Try it with a shot of bacon grease! It's what Elvis would have done. more ›

By now, the entire internet knows about that vodka-soaked tampon insertion thing that teenage girls (and, uh, guys) are supposedly doing to get drunk without actually drinking. Even Stephen Colbert is warning parents about it! And while the internet has never cared about "proof" before, suddenly, one Huffington Post blogger (who is not a teenager) has decided, for reasons entirely unknown, that the world deserves to know what really happens when you shove a vodka-soaked tampon into the darkest abyss of the female anatomy. Talk about inserting yourself into the story! Or... vice versa. Spoiler alert: it burns. more ›

Onegin (named after Alexander Pushkin novel Eugene Onegin), opened earlier this month in the former Pizzeria Uno space in the West Village. The owners have transformed the old deep dish pizza chain into a swank haute-rustic haven, with wheelbarrow coffee tables, sylvan paneling, and passages from Pushkin on the walls. Take a look around. more ›

Now that we've seen a glimpse of Lifetime's reality show about the Russian community in Brighton Beach, Russian Dolls, featuring "guys wearing Adidas pants, leather jackets and gold chains" and "a lot of hot, decked-out Russian girls" (plus some of their in-laws!), what do actual Russians in Brighton Beach think? Um, how about a community liaison's slam saying "they don’t speak this dirty language and they hate vodka." more ›

Cupcake vodka—it exists. We don't really need to tell you more, but somebody has to revel in the ridiculousness of this concept with us. According to the Cupcake Vodka Spirits Expert (that is a job you can have), the folks at Cupcake Vodka are super serious about their dessert-flavored alcohol: "What makes a good vodka is that it has not been sugared up or had glycerin added to it—and the stuff that should be has been cut away. That is what I like about Cupcake Vodka and the Cupcake team. They get that; they are wine makers and they are willing to do the work to produce the real thing." Finally, authentic cupcake vodka like they made in the old country! more ›

We usually only drink vodka when we're trying to lose weight or watching The Big Lebowski, but Purity Vodka just might encourage us to consume more of this exotic, translucent spirit. The small batch vodka, which is newly available in NYC and retails for $39.99, is produced at 13th Century Ellinge Castle in the south of Sweden. The man behind it, Master Blender Thomas Kuuttanen, has earned his awesome title: he spent over a decade tinkering with the vodka until it met his exacting standards. more ›

If you were a priest who pleaded guilty to stealing over $80,000 in church funds to fund plastic surgery and Botox procedures, it makes that you'd also crash your car into a tree with "vodka mixed with pineapple-flavored Fanta soda in a 20-ounce bottle stashed between" your legs. Wiliam Blasingame, 68, allegedly told the cops who found in at Vanderbilt Avenue and Tompkins Avenue on Staten Island, "I dropped my buddy off at rehab and he had some vodka left. Honestly, I didn’t even have that much." The Post says the former minister also "allegedly had booze on his breath, slurred speech, watery eyes and slow motor skills." more ›

A Stamford, CT father officially earned the worst class trip chaperone ever award, after pleading guilty to molesting young girls while chaperoning his son's class trip to NYC in June. According to prosecutors, Tomas Manzano, 35, was horribly inappropriate towards the fifth grade girls, "He caressed their faces.. he tickled some of the children close to their privates." more ›

Spike Lee, the effortlessly curmudgeonly director, has taken to hawking vodka... but that's old news. The new news is that teens in Brooklyn are turning on Lee for bringing his Absolut Brooklyn ad campaign to their neighborhood of Bed-Stuy. According to the Daily News, teens in the area recently did a survey of alcohol ads in the area, mapping out promos for the Children's Aid Society—they found that Lee's campaign dominated. more ›

It's been two years since his last wide release feature film, Miracle at St. Anna, but don't assume Brooklyn-raised film legend Spike Lee has just been sitting on his heels, wiling away the days reeling in NBA super jocks. Mr. Lee has a plethora of projects underway, with a whopping eight listed as "In Developement" on IMDB, and a second post-Katrina documentary, If God Is Willing and the Creek Don't Rise, nearing completion. On top of all that, he even found a moment to come up with a Brooklynized Absolut bottle. Or did he? Last week the director talked to us about the BP oil spill, Fort Greene prior to the Caucasian invasion, and how the stoop on the Absolut bottle isn't the one he wanted. more ›

If you thought Bros Icing Bros was genius, you're gonna love this new teen trend: pouring vodka directly onto your eyeball. The Daily Mail reported on the phenomenon a couple of weeks ago, and now it's catching on in America, according to a scary report on CBS2. The news show doesn't have any evidence to support this "alarming" and "shocking" claim, but they do talk to people on the street to get their reactions. more ›

If Sean Combs-endorsed Ciroc is the vodka of choice in his home borough of Manhattan, then we suppose Brooklyn just adopted Spike Lee and Absolut to represent its buzz. Yep, you can now buy ABSOLUT BROOKLYN for just $24.99 at your local liquor store (the company will be giving $50,000 in sales to Habitat for Humanity for their effort to build affordable and environmentally sustainable housing in Bed-Stuy). more ›

The owner of Georgi Vodka, multi-millionaire Martin Silver, was not very happy when Sean "Diddy" Combs took the mic at a nightclub in NYC last week and declared, "If you're not drinking Ciroc vodka, then you're drinking pee pee." more ›

Daniel Ignacio, the man accused of setting the fire that killed five Guatemalans in Brooklyn last week, continues to spew about the devil and the evil spirits that prompted the act, from the prison ward at Bellevue Hospital. "It must have been the Devil. It could not have been Jesus Christ," he said "I know I have to face a living hell now and God's judgment later." Still, since allegedly telling cops he lit the fire with a cigarette lighter, he’s changed his story—now he insists it was all an accident, caused by six plus bottles of vodka. And Satan, of course. more ›

It's been a particularly rough week for guards at Rikers Island. In the past few days, corrections officers have been accused of sleeping on the job and possibly sleeping with inmates. Now a Rikers Island guard has been busted trying to smuggle drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes to prisoners in exchange for cash, according to the Post. more ›

A press release with this thrilling title landed in the inbox this morning: "CONTROVERSIAL 100 PROOF VODKA INFUSED HOLIDAY TURKEY IS BEING UNVEILED FOR THE HOLIDAY'S BY LOCAL NYC TAVERN. NO ONE UNDER 21 ALLOWED TO EAT AND INCLUDES A TAXI RIDE HOME." To which we would only add BARF. Earlier today Paul Hurley at O'Casey's Tavern on East 41st Street began injecting an unspecified number of 20-pound birds with 8 ounces of 100 proof flavored Georgi vodka: peach, raspberry, cherry and apple. Most of the vodka will evaporate out of the turkeys during cooking, but O'Casey's chef has planned for that, and he's preparing a vodka-infused gravy, served with a straw. more ›

Mari Vanna: The latest addition to New York's niche dining market this week comes to us all the way from Russia. Mari Vanna opened last Wednesday after a soft opening all through July, bringing authentic Russian cuisine and all the vodka you can stomach. Inspired by the mythical Mari Vanna (think Max Brenner, but with Borscht), the restaurant feels more like an immigrant kitchen, complete with tchotchke on the bookshelves and ottomans on the floor. And with the winter months approaching, Mari Vanna offers Russian classics like Blinis and Beef Stroganoff on homey yet extravagant china and linens, and gives you the opportunity to wash down that stew with over 70 types of vodka, including a couple dozen imported bottles from Russia. The emphasis, however, is on their in-house infused vodkas, with flavors like Oats & Honey and Dill & Garlic. No word yet on if those flavors are actually successful. 41 E 20th St; (212)-777-1955 more ›

If providing the citizens of New Jersey with a new brand of vodka that comes packaged in a plastic skull wasn't enough to get them seeing stars, Dan Aykroyd has given local extraterrestrial believers some additional fuel to their speculative fire. While making a promotional appearance in Morris Plains in support of his new Crystal Head vodka, Aykroyd was asked about the recent UFO hoax in the Garden State. He said that he was glad to see the story because, as he put it, "It draws attention to the real cases. I've seen two of them." more ›

Did you wake up this morning thinking you'd like to be a little more Kanye? In all likelihood the Be Kanye subway ad campaign has sunk in to your subconscious, but watch out--as learned from the video ad that circulated last month, being Kanye is really just being drunk...on Absolut Vodka. Or more accurately, on corporate sponsorship. Today the Daily News takes a look at the subway ads, which state: "For a few hours - or for a lifetime - any time is Kanye time." Well, it's better than being Dr. Zizmor. more ›