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July 30, 2012
Energy Drinks Lead to ... Casual Sex?
Besides classing up your appearance like a an Ed Hardy cap worn backward, energy drinks can also apparently erase any of the potential gains of a college education in the span of just one night. That's because new research suggests that mixing the likes of Red Bull, Monster or Rockstar with your fa ... More >>
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May 30, 2012
Taco Bell Introduces Mountain Dew Cocktail The Death of Mixology
After surviving the Doritos Taco Loco and the Beefy Nacho Burrito -- billed a plate of chili cheese nachos rolled into a flour tortilla -- we figured that the indigestion engineers at Taco Bell would have a hard time outdoing themselves. It turns out we very, very wrong. Taco Bell recently introduc ... More >>
Blogs
April 11, 2012
Out of Their Dead, Drunk Hands: Keep Food Legal 4 Loko
First they come for your guns. Then they stub out your smoldering joint. Next they want to stitch shut your bright expressive mouth, tell you to drive some hideous, tiny, "responsible" lawnmower of a car, and boss your genitals around to boot. Civil liberties are under assault in America, and now ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2012
L.A. Beerathon Canceled by California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
Updated after the jump with a response from the department, who claims Beerathon organizers need their own liquor license. Originally posted at 6:45 a.m. The first annual Los Angeles Beerathon -- set for Saturday, March 31 -- has been called off by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverag ... More >>
Blogs
March 13, 2012
Coors to Launch Iced Tea-flavored Beer
Flavored iced tea has been all the rage for a while now (passionfruit-acai-goji berry comes to mind). So the brilliant minds at Coors thought: Why not iced tea-flavored BEER? Last week, Golden, Colo.-based Molson Coors Brewing Co. announced it will launch Coors Light Iced T in Canada next month ahea ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2012
FDA to Investigate Safety of Caffeine Inhaler AeroShot Pure Energy
T. NguyenAeroShot Pure EnergyAeroShot Pure Energy -- a small canister that delivers a "shot" of inhalable, powdered caffeine with just a puff or two -- landed on the market in New York and Massachusetts last month without much scrutiny by the Federal and Drug Administration. Until now, anywa ... More >>
Blogs
January 23, 2012
Starbucks Adds Alcohol: Chain Is One Bad Hot Dog Away From Becoming 7-Eleven
As if the hipster / unpublished author / part-time screenwriter milieu of Starbucks wasn't enough of a reason to get your ass to the nearest indie java dealer ASAP, the coffee giant announced today that it's adding alcohol to the menu of as many as six Southern California locations. Our local Starb ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2012
Music Picks: Skrillex, Diplo, Wu-Tang Clan, The Health Club
Also, Art Lande, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Gilad Hekselman, The Stitches, The Villains and others
Blogs
December 2, 2011
Coffee and Coconut Water: Yum?
In interesting drink fusion news, a pair of Venice Beach roommates just launched Coco Cafe -- a coconut water-based coffee beverage. Elan Eifer and Brian McCaslin, who became roommates when they met on Craigslist, took Eifer's habit of mixing coconut water with his morning coffee to a new level and ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2011
South Pasadena Police Department Buys Into 'Teens Getting Drunk on Vodka-Soaked Tampons' Story
Drunk people. Tampons. It happens.At 5:05 p.m. this dark winter evening, the South Pasadena Police Department issued a community press release of the gravest importance. (Its first press release in two weeks, actually. Because South Pasadena Police Department press releases are reserved for t ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
FTC Cracks Down on Four Loko Again
There's a reason there's "Four" in the name, and it isn't for four healthy vitamins and minerals. A 23 ½-oz. can of the drink Four Loko contains the alcohol equivalent of 4 ½ beers. Now the label will say so, after Phusion Projects, maker of the "blackout in a can," reached an agreement with the F ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
Four Loko Makes Fun of Hokey TV Journalism via Passive-Aggressive L.A. Billboard
America's assault on alcoholic energy drink Four Loko has been accepted with a surprising amount of maturity by Phusion Projects, the drink's manufacturer. Instead of firing back with truth bombs like "Loko doesn't kill people, people kill people" and "The fun of the many shan't be outweighed by the ... More >>
Blogs
September 16, 2011
When You Litter Anywhere in L.A., It Ends Up in the Ocean: 100K Pounds of Your Crap to Be Removed This Coastal Cleanup Day
Californians Against WasteYou did this. Now undo it.L.A. County has the nastiest water in California, and many other parts of the country, according to Heal the Bay. And it's not because annoying tourist children won't stop pissing in the ocean, or gay parties are getting too trashy up at Wil ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
American Kids Are on Drugs, Just Not Their Own Teens, Parents Say
We've come to the conclusion that America is the land of magical thinking. Maybe that's why we remain so great: We see no evil, except in "others" (right, Iraq?). We want a balanced federal budget, but we don't want rich people and corporations to pay their fair share of taxes in order to ge ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2011
TSA Body Scanner Program Is Super Pervy, Must Be Terminated, Says Appeals Court
Top Left DesignFrom the "Miss Airport" Calendar, which exists.Hallelujah: Security checkpoints across the nation will no longer serve as First Amendment-scoffing peep shows for the feds! (At least for the time being.) A three-judge panel from the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rul ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
Phusion Projects Interview: Four Loko Creators Admit It Tastes Like Crap, Deny All Else
No amount of ice can freeze out the taste of fermented WindexFinally, the wise men speak! Jeff Wright, Jaisen Freeman and Chris Hunter -- that notorious trio behind the cultural phenomenon turned public enemy that was caffeinated alcopop "killer" Four Loko -- defend their product in a March ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
Four Loko Study: Caffeine Ingredient Further Impairs Judgement, But Actually Helps With Response Time
Joke's on you, squaresThis isn't exactly what the FDA and Mothers Against Four Loko (aka, all of them) want to hear right now, or ever, but a new backfiery study out of Northern Kentucky University suggests that driving under the influence of Loko might be superior to driving under the influe ... More >>
Blogs
April 8, 2011
Andrew WK at Dem Passwords: Live Review
Steven DrypolcherAndrew WK WHAT: Andrew WK WHERE: Dem Passwords WHEN: April 7, 2011 Andrew WK performed a set of piano rags and crunk karaoke that would have won him quite a few new fans had he been playing a fraternity party or a fraternity fundraiser or maybe a fraternity reunion. Unfortun ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2011
Venice Beach Drum Circle Throws Kumbaya to the Wind, Breaks Out in Fat Brawl With LAPD
again! again!The Venice Beach Drum Circle finds peaceOh, Venice Beach. If Four Loko was a place, it would be you. Even your drum circle is on crack! The official Venice Beach Drum Circle website, a feat in Tiki fonts and pixelated thumbnails, paints the event -- held every Saturday and Sunda ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Snoop Dogg Wants to Get You Blasted With His New Four Loko-Inspired Drink
Snoop Dogg Wants to Get You Blasted With New Four Loko Style Drink
Blogs
March 18, 2011
Caffeinated Beer Fight: Speedway Stout Vs. Espresso Oak Aged Yeti
N. GalutenBreakfast beersCooking and beer go rather well together. Both, it turns out, as an ingredient, and as a companion. You know those late weekend mornings spent with friends confiting duck legs and soaking Tarbais beans for a many-hours-away dinner (hopefully that's not just us)? Well ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Four Loko Lawsuit: Phusion Projects Sued in SoCal for Shady Sale Tactics, Asked to Refund Every Last Loko
You are getting very thirsty...Updated after the jump: How to get your $2.75 back, if the Four Loko case is won! Months after Phusion Projects pulled their "blackout in a can" off the nation's shelves and replaced it with a watered-down, far less enticing alternative (something of a ghetto p ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2011
Ban on Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages (Like Four Loko -- Last Year) Proposed by Valley State Sen. Alex Padilla
La vida Loko.Long after the FDA pressured the makers of Four Loko to make the alcoholic beverage a little less loco, San Fernando Valley state Sen. Alex Padilla is attempting to put the brakes on similar drinks in the Golden State. As part of a flurry of last-minute bills in Sacramento this ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2011
Charlie Sheen Gets 'Tummy Ache' After All-Night Rager on Mulholland Drive
babble.comCharlie Sheen's other tummy problemUpdated after the jump: Might Charlie's stomach pains have had something to do with a TMZ-touted "briefcase of cocaine"? Or did he just... wait for it... laugh too hard? Not sure why we care, but Charlie Sheen's been in the emergency room at Cedar ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2011
OC Teens Chelsea Taylor and Aaron Saenz Found Dead in Empty Apartment -- Next to Can of Four Loko
MySpaceAaron Saenz' profile pictureUpdated after the jump: Four Loko apologizes. Over a month after the FDA banned Four Loko in its most toxic form -- a mix of alcohol, caffeine, guarana and taurine -- the "blackout in a can" apparently isn't done doing its damage. On Friday morning at abou ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2011
Incandescent Light Bulb, You Were 100 Watts of Wonderful: A California Eulogy
Appliance.netEdison vs. the environmentIf Thomas Edison were alive today, he'd surely shed a tear. January 1 marked the beginning of a sad, slow death for the brightest household light bulb known to man -- and we're not about to let it fade from our lives without a fair memorial. Though he's ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2011
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/17-1/21
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The bicycle enthusiasts in Highland Park may beg to differ, but downtown may the only part of Los Angeles where a car is almost optional." Ask Mr. Gold: Where To Eat & Live In L.A. If You Don't Have A Car. "If recent history ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2011
Vicodin, Painkillers To Be Gutted Of The Good Shit; Livers Rejoice, Heidi Montag Weeps
The FDA doesn't feel Heidi Montag's painFirst Four Loko, now the very pills we were using to numb the pain? This is an outrage of the highest order. The FDA's newest beef is with acetaminophen, or paracetamol, that delightful ingredient most famously found in Vicodin. Apparently the feds don ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
Four Loko Seller Foiled In 12-For-$80 Craigslist Sting; Another Kid ODs On Old Loko
charliewarhol.blogspot.comNBC has yet to catch this guyThe investigative reporters over at NBC New York think they're pretty crafty this morning, having purchased a 12-pack of vintage Four Loko off an unsuspecting Craigslist seller. Little does NBC know, no real person actually pays that much ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Four Loko To Be Turned into Ethanol: From Fueling Frat Parties to Fueling Your Car
Flickr/Darby RoseFour loco, etc. You may remember the relative chaos over Four Loko, the energy drink that contains up to 12% alcohol, which debuted in US markets in 2005 and provoked a warning letter from the FDA this past November. The FDA called the caffeine and alcohol combination an "un ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/3-1/7
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "We regret that we didn't hold our First Bite off until March, giving 37 bloggers, 138 tweeters, the Windward School newsletter and Miss S. Irene Virbila the chance to weigh in first." [Updated] First Bite: The Platonic Ideal ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2010
#Snowpocalypse Replaced By #SnowLoko As Official Hashtag Of New York Blizzard; Sweet Time-Lapse Video; Rare 'Thundersnow' Sighting
KOMOnews.comWhadya know -- a Snow Loko!Hey there, New York. How's the weather? Hehe. Anywho, while we were collectively kicking it by the pool out here in Los Angeles -- half scoping Twitter for real-time updates on your misery and half gazing up at the heavens in partly-cloudy satisfaction, ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2010
Top 10 Los Angeles Bans Of 2010: They Left Us Bagless, Smokeless And Puppyless, With Nary A Loko In Sight
Updated after the jump: What kind of awards show would this be without a guest star? Nothing like a good hard ban to make life in this concrete jungle a little more oppressive. Between the L.A. County Board of Supervisors and most other governing bodies within county limits, politicians on ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2010
Stornoway and The Head and The Heart at The Troubadour Last Night
Sandra VahtelBrian Briggs (Stornoway) Stornoway The Head and the Heart December 13, 2010 Last night at the Troubadour was a complete and utter surprise. It was one of those wonderful evenings when everyone seems to know a secret that you don't. Arriving early at the venue, I was astonished ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
Countdown To The End, Day Two: Make It A Four Loko Christmas
All I want for Christmas is red and green drankWe know you were waiting for it: your official Four Loko gift guide. Warning: Buying everyone in your family Four Loko-related items this Christmas would be an extremely strange and disturbing thing to do. But if you don't mind playing the freak ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
This Is The End: R.I.P. Four Loko
eater.comGoodbye friend; we'd have a memorial, if we could remember anything about youThe last week of Loko lyfe as we knew it was an emotional roller coaster. We laughed; we cried; we bought teeny little Four Loko earrings for Mom on eBay. Here, the countdown in it's entirety: Day Seven: Be ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Auto-Tune Justifier Wallpaper Gives in to Jay-Z, Sells His Auto-Tune on Craigslist
When Jay-Z released his "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" last summer, Bay Area based electro-funk upstart Wallpaper responded by remixing the song and slathering copious amounts of the titular effect on Jay's voice. Now Wallpaper, a.k.a. Eric Frederic,--a vocal advocate for the pitch-fixing rec ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
Countdown To The End, Day Four: 'Yale Health Chief' Sends Students FDA-Approved Loko E-Mail
YaleHe kind of does look like a Chief Loko, doesn't he?It's an especially crazy day in the countdown to the end of the Four Loko era: It's Day Four, which calls for something really special. How about this awesome prank e-mail sent out a couple days ago by an anonymous Zuckerberg type who so ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
The Atlantic's Top Ten Food Stories of 2010: Frankenfish, Four Loco Italian Food (Pizza? Really?)
Nick Sherman/FlickrPizza at Nicky D's in Silverlake The Atlantic just dropped its year-end top ten calling out the biggest "food stories" of 2010. Let's run down the roster. We have meat-worship, "frankenfish," school lunch reform, New York City's crusades against soda and Four Loko, the ta ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
Countdown To The End, Day Five: Video Suggests You Drink Four Loko 'Responsibly' By Making A 'Four-Mosa' -- Missing The Point Entirely
HowcastCome on, Mom; you're embarrassing meDec. 13 -- the last day Four Loko will exist in its original brilliance, before its makers extract all the shit that makes it worth the hangover -- is approaching like a bullet train with caffeinated alcopop for diesel. Here's what you've missed so f ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2010
Countdown To The End, Day Six: Disguise Your Pussy Iced-Tea Can With Four Loko Slip Cover
eBayTa-dah! Instant crazyThough the weeklong countdown to the Four Loko funeral began just yesterday, scavengers have already raided L.A. liquor stores for every last Loke. (The little devil committed suicide in November under FDA intimidation.) And by scavengers, we may or may not mean us. ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2010
New Benjamin Notes Worth $110 Billion -- 10 Percent Of All U.S. Currency -- Come Out Weird, Quarantined In Texas Vault
I remember when my biggest problem was a wayward kiteRemember those X-tra X-treme new $100 bills the U.S. government introduced via triumphant Internet vid last spring? [Watch after jump.] Well, so absurdly turbocharged with new-age gadgetry were they, that the Benjamins seem to have outfoxed ... More >>
Blogs
December 7, 2010
Countdown To The End, Day Seven: Beverly Hills Craigslister Charges $70 For 12-Pack Of Four Loko
CraigslistWaking up the next morning in nothing but a "diamond" grill: pricelessWe've been makin' cracks about the growing economic weight of our remaining Four Lokos for some time now -- never realizing how right we were. People don't just want 'em. People need 'em. Bad. The same camo-cloa ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2010
Four Loko Tattoos: Bad Life Choices Involving Novelty Energy Drinks Marketed to Children
He'll never live this down.Just when you thought you were done with Four Loko, well, think again. The terrible drink may be disappearing from stores near you, but there's a very good chance you'll run into it's likeness again, even if you don't have the pleasure of sippin' that sickly nectar ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2010
Bum On Skid Row: 'Two White Men' Gave Us Four Loko Surplus, But 'I'd Rather Be Cold Than Drink That Shit'
Uptown AlmanacOther bums -- particularly, the kind who live in dorms -- can't resist the stuffBet you were wondering what happened to all those glorious old Lokos that had to be recalled after the FDA banned alcoholic energy drinks from U.S. shelves earlier this month. (Well, aside from the 5 ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2010
Energy-Alcohol Beverage Four Loko Bows To Government Pressure: Don't The Feds Have Better Things To Do?
Four Loko is making the FDA crazy.The economy is lower than Andy Dick on hangover day, Congress might let unemployment benefits for two million Americans expire this month, and the country's deficit is at $1.3 trillion. And the feds find time to crack down on ... energy-drink alcoholic bevera ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2010
Four Loko Can Stay -- If Purged Of Everything That Makes It Delicious
Houston PressQ: What do you get when you pour out all the good stuff? A: One depressing chance at re-entering society. No thanks.It seems just yesterday we were making fun of New York City for its lonely state of Four Loko-less-ness, sitting around playing Edward Lokohands like we were untouc ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2010
Jimmy Kimmel's 'National Unfriend Day' Is Almost Over -- But You've Still Got Time!
NNDBOnce mere "friends," Beer and Jimmy are now close without quotation marksIf you don't watch "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", and you wouldn't be the only one, you probably had no clue that today was the unofficial (or official, if you ask him) house-cleaning day for Facebook hoarders everywhere. Ki ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2010
Four Loko Banned In New York City (What A Bunch Of Squares)
Ellie Bragg via The Daily Tar HeelNorth Carolina is now officially less shitty than New YorkOne by one, all the weak states are banishing Four Lokos -- those scary-tall $2-odd cans disguised in camo; part energy drink, part alcohol -- from their every last convenience aisle. The latest to ca ... More >>
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