It’s that time of year again: copious amounts of eggnog, fourth cousins rooting through your fridge, and last-minute shopping. Regardless of which holiday you celebrate, December seems to bring out the best and the worst, whether it’s people, food, ...
Approximately six months into my relationship with my college boyfriend, we were sitting at a Pizza Hut when he nervously told me, “When I have kids, I want to raise them Jewish.”I shrugged. “That’s fine with me.”And that’s how a lapsed ...
It’s been a big year for Coffee or Die Magazine! In our freshman effort as a new online publication, we’ve released six issues with great stories that range from insane to fascinating, hilarious to dead serious. With a team of talented writers ...
If you’ve been following Coffee or Die Magazine, you may have been wondering where we’ve been lately and why there weren’t any stories published in October. I apologize for the absence, but we’ve been hard at work preparing for the launch of our new ...
For decades, if someone drove north into Buffalo, New York, they would encounter an aerosolized wall of lingering pollution from the long-defunct Bethlehem Steel plant in the suburb of Lackawanna. The plant shuttered almost entirely in 1983, leaving ...
Hailing from just outside Ishpeming, Michigan, a small town in the Upper Peninsula, Alyssa Maybe grew up with the odds stacked against her. Both Child Protective Services and the local circuit court removed her from her family multiple times; first ...
Fuck Off Google." The sign hangs from an apartment balcony on the Landwehr Canal, a waterway that runs through the unkempt, bohemian district of Kreuzberg and later connects with the Spree. If you walk a little farther, you’ll see another sign, this ...
There are few things that I enjoy in life more than a good story over a good cup of coffee, and I’m sure I’m not the only one — and that’s the hunch I was betting on when I met with the Black Rifle Coffee Company's leadership about two months ago in ...
TJ O’Shea attracts the occasional odd look as she steps down from the cab of her big rig in a skirt, combat boots, Waxtrax hoodie, and fedora. She could be anywhere from Florida to Idaho, spending 14-hour days listening to audiobooks while flying ...
