Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2017 i Maxim

August is a strange drinking month. Summer is winding down and fall looms. You’re over rosé and can’t do another Tom Collins, but it’s not quite cider season and whiskey doesn’t seem right in the stifling heat. In other words, it’s the month to experiment. Maxim asked some of the best bartenders in America for their go-to August cocktails, and they didn’t disappoint. So drink up—summer’s not over yet. Perfect Daiquiri By Jesse Vida & Jillian Vose, BlackTail, New York “The Perfect Daiquiri is the perfect balance of sour, sweet, and spirit,” says Vida, the head bartender at BlackTail. “The perfect combo of texture, brightness, and depth. It never outstays its welcome and is a great cocktail to enjoy all summer long and as we head into fall.” 1 ounce…

British playwright and novelist W. Somerset Maugham famously described the French Riviera as “a sunny place for shady people.” This charmed stretch of coastline has always exuded intrigue, with a dash of raffishness lurking underneath its impossibly graceful surface. The mixture can be even more intoxicating than the area’s much-lauded rosé wine; Maugham purchased a villa in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in 1927 and spent the rest of his days—he died in nearby Nice 38 years later— living there. SAINT-JEAN-CAP-FERRAT “This is a place where light plays the first part,” Henri Matisse once wrote about Saint-Jean- Cap-Ferrat. “Color comes afterwards. First you have to feel the light, absorb it into yourself.” Cap Ferrat, as it is familiarly known, has played host to everyone from the political elite (Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and…

“THAT’S WHERE I WANT TO BE. I WANT TO BE IN THE WATER, OR IN THE MOUNTAINS.” T here’s a solid chance you already follow adventure photographer Chris Burkard on Instagram. His feed, a patchwork of brilliant colors, bucket-list locations, and tiny people in epic landscapes, has amassed a staggering 2.6 million fans. In an ecosystem packed with adventure-chasing storytellers, Burkard is king. Unlike many “influencers”—people who’ve built an army of followers to double-tap formulaic photos for fame and fortune—Burkard didn’t quit a graphic design or marketing day job to jump on the social media bandwagon. At a veteran age—for the medium, anyway—of 31 years, Burkard has been chasing his photographic dreams for well over a decade. “It’s funny; people want this dreamy story that everything happened so quickly and…

Detroit The latest from Kathryn Bigelow, the Academy Award–winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, tells the true story of one of the largest citizen uprisings in U.S. history: the July 23, 1967, 12th Street Riot in Detroit. The story centers around the Algiers Motel Incident, in which three people, all black men, were killed by police, and nine other civilians were badly beaten. With a script by frequent collaborator Mark Boal, Detroit stars John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), with John Krasinski and Anthony Mackie. (Annapurna Pictures, August 4) War for the Planet of the Apes In the third installment of the franchise reboot, Andy Serkis returns as Caesar, the leader of the apes, who is forced into war with humans led by a merciless…

Rick Porcello shifted anxiously in his chair, waiting for his interview with the MLB Network to begin. Surrounded by family and friends, the Red Sox right-hander had just completed his best season in the majors, putting up career-topping numbers in wins (22), innings pitched (223), ERA (3.15), and strikeouts (189). Now all he could do was wait to find out if the campaign was enough to earn him the American League Cy Young Award, presented to the league’s best pitcher. It was. When the decision was announced, live on air, the New Jersey native was swarmed by his loved ones in a giant bear hug. They had reason to be thrilled, and not just because the Cy Young is one of baseball’s top honors. It had been a tough road…

Never heard of Occitanie? That’s forgivable, because as of last year it didn’t even exist. When parliament recently reduced the country’s regions by nearly half, the area formerly called Languedoc- Roussillon joined with Midi-Pyrénées, located in France’s southwest corner next to Spain, to become Occitanie. (The term, which dates to the Middle Ages, refers to a large southern European realm where people spoke a Latinderived language called Occitan.) Even locals aren’t yet used to the new terminology and often revert to the old names, which can be confusing to visitors. This is a shame, because Occitanie— or whatever you want to call it—is a jewel. “We consider it the real South of France,” says Jodi Kennedy Gaffey, an American expat who owns and operates the property La Tour du Chateau.…

As Graham Jarvis maneuvered his motorcycle through dense forest, leading the pack of some 500 riders from around the world in the 2015 Red Bull Hare Scramble, his excitement turned to despair. The trail, part of a brand-new section of the course known as Downtown, had led him to an impasse, a section of ravine so clogged with rocks, trees, and loose soil that even Jarvis, a world-class offroad rider, couldn’t navigate his bike through the morass. Even worse, his competition, the most elite riders in the world, were hot on his trail, speeding along the narrow avenue through the woods. A crippling thought crept into the minds of Jarvis and the other riders leading the pack, one that can be debilitating in a race as difficult as this one:…

Sam Worthington isn’t interested in getting to know the real-life people on which his characters are based—at least not before he creates his own vision of them. The British-born Australian actor learned the hard way not to get too close to source material. “I did a movie once where the guy was a real-life guy and he would hang out in my hotel lobby and at the end of my day, he’d be there and he’d say, ‘How’d it go? Did you portray me correctly?’ ” By correctly, Worthington surmised, the man meant flatteringly. But Worthington’s loyalty is always to the character, whether the inspiration for that character likes it or not. That’s a principle he took to this month’s Manhunt: Unabomber, a Discovery Channel series in which he plays…

The light in Southern California moves from shades of straw gold to hazy peach—basically, your perfect selfie conditions. With palm trees in the background and Alexis Ren in the foreground, mooning the camera from a skateboard, you have the makings of social media magic: a single video clip, and then—bam!—5,034,764 views on Instagram. Ren, the 20-year-old model and Instababe extraordinaire (9.4 million followers and counting), is sanguine about why she gets all those likes. “Confidence is what people tend to gravitate toward, and also, obviously, sex. I don’t consider that a bad thing, though. If a woman likes to post about her body, that doesn’t make her a slut, desperate, or dumb. It still blows my mind we are stuck in that perception of womanhood. It’s 2017. Come on, people!”…

France has nearly two million acres of vineyards, spread across more than 300 appellations, that produce roughly eight billion bottles of wine per year. Long story short, there’s a lot of vin in France for a tipsy traveler to explore. Yet most wine tourists stick to the well-trodden path: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Alsace, Rhône. Not that there’s anything wrong with those worldclass regions. But if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to try rare and unique grapes that you can’t always pronounce, the kind of drinker who’s unafraid of natural wines recommended by tattooed sommeliers, and the kind of traveler who likes to venture away from the masses, then consider the following wine itineraries. SOUTHWEST FRANCE For lovers of obscure grapes who want an alternative to show-offy Bordeaux When I…

“I LIKE BEING AN OUTSIDER,” NIEL HAS SAID. “IT IS BETTER IN FRANCE ON THE OUTSIDE.” In December 2011, the businessman Xavier Niel posted a mysterious message on his Twitter page. “The Rocket is on the launch pad,” it said, cryptically. Two years passed without another mention. Then, in March 2013, this: “#42 invents a new paradigm for developer education: open admission, no tuition fee, peer-2-peer learning...1000 students/year.” Niel was unveiling a somewhat radical concept of a coding school, which opened its first location in Paris in 2013. Its name, 42, is a nod to Douglas Adams’ sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which the number is the so-called “Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.” That first year it received 20,000 applications;…