South Queens has been the scene of several rowdy, and sometimes deadly, house parties over the last year. So the NYPD has formed a special unit to crash them before they get out of hand. NYPD: Party Crashing Unit.

A new Gallup study on Americans and booze has some interesting facts. Did you know that young American men love beer? And that Americans like alcohol? Or that people on both coasts prefer wine? Stereotypes come true with science!

A group of scientists at the University of Sheffield have concluded a groundbreaking new study that claims "frequently" drinking alcohol eases pain from rheumatoid arthritis and can even make the disease less severe. Imagine that... booze dulls pain!

City officials in San Diego, tired of drunk frat boys littering their pristine coast, in 2007 banned drinking on the beach. But there's a loophole: "If you're floating, you're good," according to police. So thousands get wasted on rafts, brah.

Knowing how to make a solid drink is a great party trick, especially if it's one that has been enjoyed equally by Carrie Bradshaw and Ernest Hemmingway.

Drunk driving could soon be illegal in Russia, if a vote passes the upper house of parliament. Lame.

The Alaskan town of Wasilla is home to some pretty amazing people, like Sarah Palin and Levi Johnston. And now the town's Alaska Distillery is rolling out a new Smoked Salmon Flavored Vodka. The first batches were described as "greasy."

Breaking kombucha news! When Whole Foods pulled the vile fermented tea from its shelves due to concerns over high alcohol content, millions of pampered shoppers were dismayed. Now, feds say kombucha should be treated like a lowly Budweiser.

New York's State Liquor Authority just approved a 192-proof (96% alcohol) Polish vodka. Spirytus is "incredibly sharp. It takes your breath away," according to a random boozehound the Daily News interviewed. "It's like getting punched in the solar plexus."

Today Regis and Kelly shared a few letters and photos received from viewers. Kelly joked about drinking alcohol during breaks (all jokes have some truth, am I right?), then turned a man's pride for his huge asparagus into sexual references.

Good news: A team of scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital are one step closer to being able to regrow livers, after they created working liver grafts and transplanted them into rats. Drink up—you can fix it later! [BBC]

We're not sure what started the elderly Russian's assault on the liquor aisle, but points for determination. Apparently the mayhem ended with six cops trying to subdue the woman.

Prohibition and "sin taxes" push many Africans to drink cheaper, locally produced moonshine. Some of it sounds pretty good, too, with 40% alcohol! But mix in some feces, cockroaches, and jet fuel, and you could wind up blind or dead.

Young people will stop at nothing to get messed up. YouTube is flush with videos of misguided youths introducing alcohol to their nether regions, so we went to Union Square to get to the bottom of this mysterious trend.

The Washington Times, a cult-owned online propaganda organ, is trying to scandal-monger on Tax Day: "Last year alone, the State Department sent taxpayers tabs totaling nearly $300,000 for alcoholic beverages...." That is... not really that much! [Pic: AP]

Disgusting lesbians aren't the only things ruining prom these days. Stupid school administrators and awful parents are also doing the rite of passage a great disservice. The latest trend is scheduling the dances on school nights, to curb after-partying.

Club Damani, known by day as Harambee Charter School, offers dancing, drinking, rapping, and an expired liquor license. State officials aren't happy about this. But they should relax, because the club's in-house performer says, "Yo, I got that weed."

While we were digging around the itemized disbursements of the Republican National Committee in search of lesbians, we found a couple trips marked "office supplies" that are both wonderful (and wasteful?) in very different ways.

"Japanese barteder and cocktail-shaking philosopher" Kazuo Uyeda is coming down from the isolated monastery where he toils to perfect a "controversial method of shaking drinks": the "Hard Shake," the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique of booze.

Here is how we may someday have hangover-free booze. Finally, science proves its worth.