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The Perfect Margarita for the Summertime

The margarita: a summer cocktail favorite. There are oh so many recipes out there for the margarita, but I stand by this one.

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Maps Featuring the Birthplace of Famous Cocktails and Famous Authors

There is something telling about knowing an origin or a birthplace. The Grasshopper cocktail was first invented in New Orleans. Stephen King writes his novels while staring out at the Maine foliage. Knowing these fun facts just adds a bit of…color…to your experience.

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Writers and their Cocktails: Carson McCullers and Her Sonnie Boy

Carson McCullers was a short-story writer, playwright and screenwriter. You may have read her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, as part of a school assignment back when. Her drink of choice while writing: Sonnie Boy.

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As You Wish Brings Back All the Fond Memories of The Princess Bride

I knew that when I started listening to Cary Elwes narrate his recent memoir, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride, all of my memories of watching The Princess Bride would come flooding back to me. And oh boy did they ever!

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The Phantom of the Opera Paired with a Martini…Straight Up

The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux (originally published in Paris (1909)), this our latest feature. We pair this spine-chilling classic horror novel with an ice cold martini.

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