Modern Drunkard Magazine

In a genre crowded with self-styled mavericks and eccentrics, Larry Wessel manages to stand head and shoulders above other documentary filmmakers.   Figuratively and literally. An...

Of the many things Russians are famous for, first and foremost is their monumental appetite for booze. They approach the act of drinking with breathtaking...

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A butcher, a baker, and a candlestick maker Walk into a bar. A bloody mary, a buttery nipple, and a hot damn Coming right up Two clocks get...

The following account may startle you. And it may save you from a horrifying fate. In the 1950s a sinister new menace swept America. Spawned...

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...

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...

Hollywood has always sent mixed messages when it comes to booze. At times it wholeheartedly celebrates drinking (The Thin Man, Animal House, Barfly), other times...

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,”...

I was drunk, naked, and teeing off on the 16th hole of a public golf course. Or maybe it was the 15th. Fuck if...

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

As much as we might sling around the phrase “Judeo-Christian,” most of us are pagans at heart. Scratch modernity, find paganism lurking underneath. Take toasts,...

 Ah, yes, the City of Angels. The city of high hopes and crushed dreams. The glitzy crucible where stars are forged, where Bukowski battled and...

Societies possessing a robust and realistic attitude toward intoxication have produced mightier warriors than those which censure consumption. This is true pretty much from the...

Thursday Denver International Airport 2 Budweisers Airport bars should be exciting. You want to be sitting next to some chap in a pith helmet off to safari...