A Short, Non-Linear History Of The Commemorative Cocktail

IMAGE: Bartender in Catholic Sokol Club, Ambridge, Pennslyvania; Library of Congress Prints & Photographs division, Washington, DC, via Rebecca Federman. Commemorative cocktail names act as a sort of alcoholic telegraph, a filtered, patchy, and somewhat unreliable...

Coffeehouse Commons

Another sneak peek at the contents of the food issue of the New City Reader — in case you can’t tell, I was really rather inspired by the brief, and almost obnoxiously proud of what Will, Krista, and I managed to put together with the help of our fantastic...

A Cocktail Party In The Street: An Interview With Alan Stillman

IMAGE: Alan Stillman in front of the first T.G.I. Friday’s location at 63rd Street & 1st Ave, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. In 1965, Alan Stillman was a young man living in Manhattan, who, in his own words, was “looking to meet girls.” The bar restaurant he...

The Food Issue

I’m rather excited to announce that the Food section of the New City Reader is hot off the presses! IMAGE: Front page of the Food issue of the New City Reader. The New City Reader is a pop-up “newspaper of public space,” published as a sixteen-page...

Art Meat City

Just a quick note to say that Foodprint Denver, the third event in the Foodprint Project series that Sarah Rich and I co-curate, takes place today! We’ll be at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., conducting a back-to-back series of...