The Daniel Radcliffe Guide to Boozing Your Face Off in West Village
Mr. Radcliffe, reformed boozehound. The area around super-classy apartment building One Morton Square, in the edge of West Village, has a fine array of well-stoked boîtes from which boozy revelers can...
View ArticleDrunk People: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
A match made in heaven. Leave the flasks at home, New York moviegoers! Last August, Gov. Cuomo passed a law that allows movie theaters with restaurants to serve booze as well, making a trip to the...
View ArticleA Blow-Out Made Me Blotto! The Illegal Scourge of Salon Drinking
Illo: Anna Parini We weren’t three minutes into our pedicure—or two toes—and already The Observer was getting wasted. The place was Dashing Diva in Greenwich Village, a chain nail salon with 12...
View ArticleI Melt With You Shares a Circle of Jerks
Jane, Lowe and Piven. Grown men behaving badly are everywhere on film, but a more stomach-turning band of incompetent losers has never been assembled than the scumbags in the stupidly titled I Melt...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg Doomsday Proposal to Curb New York City Booze Sales:...
First they came for the smokers, and we kvetched. Then they came for the trans fats, and we were like, sure, we could stand to lose a few pounds. Then they came for our salt, and we were like, are you...
View ArticleArtist Nick Poe Documents His NYPD Sobriety Test (Video)
Nick Poe undergoes a sobriety check at the 7th Precinct (MyBlockNYC) We don't know how the NYPD allowed this footage to be released, but here's Nick Poe-- artist, SoHo loft-dweller (as well as son of...
View ArticleDon’t Get Caught Being Drunk On the Lower East Side, Warns NYPD
Don't get caught doing this (Mecredis) In a move that has alcoholic NYU undergrads with fake I.D.s freaking the hell out, Capt. John Cappelmann of the East Village's Ninth Precinct is beefing up his...
View ArticleBottle Feeders: Should Procreation Necessitate a Personal Prohibition?
(Peter Oumanski) Before I became a mother, I was, as my Sonoma County aunt is fond of saying, “a lover of the grape.” I liked my wine. So much so, in fact, that when I got pregnant, I continued to hold...
View ArticleAnother Dry Summer? A Plea for Drinking in Public
Yep, you won't be seeing this anytime soon. There are two types of people in this world: those who think that alcohol creates problems and those who think that alcohol solves them. Most people believe...
View ArticleDrUNk! U.S. Wants Wasted Diplomats Banned From U.N. Budget Debates
U.S. begs: no more drinking and debating. Americans are known the world over for being embarrassing drunks. We're constantly being told that other countries have a more mature relationship with...
View ArticleHouse of No: Brooklyn House Party Hot Spot Raided by NYPD
Chuck your red Solo cups and jump the back fence, East Williamsburg. Soon-to-be-shuttered extra-legal party spot House of Yes was raided by the fuzz in Saturday's wee hours. The NY Post reports that...
View ArticleMayoral Candidates Want to Let You Drink on Your Stoop
The Democrats vying to become the next mayor of New York City may have some pretty sharp disagreements at times, but a clear consensus emerged during their latest televised debate tonight: drinking on...
View ArticleHighland Fling: A $2,600 Bottle of Scotch
There are a few things I might immediately buy with two and a half grand. A first-class trip to Paris. A pair of Charlotte Olympia boots. A year’s membership to the Printing House. One thing I wouldn’t...
View ArticleBrooklyn Bar Raises Drinking Age to 25 Because Young People Are Annoying
Phil's Crummy Corner (Facebook) A Cobble Hill restaurant is upping its weekend drinking age to combat the presence of all those annoying, drunken young'uns. DNAinfo reports that Phil's Crummy Corner,...
View ArticleIndependent Budget Office Suggests Boosting Taxes on Beer, Liquor and Plastic...
The city’s Independent Budget Office has some ideas for incoming Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio to boost revenue and save cash as he prepares to take the reins of City Hall. As part of its annual wish...
View ArticleMurray Hill’s Battle Of The Booze
The Beers are out! (Observer) It may become harder to get inebriated while enjoying the warm weather outside in Murray Hill. At least Manhattan's Community Board Six is hoping so, with a new plan...
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