This weekend sees an unfortunate coincidence: St. Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday. For most Americans, that doesn't matter. For those who live in places with alcohol restrictions under so-called "blue laws," that means you may need to plan ahead. And we're here to help.
The United Nations is a pretty fun place. The headquarters hosts all kinds of cultural events. Everyone's open-minded about the dress code. Delegates can even show up hammered to budget negotiations. Or at least they used to be able to.
Discovered: A new reason for declining childhood obesity rates; this massive goldfish shouldn't have been swimming in Lake Tahoe; flies give alcohol to their babies; bees sense electric flowers.
Discovered: Curiosity will have to dig deeper to find signs of Martian life; how our unstable universe could be replaced; new scorpion found near Tucson; our ape ancestors got drunk, too.
According to the terms of their settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, the makers of Four Loko will have to label cans of their potent product with more alcohol information and make the lids resealable.
Discovered: What we were before we were monkeys; lower legal drinking ages encourage more binge drinking; forensics on King Richard III's remains prove Shakespeare right; diet sodas raise diabetes risk more than sugary drinks.
Discovered: Couples that match each other's drinking get divorced less; why diet soda is a better mixer; first human stem cells made with 3D printer; and a 62-year-old Albatross has a baby.
Don't laugh: Lagers, ales, and pilsners were long considered "food" by the Russian government, but thanks to a new rule going into effect in 2013 (any minute now over there), it's going to be a lot tougher to find a brewski in the motherland.
Poor vermouth. It's long been "confined to dusty bottles in the depths of the liquor cabinet," ignored for its own merit, and only considered delicious when paired with others (like vodka, or gin). But times have changed.
Discovered: Alcoholic maggots learn just as well as sober ones; a new theory in athletic head injuries; city spiders getting fatter; Curiosity found something on its first trip across Mars.
Discriminating boozehounds are [figuratively] battling it out at the great cornucopia of booze (i.e., liquor stores) for the last remaining bottles of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon in New York City.
A Park Slope dive bar is threatening to secede from the neighborhood that, it feels, fails to appreciate its dive-y charm. What would we do, though, if all of the dive bars left us? The world would be bleak, indeed.
Booze thrillseekers bored with the normal fare have another option, thanks be to a man named Captain Jack and whomever pickles toes. Via The Wall Street Journal, in the Yukon Territory there is a very special drink served at the Downtown Hotel's Sourdough Saloon, in Dawson City.
Discovered: Nice baboons outlive mean ones; teens still drinking, but more responsibly; undecided voters 20 percent less likely to vote for Obama due to race; toddlers and the scientific method.
Friday night at 7 p.m. is such a cruel time for the Czech Republic to implement its ban on all liquor stronger than 40 proof (so no vodka or Becherovka), but the alternative is worse: officials still haven't stopped methanol-poisoned booze from hitting the market.
Discovered: looking at violent images is unhealthy; a smart carpet; the gene that could be responsible for Internet addiction; infrared camera finds public drunks.
Recently, we learned that just about the worst thing a person could ever do in a bar is to—I don't even want to say it—order that foul concoction, the mojito. Whatever to drink instead?
It's okay to mix a little pleasure with business at Bloomberg Businessweek. After The Economist ran a short piece about "The boredom of boozeless business," the magazine was prompted to post a very funny correction about America's hippest weekly business magazine.
Think you're being cool and savvy and classy and tasteful (and minty!) when you order a mojito at a bar? You're actually ordering up a fresh and wrathful enemy in the form of your bartender.
Celebrities have taken our wine. They've taken not only our wine, but that most average yet reliable of blends: Our pinot grigio.
The image of a woman drinking is often a reminder of the bad old days when people didn't know better — but new study shows it persists.
Democratic party members, rejoice! Lawmakers in North Carolina have come together to make sure your fridges and coolers will stay well-stocked when you visit for the Democratic National Convention on Labor Day weekend.
Discovered: Climate change has already changed some biomes, the healthiest amount of booze, kids need to stop stressing, a delicious way to quit smoking, and an insane cool picture of Venus.
A horrifying weekend article in The New York Post involves the death of everything good and holy. By that we mean Happy Hour. Gird your koozies; it is under siege. Maybe.
The very latest development in the media's ongoing obsession with spurious trend stories about kids getting drunk in weird ways comes via the Los Angeles Times, and it involves some kids who got drunk on hand sanitizer.
Discovered: A hair regeneration technique using stem cells, a brand new dark matter theory, brain scans can predict future weight gain and future sex and another reason to drink.
Discovered: Baboons can (almost) read, the baby boomer generation is dying alone, a totally unsurprising correlation between tattoos and drinking, and a super-sucky sponge.
'Tis the season, apparently. The season for sitting outside in the sun, for long brunches or lunches, and especially, for long, boozy brunches or lunches. The season for day-drinking!
Discovered: alcohol may increase your problem-solving skills, men don't act chivalrous when disaster strikes, UCLA has created a time machine of sorts and toddlers and chimps have something in common.
When we came across this social-media inspired cocktail menu the other day, it had us wondering what a marriage between two things we spend a lot of time with would look like. Is this what the Internet would taste like if it got you drunk?
Discovered: An anti-drinking drug, emotional computers, parents don't know where there kids are sometimes, there's oxygen and possibly life on Saturn's moon, and a creature that sees without eyes.
Discovered: Science's cruel joke on arachnophobes, a case for early mammograms, man will not go extinct, surgeons make bad health decisions.
Discovered: Glue from gecko feet, alcohol as a health food, sleeping your way to memory loss, and pregnant women should get dogs.
Ukraine's emergency situations minister is blaming alcohol for most of the country's weather-related deaths this winter.
An Islamist movement in Algeria has lead to the shuttering of the country's oldest bars, the rise of fly-by-night networks of suppliers, and secret sales of liquor in people's homes--all signs that the country is in the middle of its own prohibition era.
FIFA's next World Cup is slated to take place in Brazil, which doesn't allow alcohol sales at sporting events, but FIFA's commissioner made clear Thursday that little things like "laws" won't stand in the way of soccer fans and their brew.
Discovered: A red-wine research fraud, the world's smallest frog, what makes alcohol addictive, the Internet's mind-altering properties, a new Mars-like planet.
Following some grumpy pushback from seemingly everyone, the Mayor Bloomberg's office said they have no plans to limit the sale of alcohol in New York City, adding "there are no bad ideas in brainstorming."
The Middle Eastern nation has designs on bridging East-West gaps in business, and, with the World Cup, in sports. But permissive Western attitudes toward liquor won't fly with locals.
Another classic trend piece from The New York Times looks at the newest Internet danger entering our homes and threatening our livelihoods — shopping online while drunk.
Three staffers for Rep. Rick Larsen have learned today that it's a pretty terrible idea to tweet about being drunk on the job if you work on Capitol Hill.
While conservative columnist David Frum is trying to convince his friends he's not crazy just because he's not that into the Tea Party, his wife, Danielle Crittenden, managing editor of blogs for Huffington Post Canada, was experimenting in the bathroom with a vodka-soaked tampon.
Aside from one controversial abortion referendum in Mississippi, Tuesday's election reflects how states are struggling through tough times.
Asked about the video that got people wondering if Rick Perry was a drunk or has a pill problem, the presidential candidate said, "I felt the message got across very well."
The coroner for Amy Winehouse has released her official word on the British singer-songwriter's cause of death: "death by misadventure," meaning that she "died as the unintended consequence of drinking too much alcohol," the AP, along with Reuters, are reporting.
In the most recent trumped up scary trend, teens apparently soak gummy bears in alcohol.
The history of mayors and alcohol includes many regretful mornings
A new study finds that red wine could protect your skin from sun damage
It's happening across the country... And it's leaving puppies vulnerable!
Barrels of bourbon produced by Kentucky distilleries outnumber the state's population
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