CULTURE: Hunter S. Thompson - "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent & Depraved"

Hunter S. Thompson premiered his "GONZO" journalism style with this piece on the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan's Monthly, vol. 1, no.4, June 1970...

GEAR : New West Knife Works - Fusionwood 2.0 Chef's Knife

From the plows we used to put grain in the silo to the knives we used to prepare our food for the table, I was raised with a great reverence for the implements that make life livable. We bought the best we could afford, and cared for them as if our livelihood depended upon it…and it often did.

INTERVIEW : Susan Carter Hall - Painter

I met Susan a lifetime ago at a party in the Hollywood Hills.  She was the first peer I'd met in my "adult" life that when asked what they do, replied "I am a painter."  There was no wavering,  no feeble attempts at justification, no dancing around it.  It was a declaration that stuck in my head and inspired me.  She knew what she was and was brave enough to announce it to the world long before I could.  

Fifteen years later she walked into church.  She didn't remember me, but I knew her in an instant.  We've since become friends, and she continues to inspire me.  She was kind enough to share a glimpse of her Sporting Life with us...

EXPEDITION: "In Search of the Mai Tai" | Part-1

Cocktails are a vacation in a glass, able to transport you across the globe in the moment it takes your mind to register the delicious flavors floating across your tongue.  A good cocktail is like a five star resort on a powder-white sandy beach, overflowing with beautiful women in string bikinis that think you’re handsome and charming.  A bad cocktail is akin to a roadside motel with a chain-link fenced pool beside the highway with a dead cat floating in it....

INTERVIEW : Peter Beard on House Of Style

Get More: 'House Of Style' Collection at MTV Style

EXPEDITION: Camel Trophy-Land Rover Years

...and speaking of great expeditions... 

EXPEDITION: Summer 2012-In Search of the Mai Tai!

Fiji

Every summer I pick a new cocktail to master.  If I were to map my cocktail mastery, I would be following the equator around the globe, moving East to West, having started in Cuba with the Mojito.  This summer I've decided to conquer the “Jungle Juice” of all cocktails…the Mai Tai!  It is yet another journey into the "Heart of Darkness", in search of truth.  There is no doubt that it will be a perilous expedition, but I am confident I will emerge enlightened from the dank muddled jungle that is the American bar.