Modern Drunkard Magazine

P.G. Wodehouse— ”Plum” to his friends—is arguably the 20th Century’s finest writer of English prose. He was certainly the funniest. Most famous for his creation...

I The alarm clock went off and I reached out and found that there was still a bit of scotch left in the bottle, so...

The opening flashback in the made-for-HBO film,   Warm Springs,   sublimely captures what possibly was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's primary motive for pursuing a political career. On...

Do you remember your first drink? I know, I know—asking an anonymous, career drunkard if he or she remembers anything is, necessarily, something of a stupid question....

Modern Drunkard Magazine: The vast majority of your art revolves around the culture of alcohol. Why is that? SHAG: I was raised a strict...

Why do you drink so much? Circular: I’m trying to make up for your disgraceful lack of effort. Compassionate: With the economy the way it is,...

My guest arrived early. A mere nine days after I'd placed my order with an online absinthe supplier, my package—deftly slipping through the hands of...

Giles Humbert III strikes up a conversation with some of history’s greatest drunks through renowned spirit channeler Maria St. Longue.   Modern Drunkard Magazine: I...

I've never really been “into” Scotch. Scotch tends to make people make snooty noises, makes them swirl their drink and discuss the “bouquet of flavors,”...

The Striding Man All Dressed Up and Somewhere to Go Johnnie Walker Scotch Whisky Johnnie Walker's first foray into print advertising left something to be desired: the...

“What do you mean you’ve never been to McSorley’s? Geez, Tom. I thought you said you were from New York.” It was a phrase I...

In the second installment of MDM’s Great Drinking Cities tour, correspondent Nick Plumber throws down in the booziest bars and bowling alleys of Motown.  Sunday Denver...

Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder and Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor and Travel Writer for MDM). Special guest: Shorts McGraw. Featuring: Why...

A Slanderous Birth The first incarnation of what was to become Modern Drunkard Magazine was a one-page death threat written by saloon keeper Hiram...

I’m in a pub in Malta, full of retired British men passing the evening the proper way. I sit on a tall bar stool...

The title of this article was first slurred into a microphone by Merle Haggard in 1967—but when I wandered into Denver’s Cricket on the...

With the exception of a few goofy teetotalers, in the average Old West town you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a serious...

Former Police Officer Tim Stone doesn’t look like the kind of cop you want to get pulled over by when you’ve been drinking deep...

Sixteen years ago I was sitting with a friend on a suburban sidewalk curb on a sunny afternoon in Northern California, shooting the shit...