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What Time Does The Super Bowl Start?

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"Adele Computer" And Other Great New Drag Names

My favorite drag names are silly, punny ones because they show wit, wonder, and occasionally a hint of raunch. And my favorite game of all is to make some of them up myself. So here goes. Line up, start taking, and then start tucking: Adele Computer Jean Jacket Cass Cow Sudie Bastards Hop ... More >>

Q&A: Don Mclean of Fortissimo Records And Action Beat On This Weekend's Yo Eskerrik Asko, NYC! Festival And Meeting Glenn Branca

The rite of the music festival usually involves conglomerate domination and sponsorship whoring—but this weekend's genre-encompassing Yo Eskerrik Asko, NYC! is a refreshing break from that norm. Organizer Don Mclean of the DIY-minded Fortissimo Records and improv noise ensemble Action Beat can ... More >>

The Best Fake Meat Ever?

[See More Quote Unquote: Scotland's New Nutritionally Sound Pizzas | Reviewing the Doritos Locos Taco] Slate's Farhad Manjoo on Beyond Meat's extremely realistic faux chicken: "The chicken strips look, feel, and taste closer to real meat than any other food I've ever eaten."

Q&A: Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite On How Happy Hardcore Sucks, Not Caring That Instrumental Rock Is Out Of Style, And Covering The Jewish Prayer "My Father, My King"

For the last fifteen years, the sonic-terrorizing Scottish smashheads Mogwai have remained true to their original vision: the cathartic squelching of a loud/soft gargantuan-riff dynamic undeterred by the music fashions and trends dictated by the Bitchfork monarchy. Admittedly an uncool bunch— ... More >>

U.K. Docs: Cheap Booze Will Kill Us

​Public health experts in the U.K. have recently begged the government to ban cheap booze, saying that low-cost alcohol causes 13,000 cases of cancer yearly -- and 25 percent of deaths in young Britons, according to the BBC.

The Edinburgh Festivals: Some Whiskey With Your Program?

A visit to the world’s biggest annual theater bash

Soggy Weather Could Be Good for French Wine; A Search for Rare Champagne May Have Turned Up E.T. Instead

​The greater New York area is the country's second-largest wine region. Explore it, starting with the Wolffer Estate Wine Stand, around the corner from the larger winery on Long Island, then head over to Lenz Winery. [NY Post] The Bruichladdich distillery in Scotland has launched an organic w ... More >>

Caorunn Launches in New York with the Big Apple Cocktail Contest

​You've gotta pity the gin maker in Scotland. That's kind of like being the person selling sugar-free sweets in Candyland. But Caorunn, a new small-batch gin, hails proudly from the land of Fair Isle sweaters. And it is making its American debut here in New York City. To celebrate, they're ... More >>

Brits Trade in Scotch for Bourbon; Guinness Good For You, Scientists Say

​Scientists say that the future of winemaking depends on developing new varieties of grape that are resistant to disease. [BBC] Bottles of whiskey discovered last year from explorer Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic in the 1900s are being sent back to Scotland for analysis. [BBC ... More >>

The Debate Rages On: Jiggers v. Free-Pour; Eddie Huang's All-You-Can-Drink Four Loko Jam Nixed

​Hundreds of patrons gathered for one last drink at Ruby's Bar in Coney Island on Saturday to protest a landlord's decision to shut down the Depression-era dive. [NY Post] The latest wine by Bordeaux's Château Latour is actually a Burgundy, which is rather surprising considering the two regi ... More >>

Hot Dogs and Pepto-Bismol Go Hand-in-Hand; Your New Favorite Placenta Recipe

​Apparently, the best way to shoot photographs of food is to do it bright sunshine. [NY Times] This year's Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest will be sponsored by Pepto-Bismol. [Wall Street Journal] A new report reveals that nine out of 10 Americans eat too ... More >>

Taste-Testing Grass-Fed Beef; City Council to Vote on Anti-Food Truck Bill

​Hardee's hopes to boost sales with its new Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders, dipped in a buttermilk and egg batter, rolled in seasoned flour, and fried. The idea was inspired by its Made From Scratch biscuits. [MarketWatch] Scotland is cracking down on food waste with the introduction of special ... More >>

Whole Foods' In-House Forager; Jean-Georges' Resident Juicer

​If you ate just foods advertised on television, you could exceed the government's recommended daily amount of fat by 20 times and sugar by 25 times. [Time] Harvindar Singh is Whole Foods' only full-time food forager, and is based in the Bay Area, where he seeks out little-known, locally made ... More >>

Frightened Rabbit

Haggis Hounds, Don't Rejoice Just Yet: Reports on Ban Being Lifted Were Incorrect

Haggis still a no-no for now.​Rumors that the ban on haggis may soon be lifted were somewhat premature, it appears. The BBC reported that the U.S. government was planning to relax the ban on Scotland's national dish, but as it turns out, this was incorrect. A few days after the original artic ... More >>

Second Guilty Plea in NYC-TV Scam

A private film maker stood up in a near-deserted federal courtroom in Manhattan this morning to plead guilty to stealing tens of thousands of dollars in ad revenue that should have gone to the city. Vincent Taylor, 50, pled to a single count of wire fraud before federal District Judge Harold Baer. T ... More >>

Former NYC-TV Aide Cops a Plea

​Trevor Scotland, former chief operating officer of NYC TV, the city television station so heavily boosted by Mayor Bloomberg, showed up in federal court yesterday to plead guilty to stealing tens of thousands in ad revenue from the station. Scotland, 39, looked every bit as dapper as he did ... More >>

Guilty Plea Expected By Ex-Bloomberg City TV Exec

​A former top exec at the city's television station is expected to plead guilty this afternoon to looting some $60,000 in ad revenues due the city. It's hardly the biggest ripoff by a municipal employee, but what makes Trevor Scotland's appearance today a 'matter of interest' - as the Manhatta ... More >>

Kings of Leon

What Haggis? Scotland Now Claims Chicken Tikka Masala

CTM in all its glory​ Forget haggis. Scottish MPs are now claiming that chicken tikka masala, that creamy, junky-good dish found in mediocre curry houses worldwide, was invented at a certain Glasglow restaurant in the 1970s. Not only that, but they are insisting that the European Union to rec ... More >>

Inside the Mayor's Studio: NYC-TV's Secrets of New York

The many scams of Bloomberg's hip TV execs

Booze News: Harry Potter's Drinking Problem; Does Red Wine Make You Horny?

​The Times asks, "Does Hogwarts have a drinking problem?" The latest Harry Potter movie shows the young wizards coming of age, which includes drinking various potions and going to the pub. [NY Times] An estimated 20,000 protesters marched through Ayrshire and Kilmarnock, where Johnnie Walker ... More >>

Siren Festival 2009: Q&A With Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison

"I don't mind rollercoasters, but some of those things that put you in a weird state of velocity are a bit upsetting" Frightened Rabbit started to gain a following after last year's sleeper hit Midnight Organ Fight. With a sound that's relatively reminiscent of the early days of Bright Eyes, the ... More >>

GREAT SCOT

Young pop upstart has a world of tricks in his bag

Balvenie Encourages You to Make Your Scotch

A group of 40 adults has paid $95 each to deconstruct and reconstruct The Balvenie Signature Batch this evening at Astor Center. As luck would have it, we had the chance to participate in a little preview of the event with drinks makers Shingo Gokan of Angel's Share, Albert Trummer of Apotheke and J ... More >>

Man Up! NYC-TV Exec Arrested In $60K Rip-Off

Image from NYC-TV's "Uptown" magazine. Why a nice looking fellow with such an obviously brilliant future like Trevor Scotland, a TV producer who served as chief operating officer for the city's NYC-TV station since 2004, would want to scam the city out of a meager $60,000 is beyond us. But there i ... More >>

SXSW's 2009 Partial Performers List: If You Can Afford to Go, You Must Be Running a Ponzi Scheme

Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

Daily Flog: Monkey-wrenching the vote -- count on it

The Mogwai Drummer Scare: Martin Bulloch Home Safe in Scotland

The Traveling Omnivore's 20

Daily Flog: Kicking the habit but blindly drunk, hounded by Afghans, woofed at by Hillary

Letters 8.13.08

Do Other Immigrant Populations Mix Languages the Way Mexicans Do?

Plus, Scotch that last complainer

MOMMY DEAREST

A lustful uppercut to the chin from the distant past

Doomsday's Junk Food Glut

Descent director Neil Marshall steals everything great

Back to the Clubs, Everybody

The prime spots for your first big '08 hangover

The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir

Poppy, erotic, and evenchoral on occasion

Scottish Melancholia Rocks the Belles

Morning Report 9/29/05
You Don't Know Jack

Scottish Dances Pace Holiday Revel, Delighting With Their Precision

Letters

Layers Within Layers

Memories and residues—of tunes, words, wars, and dances past—well up in choreography

Engaging The Past

How do you make an old play look brand-new? Merely heighten the oldness with boldness.

Listings

Blood Simple

Girls' Day Out

Georgia on My Mind

Scotch on the Rocks

Clone Alone

Hillary Race Is Textbook Case