As a bartender it’s obviously pretty difficult to make any money if you’re surrounded by sober people. We understand, and it really is our job, to make sure that people get responsibly “turnt up,” as the kids say.
It's pretty exciting to wake up on a day when your assignment is to amass as many vices in the day as possible. I mean, it’s not often that one gets to ask their friends and strangers if they know where to score various illicit drugs and dirty love with a legitimate excuse. The only rule I’ve given myself is that pot must come from a drug dealer and not a dispensary.
With the advent of more complex beers, we enter an age of more alcoholic beers. Beers so strong that you’ll be just as likely to wake up cradling your twin mug beer-chugging hat that you thought would be great to drink from as you would the body pillow that’s normally there. These beers weren’t made to destroy you, but have too many and they will.
In 2012, Michigan joined a growing number of states that allow marijuana to be used for medical purposes. Not just for any cramp or cold, however. There’s a pretty succinct list of conditions that are allowed to be treated by the green herb. Many people wonder how they can get a medical marijuana card. We're here to give you the rundown, so you don’t get rundown instead.
When it comes to dessert vices, we all have our unique preferences: peanut butter-topped, sweet and salty, cold and creamy, baked into a pie or cake… You get the picture. It's hard to choose just one indulgent treat with broad appeal.
The Howard Johnson on 28th Street off of US 131 might not be the most glamorous place to spend the night, but at least it has smoking rooms.
If you only commit one of the seven cardinal vices, at least treat yourself. Gluttony is the most forgiving sin, right? If your vice comes in the form of thousands and thousands of calories (and we mean thousands of them), there are plenty of opportunities in West Michigan to loosen your belt a little. Oh, who are we kidding? You're gonna need a new belt.
When it comes to drinking, there's the blackout variety, and then there's the simple pleasure of sipping whiskey out of a rocks glass. These distilleries know that certain liquors should be savored, thereby producing them appropriately.
Casinos are a get-'em-all-in-one destination for vices. You can gamble (obviously), drink, shop, gorge on buffets, get busy in your hotel room and some even allow you to smoke inside.
Buffets are a tricky thing. It's almost impossible not to feel stuffed (and, OK, guilty) afterward. But not all buffets are the same. At these four places, you can eat well and avoid feeling like you've overdone it on too many dishes you weren't craving in the first place. Go ahead, enjoy that second round. These buffets are definitely worth the splurge.
Thanks to Netflix, watching television shows has been taking to vice-worthy levels in the past few years and the term 'binge watching' is now used in our collective vocabulary.
The Grand Rapids-based Etsy shop LoveCharles has a philosophy when it comes to its hand-selected, classic vintage clothing from the 1930s to 1980s. “It’s important for people to realize vintage can be easily incorporated into a modern wardrobe and not look like a costume,” said Lily Greig, the owner, photographer and curator.
If the phrase “used book sale” brings to mind those sad piles of tattered Harlequin novels and dog-eared microwave cookbooks found in every thrift store, then perhaps you need to pay more attention to what the Kent District Library is up to. For the last two years, the organization has reinvigorated this once-tired concept by transforming a giant warehouse at its Comstock Park Service Center into a veritable book lover’s utopia during an annual event they’ve fittingly dubbed Book Bash.
It's well known that April showers bring May flowers, but it's nothing short of a bummer to be confined inside while the heavens release their tentative torrential downpour. At such times, the best thing to do is to stay comfortably dry in your local theater, watching movies til the flowers bloom.
