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Drinking and pop culture enthusiasts collide in Dan Dunn's new podcast, Drinky Fun Time. Guests include Anthony Bourdain, Dan Harmon and others.

Greetings from the front porch of an impossibly charming guesthouse nestled among hundreds of acres of ridiculously picturesque vineyards on the King Estate Winery, located 20 miles southwest of Eugene, Oregon, near the exceedingly Deliverance-like town of Lorane. It’s been eight days since I loaded up my SUV with clothing and supplies and drove away…

What legitimate reason could anyone in New York City who isn’t paralyzed or agoraphobic have for using Drizly? It wasn’t all that long ago when a world without Borders (or Blockbuster or Sam Goody) would have been hard to imagine. But then, in a flash, they were gone. And maybe that isn’t so terrible in…

As you may have heard, A&E’s hit reality show, Duck Dynasty has been rocked by a controversy that has the makings of a nasty brouhaha. It all started when the good ol’ boys from the Duck Dynasty family decided to apply an insensitive label to something that the sensitive folk up in the liberal-lala-land of…

October 4 is National Vodka Day. For tens of adult beverage lovers across this great nation it’s a day to celebrate a popular spirit, commemorate its history and get hella wasted on that blandest of white spirits. National Vodka Day’s roots can be traced back to 2009, when someone who was clearly being paid too…

As one of only a handful of individuals in this country who can legitimately list “professional boozer” as my occupation on a tax return, I’ve often wondered what it must be like to operate under the behavioral constraints of a more conventional vocation in a traditional workplace. You know, like, say, a paralegal tech-type thingy…

(Editor’s note: Dan will be talking about the following post and more today, August 16, on his radio show, Happy Hour. Dan’s guest will be Bridget Marquardt of The Girls Next Door fame. Tune in to SiriusXM’s Stars Too, channel 104, from 7-8 pm ET. The listener call-in line is 888-996-2946) The Wall Street Journal’s…

You might know Dan “The Imbiber” Dunn as the man behind such Food Republic columns as Getting Fired Up About Leisure Liquor, Faking My Way Through a Champagne Tasting and I'm Just Happy Being An Angry Drunk. Dunn also wrote a popular investigative piece about a product called Kansas Spirits Whiskey, in which he got…

Few men care about their booze as much as Dan Dunn, whose column The Imbiber runs every Tuesday on Food Republic. And few men who care about booze as much as Dan also care about stirring things up, calling 'em like he sees 'em and just generally raking up the muck where he sees fit.…

Welcome to Part 2 of our exciting multi-part series, “The Ultimate Bar Scene Pickup Guide”: can’t-miss professional advice on how to woo women in all sorts of scenarios in a variety of different types of drinking establishments. If you missed Part 1, we recommend you go back and check it out before proceeding, as reading…