Modern Drunkard Magazine

The Andy Griffith Show is widely considered one of the most innocent and endearing television shows of all times. Yet drunkenness and moonshining were major...

Comic JT Habersaat confronts the status quo like a true punk rocker: with venom, intelligence, a skewed perspective and a stiff drink in his...

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...

This installment completes the culling of the original herd of 16 super hoochers into a hard-drinking eight. Last month we witnessed Charles Bukowski’s psychological destruction...

Your hosts: Frank Kelly Rich (Founder and Editor of MDM) and Nick Plumber (Poetry Editor and Travel Writer for MDM). Special guest: Noted libertarian misanthrope...

Tom really needed a drink. Vodka, Scotch, gin, it really didn't matter, even a beer or a cheap Chablis. He hadn't had anything to drink...

Has progress banished us from a prehistoric paradise? What the Lifestyle Gestapo ignore or are too dumb to realize is that intoxication has always been...

It may have already happened to you. A friend or family member invites you over for a drink and suddenly you find yourself surrounded by...

The Devil makes quite a few appearances in your music. Does the Devil drink? If he existed, I’m sure he would. Probably whiskey mixed with...

June 1 Latrobe Brewing Co. founded (1939). The “33” on Rolling Rock bottles is an homage to a copywriter's typo. Rolling Rock. 2 Vandals sack Rome...

Qingdao (pronounced Ching-dao), is located in the northeast Chinese province of Shandong. The city of three million is famous for three things: sailing, meat...

And why so much? Just where the hell do we get off getting loaded all the time? Do we really need a reason? In...

Modern Drunkard: You are a hobo, sir! Soup Bone: That I am. MD: An actual hobo. SB: That’s right. MD: But no ordinary hobo. You are...

The 1920s: Prohibition was in full swing. Liquor (other than “medicinal” whiskey and sacramental wine) was illegal. Federal enforcers prowled the landscape, busting drinkers,...

The bender. The very name brings to mind drama and danger, tragedy and determination. That strange and forbidden part of town you always wanted to...