Booze on Vice

Munchies

The Marrow

Going into this episode, I thought that because of Harold's experience with filming, this was going to be a piece of cake, and he would drop everything to tell the camera about how his love of cooking evolved from an early age, and blah blah blah, etc., etc. Instead, for the first hour of filming, he yelled a lot while juicing rhubarbs, and I was completely relieved. Full story

Hamilton Is a Paradise

Hamilton, the land of Canada's finest confederate flag waving BBQ restaurant, is a veritable paradise. We sent our pal Kelly Nguyen out to photograph its numerous wonders. Full story

Munchies

Bar Isabel

Grant van Gameren doesn't necessarily want to hear that Bar Isabel, his new restaurant in Toronto's Little Italy, is Spanish or Mediterranean, even though that's basically what it is. So what we can say without offending anyone is that it serves an amazing whole grilled octopus, Full story

Trip Report: I Went to Lit Sober

The Lit Lounge, if you aren't from New York, is a leering black hole from which few memories escape intact. If the standard, workaday memory is already 50 percent confabulation, the average Lit memory is about eight frames of reality cobbled together with stains, visible regret, Full story

Weediquette

The Amplifier Effect

This weekend, at a spontaneous and vaguely St. Patrick’s Day-inspired reunion at our usual clubhouse in South Philly, my college bro Marv found himself at the crossroads of a widely known truth: if you smoke when you’re drunk, both intoxications are amplified into an ordeal of pe… Full story

Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers

Partying in Panama City Beach

An overview of the eight-week period of spring break in Panama City Beach, Florida, when hundreds of thousands of students take over the usually sleepy beach town. We talk to the mayor, the chief of police, the owner of the largest club in the United States, and an evangelical st… Full story

Here Is the New Red Band Trailer for 'Spring Breakers'

"Red Band" means it probably has a boob or two in it, so don't watch this while you're babysitting or working at a bank. Or, you know, do watch it and get fired. You'll be happier and have more time to do whatever it is you really love to do. Full story

Dogmageddon

History Lesson

Last Wednesday was the 79th anniversary of the ratification of the 21st Amendment, which ended Prohibition in the US. Thanks a lot, Bible, for inspiring the temperance movement that nearly broke this nation through class divisions and gave birth to the modern Mafia. Full story

Fringes

War Gin

Ugandans are the hardest drinking Africans in the motherland, both in terms of per capita consumption and the hooch they choose to chug. Waragi, or "war gin," is what they call the local moonshine, and it makes the harshest Appalachian rotgut taste like freaking Bailey's. Full story

Real-life Stories

Vacations Are Better Than Reality

If you're lucky enough to be jetting off abroad any time soon, fuck you. We'll be stuck here trying to drink ourselves through the winter. For now, though, we thought we'd gather some vacation stories together in an attempt to live out some kind of interesting overseas experience… Full story