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  • October 2008

    • Halle 'Sexier Now Than I Used to Be'

      Esquire  |  Oct 8, 08 12:30 PM CDT

      Halle 'Sexier Now Than I Used to Be'

      (Newser) - After 20-plus years in Hollywood, Esquire picked 2008—the year of her first baby and, incidentally, not the year she played a bikini-clad Bond girl—to dub Halle Berry the sexiest woman alive. “I'll take it,” writes the 42-year-old actress in an acceptance speech that shares a thing or two she's learned about sexiness … and thanks the “eight editors wearing competing $75 button-down shirts” for the title. More »

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      celebrity  • actor  • Esquire  • Halle Berry

    • Esquire Endorses Obama ... Kinda

      Esquire  |  Oct 8, 08 7:45 AM CDT

      Esquire Endorses Obama ... Kinda

      (Newser) - Barack Obama "is the only possible choice to lead the country," says Esquire , though the magazine’s position is less an endorsement of Obama and more a treatise against John McCain. Obama has failed to define his key campaign theme of change “except as all those things encompassed by the phrase ‘Elect me’”—but he still represents a departure from George W. Bush that McCain does not. More »

    • This Xoogler Might Be the Next Bill Gates

      Esquire  |  Oct 4, 08 2:40 AM CDT

      This Xoogler Might Be the Next Bill Gates

      (Newser) - In the past few years, Google has lost some serious firepower to the startup frontier, Luke Dittrich writes in Esquire . With self-styled Xooglers  providing the brain power not only for two dozen or so startups, but for the venture-capital firms that fund them, it’s likely “the next big thing to come out of Google won't come out of Google at all.” More »

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      Google  • YouTube  • Silicon Valley  • venture capital  • Esquire  • venture capitalists  • Gmail  • Internet startups

  • August 2008

    • How This Tastes to a Vegetarian

      Esquire  |  Aug 31, 08 12:48 PM CDT

      How This Tastes to a Vegetarian

      (Newser) - The embarrassment for a cow in being a meal for a human one-fifth its size is among the reasons AJ Jacobs doesn’t eat meat. “If my body ended up as brunch for some badger or dachshund, I know I'd be pissed,” he writes in Esquire . But that wasn’t enough for carnivorous colleagues, who took him to Brooklyn’s premier steakhouse in a conversion effort. More »

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      food  • beef  • Esquire  • vegetarianism  • steak  • red meat

    • Steak: More Than Meats the Eye

      Esquire  |  Aug 29, 08 3:51 PM CDT

      Steak: More Than Meats the Eye

      (Newser) - There's more to a mouthwatering steak than meets the eye. So Esquire offers some tips and terms every steak lover should know before a Labor Day meat-fest: Types of beef: Grass-fed: "Healthier but ... less flavorful than corn-fed." Heritage: "Rare heirloom breeds ... without the hormones or pesticides." Aberdeen-Angus: "Pure breed found in the US, England, Scotland, and Ireland." More »

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      list  • cooking  • beef  • Esquire  • steak

    • Would-Be Butcher Tackles Meaty Issues

      Esquire  |  Aug 28, 08 11:51 AM CDT

      Would-Be Butcher Tackles Meaty Issues

      (Newser) - Tom Chiarella had the perfect customer-butcher relationship—the shop near his home gave him good meat and good advice. But he wanted more. He wanted, as he writes in Esquire , to live on the other side of the counter, "to be a guy with answers." So his Indianapolis meat market let him throw on an apron and try his hand at trimming, grinding, and selling. More »

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      meat  • Esquire  • butcher

    • Wagyu: 'the Hummer of Beef'

      Esquire  |  Aug 25, 08 7:41 PM CDT

      Wagyu: 'the Hummer of Beef'

      (Newser) - Wagyu beef, a Japanese tradition catching on in the US, uses cows “bred so that fat corrupts the striations of every muscle,” Tom Junod writes in Esquire . After sampling some at $130 per pound, Junod ponders how Americans can be attracted to such excess. Despite America's ecological awakening, "we respond with the Hummer of beef, the hedge fund of beef, the foie gras of beef," Junod writes. More »

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      Japan  • opinion  • beef  • Esquire  • delicacy  • slaughterhouse

    • Tom Brady Talks Football, Life

      Esquire  |  Aug 10, 08 5:08 AM CDT

      Tom Brady Talks Football, Life

      (Newser) - Tom Brady knows he's a talented quarterback, but he's pretty sure that doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things. "Look at the attention I get: It's because I throw a football," he says in the September issue of Esquire . "But that's what society values. That's not what God values. I have some eye-hand coordination, and I can throw the ball. I don't think that matters to God." Other snippets from the interview: More »

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      football  • New England Patriots  • Tom Brady  • Indianapolis Colts  • Peyton Manning  • Esquire  • Super Bowl XLII

    • 6 Events to Watch in Beijing

      Esquire  |  Aug 8, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      6 Events to Watch in Beijing

      (Newser) - For those who won't watch every Olympic game—and who will?— Esquire has picked a few Olympic highlights to Tivo: Day 1: Michael Phelps starts his second bid for eight gold medals. Day 2: Kobe Bryant dribbles and shoots in the Olympics—for the first time ever. Day 2: US field hockey player Jesse Gey wows with her looks and her game. More »

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      China  • list  • 2008 Beijing Olympics  • sports  • Esquire  • Paul Hamm

    • In Defense of American Blood Lust

      Esquire  |  Aug 7, 08 12:41 PM CDT

      In Defense of American Blood Lust

      (Newser) - With Cormac McCarthy's ascension "from cult writer to Great American Novelist" and the "primordial joy" of Grand Theft Auto IV as backdrop, Stephen Marche reflects on the central role violence plays in the American mythos in Esquire . "Purification through violence has been created and nurtured by figures as diverse as George Washington and Dick Cheney," he writes, as "the necessary inheritance, perhaps, of a revolutionary nation’s birth in blood." More »

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      violence  • Esquire  • Grand Theft Auto IV  • Cormac McCarthy

    • The 5 Tastiest Absinthes

      Esquire  |  Aug 7, 08 12:03 PM CDT

      The 5 Tastiest Absinthes

      (Newser) - Absinthe is back on sale in the US after being outlawed since 1912 because of a compound believed to cause hallucinations, but two brands were approved for sale last year. So Esquire rounded up the five best bottles of absinthe. Vieux Pontarlier ($65): Absinthe at its finest. Versinthe ($55): This "training-wheels" absinthe weighs in at just 90 proof. More »

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      alcohol  • drinking  • ban  • Esquire  • absinthe  • Marilyn Manson

  • July 2008

    • 75 Things Every Man Should Do Before He Dies

      Esquire  |  Jul 24, 08 12:38 PM CDT

      75 Things Every Man Should Do Before He Dies

      (Newser) - On Esquire 's 75th anniversary, the quintessential men's mag recommends 75 things every man should do before he dies. A smattering: Eat wild game you killed, dressed, and cooked yourself. Acknowledge the accomplishments of others Make an omelet Fast for three days, consuming only water Play a game of rugby More »

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      list  • death  • men  • Esquire

    • What's With all the Skulls?

      Esquire  |  Jul 5, 08 10:53 AM CDT

      What's With all the Skulls?

      (Newser) - Heavy metal and Halloween, make room for haute couture. “What used to be a symbol for borderline-sociopathic tough guys with weird design fetishes—Hells Angels, pirates, Nazis—has become a trope de luxe,” writes Stephen Marche in Esquire . The skull, a symbol of death with deep religious significance, “has suddenly become hypermodern, totally in and of the moment.” More »

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      fashion  • Indiana Jones  • pop culture  • Esquire  • Damien Hirst  • pop art  • skull

  • June 2008

    • Germans Can't See Forest of US Culture for the Trees

      Esquire  |  Jun 30, 08 3:20 PM CDT

      Germans Can't See Forest of US Culture for the Trees

      (Newser) - German college students aren't impressed with American culture—they're not even sure it exists, author Chuck Klosterman finds at the outset of a teaching stint in Leipzig. "The proliferation of media has made it virtually impossible to tell the difference between a) what information is unilaterally interesting," Klosterman writes in Esquire , "and b) what information is merely available." More »

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      Germany  • opinion  • pop culture  • Esquire  • columnists  • Germans  • University of Leipzig

    • Beastie Directs Film, Reilly Does Double Header

      Esquire  |  Jun 15, 08 8:26 PM CDT

      Beastie Directs Film, Reilly Does Double Header

      (Newser) - Who will reign in pop culture next month? A dead drug addict and rapper-turned-filmmaker are on Esquire 's list of predictions: Actor John C. Reilly will compete with Will Farrell for jokes in the upcoming laffer, Step Brothers. Beastie Boy Adam Yauch has directed Gunnin' for that #1 Spot , a doc about high school basketball prospects in Harlem. More »

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      Esquire  • Hunter S. Thompson  • Beastie Boys  • John C. Reilly

  • March 2008

    • As Bush Foe, Admiral's Days Were Numbered

      Newsweek  |  Mar 12, 08 7:53 PM CDT

      As Bush Foe, Admiral's Days Were Numbered

      (Newser) - It's amazing that Adm. William Fallon held on to his job as long as he did while openly disagreeing with the Bush administration on matters of military strategy, writes John Barry in Newsweek . Fallon's continued insistence that war with Iran is a lousy idea finally led to his resignation yesterday as head of US forces in the Mideast. This month's Esquire profile of Fallon noted that "the president may have had enough." More »

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      George W. Bush  • Iran  • Robert Gates  • Esquire  • military strategy  • William Fallon  • CentCom

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