In Under The Volcano, Malcolm Lowry wrote about the phenomenon of “drinking yourself sober.” He’d be right at home in New Orleans during Tales Of The Cocktail, where sober discussion about drinking rules the day — five days, to be precise (July 16-20), packed with seminars about how to make drinks, how to taste drinks, [...]
The movies have one thing over the theater: No matter how sublime a live performance, when it’s over it’s over, with no record of the event save in the memories of the audience … and that record fades faster than the dyes in even the cheapest film stock. The text of the play, if published [...]
The life goal of Radio Margaritaville DJ Miles Hampton (above) is to open his own Tiki bar. So when he recorded an interview the Bum late last year, he knew just what to ask. We talked about everything from Don The Beachcomber to Martin Denny, and the time went quicker than two Rum Barrels at [...]