Robert Simonson
@robertsimonson.bsky.social
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Journalist. Cocktails, etc. Author of Substack “The Mix.”
I pray the Knicks don’t go to The White House. It will taint all they’ve accomplished.
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Drew Starr
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Anytime I need credibility when talking with a bartender and don't want to dig out my old Eater pieces, I tell them Misty bartended my wedding and that she had me gift Bourdain mezcal copitas on her behalf when I met him.
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If you care about Mezcal, you’ll care about this interview with Misty Kalkofen.
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Side Car: Misty Kalkofen
An Interview With One of the Most Enduring Agave Advocates in the U.S. Bar World
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertsimonson/p/side-car-misty-kalkofen?r=1nulw
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So much of today’s business/consumer energy is corporations who don’t care about you trying to trick you into caring about them.
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Marisa Kabas
11 days ago
tell them there’s a sex criminal in the building
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Has Andrew Cuomo left New York yet?
10 days ago
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Tea Pain
11 days ago
I think it’s a safe bet Benjamin Netanyahu has a complete unredacted copy of the Epstein files.
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If the Knicks lose tonight, it will be Trump’s fault.
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I imagine FIFA was looking for a US fan reaction along the lines of what the Knicks finals are getting right now. They ain’t gonna get it. Nothing near.
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Democrats Organizing For America
12 days ago
No wonder the entrenched bureaucracy hates him to much. He's showing America that things REALLY can get better when you work on behalf of everyone, not for the Epstein class.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
13 days ago
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Do Times reporters interview anyone but MAGA and Boomers about politics?
13 days ago
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The Bears still suck.
14 days ago
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No good dead goes unpunished, is one of the truest saying ever coined.
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Why don’t more Chicago bars feature the Chicago Cocktail? I don’t know. But at least one Chicago restaurant does!
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Recipe: Chicago Cocktail
Petite Edith Is the Rare Chicago Restaurant That Makes a Big Deal Out of the City's Eponymous Cocktail.
https://robertsimonson.substack.com/p/recipe-chicago-cocktail
20 days ago
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Home hunt television is the most depressing television ever. Depressing boring people, depressing ugly houses.
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God hates AI.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/u...
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Main Takeaways From Pope Leo’s Encyclical on A.I.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/us/pope-leo-encyclical-highlights.html
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New York Magazine
about 1 month ago
Commencement speakers are facing boos and jeers from the Class of 2026 when they invoke artificial intelligence in their speeches.
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Booing Commencement Speakers Over AI Is Becoming a Trend
Commencement speakers are facing boos and jeers from the Class of 2026 when they invoke artificial intelligence in their speeches.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/booing-commencement-speakers-over-ai-is-almost-a-trend.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=bluesky
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Rachel Maddow
about 1 month ago
"Neither former President Barack Obama nor Joe Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office..."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Trump’s More Than 3,700 Trades Provoke Wall Street Astonishment
President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he or his investment advisers made more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter, a flurry totaling tens of millions of dollars and involv...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-14/trump-bought-nvidia-boeing-microsoft-in-flurry-of-transactions
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There is a new sub-genre of Martini.
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The Caprese Martini Is Its Own Genre Now
There are Too Many Examples Now to Ignore This New Sub-Category of the Martini.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertsimonson/p/the-caprese-martini-is-its-own-genre?r=1nulw
about 1 month ago
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Two cocktails, small snack, gone in 45 minutes, is the ideal cocktail bar experience.
about 1 month ago
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Whoever decided that back seat seat belt clasps should be recessed should be hunted down and killed.
about 1 month ago
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You know why Whole Foods sucks? No matter what store you visit in what part of the country, it’s the same shit. They don’t care any regional products. Walking the aisles of a Whole Foods is crushingly boring.
about 1 month ago
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist
about 1 month ago
Raising the Flag Follow my work and writing on Substack:
nickanderson.substack.com
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So weird that Denver built their airport in another state.
about 1 month ago
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Every other new restaurant in the U.S. is either an Izakaya or Omakase. Just saying.
about 1 month ago
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A visit to Echo Lake, the new rum bar in Brooklyn.
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An Echo of Chicago Tiki in Brooklyn
An Elusive Tiki Master and a Journalist Join Forces to Open Echo Lake; Plus, an Echo Lake Cocktail Recipe, a new Bar Shot, and Odds and Ends.
https://robertsimonson.substack.com/p/an-echo-of-chicago-tiki-in-brooklyn
about 1 month ago
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The Onion
about 1 month ago
Authorities Unearth Mass Grave Of Trump Advisors
https://theonion.com/authorities-unearth-mass-grave-of-trump-advisors/
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Georgia 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🦉 🌻
about 1 month ago
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90% of yard/garage/estate sales these days are made up almost entirely of crappy Christmas and Halloween decorations, and novelty coffee mugs.
about 1 month ago
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Kurt Russell has the strangest career history of any movie actor ever.
about 1 month ago
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Brant Reeves
about 1 month ago
I Fully Endorse this Idea….
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Duaa Eldeib
about 1 month ago
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying.
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns
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Ted Turner created the 24-hour news cycle. And nobody is the better for it.
about 1 month ago
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We visited what is, as of last week, the oldest Chinese restaurant in the U.S.
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The Oldest Chinese Restaurant in the U.S.—Now
With the Closing of The Pekin Noodle Parlor in Butte, Montana, Wisconsin's Cozy Inn Moves Up.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertsimonson/p/the-oldest-chinese-restaurant-in?r=1nulw
about 2 months ago
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Monty 🇨🇦
about 2 months ago
He’s a war criminal… he should be arrested if he ever leaves the US.
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We hear all the time about how we’re supposed to support small local independent bookstores. But we never hear about how indy bookstores are supposed to support small local independent authors. It seems a one way street where Indie books stars are concerned..
about 2 months ago
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Paul Waldman
about 2 months ago
Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.
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David Wondrich
about 2 months ago
A great find from Barry Popik on the history of the Tequila Sunrise.
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Ron Filipkowski
about 2 months ago
L - North Korea R - Miami
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Lately, it seems, everything good in the U.S. is deciding to call it quits. Can’t blame them, I guess. The country, in it’s current iteration, just doesn’t value or support “good.” Only big, or whatever generates the most money for the few.
www.grubstreet.com/article/capu...
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Caputo’s Is Kaput. Now Everyone Needs to Find New Bread.
The bakery’s surprise closing has left its wholesale customers scrambling.
https://www.grubstreet.com/article/caputos-bake-shop-closing-brooklyn.html
about 2 months ago
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I wrote about “Tiki Adam” Kolesar’s elaborate home bar.
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At Home With: "Tiki Adam" Kolesar
Sneak a Peek at the Home Bar of Brooklyn’s Own Tiki Master; Plus a Ticket Giveaway to this weekend’s Rare Book Event at the Park Avenue Armory from Lizzy Young!
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertsimonson/p/at-home-with-tiki-adam-kolesar?r=1nulw
about 2 months ago
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Ray E. Boomhower
about 2 months ago
"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965
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More old NYC restaurant news. This one not as happy as Sam’s.
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Donohue’s Steak House Will Close in June
Someone else may take over the legendary space, but the name is heading to Long Island with owner Maureen Donohue-Peters.
https://www.grubstreet.com/article/donohues-steak-house-nyc-closing.html
about 2 months ago
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I’m on the old restaurant beat now. Wrote this about Chapter Two in the life of one of my favorite red sauce joints.
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A Longtime Long Island Bar Server Is Taking Over a Red-Sauce Staple
Sam’s Restaurant and Pizzeria is getting a gentle refresh from its new owner, Georgia Fulton.
https://www.grubstreet.com/article/sams-restaurant-court-street-georgia-fulton.html
about 2 months ago
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Haven’t posted here in a couple weeks because I was due to fly internationally, so I logged out and deleted all my social media apps from my phone, just in case. Isn’t it awful that that’s the country we live in now?
about 2 months ago
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Think you know mozzarella sticks? Maybe you don’t. khttps://open.substack.com/pub/themilwaukeemix/p/what-happened-to-mozzarella-sticks?r=1nulw
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What Happened to Mozzarella Sticks in Wisconsin?
Sometime in This Century, the Beloved Bar Snack Went From Breaded to Eggroll.
https://open.substack.com/pub/themilwaukeemix/p/what-happened-to-mozzarella-sticks?r=1nulw
2 months ago
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Frank Conniff
3 months ago
My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when you’re engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.
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How can I get someone to stop putting two spaces after every sentence? Asking for an editor friend.
2 months ago
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Molly Jong-Fast
2 months ago
Imagine if jill Biden did this
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