Coming fresh off his appearance at LVHRD’s DRDXXX Repeal Day Celebration with Dewar’s is Murray Hill with his annual Yuletide nightlife tradition on December 18th at 7:30PM and 9:30PM. Held at the Comix comedy club, the show will include all the cheesy holiday songs, Hill-arious skits, bodacious burlesque, and wacky and wild downtown acts, you could ever want. And if that wasn’t enough, there will also be a full bodied figure skating routine complete with skates, jazz hands, and dance moves that’s aptly titled, “Murray on Ice.”

But wait, there’s more. Coming along for…

In the spirit of the great heroes of Prohibition — the gangsters, boot leggers, and organized crime bosses who kept alcohol flowing during dry times — LVHRD invited New York’s “modern day gangsters” (those counter-cultural groups, organizations and publications who festively embody similar ideas of change) to celebrate this year’s Dewar’s Repeal Day on Tuesday, December 5th, 2006.

On Monday, December 4th, 1930s-era “newsies” dropped off brown paper packages to the offices of the chosen gang leaders throughout NYC. Each package contained arm bands unique to the gang leader for distribution…

Tonight, December 5th, 2006, the shackles of Prohibition will once again be thrown off of New York City. If you haven’t been checking out these blog posts on a daily basis, then you might not know of the special event that LVHRD has in the works with the support of Dewar’s, the official first alcohol to legally arrive on the shores of New York.

Seventy-three years ago on December 5th, 1933, boats filled with Dewar’s Scotch were floating into the harbor on order from Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, as…

Stretching, contorting, and bending in ways you probably didn’t think possible, the ultra limber Harvest Moon didn’t get the title as “The Sultry Siren of Burlesque,” for nothing. The New York dancer and sometimes muse of Bi-Fold presenter, Paul Pope, began her career in San Francisco by founding the famous dance troupe, The Cantankerous Lollies back in 1995.

After receiving numerous awards for the group’s rousing performances, Harvest felt it time to disband and move on over to New York to expand her routine on the East Coast scene. Once in New York,…

Sylvester Stallone, with half his lip raised, muscles in his eyebrows, and a tricep pulley that he works out on while he’s driving, stars in, without a doubt, THE most important movie in the past 25 years, and possibly, in the history of cinema.

Of course, there have been other “sports” movies produced, Any Given Sunday and Rollerball ring a bell, but none have ever been as (wait for it) OVER THE TOP, as Over the Top, an arm wrestling movie where good ‘ol Sly arm wrestles because it’s what he was born…

Taking beer away from Homer J. Simpson is like taking John Oates away from Daryl Hall. It just shouldn’t be done. But in episode eighteen of the eighth season (that’s a lot of eights) that’s just what happened.

After a debacle at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade where Bart gets an accidental mouthful of sweet, sweet Duff, the town is in outrage and demands that liquor be banned from the streets of Springfield. Dismissed as ridiculous by Mayor Quimby, he soon has to recant his statements after a gander at the trusty, dusty old…

Back in the 1920’s when alcohol was swept off the streets because of, say it with me kids, Prohibition!, many people had to resort to other forms of entertainment other than getting sloshed and singing bawdy limericks. One of these new forms of entertainment was gathering around with the family and listening to the radio. Though it may sound silly and old-fashioned today, especially with the “in-ter-net” available, back then it was the real cat’s fancy.

One of the biggest draws of this period was Louie Armstrong. With a thick and raspy…

Some groups, interested in breaking into the music business, pack up everything they have and ship off to a big city like LA or New York. The Rosewood Thieves are not that group. Leaving the hustle and bustle of the city behind to get away from all the noise, the group, headed by the ever so young (20) Erick Jordan, sojourned to Deposit, NY, where they stayed to make their debut ep, From the Decker House, an inspired one.

The place they stayed at, the Decker House, as you may have…

Though you’ve probably never heard of it, in 1939, Jimmy Cagney, one of the most typecast gangsters in cinema history, starred in what may have been one of the best, most understated roles in his career. The movie was The Roaring Twenties, and while it’s no White Heat and there are no bravura shoutings of “Top of the World, ma, top of the world!”, it still ranks up there with some of his best work.

Starring Cagney as a taxi driver who transports booze during Prohibition, the film is wrought with…

On December 5th, 1933, after a thirteen year dry spell, America revoked the liquor ban that was set in this country and officially ended the Prohibition period. LVHRD finds that interesting. Even more interesting, though, is the fact that Dewar’s, one of LVHRD’s partners, was the first alcoholic beverage available for liquor lovers to legally drink without getting hassled by the boys in blue. That’s quite a history.

Such a history, in fact, that wouldn’t it be nifty if LVHRD threw a party reminiscent of that elaborate era with libations…