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New York pub crawls: Because your regular drinking dens are like following the spin-dry cycle

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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NY Mag offers their versions of Best of New York

The NY Mag list of Best Nightlife is usually a mix of the hipster, socialite crowd and the true goodness that NYC offers. I’ve very happy to see Basic NYC, garner the best Dance party award, as they truly keep bringing the good talent back to NYC and (Le) Poisson Rouge which is down the …

ABC Makes 500 Rule Change – better for bars and crawlers

The 500′ rule requires any establishment requesting any license application for a location within 500′ of 3 existing establishments is subject to a public hearing. The length of time to recieve a hearing in the state has extended at times to six or seven months when 2,400 licenses are waiting for review; normally two- to …

The L Magazine’s 3rd Annual Bar Awards

The L is one of the few city mags I read, mostly because I’m living in it’s core demographic, below the L line in the city. It’s just released it’s 3rd annual bar awards, and although several options are above the L line, we’ll let it slide for the good selections offered here.

Who does AskMen ask for the top clubs in New York?

Men7 is an AskMen.com lifestyle and entertainment network show that highlights the best of what ever in lists of 7 for the attention deficit male. It’s uncertain on how they select these listings (citysearch?, bartender friends, etc), but our feeling that lists of these nature contribute more to the demise of a club’s “coolness” factor …

Irish Pubcrawl UES – March 7th, 2009

Here we go again. Contact the Organizer Olly for those that will be making it from Bar 1 through Bar 10. 2 PM : Bar-Coastal 3 PM : American Trash Inc 4 PM : Southern Hospitality 5 PM : Stumble Inn 6 PM : McKeown’s 7 PM : Bounce Inc 8 PM : Banshee Pub …

Belated Irish Holiday Crawl – March 7th, 2009

We have finally got ourselves sorted and will be bringing you the first pub crawl of 2009 around UES on Saturday, March 7th. Before anyone tries to point it out, we are aware that it is also the same day as the St. Paddy’s day parade in Hoboken. You will just need to make the …

Can you tell the difference between Goose and Level?

Brian McDonald has an interesting story in the times this week about “Downpouring” and can patrons really tell the difference in their alcohol. I think ordering high end is a mix of show and flavor, depending on the style of liquor used but for the most part I’m with the author that most couldn’t tell …

Booze sales up as economics are down

This is no surprise. Weather your happy or down, you’ll have a drink and in these times, escapism in the bottle is prevalent. Wine sales are going through the roof as well an as this article point’s out 2012 is the magic year for the US to top the market . Notable US Rankings for …

We’ve all been there: Beer Goggles

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