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Places

The Bar Where Nobody Knows Your Name

What does the bar by which we judge all other bars look like today? In “Deep Dive,” we send writers back to their college haunts to find out what treasures…

  • story: Courtney Balestier
  • illustration: Laura Breiling
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Beer

Confessions of a Beer Ticker

The psychology behind amassing alcohol often harkens back to childhood collection obsessions—from baseball cards to Bourbon County Stout, from pogs to Pappy. Aaron Goldfarb on his own collecting evolution and…

  • story: Aaron Goldfarb
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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Cocktails

Cocktails & Dreams

Though critically panned, Tom Cruise's '80s love letter to flair bartending, Cocktail, undoubtedly launched countless careers in the drinks world. Well, at least one. Brad Thomas Parsons on how Cocktails…

  • story: Brad Thomas Parsons
  • illustration: Natalie K Nelson
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Cocktails

Bar Snacks Saved My Life

For the legions of kids who move to the big city too young, too poor, too dumb to make it on their own, free bar snacks are a lifeline. In…

  • story: Regan Hofmann
  • illustration: Liz Noftle
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Cocktails

The Speakeasy Comes to Suburbia

What happens when the vestiges of the urban avant-garde start to sprawl? Jordana Rothman on meeting the speakeasy in suburbia, 15 years later.

  • story: Jordana Rothman
  • illustration: Jen Kruch
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Cocktails

What Does It Mean to Drink Like a Woman?

Decades of etiquette and marketing about spirits, cocktails and bartending have established stereotypes about how women like to and should drink. Shanna Farrell explores the history of women behind—and in…

  • story: Shanna Farrell
  • illustration: James Carpenter
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Cocktails

The Art of Drinking Alone

For most, the thought of drinking alone at bars is fraught with anxiety. But for Brad Thomas Parsons, it's taught him the virtue of familiarity.

  • story: Brad Thomas Parsons
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
Cocktails

Diary of a 24-Hour Dive Bar

What does a 24-hour bar look like at 7 a.m.? Sarah Baird pulls up a round-the-clock barstool at NOLA's Brothers III to experience the full lifecycle of nightlife's greatest cultural…

  • story: Sarah Baird
  • photo: Sarah Baird
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Wine

Confessions of a Checklist Drinker

Charles Antin spent the better part of his 20s in the fine and rare wine department at Christie’s. But after nearly a decade mainlining some of the greatest wines of…

  • story: Charles Antin
  • photo: Punch
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Cocktails

Gin & Ingenuity: Drinking Through the Joy of Cooking

The current keepers of what has become one of America's most iconic cookbooks trace the 82-year evolution of Joy's cocktail section, the celebrity-studded cocktail parties that informed it and the…

  • story: Megan Scott + John Becker
  • photo: Joy of Cooking
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Not Your Grandfather’s Blended Scotch

Long considered an afterthought among serious drinkers, the blended Scotch category is slowly becoming a hotbed for innovation.

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