Month: April 2009

  • Hello, Wall Street!

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    Hey, did y'all see Alcademics quoted in the Wall Street Journal this weekend? Wahoo! Why Do Mocktails Fall Flat?By Eric Felten Last year the Dry Soda brand of very lightly sweetened fizzy drinks came out with a new flavor, "juniper berry," which it advertised as "the perfect 'non-alcoholic gin and tonic.'" Juniper, of course, is…

  • Ice As Art

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    Gawking at ice isn't just for cocktail nerds anymore! I saw this art review in New York Magazine of an exhibit at Boiler in Williamsburg. In 2004, Strachan cut a 2.5-ton block of ice from the Alaskan Arctic, shipped it to the Bahamas (where he’s from), and exhibited it there in a hermetically sealed refrigerated…