drinking

Admitting to drinking on the job during a live television interview would typically be considered a bad career move. Not for Sue Simmons, though. The WNBC-TV New York anchor recently appeared on a chirpy lifestyle show, LX New York, where she admitted that she used to have a drink or two before...

I trusted Swiss aluminum-bottle manufacturer SIGG, even though in general I'm not inclined to trust any company in our modern society's atmosphere of lax regulation of chemicals. Case in point: The FDA has largely refused to accept the science behind whether bisphenol-A was really such a bad...

Just the other day, I found myself stopped short in the beer aisle at the local Trader Joe's, mouth agape and thrown into an existential crisis over the cost of beer: up to $8 for a single bottle of Belgian brew and six pack's running into the double digits. Reuters has come up with an Australian...

For those of you who hate the taste of alcohol but love the buzz, there is hope. In the words of Pink Floyd, "Breath, breath in the air," of the London (U.K) pub, 2 Ganton Street. The air, you see, is part oxygen, part nitrogen, and part gin-and-tonic.The owners outfit patrons in plastic jumpsuits...

At a time when people would rather stay home than spend money, bars and restaurants have to get creative to draw the crowds. One bar near Columbia University, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, has hit upon a novel inducement to draw revelers from trendier parts of town: It will pay for your...

Remember how seriously you took the test to get your driver's license? What if the same hoops and hurdles to putting 16-year-olds behind the wheel was applied to letting 18-year-olds drink alcohol? This is the solution to the abysmal failure of the 21-and-over drinking law discussed on CBS's 60...

According to our mates at Royal Adelaide Hospital, in South Australia, the choice of diet soda as a cocktail mixer will give you more fast acting bang for your boozing dollar than the old standard mixers.CNN reports that Aussie researchers found that when using diet soda as a mixer, intoxicating...

Even though alcohol is often considered recession proof, the current economic situation has led to a change in how many people including myself consume it. The change is actually a regression to an earlier stage of life; one where money was tighter and friends pooled their resources to achieve a...

Americans are cutting back on purchases of liquor in bars and restaurants, according to top executives at Pernod Ricard SA. They are also purchasing cheaper brands when buying alcohol at stores, although sales at grocery stores and retail outlets continue to grow. Makes sense to me. Why drop the...

When I was in academia, my department's Christmas parties were an annual festival of drinking, dancing and fun. There was the feminist theorist whose flailing elbows and knees made her a force to be reckoned with on the dance floor, the conservative lit professor who would hit the grad students up...