Jeff Bridges • July/August 2013
Features
Living the Dream
“I’m living my teenage dream,” Jeff Bridges says gleefully, hoisting a Gibson acoustic guitar over his head in a one-armed victory salute as a Las Vegas crowd cheers. Bridges …
The Links of Northern Ireland
When Darren Clarke was 11 years old, his father drove him from their home in Dungannon to the Royal Portrush Golf Club on the North Antrim Coast to introduce him to links golf. It …
Virtual Poker Goes Viral
I remember being shocked over a conversation I had with an executive from Caesars Entertainment. Usually, during chats with these guys, I’m jaw-dropped after hearing about some …
Music in the Air
The digital music era puts an incredible wealth of choices a quick click away, but more often than not listening is a solitary experience, through earbuds, headphones or computer …
Art Basel Miami Beach
For four days in December, Miami Beach becomes the most artful place on earth—and one of the most monied. Private jets jam up all four noncommercial airports, millions of dollars …
Cigars
Arresting Television
"I’m not gonna go for another jerk-off meeting with you,” John Langley recalls telling the Fox programming executive. “You wouldn’t know a good show if it slapped you in the face. …
A Conversation With Javier Estades
General Manager/Premium Cigars U.S.A., Altadis U.S.A.
Vintage Cubans Heat Up At Auction
How much would you pay for an aged cigar? For one anonymous collector the answer is apparently more than $1,000, as a half dozen Dunhill Estupendos recently sold at auction for a …
Moving to Miami
The historic home of the U.S. cigar industry is a new hot spot for creative cigarmakers
Ratings from this Issue
Up Front
Going Too Far
Dinner had begun at the Four Seasons restaurant, and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani stepped up to the dais. "When I first became mayor of New York City, we worried about things like …
Out of the Humidor
Dear Marvin, I’ve been a subscriber to Cigar Aficionado magazine for many years. It is simply a great publication. My wife subscribes to Wine Spectator and finds it to be …
The Good Life
Audi RS 5 Cabriolet
The 2013 Audi RS 5 Coupe and Cabriolet may strike many fans like a Back to the Future ride: a return to the S5’s V-8 roots, but with a formidable leap forward in giddyup. When …
Super Tequilas
Many of us think of Tequila and memories of youthful excess with cheap liquid, downed in shots and sandwiched between lime squeezes and salt licks to deaden the taste, spring to …
Crawford Rose Quartz Ashtray
A nasty rumor is circulating through the cigar community that the day of smoking glamor is gone. Not so. To paraphrase Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard : cigars are …
Wequasset Resort and Golf Club
Summer vacations to Cape Cod bring to mind open-air dinners of whole-belly fried clams, rounds of miniature golf with the little ones and long days at the beach. Luxury? That word …
Featherweight Watches
When tennis champ Rafael Nadal returned to the circuit this year wearing Richard Mille’s RM 27-01 Tourbillon Rafael Nadal, he was styling an important trend in watchmaking: the …
Bermuda Shorts
If you’re going to work most anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere right now, odds are you’re hot. And that discomfort particularly travels down your legs, which are covered in suit …
Basis Health Monitor
Now here’s a new twist: a wristwatch that watches its wearer. Specifically, this inconspicuous digital watch keeps tabs on your heartbeat, perspiration, movement and skin …
Google Chromebook
I spend most of the day, every day, in front of a computer. And recently, I’ve done it all on a $249 machine. Not an outmoded, used, refurbished or secondhand computer—we’re …
JetLev
To every kid who ever dreamed of a career as a secret agent, it seemed totally plausible that a jet pack would be one of the tools of the trade. We would all one day have one of …
Smoking Ribs
Whole hog may be the big show and brisket is definitely the toughest to cook (in more ways than one). Drumsticks and pizza and seafood are fun. But the entrée that every backyard …