Modern Drunkard Magazine

Leering men, sweaty and bloated, shoved bills at her. I hated them. They didn't deserve to look at her, to throw money at her. She...

This year Friday the 13th passed effortlessly into Valentine's Day in a seedy pub on the Lower East Side. A quiet smoke-easy that puts a...

Hunter Stockton Thompson was a singular sort of creature—this, dear reader, you already knew. Uncompromising in both his work and way of life, he left...

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...

 

In the fall of 2001 outraged Cleveland Browns fans hurled beer bottles at NFL referees, and everyone was outraged. Tales came to light of Babe...

We’ve all been there. You’re broke, it’s three in the morning, and you’re not quite ready to go nighty-night. You make a quick but intense...

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...

Wild-eyed and soaked, a naked young man breaks the surface of the swimming pool full of party debris—bottles, pool side chairs and an…er, Cadillac—gasps...

A shot without a toast is like sex without foreplay. And by a toast I don't mean “Cheers” or “Here's to you” — offering those...

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

 

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...

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The major difference between a drunk and an alcoholic, as the saying goes, is we drunks don’t go to meetings. Oh, we may go...

Lawyers and drinking have held hands since the early history of the nation and that tradition continues with my friend and colleague, a lawyer...