Brunch God is turning years of behind-the-bar experience into a self-paced course. The Fundamentals of Modern Bartending walks students through tools, technique, hospitality, and flavor balance, then closes with six cocktails every bartender should know, all building toward a real certification.

Brunch God is turning vintage Playboy magazines and glossy fashion editorial into 1 of 1 collage art, hand built onto repurposed USPS shipping boxes. Each piece is priced at $250 and comes with a free 7 piece bar tool set, because the art is the point and the tools are simply the gift that comes with it.

DailyPay turned a Lower East Side diner into an immersive 1930s time capsule, actors, jazz singers, and nickel coffee included, to ask why the modern paycheck still runs on a decades-old schedule. Here's what it was like inside.

While the Civil Rights Movement is often told through lunch counter sit-ins and bus boycotts, one of its earliest and most sustained campaigns happened in Harlem's liquor stores. From the 1930s through the 1960s, Black activists waged a "Whiskey Rebellion"—boycotts, pickets, and protests demanding that an industry profiting from Black customers hire Black workers, use Black-owned distributors, and advertise in Black newspapers. It was a fight for economic justice that the liquor industry fought viciously to suppress.

Artistic visualization of the conflict between public health science and alcohol industry lobbying. In January 2025, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for cancer warnings on alcoholic beverages. One year later, the industry's multi-million dollar lobbying effort successfully prevented those warnings from appearing in federal dietary guidelines.

The global tequila market reached $13.5 billion in 2024 with projections for $15.01 billion in 2025, but growth has decelerated sharply to 2.9% as the industry grapples with a 500 million liter surplus, authenticity lawsuits targeting major brands, and oversupply that crashed agave prices 94%.

Artistic visualization of GLP-1 pharmaceutical disruption to alcohol industry. With 12.4% of Americans taking GLP-1 medications by late 2025 and households using these drugs projected to represent 35% of all beverage sales by 2030, the alcohol industry faces unprecedented competition from weight-loss pharmaceuticals that reduce drinking by up to 75% in some users.