Clashing political views. Less-than-ideal sleeping situations. Your brother-in-law's newest "investment opportunity" pitch. Gift cards when you could really just use some cash. The holidays will push both your fridge capacity and your patience to the brink, and, while we can't get your grandpa to stop talking about how much you've "filled out," we can suggest a coping strategy with a pretty high success r... Read More

Literally, every day of the year is now some sort of Instagram-friendly, short-enough-for-a-hashtag holiday of ambiguous origin. And so, on this December the 8th, we reverently gather to celebrate the joyous day of the brownie. Yes, most people will simply google "brownie recipe" and end up on the blog of some lady named Judy. She owns a DSLR, and she's never met a handwritten font she didn't like. Those peo... Read More

We've defended free speech and creative expression in the United States for more than 25 years. Now, we're taking a stand in the UK. Here's what you need to know: The Portman Group is a third-party watchdog group that evaluates alcohol-related marketing in the UK, and it was founded by big beer and spirits behemoths (think Heineken, Guinness, Bacardi, Molson, Carlsberg and InBev). In May 2018, the Portman Gr... Read More

Punch-drunk, Summer weaves its freckled elbows through the ropes at its back. The once-undisputed lion god of the troposphere squints as the sandy, DEET-ridden fog seeps through its corneas. It begins to rain. A chilly challenger stomps forward, oozing cinnamon and stamina, and a sepia shadow envelops what remains of the fallen titan. “Pathetic,” sneers Autumn as it tries to reconcile Summer’s glorious legend with TH... Read More

Beer and coffee. These are two beverages that exist on unique sorts of spectra: At one end, you’ll find a wasteland of mass-produced, quantity-over-quality, perfunctory versions of these ubiquitous liquids. Some lurk on motel nightstands, shrouded in disks of filter paper. Others frequent the bottoms of backpacks for hours before being smuggled into campus dorm rooms and consumed at room temperature. Such is the bleak destiny of fluid... Read More