Can we blame the holidays on the fact that we’ve written about booze four times in the last few months? Yeah, ok, it’s the holidays…plus we LOVE drinking, and we have much more sinister phone numbers on speed-dial than ones for AA, and we’re not apologising dammit! So add this to the booze posts, and […]

The next day, I headed for the new art mecca of Basel. This was a tangential mission, to check up on the suspected death of art itself. I was fueling up on caffeine in the courtyard of the local punk café, Zum Roten Engel, when I carelessly tossed a crumb to a hungry sparrow—and was […]

The area of France south of Lyon has been the place of romantic dreams for decades. Winding down the rolling hills that lead to the sea on the way to Marseilles, you imagine yourself in a scene out of Jules et Jim, soft wind blowing the tall trees cinematically. If you’re lucky you’re not about […]

Despite all efforts to the contrary, come late November no one can escape the lure of turkey-day. We may spend the other 364 days of the year scarfing duck confit, sauerbraten, moules frites and pad thai, but by the time the balloons float down 5th Ave it’s the wafting fumes of the dumbest fowl (not […]

Following up on our prior post that reviewed the BEST of the new vodka brands, we now turn out attention to the also rans. We set about sorting through some of the more popular brands, trying to maintain enough of a semblance of sobriety to make cognizant critiques. It wasn’t easy.
SKYY: Still the best party […]