1. The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)2. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis, 1995)3. The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)4. Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004)5. Animal House (John Landis, 1978)6. Old School (Todd Phillips, 2003)7. When a Man Loves a Woman (Luis Mandoki, 1994)8. Beerfest (Jay Chandrasekhar, 2006)9. All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)10. Strange [...]

Everyone knows that Liz and Laura are fans of the drink, but how did their unholy fascination with alcohol begin?Let us take a look into the not so distant past…The first time Liz got faced was a magical day. She was on an overnight train traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, a fabulous leg of [...]

Drunk driving is an obvious problem in this country, but so far no perfect solution has presented itself. Of course you can always call a cab, but a lot of people refrain from doing so because they want to get back to their regular life as soon as possible after a night of drinking, [...]

Ah, rotating restaurants. For a classy time, 70’s-style, there’s no smoother way to eat than in a restaurant built like a merry-go-round. Far from the nauseating experience you might expect after seeing Johnny Depp try in vain to disembark from the crazily rotating bar at Circus Circus in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, actual [...]

For Liz and I, coming from a place like Tucson where there were really only three or four bars that everyone went to, New York seemed like a whiskey-soaked dream when we first arrived on the scene.  Granted, I had been at NYU for years by the time Liz showed up, but clearly I was under [...]

When Liz and I first found out that the feature film Beerfest not only existed, but was coming soon to a theater near us, needless to say, we made immediate plans to see it.  But if there’s one thing we love more than drinking, it’s laziness, and our plans to see the film on opening [...]

I thought I was going to die yesterday. I mean I really, seriously didn’t think I was going to make it. I told Laura she could have all of my stuff.The night before, we had attended what at first seemed like it was going to be an unfortunate party. It was located in some warehouse [...]

Nancy Whiskey, perched stubbornly at the border of Chinatown, wouldn’t be the same without Barry, the weathered Irish gentleman who looks oddly like Christopher Lloyd. He’ll not only try to reduce your tab accumulated over hours of tippling to a fraction of its original size, but if you tell him you’re taking the subway he’ll [...]