Stories

HOW A CIGAR BORN ON THE FACTORY FLOOR ASCENDED TO STARDOM In March 2009, an all hands on deck meeting was called at La Gran ...

The Back Story Mark Twain once said the coldest winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Although I’m not sure he ever ...

Crashing the Party FDA, Regulations loom as cigars boom Frisco, Texas – After four years in business, it’s time for Industrial Cigar Co. to expand. ...

Confessions of an Absolute Neophyte An eight-cigar journey and a search for a clue. By: Anonymous I smoked my first cigar (and my hundredth) about ...

Falling for Michigan Someone once said that the summer’s last heat and the winter’s first chill meet in the fall. In Michigan, that heat is ...

Photography by: Zach Ramsey Who’s Your Papi? Dan Le Batard’s namesake ESPN2 talk show, Dan Le Batard is Highly Questionable (DLHQ), features interviews with some ...

Vitola 101 The bull, the brute, the Bos taurus; the toro vitola sold itself as thicker than a classic Churchill and longer than a Robusto. ...

Freud fixed heads. A new movie shows how he fixed his own. Hint: Cigars, lots of them. When you invent psychoanalysis, you get to indulge ...