The James Mason Official Fan Club

Bears? Bulls? No – it’s a Boar Market at Akdola Santaoke. What?!

2008-12-11T15:46:00.000-08:00

It’s time for Santaoke – the annual Akdola holiday karaoke party where you get to dress up like Santa, Mrs. Claus, elves, reindeer, and other holiday-themed creatures – and this year we’re invading Wall Street (who says Wall Street’s dead?). Join us at the China Chalet (think Old New York, kitsch, and the entire place all to ourselves…) for the best damn holiday party you’ll attend all year.

And, as an added bonus, we will be debuting the new Akdola mascot (see photo). Yes, it’s a stuffed boar. He will be following in the well-hoofed footsteps of his predecessor, Deer Prudence. And he needs a name, so send us your suggestions! Special Mystery Prize for the person whose name we choose.

We’ll be at Santacon this Saturday doing some recruiting and pre-santaoke partying, so join us.

What: Santaoke
Where: China Chalet. 47 Broadway (near Wall St.) 212-943-4380
When: Friday, December 19th. 9pm-2am
Attire: Holiday madness

Once again, there will be FREE Peak Organic beer for those of you delivering Peak Performances throughout the night…

And remember: Santa LOVES karaoke!

xo,
Akdola
Anna & sarah

Halloween Akdola photos

2008-12-11T15:31:00.001-08:00

The Jackson Five made a special guest appearance at the Halloween Akdola. For more star-studded photographs, go here.

August Akdola Takes Corio By Storm

2008-08-27T19:26:00.000-07:00

Last week, Akdola made its long-awaited comeback at its fabulous new venue, Corio.

The Hosts, "Ak" and "Dola," warmed up the crowd

KJ Skittles made its debut, with glowing reviews

Official Akdola photographers, Ray Olivares and Darren Kaminsky, worked their magic:

Our bartender showed his Akdola pride, with beer sponsor Peak Organic in the spotlight.

Special guest Georgio the Human Carpet took his post on the floor

And the ladies walked all over him...

Love and war was in the air amongst the couples

???

With a dash of some good old fashioned girl lovin'

And some fox-y affection

But the main event was on stage: Anya performed a hoola striptease - much to Richard's delight

Ellen mourned Prudence, but quickly moved on to the new taxidermy in town

And the show-stopping, hand-clapping, chest-beating Peak Performances raged on

And, as per the norm, an intoxicated frenzy swept up the party.

Sarah impersonated the Biclops

The hosts and KJs joined forces and let loose

While the crowd grinded the night away with a Shoop -

Shoop ba-doop

Shoop ba-doop ba-doop ba-doop

Until they collapsed in ectasy

And proclaimed VICTORY!

Thanks to all who joined the festivities. Akdola strikes again in October!

AUGUST AKDOLA! NEW LOCATION!

2008-08-06T14:40:00.000-07:00

Summer’s nearly gone…but Akdola’s BACK!

Where can you choose from 100,000 karaoke songs, wrap yourself in boas, and slide off stage with your air guitar? Only at Akdola. On Wednesday, Aug. 20^th, NYC’s most bedazzled karaoke party is making its long anticipated return. Crazy costumes and free beer are still on the menu, but the venue has changed. Join the fun at Corio on the 20^th and croon your way into summer superstardom.

Akdola: Where the songs are free, the women sizzle, and pants tend to slip away…

Event: Akdola Karaoke

Date: Wednesday, August 20th

Time: 9 p.m. – 2 a.m.

Location: Corio (upstairs)

337 W. Broadway & Grand (212)-966-3901

Subway: A,C,E,1,2 to Canal

Join the “Akdola Karaoke” group on Facebook!

p.s. Deer Prudence is dead. (Again.) Come sing goodbye.

NEXT AKOLDA: COMING SOON!

2008-06-19T11:08:00.001-07:00

Don't worry, we haven't disappeared! We're gearing up for the next - and best - Akdola yet in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more info....

Akdola Karaoke Spreads Pantless Love!

2008-02-18T15:53:00.001-08:00

The No Pants Valentine's Akdola rocked and shocked Fontana's like never before.

Here's a re-cap:

The KJ pumped out the sounds...

The Peak Moment pumped up the courage...

The revelers warmed up the crowd

And once the Akdola photographers set the precedent -
(Darren started the trend...

and Ray's briefs answered)

The other pants came off....

And off...

And off...

And OFF.

But the host kept them safe and sound.....while the chaos continued:

The pantless crowds rushed the stage

And Sean and James joined Ak to fill in for the missing Dola on Total Eclipse:

But there were some tender moments...

Zoe, the bartender, gave in to peer pressure:

The Biclops started out innocently...

Then dropped 'em and got down...

And finally just plain got some, lucky boy.

Jim celebrated his birthday:

(with Anya giving him the traditional arrow-to-the-ass birthday blast)

And Ellen ditched Ray to enjoy some special time with Deer Prudence:

Until our dear deer just couldn't hold up his antlers for another song.

Join "Akdola Karaoke" on Facebook to see more photos, meet other Akdola-ites, and stay informed about up-coming parties.

See you in April...but until then, keep your pants down and your voices high!

Crush on Karaoke this Valentine’s Day!

2008-01-31T14:15:00.000-08:00

Kissing booths, free beer, air guitars, 100,000 karaoke songs, and a strict pants-optional policy? This ain’t your mom’s Valentine’s Day party. As always, hedonism, licentious dancing, extreme costuming, and enthusiastic performances overrule vocal talent at Akdola Karaoke. Valentine’s Day never sounded so good!

Event: Akdola Karaoke Party – Pants-Optional!

Date: Thursday, February 14th.

Time: 9 p.m.- 2:00 a.m.

Location: Fontana's (downstairs)
105 Eldridge St. between Broome and Grand; (212) 334-6740

Subway: B, D to Grand

Cost: FREE!

Drink specials from 9-10:30. Peak Moment with FREE Peak Organic Beer when first 25 enthusiasts arrive.

No-Pants Note: While you’re certainly not required to take your pants off, you never know if the spirit may move you once you arrive…so wear something you wouldn’t mind showing off! Otherwise, just enjoy the sights…

Santaoke photos!

2007-12-18T13:08:00.000-08:00

Akdola's holiday cast of characters:

The Mascot

The Host: "Ak"

The Host: "Dola"

The Photographer

The Bartender

The KJ's

The Beer Sponsor: Peak Organic

The Group Number

Nice:

Naughty:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM AKDOLA!

SANTAOKE!

2007-12-10T15:27:00.000-08:00

Akdola Fans, Santacon Enthusiasts, and Post-Office-Holiday-Party-Drunkards UNITE for one big night of Santaoke!

This Thursday, December 13th, is a rare cosmic meeting of all three special breeds of revelers. We'll be dressed in our fine Santacon attire (for inspiration, please check this out), and we encourage you all to don your best holiday-themed frocks.

We know that every single bloody office in the entire Tri-State Region is hosting a holiday party on Thursday, so score mega-bonus-points from your co-workers and bring them all to the best damn holiday karaoke party ever after you're all liquored up and bored sick of each other.

NOTE: It will be the LAST Akdola for a few months, so the time to sing is now!

Recipe for holiday cheer:
Date: Thursday, December 13th. 9 p.m.- 2:00 a.m.
Location: downstairs at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St. between Broome and Grand)
Cost: FREE!
Official Site: http://jamesmasonfanclub.blogspot.com
Drink specials from 9-10:30. Peak Moment with FREE Peak Organic Beer when first 25 enthusiasts arrive.
Santa loves karaoke. Don't disappoint Santa.

Akdola
a.k.a. Anna & Sarah

P.S. Deer Prudence Munsie, our mascot, is particularly psyched about this Thursday's bash. He likes it when people bring ornaments and accessories to decorate his antlers.

Behold: The October Party Photos.

2007-11-05T06:22:00.000-08:00

Below you will find a selection taken from the archive of Ray Olivares. The archive of Darren Kaminsky was down as of this posting, but the link here should allow you to access a whole other set of photos by now. See you Thursday!!!!

Host One, acquiring the requisite knee bruises

Host Two, shielding from the paparazzi

Our new mascot! And Tom's new crush, much to Nicole's chagrin

Aubrey, belting

This is a new Peak guy! Will we ever meet a Peak guy we don't love?

Groupsing

Self-flagellation or performance?

This is just like the Spice Girls, plus two boys

This guy wandered into our party on the way home from work, ran home to change and came back. We love him.

Amy back there is a professional hoola-hooper.

The new mascot and his backup dancers

This is our bartender. This is awesome.

Hoola hoops, bringing people together since 1952

Hurts so good.

Light girl and her pimp

More pain. The boys always love pain.

KJ coolness

Happy singing (the boys could learn something here)

THIS WEDNESDAY: Akdola madness...with cheap vodka!

2007-10-08T07:02:00.000-07:00

Yes, dear revelers, it's that time again - and this month it's all going down on a WEDNESDAY. Plus, we have new vodka sponsorship - so come early and get sauced on the specials.

As always, Peak Organic will distribute a free case of delicious organic beer at the Peak Moment, but this month it will happen as soon as the first 25 enthusiasts are gathered. (Even more incentive to come fashionably early.)

If you were there last month, you witnessed the insanity, were dazzled by the splendor of our new venue, Fontana's, felt overwhelmed by our 100,000 song selection, and could hardly control yourself amidst the body-thriving-gyrating-down-and-dirty hotness that consumed you. We sympathize - and promise to repeat.

And so....come WEDNESDAY, come early (straight from work, even!), come thirsty, and look fabulous.

Critical details:
Date: Wednesday, October 10th. 7:00 p.m. til late
Location: downstairs at Fontana's (105 Eldridge St. between Broome and Grand)
Cost: FREE!

Be there - or live to see the photos and regret it.

Healing the world, one song at a time...
Akdola
a.k.a. Anna & Sarah

p.s. If you wandered off with costumes and props last month, bring them with you!!!!

September Party Photo Diary

2007-09-25T10:58:00.000-07:00

Thanks as always to Ray and Darren, plus this month we got a little photographic support from Mic and Carrie!!! Click through all these links for complete sets of photos, but first, behold the photo diary below:

Hello World!

Host 1, in isolation

Host 2, on her own

Hosts 1 and 2, when mixed together

And the action on stage gets underway

Richard and the tinsel wig reunite

Akdola's biggest, most awesome fan

Anatomy of the Airplane Manuever
The approach

The mount

Nobody puts Baby in a corner!

The perfect 10 dismount

The victory dance, serenaded by air guitarists

This one's not going to let a lack of a microphone get in her way.

The Peak Moment: Thank you Peak Organic!

Ladies Love Cool Joe

One lucky guy.

It's not about the phallic t-shirt, it's about the performance.

Light girl extraordinaire Mic O.

Doing a birthday proper

Ford and Fitzroy guitarist by day, Nate the Suit by night!

This is where we get a little artsy.

I think someone's got her just where he wants her.

The Jetson's slutty rockette maid sings with Jedi

Note that he has two eyes. Hence, the Biclops.

Ecstacy.

Girls can't seem to remain upright when the Quarantine hits them:

Elan(n) wins us over again.

The cowbell, front and center.

Ellen's moment with the cowbell.

A rare huggy group shot featuring men.

This is where the magic happens.

We leave you with this: KJ Deathwish contemplates the profundity of the lyrics, and you should, too.

Akdola Re-invades on September 13th!

2007-08-29T10:56:00.000-07:00

Singers, Crooners, Lip-synchers, Divas, Minstrels, and Air Guitarists,

The Akdola team that brought you the best karaoke dance party in NYC for the first half of 2007 is back from its summer hiatus on Thursday, September 13th. The new incarnation of the monthly Akdola Karaoke Party now has more songs (in the ballpark of 100,000), more eccentricity (in fashion as well as in behavior), more general havoc wreaking, and A BRAND NEW VENUE!

This time around, we'll be rocking the basement of the inimitable Fontana's, located in the lower Lower East Side, where we'll have our own bar, our own bartender, a killer soundsystem, and a light system to be manned by light girl extraordinaire Micilin O!

If you've Quarantined Your Akdola before, you know it's not your traditional karaoke party: hedonism, licentious dancing, extreme costuming, and enthusiastic performances overrule vocal talent.

Mark your calendar and plan your outfit. (Check out www.myspace.com/akdola for sartorial inspiration or just to get psyched.)

As always, it's FREE to enter, sing, dance, flirt, and make a fool of yourself. Beer specials until 10:00 and crazy prizes ALL NIGHT LONG.

Cost: FREE!

Date: Thursday, September 13th. 8:00 p.m. til late

Location: Fontana's (105 Eldridge St. between Broome and Grand)

June Party Pics!

2007-06-20T05:30:00.000-07:00

See how drunk you were, or see what you missed, but regardless, see more (and then even more, from our most beloved official photographers, Darren Kaminsky and Ray Olivares).

Comments/favorite moments/wish-list/random thoughts are all welcome!

Establishing shot

Tom's got Sarah right where he wants her...

Anya was smokin'. Not cigarettes, just smoking.

"Oh, heeeeelllllllll no, you ain't gettin' my hat, you tinsel-wig freak!"

Does the guy on the left not look like Liev Shreiber?

Anna knelt before her cohost, and her cohost blessed her

THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S THE PEAK MOMENT! THREE CHEERS/BEERS FOR PEAK ORGANIC!!!

Every man's worst nightmare: showing up at the party in the same outfit as someone else (see below):

We hardly ever get to sing together anymore!

This is what you're supposed to do with tambourines, right?

"Must get hat..."

The HOT Akdola KJ's plan their strategy for karaoke chaos

Akdola: Bondage-style

Plaid shirt guy has not yet heeded the advice of yellow shirt guy (our newest KJ!) and we love him for it

Their passion pains them

Don't stare, but that's a KJ Deathwish SMILE

He just realized it's the last party til September. He's still recovering from the shock.

This photo should be hanging in a museum 20 years from now in an exhibition documenting the New York nightlife of the early millenium

She's even adorable when she's being dirty

The only people in the place with any class

Money shot

Bye bye, bitches.

June Karaoke Party -- Last One Till the Fall!!!

2007-06-13T11:27:00.000-07:00

Top ten reasons to rock the June Akdola Karaoke party:

Cheap beer
Free beer
Hot guys
Hotter girls
Crazy people
You get to wear an outfit that's just plain inappropriate anywhere else
Free stickers
Fun prizes
Free beer (in case you thought it was a typo)

Last party 'til September – gotta get your quarantine on NOW!

Details:
Akdola Karaoke Party
Thursday, June 14th
8:30 pm 'til they kick us out

Otto's Shrunken Head (back room)
538 E 14th St. (near Avenue B)
Featuring KJ Deathwish & KJ Clockwork

Come early and get some liquid courage from Sierra Nevada beer specials and free Peak Organic beer!

Entrance, singing, dancing, and license to dress like a rockstar = Free

May Akdola Party Photo Diary

2007-05-29T18:22:00.001-07:00

More priceless moments provided by official photographer Darren Kaminsky at http://bigbagoftricks.com/akdola4

May Akdola Party, this time with Beer Sponsorship!

2007-05-07T14:38:00.000-07:00

People are drunk with Akdola love. Sierra Nevada AND Peak Organic Brewing have lined up to throw down at the May 10th bash:

$2.50 Sierra Nevada pints from 8:30-9:30.
Peak Time is 9:30, when a free bottle of Peak Organic will be given out to each enthusiast present.

Thursday, May 10th
8:30 pm
Otto's Shrunken Head (back room)
538 E 14th St.near Avenue B Featuring KJ Deathwish

Entrance, singing, and dancing = Free

And, as always, the crazier you dress, the better you sound!

4.12.07 Akdola Party -- The Photo Diary

2007-04-16T09:26:00.000-07:00

Host 1

Host 2

Host 1

Host 2

Our KJ, who loves us all

Host 1 Host 2

What not to do at a karaoke party

Lounge singing at its finest.

Black and White Outfit 1

Black and White Outfit 2

Black and White Outfit 3

Random crowd shot punctuated by Richard

Mid-Quarantine

"Sarah, you were so off key it cracks my shit up."

Anya used to be timid about karaoke

These girls still are.

Double date.

Romantic evening, brought to you by Shawn

Anna's alone time with her liquor

Sarah gets retarded for karaoke

Darren Kaminsky in rare front of camera appearance

Two newsboys and a goth chick

He hearts akdola so much

Photo speaks for itself

Mystery Showgirl

And good night.

More photos here and here.

Next Party

2007-04-09T11:09:00.000-07:00

Akdola Karaoke Party This Week!

Thursday, April 12
Otto's Shrunken Head
9pm.

Ahhh!

Akdola Karaoke Party March 2007

2007-03-16T11:48:00.000-07:00

Here are a few shots from this month's festivities - for more candid treasures captured by photographers extraordinaires, Ray Olivares and Darren Kaminsky, click here and here.

The James Mason Fan Club: A History Lesson

2007-02-20T13:36:00.000-08:00

Not so very long ago or far away, there lived a man - we'll call him "James Mason." James Mason was a fun-loving character, full of vim and vigor and vivacity. One autumn day, James Mason stumbled upon the Akdola team. He approached their karaoke drive with predictable skepticism, but within hours he, too, was consumed by the need to quarantine his Akdola. He became ecstatic, caught up in an unprecedented karaoke frenzy. Backbends and falsetto action abounded. The crowd was speechless; the music pulsated. There was no stopping him! He was one with the performance, inseparable from the mic.

Thus, we have created our website in the name of Mr. James Mason. There's a James Mason inside all of us, just waiting for the right tune to burst us into song, never to return to silence.

Find your voice. Become your own James Mason.

Photos from 2.8.07 Karaoke Party

2007-02-20T06:01:00.000-08:00

Fear the Akdola

Host #1, Anna (aka Glowgirl)

Host #2, Sarah (Singing Taxidermist)

Baby's first sound check

The Roller TwinsTM Channel Bill Cosby

Akdola warms up (Note: This is the only "normal" shot of Akdola)

If pictures made noise, you would be hearing harmony

Glowgirl takes the spotlight ...

And then passes it to the pouting singing taxidermist.

In this pic he looks unassuming, but Jedi is a PERFORMER