Dave Robson 
It’s beer festival season, formally known as “summer”. Humanity’s greatest accomplishment? Possibly. Here’s how to make sure you make it through. Ascertain! You need to get through thirty breweries in four hours! Just dive in and start sampling beers, right? Wrong, friend-o. The fact that beer festivals offer so much means you … Read More
Did you know that May 15 is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day? I didn’t. Then a PR rep for Chipits emailed me. She even offered a bag of chocolate chips so I could test out their recipe. Who turns down chocolate chips? Not this guy. I expected a bag or … Read More
To put it politely as I can: Albert Podell is a son of a bitch. I say that admiringly, incredulously, and enviously. Truly, deeply enviously. He’s a been a Playboy editor (back when Playboy was new and breaking all the rules), lawyer, a 60’s ad man, and a few other … Read More
Well, I know you aren’t drinking green lager, and it’s true that the worst Guinness pouring all year happens on Saint Paddy’s day, so what’s a craft beer enthusiast to do? Easy—pick another stout. Naturally, I have suggestions. (To any would-be commenters taking umbrage at our spelling of Paddy: take … Read More
At the beginning of the Walking Man, the eponymous walking man is very nearly author Paul Dore, fifteen-year veteran of film and television, and he is walking alone in the Jordan desert, having lost his travel companions over the dunes and lost himself somewhere in his thoughts. It is aimless, … Read More
