Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey

Happening: Queens Taste and BBQ Blowout with Brooklyn Brewery

Monday, May 13 Bourbon BBQ Dinner at Perilla Perilla is launching a series of Monday night bourbon-BBQ tastings that will run through the end of June. Tonight, the menu features Gouda hush puppies, Hampshire pork spare ribs, and buttermilk ramp biscuits. Call to make a reservation. Tastings are $50 ... More >>

What Does Sammy Hagar's Dick Look Like? A Chat With Home Blitz About Van Halen

"I've always thought of myself as a fairly sane person, but chronicling this experience is kind of making me wonder why." Those are the last words Theresa Smith, guitar player in one of New Jersey's best bands, Home Blitz, has to say on her bizarre, year-long decent into obsessively analyzing one of ... More >>

Reviews of Wines From Famous Rock 'n' Roll Bands!

By Brian McManus Lately we've noticed a lot of bands have their own brands of wine, including Motörhead, Kiss, AC/DC, and Ratt. (Even Warrant has a wine. Warrant.) One of our friends at Wine Spectator magazine showed us the piece they wrote in April about this trend, and noted they were going to r ... More >>

5 Boozy Sweets Meant to Start a Buzz in New York

[See More Taste Tests: 6 Best High Line Snacks | Porchetta's Lebanese Chicken Sandwich | Spring Garden: Brooklyn's Best Dim Sum?] When Jane's Sweet Buns--known for their alcoholic cinnamon buns--closed a few weeks ago, we were concerned where to get sweet treats with a buzz. We set out on a mission ... More >>

Crystal Stilts

Banana and Brown Sugar-Infused Jack Daniel's at Common Ground

The drink: Banana and brown sugar-infused Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey The bar: Common Ground Bar & Restaurant (206 Avenue A, 212-228-6231) The price: $10 The ingredients: Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey, banana, brown sugar

Free Will Astrology: October 12-18, 2011

Liz Taylor's Typical Daily Menu, 1960s

​This is from It's All About The Dress, the new memoir by noted designer Vicky Tiel. BREAKFAST Mimosa, crisp bacon, and scrambled eggs.

Blue-Collar Chroniclers Keep On Keepin' On

Eric Church and Randy Montana navigate life

Free Will Astrology: July 27 - August 2, 2011

Obscure European Aperitifs Are All the Rage; The Bronx Spawns New Beers

​Little-known European aperitifs are all the rage these days, from Rabarbaro Zucca, a rhubarb-flavored amaro, to Becherovka, a cinnamon herbal liqueur from the Czech Republic. [NY Times] Jack Daniel's is tweaking the look of its iconic black-and-white label. For one, the "Lynchburg: Pop. 361" ... More >>

Summer Movie Guide 2011

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

Osama Bin Laden Dies in the Cartoon Version Too

The ineffable Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese company responsible for cartooning every current event from the Tiger Woods sex scandal to the Royal Wedding, has already delivered their dramatization of Osama bin Laden's death, entitled "Osama Bin Laden get got," starring Donald Trump, a finger-gu ... More >>

'Very Old' Cognac Sells for $70K; Ice Cube Becomes Spokesman for Coors Light

​Breuckelen Distilling Co. and the Brooklyn Distilling Co. have settled their trademark-infringement lawsuit out of court, although the terms were not revealed. [NY Post] A bottle of Rémy Martin cognac called the Louis XIII Grande Champagne Très Vieille Age Inconnu sold for 50,000 euros ($7 ... More >>

L.A. School District Bans Jamie Oliver, All Reality TV from Schools; Chick-fil-A Isn't the Only One That's Anti-Gay

​The Los Angeles Unified School District has denied a request by Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution to film at a local high school, and has banned all reality TV shows from shooting in schools. [Hollywood Reporter] A Finnish group that calls itself the Food Liberation Army has "kidnapped" a statu ... More >>

There's Some Really Old Whiskey Being Served at The Rose Club

barockschloss/flickrWhiskeys of yore.​It isn't everyday that you get to taste a bourbon as old as your grandfather, but you can do so at The Rose Club at The Plaza throughout February while supplies last. A flight of nine American whiskeys, including several discontinued bottles, such as a Kin ... More >>

World Series of Beer Pong; Tennessee to Get More Whiskey

​One of the country's top cocktail writers, Jason Wilson, rounded up the most significant drinking trends of 2010: pisco, mezcal, tequila as the new vodka, and beer cocktails. Also, white whiskey, Benedictine, American microdistilleries, and Italian aperitivi. [Washington Post] And the top w ... More >>

Witness Relocation's ETs Want Booze

Whiskey-craving space creatures land in Bushwick

Jack Daniels Joins Cast of Tigers Be Still

Kim Rosenstock's dramedy is the latest from Roundabout Underground

Summit's Greg Seider on the Bar's First Anniversary, His Garden-to-Glass Philosophy & the Best Tipping Story in History

Summit's Greg Seider​Summit made headlines when it opened a year ago on Avenue C for offering great cocktails and -- gasp! -- a fun atmosphere. Imagine: bartender who knows how to shoot the shit and not a suspender or waxed mustache tip in sight. Summit celebrated its first anniversary on Tues ... More >>

Jack Daniels the Cat Abducted in San Francisco, Found in Harlem

via San Francisco Chronicle​Awwww. Today in cat news: Jack Daniels, a nearly blind black cat, was somehow stolen from the San Francisco SPCA a year ago, and was found in Harlem last week. No one knows how exactly he got there or why -- catnapping! -- but after being discovered by animal contro ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Nitrous Mafia, Big Boi, Kelis, Oneohtrix Point Never, June Jazz Festivals, and More

​In this week's Village Voice, our cover story is on the Nitrous Mafia, the gas-fueled drug gang that is terrorizing music festivals up and down both coasts. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla talks with OutKast's Big Boi on the long-delayed occasion of the release of Sir Lucious Left Foot, Jessica Hoppe ... More >>

Meet Murderfist, the Comedy Troupe With a Splash Zone

A Gonzo collective enjoys nudity, Jack Daniel's, incest

Live: The Drive-By Truckers Reek Of "Dude" At Webster Hall

Drive-By Truckers Webster Hall Thursday, April 1 I admire these dudes (who appear in these pages, virtual and literal, with alarming frequency) for distilling complicated societal ills into one compact, blunt, blaring, paradoxically rousing burst of Southern rock: What "The Man I Shot" did for th ... More >>

Ke$ha's Glitter Invasion

The latest brash, lascivious femme-pop upstart is also quite possibly the weirdest

When Marcella Hazan Eats at Olive Garden, She Needs Whisky

Olive Garden's lobster spaghetti​Somehow, USA Today writer Jim Cox has managed to get Marcella and Victor Hazan to dine with him at Olive Garden--to test out the restaurant's claim that it offers authentic Italian food. How does it go? How do you think it goes? Tortellini in Bolognese, lobster ... More >>

Booze News: Moonshine Makes a Comeback; Drinking Fights Dementia

​Brown-Forman, the maker of Jack Daniel's, Southern Comfort, and Fetzer wine, has reported a bigger-than-expected 38 percent climb in fiscal first-quarter earnings after making big cost cuts. The company reduced its work force by 6 percent in response to consumers cutting back on drinking. [Wa ... More >>

Chain Gang: TGI Friday's May Descend on Union Square; Houston's Tells Calorie Police to Suck It

​Yesterday's Crain's New York reported that Parmesan-Crusted Sicilian Quesadillas and Jack Daniel's Ribs & Shrimp may soon be coming to Union Sqaure: the Riese Corportion has bought 34 Union Square East, the former home of Zen Palate, and may be opening a TGI Friday's and Tim Hortons in th ... More >>

Booze News: Rum Gets Classy; Caffeinated Booze Bad for the Body?

​Jimmy Bedford, the former master distiller of Jack Daniel's whiskey, died Friday at age 69. Bedford retired in March 2008 after 20 years at his post in what is the oldest registered distillery in the country. [MSNBC] Rum is becoming more of a sipping spirit, like single malt scotch or cognac ... More >>

The Ecstatic Violence of Villains

Jovially brutal metalheads actually say the mean things you're thinking

Live: My Morning Jacket at Madison Square Garden, With MP3s

Download My Morning Jacket's entire New Year's Eve show here. My Morning Jacket Madison Square Garden December 31, 2008 So My Morning Jacket isn't the new Grateful Dead. That was Phish. Except that Phish wasn't half as good as the Grateful Dead and only had about half a dozen great songs ("Wolfm ... More >>

Bachna Ae Haseeno

Fuck a Blog: Drive-By Truckers

Jonathan Marc Sherman's Brothers Grim

Prodigal playwright dries up, writes mediocre comedy

Michael Anthony Allegedly Attacks Mom During Mets Game?

Hat Trick

Melville's noir at Film Forum, plus Afro-punk at BAM and more

Second Hand Dose

Hand-me-down rock-qua-rock bands flatter via imitation

At the Track, Near the Tents

At the Winner's Circle, Not Far From Hell: Off-Track Betting in New York City

At the Track, Near the Tents

Not Far From Hell: Off-Track Betting in New York City

Books

Slow Burn

Oakland power trio parts the pot haze with smoking metal

Hell Hath No Grits

Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death

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Horoscope

Planet of the Apes

Strictly Solalian

Martial Solal Plays Everything All at Once

NY Mirror

Roto-Roots Rock Flushes Your Troubles Down the Drain

The Son Also Rises

Quiz Show

Fans drop beer and pick up pencils to find out who's best