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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. With pub doors open, massive parties on, and parades being held (including the world’s largest march down Fifth Avenue in New York City), this St. Patrick’s Day feels like it’s going to be another raucous celebration. But just because it’s easy being green out on the town on March 17, doesn’t mean it’s impossible to toast the life of devout snake whisperer St.…

Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletterStay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter An underrated quality of this year’s Oscar contenders? How many of their characters would be fun to party with! Poor Things’ Bella Baxter? A riot! Maestro’s Leonard Bernstein? Did you see his moves on the dance floor? Kitty Oppenheimer? Sozzled at all hours! It’s a shame that Anatomy of a Fall’s Samuel Maleski plummeted to his death before…

In 2018, Justin Riley went to a plumbing warehouse in a remote part of north Denver to pick up some equipment for a new business he was starting, Improper City. Six years later, he has returned for his next project – transforming the warehouse itself. Riley, 36, and his team of Giovanni Leone, 31, and Colton Cartwright, 33, plan to convert the 62,000-square-foot building at 3625 E. 48th Ave. — northwest of Colorado Boulevard and Interstate 70 — into a destination for Denverites. Dubbed “Moodswing,” the business will be an…

At the fraying tail end of French colonialism, at an army base in early 1970s Madagascar, the soldiers and their families cling to an expat lifestyle that will soon be relegated to the past. Cocktails and parties set against the tropical sweep of this bewitching island; churning undercurrents of sexual tension: all of it is observed by the keen eye of eight-year-old Thomas (Charlie Vauselle), a comic-book-obsessed spy on a thorny adult world that he doesn’t fully comprehend.Director Robin Campillo draws on his own…

Denver-based Stranahan’s distillery marks its 20th anniversary this year, and to celebrate, the whiskey maker is tracing its roots back to Aspen with a new tasting room and restaurant opening in March in the mountain town. The Aspen Whiskey Lodge, at 307 S. Mill St., serves alpine-inspired dishes alongside drams and cocktails featuring the distillery’s original spirits. It opens March 9 and given its proximity to Aspen Mountain, head blender Justin Aden expects it will be a popular après ski destination. “My favorite part…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Gin is back. It’s one of the most versatile liquors behind any bar, and the diversity of gins makes tasting them all the more exciting. Plus, the best gin brands are producing top-tier bottles that match any premium bourbon or Cognac for sip-ability, and they can still be used in a very wide range of cocktails. However, all this diversity between gins can make it an…

New York-based guitarist and composer Mary Halvorson doesn’t have time to hang about. When we speak she’s about to run out the door for a Saturday evening gig at John Zorn’s venue the Stone – and when that’s done she has to be up at 5am for a flight to Chicago for another show. The improvising jazz musician wouldn’t have it any other way. “Going through that period of Covid, I’m feeling very grateful that we are able to play music again and do shows,” she says from her home in Brooklyn. “It’s so gruelling, the travel that…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Whether you’re looking for a night or two off negronis, a month to flush your system after heavy holiday celebrating, or plan to swear off the sauce forever, it’s never been easier — or more trendy — to give dry a try thanks to a quickly growing and improving selection of non-alcoholic spirits, beer, wine, and pre-made mocktails. “Like clockwork, after indulging…

William H. Macy describes his first visit to the mountains near Aspen, Colorado, as “pretty much love at first sight.” It was sometime in the mid-1980s, Macy recalls, and he was traveling with then-girlfriend Felicity Huffman back to the area where she grew up. “Her mom was a magnificent cook, and they ride horses,” Macy said. “From a middle-class boy, I thought it was beyond the beyond.” These days, the actor is embedded in the local beverage community. He and Huffman own a home and some land in Woody Creek where they…

Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey is taking it back to the beginning. The whiskey maker, which was founded in 2004 and has often been billed as the first new distillery to open in Colorado since Prohibition, plans to debut a new tasting room, Stranahan’s Whiskey Lodge, sometime this winter in Aspen, according to the company. This “marks our first outpost beyond our Denver distillery and tasting room, and it is being designed to be the ideal environment for fans, already made and new, to experience our award-winning American…