why? Chicken tabaka is one of the stunning achievements of Georgian cooking. Not that Georgia! Georgia in the Caucusus Mountains, where Caucasians were invented.

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Woman Who Tried to Mail Puppy Wants Her Dog Back

    Dogs should not be caged.​Stacey Champion, the 39-year-old Minnesota woman with the no good, very bad idea of mailing a live puppy in an airtight box without holes (or water, or food) to Georgia would like her dog back, please. This is horrifying people everywhere, almost as much as the fact t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Sex Offender Suing MySpace Because He Got Caught

    "Why don't you have a seat?"​From Adweek comes the troubling story of a convicted Georgia sex offender, Cory Hubbard, who is suing MySpace for providing authorities his information based on an out-of-state warrant. Hubbard's lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleges that the struggling social ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Georgia Preacher Charged With Gay Seduction Stands Tall

    ​I've been remiss in addressing Eddie Long, the Georgia pastor who four males have sued, claiming he took them on trips and lavished them with gifts in order to seduce their asses. The main reason I ignored this is because the man happens to be a rabid homophobe who preaches against gay marri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    Zebra Donkey = Zedonk

    Zedonk-a-donk​Why not a Donkbra or a Zebkey? This cute and very rare hybrid animal was born of two species-confused and sexually experimental animals who birthed quite an adorably mix-ed up offspring at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Lumpkin County, Georgia. Now, are all little girls going ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2010

    Is Paula Deen For Real?

    ​I like Paula Deen. She has a warm personality, she apparently likes the gays, and most importantly she whips up a mean buttermilk pancake. But with that accent laid on as thick as barbecue sauce on chicken fried steak, I'm starting to think she "hicks" it up for the public a little.

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Gucci Mane Is A Free Man

    ​Even as fellow famous incarcerated rapper Lil Wayne faces disciplinary action today at Rikers for violating prison rules regarding possession of unauthorized electronics, Atlanta's Gucci Mane strolled out the front door of Georgia's Fulton County Jail this morning, a free man. Outside the jai ... More >>

  • News

    April 6, 2010

    NYU's Snuff Film

    A campus-wide clampdown on last year's student film death won't keep us from giving you the whole picture

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Chinese Winemakers Go High-End; Anheuser-Busch to Make More Beer with Less Water

    ​After years of producing cheap, bad wine, Chinese winemakers are creating high-end offerings, catering to a an increasingly affluent and sophisticated Chinese consumer. [Wall Street Journal] Christie's has announced it will auction Pablo Picasso's portrait, "The Absinthe Drinker," for betwee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Our 10 Best Fried Chickens

    ​Open 24 hours, New Caporal has long served the fried chicken needs of Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights, and its logo is a cowboy chick standing on a clump of foliage with a blazing pistol. Almost everybody loves fried chicken. The dish was brought to America by enslaved persons from W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    More Food Recalls--Watch Out for Frozen Pasta and Alfalfa Sprouts

    Another food product recall has been announced. Frozen meat and poultry pasta from Mucci's Food Products were prepared without federal inspection and sold in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. No illnesses have been reported. [AP via Google] Meanwhile, the FDA is n ... More >>

  • Film

    March 11, 2009

    The Cake Eaters Offers Genuinely Sweet, Forgettable Indie Fodder

    Another food product recall has been announced. Frozen meat and poultry pasta from Mucci's Food Products were prepared without federal inspection and sold in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio. No illnesses have been reported. [AP via Google] Meanwhile, the FDA is n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Popcorn Gets Booze Flavoring

    An enterprising University of Missouri student has created a line of alcohol-flavored popcorn called Pub Corn.[CNN]According to figures from the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, the cube steak is experiencing a resurgence in popularity.[NY Times]Noting that the Texas and Georgia peanut produc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    Colonel Sanders' Secret Recipe Is Safe

    Colonel Sanders' handwritten fried chicken recipe was returned to KFC corporate headquarters in Kentucky yesterday after a new, safer vault was installed to house the top secret recipe. [NY Daily News]A report released yesterday shows that California winemakers' grape harvest is down 6%, a fact that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Jamie Oliver Good for Kids

    In the UK, a new study finds that Jamie Oliver's healthy school dinners significantly improved students' performance in the classroom.[Times of London]The misdiagnosis of food allergies is on the rise, seemingly due to the unreliability of blood tests.[NY Times] Eight O'Clock Coffee's Colombian coff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Health Commissioner Going After Salt

    The city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Frieden, is now waging a war against salt. After that, puppies. [NY Times]A Newcastle University study finds that cows that are given names and treated with a "personal touch' produce more milk. No word yet on girlfriends. [The Guardian]As the recession lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    On New Kylesa Track "Said and Done"

    Kylesa, the Georgia quintet who, since 2002, have been carrying forward the doomy, sludgy legacy of Eyehategod and Damad and all the other guttural, Southern hardcore bands, have posted a new track from their upcoming and frankly great new record, Static Tensions. The two drummers (and two gnarly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Bye Bye Busboys

    To cut costs, restaurants are eliminating busboys and leaving the table-clearing to servers, with mixed success. [WSJ]Shocker! The Georgia peanut plant behind the salmonella peanut butter has a history of sanitation issues and health inspection violations. [NY Times]In the pre-competitions at the Bo ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 14, 2009

    DOOM DEVILS

    Kylesa pummel NYC twice this week

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2008

    Gun Dealer Wins His Case; Bloomberg's Goin' to Georgia

    Kylesa pummel NYC twice this week

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Voice's Gun Dealer Back Home, Fights Against Bloomberg, for Bob Barr

    Kylesa pummel NYC twice this week

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2008

    Daily Flog: Lennon killer gets laid regularly and Edwards doesn't, Russia rips Georgia, China rips U.S., Con Ed rips us off

    Kylesa pummel NYC twice this week

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2008

    TABLOIDED: Watching the Watchdogs

    Kylesa pummel NYC twice this week

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2007

    Ghostface on Wu Tang Situation: "It's Serious"

    Kylesa pummel NYC twice this week

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2007

    It's Official: CBGB To Be John Varvatos. But Wait, There's More.

    Kylesa pummel NYC twice this week

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2007

    Possibly 4th Street: Black Lips Sing About STDs

    Kylesa pummel NYC twice this week

  • Film

    May 1, 2007

    Mormons: They're Just Like Us

    Lindsay Lohan elevates, but can't save, Georgia Rule

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2007

    What up. This is All City.

    Lindsay Lohan elevates, but can't save, Georgia Rule

  • Music

    October 3, 2006

    Walk Unafraid

    Yo La Tengo briefly convince us that New Jersey is for lovers

  • News

    February 1, 2005

    Letters

    Yo La Tengo briefly convince us that New Jersey is for lovers

  • News

    January 27, 2004

    Anti-Evolution Monkey Business in Georgia

    Our Earth: Flat or Round?

  • News

    October 21, 2003

    The Bush-Cheney Gazillions Tour

    Get Out Your Checkbooks. It's a Bundle of Fun

  • News

    July 1, 2003

    Saving Affirmative Action

    And a Process for Elites to Choose Elites

  • Music

    April 8, 2003

    Beating as One

    Yo La Tengo Make Their Love Album

  • Music

    March 26, 2002

    Music

    Yo La Tengo Make Their Love Album

  • News

    October 9, 2001

    ‘A New Form of Slavery’

    Equal Protection for Whom?

  • Dining

    January 23, 2001

    Last Train to Waffleville

    Equal Protection for Whom?

  • Specials

    July 20, 1999

    Letters

    Equal Protection for Whom?

  • News

    December 22, 1998

    Infamous Sodomy Law Struck Down

    'What Was the State of Georgia Doing in Hardwick's Bedroom?'

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