Poncho & Lefty Hook Up With Bobby McGee
Although fans and song pluggers consider “Poncho & Lefty” one of American music’s most famous…
The Hat Trick and The Hat Trick Quiz
Editor’s Note: If you are brave, skip to the end of the post and take…
Eye On The Prize…Althea Gibson
Five years before the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his legendary “I Have a Dream”…
Balls
This post comes via our good friend Ted McLaughlin, one of the best progressive political…
The Steinbrenners
In a town were sports talk is as competitive as pro sports and media firestorms…
The California Dreamboat… Robert Redford
When I was a kid, I fell in love with The Way We Were’s blond…
She’s Different… Rooney Mara
In a world where family matters more and more, millennial actress Rooney Mara, whose family…
Rye Whiskey
Bet you a dram you wouldn’t guess that the cowboy seeking solace on his donkey…
Why Man Creates
If it was good enough for the 1968 premier of CBS’ 60 Minutes, it is…
Drawing with Light: The Pinhole Image
Extraordinary things happen in these [pinhole photography] moments time and time again. In both stillness…
A Horse and The Lady… Fiona Campbell-Walker
Wrigley Gum heiress and horse rescuer Helen Rosburg coined the phrase, “when Wrigley women get depressed…
My Dad
The big gentle man is my father. The photograph was taken in 1948 when I…
Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan, Master of the Craft
Running the timeline of storytelling, it’s fair to say that American fiction writing owes much…
Auchentoshan Valinch
After visiting the Auchentoshan Distillery in April, I walked away with a renewed sense of…
Whiskey River
Whisky and freedom are as American as mother and apple pie and listening to this…
Here’s to the Beautiful Losers… Johnny Depp
Women like danger. At least, this woman does. And Johnny Depp is fraught with the…
From Vampire Girl to Bond Girl… Ashley Greene
Ursula Andress came out of nowhere to star as a Bond girl opposite Sean Connery…
Clynelish Distillers Edition
Clynelish is a Diageo-owned distillery with a confusing history. Prior to the opening of the…
Sugar and Wry
I imagined New Orleans for forty years before I ever set foot there. Intrigued by…
The Kicker
Even the best whiskys may, at times, need a chaser, just as the fine writing…
The French Franc… Charles Aznavour
The name Maurice Chevalier rolls across the tongue like a sip of Vintage Camus. But…
Three On A Match… Yves Montand
When Dambier captured this debonair gentleman and his entourage, the name Yves was more popular…
Body Heat… Kathleen Turner
Before the wisdom of crowds voted her one of the world’s sexiest women, Kathleen Turner…
The First Bond Girl… Ursula Andress
A beautiful fatherless child, Ursula Andress left the boredom of Bern, Switzerland to seek her…
The Frivolous Prince… Jean Cocteau
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the phrase “the rich are different” while hanging out with…
And God Created Woman… Brigitte Bardot
Many nations still use the faces of kings and queens on their coinage and currency.…
A Walk On The Wild Side… Capucine
Jack Nicholson and Capucine, the dazzling beauty in the Dambier photograph here, both liked Charlie Feldman’s…
Ralph Steadman’s Whisky Tax Men
Ian MacDonald I.S.O., late of the Inland Revenue and author of a classic work on…
The Mannings
Of all the quarterbacks who powered the Golden Era that launched the Super Bowl, NFL…
Ralph Steadman’s Whisky-Making Lads
Men and women of gritty and brutal intensity ran amok at the turn of the…