Memorial Day: Thanks, Cocktails, Commencement
A thankful Memorial Day....
Defense Crazy, Cocktail Onions, Joy Division
Can a corporation plead insanity? Plus: homemade cocktail onions....
Internal Investigations: Cocktails, Coronavirus, Capability Brown
Internal investigations and Capability Brown....
Impeachment Cocktails, Mob Movies, Crime Music
Mob movie congressional clip....
2018 Crime Fiction, Booze and Music
A Christmas roundup of crime fiction, booze and music. BOOKS. A little late for Christmas, but why give them away? Read them yourself. From The...
Thanksgiving Cocktails, Truman Capote, Puritan Poetry
A few notes for your Thanksgiving: a holiday examination, Mumm champagne, an old-fashioned cocktail from Garden & Gun, the French 75 (its history and variants),...
Lauren Bacall and The Big Sleep: Film Noir Cool, White Collar Crime, Cocktail Cold
To the extent that it reflected crime, Lauren Bacall’s work was noir, not white-collar; black, not white; guns, not accounting fraud. Yet, there was an...
Needful of a Negroni Cocktail?
I have been drinking Negroni cocktails recently. The Negroni presents three virtues: it contains gin, it is bitter and it is simple to make (equal...
The Drinking Reader, Our Cocktails Magazine, Tom Jones and Other Weekend Matters
White Collar Wire supports cocktails. As part of that effort, I have a magazine on Flipboard called (helpfully) “Cocktails.” Follow here, read on and use good...
Weekend: cocktails, World War I, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and Marvin Gaye
For this weekend: cocktails, World War I, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and Marvin Gaye. From Saveur, warm-weather whiskey cocktails. Some of the drinks sound good. All of...