PorchDrinking Playlist | March Madness Playlist

This week’s playlist has nothing to do with basketball. BUT, it has everything to do with March, and everything to do with (music) madness. In truth, it is a hodgepodge of new and old music, spanning the genre spectrum from hip-hop/rap to indie-pop. Regardless of your music taste, there’s something on this March Madness playlist for everyone! Read More

Welcome to the InterNEAT! Volume 82

Happy Tuesday everyone! Thanks for stopping by. I hope this InterNEAT finds you well.

5. In case you hadn’t decided how you feel about drugs, Captain Lou has some words for you.

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March Madness Depression

Oh to be a college basketball fan. To think watching a full season of NCAA hoops earns you any distinction among the various friend, co-worker or family pools that amass during this frantic period. To be reminded that the chances of glory and bragging rights are only occur by happenstance. To be reminded how one games performance means nothing in the next game, and to bemoan only what could have been. That my friends, is what March Madness does to me. Read More

Proposed Laws Could Change Craft Beer In Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Texas

If you’re reading PorchDrinking.com, then you’re likely well aware the craft beer industry is killing it in the U.S. The Brewers Association says the industry hit $19.6 Billion in retail and took hold of 11 percent of the volume share in 2014 — the first double digit share ever.

While the success stories are widely reported and cheered, including West Virginia’s legislature passing a law earlier this month to allow state breweries to offer samples, lawmakers in several states are right now debating proposals that could significantly impact how beer-loving residents and visitors legally consume and buy craft beer. While there are smaller legal issues around the nation, the heated debates in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Texas are the ones we’re watching very closely right now. Here’s why.

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Pop Culture Week in Review 3/14-3/20

It’s another Pop Culture Week in Review and this week does not disappoint.

Robert Durst got arrested …

… but I’m not done with The Jinx. I really can’t look into it until I’m done. So, um … Google it.

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2015 Mascot Madness

Your favorite PETA agitating edition of Mascot Madness is back for another year! For those who aren’t familiar, every year we have a little fun by picking the tournament field based … Read More

Pop Culture Bracketology 2015

It’s a tale as old as time. Or, at least as old as March Madness bracketology.

You look over the bracket. You study up on the teams. You consider expert opinions. You even look up Vegas odds for every game. And finally you make smart, well-informed, clever picks for the NCAA tournament. And you enter your bracket into the office/school/family/friend pool.

And the winner of the pool? That one damn entrant who has never seen a basketball game, and picked teams based on which school has the best colors, or what names sound funniest, or even just whatever teams they’d heard of.

The beauty – and agony – of March Madness is that no one can predict what will happen. The race often goes not to the strong or the clever or the patient… but to the random. So here at PorchDrinking, we’ve come up with a very pop-culture way to pick your bracket.  Read More

Roundtable Discussion | Favorite St. Paddy’s Day Memories

Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day and we are not done celebrating it quite yet. Our staff ponders some of the good memories (the clear ones) associated with the holiday.

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PorchDrinking Playlist | On Tour: Sylvan Esso

Sylvan Esso, an electro-folk-pop duo hailing from Appalachia, is currently making headway in their tour of the United States; this past weekend they sold out The Metro in Chicago (a venerable feat for a group that formed in less than two years ago). In the upcoming months they can be found performing for millions of musicophiles at Coachella, Bonnaroo, Hangout, Firefly and Eaux Claires music festivals. This playlist pays homage to Sylvan Esso’s roots, bands Mountain Man and Megafaun, in addition to music groups that have similar electro-poppy and folksy vibes.

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Welcome to the InterNEAT! Volume 81

Happy Tuesday and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

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Pop Culture Week In Review | March 7 – March 13

Andy Samberg hosting 2015 Emmys

Andy Samberg, SNL veteran and current star of Fox’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has been tapped to serve as the host the 2015 Emmys, which is due to air September 20^th. There’s a pretty solid track record of SNL alum making their mark as critically acclaimed hosts, with Samberg following in the footsteps of Seth Meyers, Tina Fey, and Amy Poehler. Although he won an Emmy for writing on Saturday Night Live and won a Golden Globe for his work on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, this will be his first time emceeing a major awards show. Read More

Awesomesauce | Spring Has Sprung

We’ve finally reached that simultaneously magical and depressing time of year: lent. Mardi Gras is over, every fast food joint in town has advertisements for fish sandwiches on TV, and the awesome/dreadful daylight saving time adjustment is upon us (am I the only one who gets thrown off for a solid week or so when this happens?!)

So much for the awful; I always get excited this time of year, since I know that spring is just around the corner. Triggered by the first glimpse of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Egg advertisement on TV, sometime around mid-March (regardless of weather) I get a little excited for the pending season change, and here’s why: Read More

Roundtable Discussion | Favorite Spring Seasonals

With that extra hour of daylight, spring is most definitely on the mind. So, in this week’s edition of the PorchDrinking Roundtable, we asked the team: what spring seasonals are you most excited for?

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Welcome to the InterNEAT! Volume 80

Happy Tuesday! Spring seems to be here. Life is looking pretty good. Let’s just double down with some InterNEAT treats!

5. I try and stay away from new singles, … Read More

Screw It, I’m Becoming a College Basketball Fan

Picking a team to root for has never been a chore for me.  If a team or sport didn’t reach out and grab me, I’ve never bothered to make … Read More

Movie Stars Making More Than Movies

I’m a big fan of Kevin Spacey, but I think he was objectively a perfect choice for the role. Just when you believe his character is actually a good person, he flips the switch and you see the monster underneath. A magnetic performance. That’s why I was pumped to learn that Bill Paxton and John Malkovich joined the cast! Granted, it’s a bit of a side plot and it’s all about zombies, but you can’t go wrong with that kind of talent. What’s that? Oh no, I’m not talking about House of Cards. I’m talking about a video game.

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Pop Culture Week in Review | February 28-March 6

February doldrums are over, everyone! Here we are in March. Summer blockbusters are around the corner. Many great TV shows return in the next couple months (lookin’ at you, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, and Veep)… it’s getting warmer here in LA (sorry, everywhere else in America). It’s reason to celebrate!

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Welcome to the InterNEAT! Volume 79

What up, everyone? I hope you’re doing well. Let’s ‘march’ our way into this week’s InterNEAT!

5. It may not be “50 Shades of Buscemi”, but dammit if “50 … Read More

Roundtable Discussion | Favorite Thing to Make Using Beer

My friend Sam won’t leave me alone about making him the beer milkshake I wrote about in one of my first posts for PorchDrinking.com, and that got me thinking, “I wonder what the rest of the staff likes to make using beer.” So I asked. The result? Some of the most delicious sounding recipes you could ever fathom.

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PorchDrinking Playlist | Denver’s Best Bands

In honor of 303 Day, we compiled a list of Denver’s best bands and comedians. The Mile High City has so much musical and comedic talent and while we left off a … Read More