The Faster Times

A controversial Scottish brewery has launched what it described as the world's strongest beer -- with a 32% alcohol content. Tactical Nuclear Penguin has been unveiled by BrewDog of Fraserburgh.

What I see is the same version of the show that MTV has been cramming down our throats for a million seasons now. Put young people in house. Make sure that young people in question are none-too-smart. Record activities in house, in the hopes that the young people will fight, have sex, or (hopefu...

How do you make it through the holidays? Editors Michele Clarke and Taylor Plimpton have an answer, in the form of a surprisingly enjoyable—and often very funny—anthology of holiday horror stories, appropriately titled The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays.

The Times has posted their list of the 100 best books of the decade, making no distinction between poetry, fiction, memoir or anything else. This seems destined to draw complaints from readers thinking their favorite style is underrepresented, which I suppose is a danger no matter what you do

There were 5 reported cases, all occurring at a unit treating individuals with underlying health conditions.

Since last Thanksgiving, much has changed and too much has stagnated in how we consumers express appreciation for natural resources. If we’re going to thrive in this century, we’re going to have to share air, walls and garbage. To the true entrepreneur, that’s a juicier promise than a second helping...

Bella awoke with a start. Her sheets were damp again. “Shit,” thought Bella, “I hope wet the bed. That would certainly be an inauspicious start to the day.”

The author goes behind the scenes of the world's largest and most popular purveyors of the famous Cajun turducken: The Gourmet Butcher Block

I spent last Friday at the TechCrunch Realtime CrunchUp conference learning about realtime tech and the Web. Here's the good, the bad, and the ugly...

Now, the influx of revisioned Palm Springs getaways meant to bring the 60's escape-feel back has reached a critical mass. So let's get critical.

Watching AARP wrestling superstars Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair trade barbs, then come to blows, at the outset of the Hulkamania: Let The Battle Begin tour of Australia, one can’t help thinking of that other battle of the geezers, Senator Joe “Spoiler” Lieberman and Harry “Really, I’m In Charge” Reid.

It doesn’t matter how good a cook you are, everyone looks stupid when they’re handling a giant raw turkey. The thing’s so big and you can’t quite figure out where to grab onto it. Here are some people trying to keep their cool next to a raw Thanksgiving turkey.

This September, when it came time to fact-check the Thanksgiving menus...what I didn’t realize–what I still haven’t quite realized–is that I was working on the last issue of Gourmet ever. Next Thanksgiving, as cooks across the country don their aprons, for the first time since before America entered...