Jagermeister Liqueur

We Hung Out With Some Crazy Marines Drinking Their Asses Off at Coachella

In full grips of the dry desert heat, the fine art of day drinking at Coachella becomes a game of survival of the fittest. Sweltering temperatures in the high 90s aren't necessarily ideal conditions to bombard your liver with alcohol. And unless you've been used to trekking through sand in the Middl ... More >>

"Dieter Roth. Björn Roth" Explores Disorder and Decay

Sultans of rot

Do a Shot of Jägermeister From a 25-Foot "Shot-Ski" to Celebrate Oktoberfest's End

Oktoberfest is coming to an end and New York is celebrating with a 25-foot long shot-ski at Penn Plaza's OktoberfestNYC event today.

Creamy Chocolate Martini at La Lanterna di Vittorio

The drink: Creamy Chocolate Martini The bar: La Lanterna di Vittorio (129 MacDougal Street, 212-981-2731) The price: $13.50 The ingredients: Vodka, creme de cacao, and Baileys

RentStuff.com Wants to Become the 'eBay Meets Facebook' of the NYC Rental Market

Most New Yorkers are pretty O.K. about renting things, at least when it comes to our living spaces. As for those living spaces, we're pretty resigned to them being on the small side -- so small that we might have to rent additional storage space for, say, our skis or summer wardrobes or collection o ... More >>

Turkey's Nest Tavern, Beloved Bedford Ave Bar, Closed for Health Violations, Plans To Reopen Wednesday

Creative Commons via BitchcakesBurrrrrp!Have no fear, Williamsburg lushes. Even though the Turkey's Nest, the Bedford Avenue drinking hovel made famous by its take-out margaritas and bathtub-sized beers, has been shuttered since last Wednesday, the old-school bastion of neighborhood degenerates is, ... More >>

CMJ Day Four: Braids And Weekend Take The Music Hall Of Williamsburg On A Trip

Ben LozovskyBraids' Raphaelle Standell-Preston.​ CMJ Day Four: Weekend, Braids Better than: Being cannibalized on a remote mountaintop by hungry plane crash survivors. Through wildly different approaches, Weekend and Braids attempt to sculpt existing continental upheaval into massive monolit ... More >>

Kid Rock+Sheryl Crow

Way Station's Andy Heidel Talks About Flaming Moes, Dr. Who-Themed Cocktails and His Infamous Stroller Manifesto

​The first clue that Prospect Heights bar Way Station isn't your average drinking den is the giant blue TARDIS (the time-and-space traveling machine from the BBC's Doctor Who television series) sitting there as soon as you open the front door. Also present: custom steampunk devices, Victorian ... More >>

Live: Dierks Bentley Brings Out "Will Ferrell" in Long Island

No cowbell The Jägermeister Tour featuring Dierks Bentley, Josh Thompson, and Sean Patrick McGraw Long Island Community Bank Theatre at Westbury Sunday, March 27 Better than: Staving off the Sunday night blues with a screening of Talladega Nights. For much of his show on at the former Westbury ... More >>

Ask the Critic... Er, Cocktail Waitress: Doing Shots

flickr/_Fidello_So many ways to drink badly​ As a cocktail waitress at an infamous Village dive, I get asked a lot of off-putting things: "Did you go to college?" "Do you do yoga?" "What do your tattoos mean?" "Will you belly dance?" "Are you down for a hotel party in Atlantic City? We'll tak ... More >>

Eric Church

Battle of the Dishes: Candy Canes from CVS and Papabubble

Papabubble's hulking candy cane menaces its CVS competitor.​ Aside from their red stripes, candy canes have changed remarkably little since the 17th century, when, as various sources have it, a German choirmaster took straight white sticks of candy and bent them into hooks to hand out to child ... More >>

A Bartending Competition, in a Honey of a Spot

Jonathan Pogash, making a 'Bee Sting'​Barenjager, the German honey liqueur imported by the same company responsible for the success of Jagermeister and Grey Goose, hosted a bartending competition last night in a bona fide speakeasy located in a basement in NOHO. The password to get in was "Bea ... More >>

Booze News: Custom Ice Abounds; Booze Hounds Healthier Mentally & Physically

​A new breed of mixologist is obsessed with ice, using enormous cubes custom made by ice sculpture suppliers, ice balls the size of oranges, and long ice tubes for highballs. Dilution has become a dirty word. [NY Times] With a new Whole Foods in the space formerly occupied by the legendary ja ... More >>

Bartenders On Branca

​If you've ever been to Macao Trading Co. on a Monday night (industry insiders' night) you may have been convinced to do a shot of Fernet-Branca. The ultra-bitter Italian digestivo gets compared to Campari and even Jagermeister, but tastes like neither. It's medicinal and spicy, and is gaining ... More >>

Unilever to Cut Trans Fats; A Cocktail for Each Borough

​In response to popular demand from consumers, margarine maker Unilever has decided to remove all partially hydrogenated oils -- or trans fats -- from its soft-spread brands, including I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and Country Crock. [USA Today] Some 22 percent of restaurants in the city we ... More >>

The Old Scumbags of Mötley Crüe Nearly Burn Down Madison Square Garden

photo by David AtlasVince Neil Mötley Crüe Madison Square Garden March 16 Two slabs of pure California white trash, their retarded friend on drums, and a snake-eyed, mercenary guitarist more than a decade older than his bandmates: Mötley Crüe were a bunch of scumbags back in the '80s. Their de ... More >>

Adam Green on His Biggest NY Show Ever, Drinking Jager in NY, Waking Up in Berlin

The Weight

High on Fire mix brain and brawn while shrewdly underplaying the Satan card

Great Outdoors

When Boozing Gets Spooky

Bonus: Halloween with many Connie Chungs

Can a 'New' Old Bar Rescue the Meatpacking District?

The answer: Probably not

Dear Bush Beat . . .
Mixing religion and politics

The Edge of Reason

Olivia Joules lacks its titular energy, but bitter Mr. Dynamite is appropriately explosive

Drinker's Paradise

Chill Out With Frozen Daiquiris, Cool Coladas, Iced Vodkas, and Much, Much More

Alt Is Long

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