Modern Drunkard Magazine

What you drink can say a lot about you—for better or worse. It seems that, with astonishing frequency, murderers tend to be connected with...

In myth and song, the sinking of the Titanic lingers as a metaphor for the end of the Edwardian age and for the dangers...

Try to imagine a bar frequented only by star-crossed lovers. A watering hole inhabited by couples doomed never to share each other's lives —...

The difference between a proper evening of bar hopping and a night of being rooted in a single bar is the same difference between...

September 1 Labor Day. “A person can work up a mean mean thirst after a hard day of nothin’ much.” —Replacements. Working Man’s Zinfandel 2 oz tequila 2...

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...

Click for Part One or Part Two I swung the heavy base of the Johnnie Walker lamp at the head of the onrushing zombie just as...

When you pass out beneath the pool table of Lou’s Last Chance Lounge, you don’t need to set an alarm clock. Roger, our most regular...

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...

Two weeks ago I woke up drunk under a speckled sow — for the last time. As the hotel proprietor threw me out the...

It’s the “City of Brotherly Love” and also the city whose football fans actually booed Santa Claus. One   of its nicknames is “Sleepy...

The Perfect Buzz: The Essential Guide to Boozing, Bars, and Bad Behavior David Bramwell 144 pages HarperResource A wise old man once told me, “If you are...

The War on Booze is nothing new. We're all familiar with the reign of terror called Prohibition. Going further back, temperance leagues have scolded and...

In the turbulent spring of 1970, Richard Nixon had recently sent 50,000 troops into Cambodia, the U.S. Congress had just dumped the nomination of...

Make no mistake— Captain Kirk and his crew were cowboys and they treated the universe like the Wild West. There was always a lot of...

Our lives are rooted in context. Our beguilingly adaptive brains make us situational beings. A joke is funny today that wouldn’t be tomorrow or yesterday....

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...

4,000,000 BC Proto-simians develop large brains (suitable for bar tab calculations), stereoscopic vision (a prerequisite for double-vision), and opposable thumbs (to hold a drinking...

Who's the greatest boozer of all time? We’re close to finding out. The first round of the semifinals was settled last month, with a young...