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Going Solo: Hit a bar by yourself and see how much fun drinking alone can be

by Sara Faith Alterman | November 19, 2007
USUALLY IT'S easy to round up an entourage for a night on the town. But there are occasions when plans fall through and you're left on your own, hung out to dry on a weeknight or, worse, a weekend. You could throw on some sweats and resign yourself...

Twist: Liquid learning

by Heather Bouzan | November 19, 2007
WHILE STANDING at the bar perusing the cocktail list, don't think for a minute that what you order doesn't speak volumes about who you are. James Beard Award-winning writer Eric Felten, who pens a weekly cocktail column in the Wall Street Journal...

Back to the Future: What's past is prologue

by Thor Iverson | November 05, 2007
AS MUCH AS I'd like to participate in this whole 10th-anniversary shindig, I've only been here a few months. What could I possibly write that would be relevant? "Oh, I love the way the offices have been updated since this summer, from dingy...

Size Matters: Watch out for great whites

by Thor Iverson | October 17, 2007
IT'S DRILLED into our wine-drinking subconscious: first white, then red. But why? While it's tempting to blame the usual "bigger = better" delusion, everyone else does it this way as well. And there's a sensible reason. Bigger wines...

Pretty in Drink: Do judge a wine by its cover

by Thor Iverson | October 03, 2007
MOST WINES are one-night stands. A majority of bottles, at least in this country, are purchased the very day they're to be consumed. And so, a wine that doesn't want to be alone in the corner at last call needs to get a bit tarted up to attract...

Who You Gonna Call: Surviving the restaurant wine experience

by Thor Iverson | September 19, 2007
MY FRIEND was excited. "Here's the idea: someone at a restaurant calls you up and says, ‘I'm at Chez Louis, I'm having the veal, and I want a $50 white.' You give them advice, and they pay you." "Where do I get the wine...

Gamay bear

by Thor Iverson | September 07, 2007
THIS ARTICLE isn't supposed to exist until November. It's part of the wine-writer calendar, well-known to anyone who plies the trade: romantic wines in February, domestics for the Fourth of July, wines for grilling sometime over the summer, turkey...

Cento box: 100 bottles of wine on the wall

by Thor Iverson | August 10, 2007
THIS IS A list of interesting wines. No more, no less. By no means is this a “best of,” which can easily be found from all the usual wine-critic suspects. Some wines are cheap quaffers, others are expensive and meant to age, and a few you’ve seen before...

Gang green: You don’t have to embrace tofu to fall in love with environmentally friendly alcohol

by Sara Faith Alterman | August 10, 2007
THESE DAYS, everyone from Leonardo DiCaprio to Al Gore is trying to get you to go green. But though you can reduce, reuse, and recycle your little heart out, let’s be honest: there are few chores less exciting than sorting your glass from your plastic...