Winter darkness: truncated days, light that’s weak and grey, grimy slush soaking through your boots. This time of year, you don’t drink citrusy spritzers or fruity gin bombs; you drink things that are thick with cream and sugar and brown liquors. Here are seven timeless holiday cocktails with my own recipes (or duly screened links to other people's recipes) and tips on maintaining your yuletide tipsiness the whole season through.
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This holiday season, give more than another useless bauble: give skills. Read on for five courses — from bonsai growing at Brooklyn Botanic Garden to beer tasting at Jimmy's no. 43 — that teach curious things to curious people.
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Clothing company UNIONMADE, which sells goods that are not union-made, has been in the news recently for being a bunch of lying shitheels. Apparently some people don’t like their misleading name, but their PR department doesn’t know what the big deal is.
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In Brooklyn, where there are classes in artisan pencil-sharpening, it’s not surprising that you can take a bitters tasting class. Inspired by a recent afternoon at Brooklyn Brainery and my own heady research, I offer this bitters primer. Because the wise drinker shares.
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Disusage presents the contradictions and foibles of usage manuals, style guides, and the quirky folks who love them. This week: “fiscal cliff” notwithstanding, we can still chuckle at the nonsense heritage of political labels.
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Disusage presents the contradictions and foibles of usage manuals, style guides, and the quirky folks who love them. This week: Black Friday is not named for retail’s big profits.
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Disusage presents the contradictions and foibles of usage manuals, style guides, and the quirky folks who love them. This week: elegance — variously a virtue and a vice.
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Unlike the last collection of materials gleaned from Roberto Bolaño’s unpublished writings, Woes of the True Policeman does not come with an introduction by the late writer's literary executor (and Savage Detectives character) Ignacio Echevarría. Why?
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