Category Archive for bourbon
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My Mother the Car and "The Porter Flip"
This week back in 1965, NBC aired a show which for decades was considered the worst in TV history. Learn about "My Mother the Car" - and how it spawned more careers than it did ratings points -- then tune into this custom Motor City cocktail. Read more...
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The Mammoth Cheese and "The Berkshire Localmotive,"
This week back in 1801, the Baptists of Cheshire, Mass. celebrated Thomas Jefferson's Presidency by making him a strange gift of congratulations - a 1,200 pound cheese. Hear about the grand fromage, then wash it down with this cheese-complementary custom cocktail. Read more...
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The Smoke-Filled Room and "The Dark Horse"
This week back in 1920, a group of politicians gathered in a hotel suite... and a political cliche was born. Learn about the original "smoke-filled room," then take a deep drag of this murky cocktail. Read more...
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Astor Place Riots and the "Cobbler Rouge"
This week back in 1849, New Yorkers rioted...over Shakespearean acting. Learn about Edwin Forrest, William Charles Macready and the brawl they spawned... and then smash down a custom, era-appropriate cocktail from a Broadway bar. Read more...
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If You Push the Button...
This week in 1961, at the height of the cold War, the U.S. created "Operation: Looking Glass" to oversee its nuclear response from above... should the worst happen on the ground. Read more...
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Chocolate Thunder
He came from the planet Lovetron, sent to Earth to astound us with thunderous basketball dunks that gave backboards nightmares. His name was Darryl Dawkins, and 32 years ago this week the Philadelphia 76er made a historic dunk against the Kansas City Kings. Long before "boom goes the dynamite," a man nicknamed Chocolate Thunder made the loudest noise. Read more...
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The Berkshire Localmotive
This week back in 1801, the Baptists of Cheshire, Mass. celebrated Thomas Jefferson's Presidency by making him a strange gift of congratulations - a 1,200 pound cheese. Read more...
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The Dusty Dodge
On Independence Day weekend back in 1884, debauched frontier town Dodge City, KS staged the first ever American Bullfight, in an effort to keep its reputation sullied. Learn about the controversial spectacle, then get outta Dodge and into this custom cocktail. Read more...
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The Old-Fashioned Download
100 episodes ago back in 2008, two enterprising and underutilized radio minds launched a groundbreaking new show. Their subject: dinner parties. Their mission: to win them. Read more...
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Chairman Wow
This week back in 1971, a chance encounter between two ping pong players -- one American, one Chinese -- led to a thaw in the cold war, and paved the way for President Nixon's biggest political coup. Read more...
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The 4th and Clyde
This week back in 1863, Charles Sherwood Stratton -- better known as Tom Thumb -- was married in what might've been the wedding of the century. Read more...
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The Jackass Neck
This week in 1870, staunch Republican Thomas Nast lashed out at certain Democrat-owned newspapers... portraying them as a crazed jackass. Later, he drew his own party as a frightened elephant on the edge of a precipice. Read more...
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The Last Call to Porter
This week back in 1814, enormous vats of ale at London's Meux Brewery burst, letting loose a tsunami of beer. Sound awesome? Not for the people it killed. Read more...
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Three Strikes
On June 3rd, 1888, Ernest Thayer's baseball rhyme "Casey At the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner. Popularized by vaudeville actor DeWolf Hopper, soon everyone in America was in love with the poem... except the author. Read more...
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Detonator
This month back in 1958, Ripple Rock, an underwater mountain in Canada that caused hundreds of shipwrecks and deaths, is blown up in the largest non-nuke peacetime explosion ever. Read more...
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The Civil War
This week in 1862, Union Major-General Ulysses S. Grant issued his infamous General Order Number 11 -- ordering every Jew in three Southern states to evacuate, on suspicion of war profiteering. Read more...
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The Edison
On November 21st, 1877, Thomas Edison announced he'd invented the first working recording device -- the phonograph. Read more...
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Old-Fashioned
Related to Dillinger because: - Manhattan cocktails were popular in Dillinger's day... and Old-Fashioneds are simply Manhattans with sugar and bitters added. Read more...
