The Fine Art of Tending Bar

Marleigh Riggins is a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
It may perhaps seem odd to take a seminar on Japanese-style bartending from a Slovakian bartender, at least until you learn a little about Stanislav Vadrna. Stanislav became interested in Japanese bartending in 2003 and was given the [...]

Chaos Can Be Good For You

Marleigh Riggins is a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
The thing about Tales is that it is always a sort of barely controlled chaos. You begin your day with a plan: session, lunch, meet some friends, grab drinks, get dinner. Somehow in the midst of all that, [...]

History of Saloons in America: Preview

Marleigh Riggins is a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
With the resurgence of classic cocktail culture in America, there has also been a revival of the places cocktails emerged from. Not bars, which we have always had, but speakeasies and saloons—the places where Jerry Thomas, the Only [...]

The Final Word

Marleigh Riggins is a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
It’s been nearly a week since Tales ended and I feel as though I’m just barely getting my land legs back under me. It was a wild and amazing week in a wonderful city, surrounded by enthusiastic, interesting, [...]

Tales of TotC, Day 3 (and 4, and 5)

Marleigh Riggins is a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
The huge amounts of alcohol that one imbibes during Tales has turned me into a photo blogger this week. The short version of the last three days goes like this:

We started the day with a hilarious panel called [...]

Tales of TotC, Day 2

Marleigh Riggins is a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
Well, Thursday is kind of a blur. Not a drunken blur, but a flurry of activity (and, yes, drinks).The day started at Juniperlooza, the gin panel hosted by Ryan Magerian of Aviation Gin. Also on the panel were [...]

Tales of TotC, Day 1

Marleigh Riggins is a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
So here we are in beautiful New Orleans. Wednesday was a whirlwind of meeting new people, running into old friends and, naturally, drinking. We rolled into New Orleans at 11am and headed straight for the Monteleone, where we [...]

Spice and Ice

This is the first post from Marleigh Riggins, a print production artist and cocktail enthusiast in Los Angeles. She publishes the blog SLOSHED!
Kara Newman, food and spirits writer with bylines in publications like New York Magazine, Wine Enthusiast and Chile Pepper Magazine, brings “Spice and Ice” to Tales this year. Billed “for adventurous drinkers only,” [...]