Today's Reason to Drink
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News from the Front
Humanity stands at a crossroads.
I’m not talking about the madness in the Middle East—we’ve been doing donuts at that particular intersection for millennia—I’m talking...
The Ghost in the Machine
MDM: Before we start, let’s have a Papa Doble.
EH: Good idea.
You and master bartender Constantino Ribalaigua Vert conspired this cocktail, didn’t you? At La...
Tipping Points
A Blast from the Past
Wealthy Americans adopted the practice of tipping as they traveled about Europe in the mid-19th Century. At the time, trans-Atlantic...
Community and Freedom
Social media is a benjo ditch, an open sewer where gondoliers named Zuckerberg, Musk and Gates spend the day steering fancy Venetian canoes.
Every day,...
Oliver Reed: Profile in Drinking Courage
In the pantheon of history’s heroically great drinkers, there is a special place reserved for the British actor Oliver Reed.
Reed’s alcohol consumption was truly...
Postcards from Skid Row #64
Drinking in a Church Yard
The idea is anonymity
Or peace,
As the dead only punch
Their hands through the sod
In the imagination
Or the cheap seats I run...
In Praise of the Spritzer
As a woman, there’s not a cocktail on this Earth that I would feel any kind of shame for ordering.
Blowjob shot? Hit me, I’m...
Drunkard of the Issue #64: Lydia Lunch
Lydia Lunch knocks a backhand of defiance into the face of the status quo like a shot of tequila spat into a gaping wound....
The United Altered States
“The United States of America” has always been a misnomer. “States of America,” yes. “United?” Well…
In the sense that we’re all stuck together, that...
Wino Wisdom: Issue 64
“It’s not day drinking if you’re still up from last night. It’s second-wave night drinking.”
Unknown gent, who probably spent too much time in school,...
The Strange Case of PBR
Pabst Blue Ribbon is a beer of simple pleasures.
It didn’t actually win a blue ribbon, but no one buys Pabst for its award-winning pedigree....
The Future of Boozing
Two decades ago, this magazine squinted into the hazy horizon and coughed up a slew of wild predictions about the future of drinking.
So, how’d...
Booze of the World: All in with Ten High Bourbon
“A True Bourbon.”
That was once the emphatic claim of Ten High, back when it was a cheap but honorable straight bourbon whiskey. Today it...
Plastered Propaganda Poster 64: Smash the Nanny State
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You Know You’re a Drunkard When… #64
Cenosillicaphobia is fear of an empty glass, and you’re getting damned angry at the snickering bartenders who find it amusing when you have a...
A Brave New Dawn
It is generally assumed that the drunk is an animal of the night.
That we are to be found prowling the dark jungle of dives...