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Franky Marshall reimagines the obscure three-ingredient Armagnac classic.

Poet and songwriter David Berman was a chronicler of darkness and duct tape, robots and radios—with a drink ever lurking at the periphery.

Places

A roving portrait of late-night cravings. Up now, a Rust Belt Greek joint that’s been serving a crowd of regulars since 1974.

The Kold-Draft machine produced the clear, all-purpose cubes on which the cocktail renaissance was built. So why are bars trading them in?

For a few years, the world was awash in the grim gray of activated charcoal.

The prolific culture journalist and novelist on her hatred of jazz, drinking with Gwyneth Paltrow and the people she’ll never profile.

Notable

After a $2.4 million renovation, the Formosa proves what we’ve long known: remakes are hard.

Wine

A case for rescuing your wine rejects with a splash of spicy, peppery brine.

Bitter, fluffy and bright, the Tokyo-born Spumoni is Italian aperitivo filtered through a Japanese lens.

One rainy evening in Brooklyn, a biker chick with a gold tooth changed the course of cocktail history.

Spirits

Makers of one of the world’s most coveted liqueurs released an oddball “orange” bottling in the 1970s. Then it vanished without a trace.

In “Masters of X,” we spotlight bartenders chasing perfection in one drink. Here, Natasha David on the effortless art of the spritz.