
Three New Cocktails for the New Year!
KEVIN'S COCKTAILS will be going on hiatus (as I will be immersed in writing my newest novel). But I want to leave you with three...

The Planet Pluto: A Cocktail About Never Giving Up
When I was a small boy of four or five, my parents took me to the annual Easter Egg Hunt. It was quite the event in our little town, as...

Orange Crush: A Vodka & OJ For Grown Ups
For many of us, our first “mixed drink” was that time in high school when somebody scored a bottle of two-buck Popov. We watched in awe...

The Tree Falls: An Intrinsically Good Cocktail & a Damn Good Art Essay
It's a sad fact that some art galleries depend upon a rich clientele to keep going. It's also a fact that other galleries charge their...

PC FU CK U: A Drink to Celebrate the Politically-Incorrect & the First Fucking Amendment
When the term “political correctness” appeared on the American landscape in the 1980s, it addressed an endemic societal problem: ...

Caravaggio’s Dilemma: Another Effed-Up Artist & the Double-Edged Sword of Genius
Caravaggio was a crazy bastard who lost his parents at an early age and died miserably. But he was also a great and visionary artist, so...

Life Being What it is,
One Dreams of Revenge: A Cocktail for Struggling Artists
"An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please." —Andre Malraux This drink is for artists, writers, and overall creative...

Retro Cocktail for May: Clover Club
This month’s RETRO COCKTAIL was named for the “Clover Club”, an elite Philadelphia men’s club that met in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel....

C is for Celeritas: A Fast Drink for When Things Are Slow
Ideally, you should drink this cocktail when you’re stuck in traffic. In Einstein’s famous equation, E=mc2, the “c” is the speed of...

Us & Them: A Unifying Cocktail
Did you ever notice that whenever somebody creates some exclusive group, that they always happen to be included in it? For example, an...