Aaron Vanek: Contributor - Los Angeles

In addition to contributing cocktail tid-bits to The Liquid Muse, Aaron is the Los Angeles Cocktails writer for Examiner.com. He is married and has lived in Los Angeles for 16 years, loving almost every minute of it.

Driving the Drink: Part I

These individuals would use engine parts for stills, skipping the process of scrubbing out the oil or radiator fluid that ended up in the mixture, causing injury, death, and slapping homemade whiskey with a very bad rap.

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Red Carpet Oscar Viewing Parties

This Sunday, March 7, is Hollywood’s Super Bowl, the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. The show begins at 5pm PT on the ABC network, with a five-second delay in ...

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The Green Fairy’s Downtown Trot

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Pernod-Absinthe launched a five-city promotional tour of the best bars serving their brand of the Green Fairy. To encourage responsible drinking, they also provided transport: horse-drawn carriage rides from bar to bar.

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The Thin Man – A Drinking Movie for Our Times

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The Thin Man, an M-G-M film released in 1934, stars William Powell as Nick Charles, a gritty gumshoe who marries Nora, a sassy socialite played by the beautiful

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