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Know Your Booze: Evan Williams Bourbon
As you may have noticed, bourbon is a big deal again.
It started less than a decade ago. Obscure brands with weird names like Pappy...
Blood And Wine, Part One: The Lost Boys
The Fifth Legion is on the march.
They move at a fast trot beneath a beggar's moon, gladius swords in hand, their armor rattling in...
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...
Sluice Your Gob
ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS. One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him.
BARREL FEVER. An overpowering thirst...
Postcards from Skid Row #63
Kessler’s Whiskey
Kessler’s whiskey on sale!
It’s the same price as the no-name whiskey
that occupies the space next to it on the bottom shelf.
As soon as...
Drunken Treasure
There is enough 150-year-old whiskey resting underground where the old river queen sank to get 130,000 people pie-eyed. It's worth five million dollars, and...
Rise Of the Dives
Night falls on San Francisco's bustling North Beach district as tourists, flesh peddlers and hipsters troll the sidewalks beneath an ashen sky.
I maneuver past...
The House of Good Cheer
The perennial comic strip “Andy Capp” has recently been banished from the Washington Post as an evil influence, and small wonder.
In Andy’s world there...
26 Questions with Doug Stanhope
1 What are you drinking these days?
Let’s just go with this day. Four mimosas and now have switched to whiskey with a tiny splash...
8 Hours in a Barroom
5:45 pm You’ll just stop in the bar for a quick one after work.
6:10 pm Just one more beer to relieve the stress. I...
Bar Vamp Secrets Revealed!
You've see her:
Sitting alone at the end of the bar, forlorn, dangerous, vulnerable and predatory. Her mixed signals fan out in judgment-jamming waves, perplexing...
Xmas Shopping for Winos
The holiday season places a heavy burden on our scarce organizational resources.
The simple task of evaluating holiday invitations and culling those that do not...
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 Heroes Of Hooch
Few subjects have inspired artists like intoxication.
Some works celebrate sozzlers, propping us on a dais for a little while, displayed at our hiccupy...
Drunkard’s Dozen
The Eye Opener
Rehumanize Yourself
Good morning! How's your head? What's that? You'd like it surgically removed and replaced with a beach ball?
No need to go...
Rum and Marriage
Walking up the dirt road, Mark realized that he would never walk up this road in the same way.
He would never drink a...