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Kool-Aid

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Kool-Aid Silkscreens and Bee-Emulsion Photography

    Artist Matthew Brandt will have his first solo show in New York starting tomorrow. Look for Taste Tests in Color, a series of multi-layered silkscreens made with edible inks of cotton candy, Kool-Aid, mouthwash, and pills.

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Black Folks, Fried Chicken, Mary J. Blige, and Voice Alum Chloé Hilliard [VIDEO]

    Black folks have been in the news a lot recently and, despite the fact that an African American is in the White House (and according to recent polls stands likely to stay there for the next five years), a lot of that news has been extremely depressing in the past month. From "Stand Your Ground" to w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Last Night: Vice Goes To The Dogs To Celebrate Fashion Week

    Vice's Fashion Week Party Westway Wednesday, February 8 Better than: Not getting into the secret Skrillex show. Last night, the line to get into West Village's middle-of-nowhere dance club Westway wrapped around one block in one direction of the door and down two blocks in the other. The strip clu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Chipsy Opened, Deep-Fried Oreo Lovers Cheer

    Lauren ShockeyMmmm, fried​ What can we say, we're suckers for anything fried: fried pizza, fried green beans, fried bunny rabbit. Submerging food in vats of bubbling oil just adds to the deliciousness factor, hence the trend at county fairs of frying anything edible (even Kool-Aid balls and s ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 18, 2011

    'Wavy Gravy's 75th Birthday'

    Lauren ShockeyMmmm, fried​ What can we say, we're suckers for anything fried: fried pizza, fried green beans, fried bunny rabbit. Submerging food in vats of bubbling oil just adds to the deliciousness factor, hence the trend at county fairs of frying anything edible (even Kool-Aid balls and s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Robert Sietsema at Coppelia; Lauren Shockey at The Brooklyn Star

    This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema finds that "the food runs from inspired to terrible" at Coppelia; Lauren Shockey drinks the Kool-Aid at the Brooklyn Star. Sam Sifton awards The National Bar and Dining Rooms one star: "[The décor] is appetizing, as it happens: it is the sort of restaurant w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    This Week in the Voice: Eric Bellucci's Madness and Murder of Mom and Dad

    ​In our weekly edition, Elizabeth Dwoskin's cover story "Killing Mom and Dad" tells a horrific, but humanizing tale about Eric Bellucci, whose slip into schizophrenia culminated in the stabbing deaths of his mother and father late last year. For the first time, the surviving children of the Be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Battle of Birtherism: Rightbloggers Divide on Whether Obama is Foreign-Born or Merely Un-American

    Despite fresh pushback from some top conservatives, the longstanding rightblogger obsession with Barack Obama's birth certificate has not abated. Even as prominent rightwing columnists and politicians tried to talk down the birther surge exacerbated by the Donald Trump campaign, the notion that O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Your iPhone Records Where You've Been; What Are You Going To Do About It, Chump?

    ​The tech world is having itself a little freak-out over the news that iPhones using iOS4 (the latest operating system) have been saving users' location data whenever they make a cell call. Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden discovered a hidden file in the phone's operating system that keeps track ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Four Loko Now Causing NY State Government to Shut Down Restaurants (Or: Long Live General Loko)

    ​And to think people were worried about what The Kids would do drunk on Four Loko! It would appear the State Liquor Authority drank so much Four Loko (or so much of the Four-Loko-as-Reefer-Madness craze-flavored Kool-Aid) that they raided accomplished restaurateur, chef, blogger, and boozing r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Bloomberg's Schools No. 2 Pick: Test-Prep Principals Are "Weak"

    ​So now that it looks like Cathie Black will become chief publisher of the New York City Department of Education, so long as Mayor Bloomberg appoints longtime school administrator Shael Polakow-Suransky as her editorial director, what do we know about her prospective sidekick?

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    84th Thanksgiving Day Parade Will Be As Cheesy As Usual

    ​Charlie Brown will have a few new friends to hang out with as he floats down Sixth Avenue this Thanksgiving. Macy's has announced the lineup for this year's parade, which will include performances by Kanye West, Jessica Simpson, and Gladys Knight, helium-filled versions of Po from Kung-Fu Pan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    New York Landmarks Continue Social Media Revolution: The New York Public Library, Empire State Building

    ​It seems like everyone is "joining" Twitter or "getting" a Tumblr these days. Especially in the case of certain New York City landmarks, who are taking to social networking like digitized screen-saver fish to a watery stream of information.

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Chilean Miner Gets Offer to Endorse Cheating Website; Plus, 5 Truly Unfortunate Endorsements

    Barrios and his lyin' eyes.​So, our Chilean miner with the mistress -- Yonni Barrios -- whose wife and "lady on the side" found out about one another while he was stuck underground (and whose wife subsequently failed to meet him on the day of his ascent) has been offered a $100,000 endorsement ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    This Week in the Voice: White America Has Lost Its Mind

    ​From Glenn Beck to Breitbart, Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh, from sea to shining sea, from their mere followers to their Kool-Aid drinkers, the rage, motives, and manners all lend themselves to a certain composite picture developing quite neatly in this country, that's really, more than anythi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    The Sad List of Lil Wayne's Prison Provisions

    TMZ.com​Via TMZ, chief ghouls of this particular game: 20 $.44 US postage stamps; 20 envelopes; 10 Nacho Cheese Doritos; 5 Cool Ranch Doritos; 5 Hershey Bars; 5 Hall's; 10 Ruffles; 2 "chocolate chip"; 2 Kool-Aid Punch, 6 Oz. each; 2 Kool-Aid Cherry; 1 "VISTACHEWYCHOCHIPS"; 50 Sugar in Raw; 5 R ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Lady Gaga's Hypnotic Appeal

    ​Even when Lady Gaga comes out with a song that doesn't initially seem up to her standard, it ends up ingratiating itself into my system and proving to be a wowser. I didn't think much of "Paparazzi" when I first heard it, but ever since the woman performed it on the VMAs, it drilled into my ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Week in Review: We Forgot "Rad Bromance"

    The highlight of our week, for good or ill.​ In case Lady Gaga's monstrous fame-monster antics weren't over-the-top enough, the bubble-dress-wearing, bloody-heart- ripping Gaga monster's out-of-this-planet-to-Jupiter-and-back diva status may have officially been cemented in stone this week. We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    The goofy highlights of 4 A-Team novels PLUS: Tender A-Team YouTube tributes

    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. ​ A-Team novelizations Small But Deadly Wars; When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?; Old ... More >>

  • Music

    May 18, 2010

    The Planet-Obliterating Joys of Sleigh Bells

    Listen to the Brooklyn duo's simply enormous Treats on headphones at your own risk

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Andrew Breitbart vs. Oh No They Didn't: A Media Spat with Epic Potential

    ​The Internet has been especially testy as of late! Of course, it always is, but just in the last month or so:

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    City's New Bake Sale Regulations OK Vending Machine Food, Prohibit Anything Made by Human Hands

    Chow.comContraband materials, according to the city.​Perhaps not as radically mean-spirited as penalizing a street vendor for a bathroom break nor as mind-blowingly stupid as the demand for a redesigned hot dog, the city's nine-month-old ban on fund-raising foods is still something of a buzz-k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    "Undiluted Maleness": Studies in Crap Presents the Hunks of Harlequin Romances!

    ​Forget the spicy pirates of the Fabio days! Today's lover of paperback romances demands men of today! Men as wealthy as Warren Buffet, as jet-setting as Aristotle Onassis, and as Tea-Party wholesome as Scott Brown, whose Cosmo spread is just a cowboy hat away from making a perfect cover for H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Incredibly Cheap Eats: Kielbasa Dinner at Happy End in Greenpoint

    ​The bill of fare at Happy End beckons from a chalk board right outside the front door. Once long ago it was a corner tavern, and a mirrored bar with masses of dark wood remains a fixture in the front room, only now set meals are dispensed across it, and various juices and sodas. When I first ... More >>

  • Music

    November 10, 2009

    On the Haunting Songs of Chuck Prophet

    ​The bill of fare at Happy End beckons from a chalk board right outside the front door. Once long ago it was a corner tavern, and a mirrored bar with masses of dark wood remains a fixture in the front room, only now set meals are dispensed across it, and various juices and sodas. When I first ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    Crazy Yankee Chick: When Will Baseball Stop Using History as Performance Barometer?

    ​After slicing through the Red Sox like they were a middle school softball team, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of the greater state of California as part of the United States, Eastern Hemisphere of Earth within the Milky Way, will face the Bronx Bombers in the first game of the ALCS this F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    My Annual 'Most Annoying Phrases on Earth' Update

    Let's please spray egg creams in the face of anyone who dares to still articulate such worn-out cliches as: "Suck it up" "We're on the same page"

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2009

    Bourdain Gets Hardcore

    Last night on No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain focused on food porn and had one of the "best meals of his life" at Momofuku Ssam Bar. Yes, Tony drank the David Chang Kool-Aid, but he also had some amusing thoughts on the "food porn industry," saying:How did the simple act of eating become so twist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Vacation Alert! Not That I'm Going Anywhere!

    Last night on No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain focused on food porn and had one of the "best meals of his life" at Momofuku Ssam Bar. Yes, Tony drank the David Chang Kool-Aid, but he also had some amusing thoughts on the "food porn industry," saying:How did the simple act of eating become so twist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Bold Grammy 2008 Predictions!

    Last night on No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain focused on food porn and had one of the "best meals of his life" at Momofuku Ssam Bar. Yes, Tony drank the David Chang Kool-Aid, but he also had some amusing thoughts on the "food porn industry," saying:How did the simple act of eating become so twist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    I Knew M.I.A. Was Pregnant Before You

    Last night on No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain focused on food porn and had one of the "best meals of his life" at Momofuku Ssam Bar. Yes, Tony drank the David Chang Kool-Aid, but he also had some amusing thoughts on the "food porn industry," saying:How did the simple act of eating become so twist ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 15, 2008

    Signature Foods of the 1980’s

    Last night on No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain focused on food porn and had one of the "best meals of his life" at Momofuku Ssam Bar. Yes, Tony drank the David Chang Kool-Aid, but he also had some amusing thoughts on the "food porn industry," saying:How did the simple act of eating become so twist ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 22, 2008

    Ass-Baring Parties Conquer Nightlife!

    These are hairy times, but you can still enjoy yourself, if Bingo is your game-o

  • Film

    June 19, 2007

    Over the GW

    These are hairy times, but you can still enjoy yourself, if Bingo is your game-o

  • Music

    May 2, 2006

    Glossing Big-Tymers

    Touré indulges his writerly ego to insightful effect.

  • Books

    April 4, 2006

    A Hit-and-Miss Pop Odyssey

    Touré indulges his writerly ego to insightful effect.

  • Art

    March 14, 2006

    A Cacophonous Affair

    From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

  • Film

    January 10, 2006

    'End of the Spear'

    From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

  • Columns

    August 16, 2005

    NY Mirror

    From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

  • Film

    August 16, 2005

    'Short Attention Span Cinema: An Evening With Jeff Scher'

    From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

  • People

    February 8, 2005

    Love Letters Extra

    From the austerely documentary to the resolutely fabulist

  • Music

    October 12, 2004

    Growing Up

    Pop-punk opera leaves mindless self-destruction behind

  • Film

    April 22, 2003

    Last Resort

    Teen and Not Heard

  • News

    August 21, 2001

    Rich Men, Pour Men

    Yankee Stadium Beer Vendors’ Cups Runneth Over—So Tip ’Em Already

  • Music

    October 24, 2000

    A-OK

    Yankee Stadium Beer Vendors’ Cups Runneth Over—So Tip ’Em Already

  • News

    May 23, 2000

    Catharsis or Collapse

    Did Cancer or Character Kill Rudy's Run for the Senate?

  • Music

    March 28, 2000

    The Way the Cracker Crumbles

    Did Cancer or Character Kill Rudy's Run for the Senate?

  • Columns

    May 18, 1999

    NY Mirror

    Advice from the ball circuit: 'This category is about your face, not your booty. Now ride your broomstick out of here, baby gorilla.'

  • Music

    May 11, 1999

    Sugar High

    Have It Your Way

  • Dining

    April 13, 1999

    Cuckoo for Cou-Cou

    Have It Your Way

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