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KINGS OF DANCEHALL

Toss back a gross drink with Beenie Man and Mr. Vegas

Volpone: Your Ben Jonson Con Man

Stephen Spinella leads Red Bull Theater's latest production

Fan Landers: Is My Band Accidentally Aiding A Right-Wing Extremist?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Live: The Cops Shut Down Fool's Gold Day Off; DJ A-Trak Throws Out More T-Shirts

Check out our slideshow from the party. Fool's Gold Day Off: French Montana, Danny Brown, Brothers Macklovitch, Just Blaze, Flosstradamus, Flatbush Zombies, Nick Catchdubs, Ricky Blaze, Party Supplies, #BEEN #TRILL, Telephoned, and more City Winery Monday, September 3 Better than: Rain. Last yea ... More >>

BAD BOYS

Hot 97’s annual On Da 
Reggae Tip returns

Live: AraabMuzik Bridges The Gap Between Old And New At East River Park

Araabmuzik w/Flosstradamus, Teengirl Fantasy, Nick Hook East River Park Monday, August 20 Better than: Drinking Red Bull to get through just about anything else. Watching the Manhattan-by-night sightseeing cruises pass behind East River Park's Summerstage during last night's Araabmuzik-headlined s ... More >>

Live: M83 Sparkle At Central Park

M83 Central Park Summerstage Wednesday, August 8 Better than: Being forced to watch that Victoria's Secret commercial over and over again. M83 are at a crossroads. Last fall's daringly expansive Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, coupled with its equally cinematic long-form video components, unabashed comm ... More >>

Happy National Margarita Day! Here's How to Prevent Tomorrow's Hangover

Happy National Margarita Day! If that's not a good reason to get sloshed after work today, what is? Here at Fork in the Road, we're all about the drinking (though ideally that which coincides with eating). Yet the age-old problem with getting too boozy is that you're bound to get hungover. Back arou ... More >>

For Corporate 'Campus Reps,' Marketing to Classmates Is the Name of the Game

Brand Practice

RIDERS ON THE STORM

BMX pros ride through haunted obstacles

Fork in the Road Guide to Dining in Himalayan Jackson Heights

​Carved wooden doors at Himalayan Yak Over the last 10 years, Central Jackson Heights (the blocks around the subway/bus station) has turned into a concentrated Himalayan business zone, as immigrants from Tibet and Nepal have moved into the neighborhood, turning the area into a Himalayan hub ... More >>

Affogato: Like a Gourmet Red Bull, and Love Is Where You Find It

​Served in a tall glass, Love's affogato is on the verge of becoming a milkshake. You won't find affogato in most of today's fancy coffee bars. That's because, no matter how particular they are about the coffee and how they make it, they can't be bothered stocking gelato fine enough to go wit ... More >>

The Food You Eat Is Killing You, and Other Non-Revelations, in Forks Over Knives

Energy Drinks Have No Therapeutic Benefit? Shocker!

veryeasyenergydrinks.comDo these look like they'd be good for you?​While it might not come as any surprise, at least there's now medical evidence that energy drinks aren't great for the youngins. A study published yesterday in Pediatrics reports that energy drinks have no health benefits for ... More >>

The Witch of Edmonton Speaks of the Devil

Red Bull Theater returns with its latest Jacobean oldie

Red Bull Falls Prey to Loko-Scapegoating; Now They Want to Take Away All That Is Good and Holy

​As someone who consumed a nearly full can of Four Loko last night and is paying for that ill-advised move in delayed mental and visual responses, circular logic, lack of focus, and a world of regret, I feel well equipped to comment on today's latest ban of things that teenagers like. A law no ... More >>

Is It Possible to Sell Out in 2010?

​Today's New York Times brings a startling bit of news: the sneaker company Converse is opening a recording studio in the heart of Williamsburg, to be called Converse Rubber Tracks, where bands "deemed dedicated and needy enough" will be able to record for free. Artists selected to use the spa ... More >>

Some Pictures from Saturday's 2010 Vendy Awards

​Not only do the Guerrilla Ice Cream guys make excellent ice cream, they know how to juggle, too. Both the sun and the crowds turned out in force for the sixth-annual Vendy Awards, which were held on Saturday on Governors Island. Some twelve hundred people showed up to patronize 18 food truck ... More >>

HARD Fest, Peter Zummo, Tiki Disco, And The Soul Clap Dance-Off Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

​Start your Saturday off at Good Co. (the re-vamped Hope Lounge) in Williamsburg: New York magazine is hosting one of their last Barbeque Blowouts of the summer. Fatty Cue will serve up heaping $5 plates of Asian-infused barbeque and sides, while DJ duo Punches provide disco jams for you to mu ... More >>

Meet Your Mate at a New Live Dating Show

​"Those who can't, teach," so I gamely helped match up a nice young woman named Lorraine with the best of three available suitors last night at The Fix-Up Show, a live dating extravaganza done by J. Keith van Straaten up at the swingin' Triad.

Last Night: The Puma Social Club Celebrates The Drake Riot By Refusing To Allow People to Dance--Until Rusty Lazer Went On, Anyway

If you can figure out a way to dance on this "dance floor," you are smarter than we are. All photos by Puja Patel​Even bleeding heart DIY promoters will admit that there's so much more you can do when there's money to spend. Frills come second to the show, of course, but none of us can deny th ... More >>

Red Bull Magazine Is All Up In Your New York Times

​Did you buy the paper this morning, or perhaps have it delivered to your stoop or front door, depending on the sort of place you live? Maybe it was heavier than usual, even for a Sunday, and you paused on the third landing of your fourth floor walk-up to wonder, winded. Perhaps you should hav ... More >>

Download "July," the New Single From Weirdo Local Psych Titans Starring

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​"When I was eight, my Dad and I made a haunted house in our basement for Halloween," says Starring guitarist Clara Latham. "He played 'Careful With That Axe, Eugene' from Pink Floyd's Ummagumma, ter ... More >>

Why M.I.A. Thinks Lady Gaga Is Biting Her Style

Because of a Wale song called "Chillin." Listen to it (above) and realize--as Ryan Dombal pointed out more than a year ago--that M.I.A. has a pretty solid case here. The context? An interview the singer just gave to NME--which, given the fact that it's been typed out of a magazine and onto ONTD, ... More >>

Red Bull Arena Opens, Provides Jolt to Frozen Fans

​The metro area's soccer team named after an energy drink (the franchise is Red Bull New York, the team is the New York Red Bulls — if you think this is confusing, don't even try to wrap your brain around the two competing Manchester Uniteds) held their first official league game at thei ... More >>

Drank Gets Some Company: Anti-Energy Drinks Supposedly One of 2010's Next Food Trends

Mary Jane's Relaxing Soda provides: sugary sedation in a bottle.​ About a year and a half ago, Drank came along to teach us all a thing or two about achieving a stress-free state of mind through a lulling combination of melatonin, valerian root, rose hips, and carbonation. Now, it looks like t ... More >>

And Now, A Lovely Tuesday Night Out At Greenhouse, APT, And Highline Ballroom, Featuring The Roots, Of Course

Somebody tell Puja how to do this. Greenhouse is one of those places that make us normal folks nervous. While some revel in the exclusivity of red-roped clubs, the thought of waiting in a felt-carpeted line doesn't exactly thrill me--over-glammed Jersey girls, statuesque Chelsea boys, and men with ... 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 >>

FUNNY BUSINESS

Improv's finest bring you a nonstop marathon of laughs

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 >>

Imagine That Survives Off Eddie Murphy and Poop Jokes

Fabio Getting Every Cent Out of These 15 Minutes

America is such a beautiful place. Cheftestants can score lucrative promotional deals or simply create their own clothing lines or eat overpriced Italian food at restaurants where your purse gets a special stool. America!Wow, I had no intention of doing another Top Chef post today, but then I stumbl ... More >>

VENGEANCE MEETS VENGEANCE

Red Bull stages Women Beware Women

May 28 through June 3

Grading the iTunes Hits

1,440 Minutes

An MTV takeover results in better bands, random absurdity, and . . . videos

Hyperactive Anthems, Suitable for Wining

Ashy Forehead Cred Sheet: The K-Fed Curse in Three Parts

Beyond the Bull

Talking with Dan Mayer, master Web reviewer of 180 energy drinks

Too Damn Skype

As Google fills China's prisons, will Internet phoning cave to spying?

Red Bull Addicts and Kerouac Insights

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

The answer: Probably not

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight

Ex-ska boy's band has the charisma-lack to move your butt

Wanna Go Greek—or Save the World?

Racing Games That Rock

Mixing Up Bottle Service

The Spirit Tree adds a new level of status to drinking

NY Mirror

Shedding Light on a New Lower East Side Spot to Get Lost In

On the Rocks

A dodge-a-Republican crawl

Money for Nothin'

And The Perks For Free