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February: 365 Reasons to Get Drunk

February 1 Boris Yeltsin’s Birthday (1931). Doing multiple shots of vodka on stage was one of his populist campaign tricks. Chilled double Stolis. 2 Groundhog Day....
Drink Your Way to Health!

Drink Your Way to Fitness!

Do your friends call you a fat drunken slob? Do you wake up in the afternoon and drink out of shame? Well stop drinking...
Beware the Scarlet Assassin

Beware the Scarlet Assassin!

It was a desperate desire for success that lured me into the seductive arms of the Scarlet Assassin, but who would have guessed that...

Booze Vs. Baghdad

The current war is being touted as a war of good vs. evil, by us and Al-Qaeda. And it is. But to define it...

Best Bar

During my long tenure as a callow youth, few things excited me more than charging from bar to bar in hot pursuit of that...

10 Best Things About Booze

1. It shines a light in the darkness. “When I need a light inside me, I walk into a pub and drink 15 pints of...

Fighting MADD

MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) has had one hell of a run. Their success story is the envy of the activist community: their lobbying for...
44-secrets-of-mixology

44 Secrets of Mixology

While the whole mixology thing may seem like just another fresh-faced fad being foisted on the drinking public, the foisting has actually been going...

Club 33: Beyond the Green Door

Disneyland is billed as The Happiest Place on Earth; and it’s happier still when you’ve had a bottle or two of fine wine. Growing up...

The Art Of The Shot

"Let’s do a shot." Are there four words in the drunkard’s vocabulary more heartening than those? Four simple words, yet so packed with drama and...
Drink Your Way to Health!

Drink Your Way to Health!

Work Out Secrets Revealed So far in this column I’ve taught you some excellent methods, utilizing alcohol, to better yourself physically. Yet I sense that...

The Naked and the Dead Drunk

“There are no gentlemen in Denver,” my mentor Giles Humbert III said, “thus there are no gentlemen’s clubs.” “Sure there are,” I said. “The phone book...

Lush Lit: The Craft of the Cocktail

The Craft of the Cocktail Dale Degroff 240 pages Clarkson Potter Publishers The sport of downing as much alcohol in as short a time as possible...

Cocktail Power

Dr. Cocktail knows what you’re drinking. And he wishes you would pause for a moment and reconsider that vodka/ Kool-Aid combo you’re throwing together, and...

The Subtle Art of Beer Snobbery

While wine snobs have blighted the earth for thousands of years (you can bet there was at least one guy curling his lip at...
Natty Light

Strange Brews: Natty Light

“Natty” (or “Unnatural Light,” as it’s also called) has long been the unofficial beer of students and the cash-strapped everywhere. As the market analysts say,...

The Home Bar Handbook

Everyone should have a bar in their home, and if you don't believe me, just ask someone who has one. Once he's done lording...
Bartender's Burden

Bartender’s Burden

You’re an idiot. Maybe you know it, maybe you don’t. Maybe you’ve heard it from dozens of people, but you were kinda drunk at the...

Lets Go Get Drunk: Eastern Europe

Foreign travel and booze were made for each other. Why? Because alcohol is perhaps the single most effective means of bringing together people of different...

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