StogieGuys.com will be featured on the Livin’ Large with Geoff Pinkus radio show on WIND 560 AM in Chicago today. The show runs from 5-7 pm Central (6-8 Eastern) and Patrick S is scheduled to be on around at 5:35 pm Central (6:35 Eastern).

Geoff’s show is about “cigars, cars, spirits, wine, beer, restaurants, music, sports, hot chicks, jets, Harleys, guns, bikes, and fishing.” You can even call in at 877-560-WIND to ask a question on the air. If you’re not in the Chicago area, you can listen live here (and if you miss it, a podcast will be available here). You can listen to last week’s appearance here.

-The Stogie Guys

StogieGuys.com will be featured on the Livin’ Large with Geoff Pinkus radio show on WIND 560 AM in Chicago today. The show runs from 5-7 pm CST (6-8 EST) and Patrick A is scheduled to be on around at 5:30 CST (6:30 EST).

Geoff’s show is about “cigars, cars, spirits, wine, beer, restaurants, music, sports, hot chicks, jets, Harleys, guns, bikes, and fishing.” You can even call in at 877-560-WIND to ask a question on the air. If you’re not in the Chicago area, you can listen live here (and if you miss it, a podcast will be available here). You can listen to previous appearances here.

-The Stogie Guys

StogieGuys.com will be featured on the Livin’ Large with Geoff Pinkus radio show on WIND 560 AM in Chicago today. The show runs from 5-7 pm CST (6-8 EST) and Patrick A is scheduled to be on around at 5:30 CST (6:30 EST).

Geoff’s show is about “cigars, cars, spirits, wine, beer, restaurants, music, sports, hot chicks, jets, Harleys, guns, bikes, and fishing.” You can even call in at 877-560-WIND to ask a question on the air. If you’re not in the Chicago area, you can listen live here (and if you miss it, a podcast will be available here). You can listen to last week’s appearance here.

-The Stogie Guys

StogieGuys.com will be featured on the Livin’ Large with Geoff Pinkus radio show on WIND 560 AM in Chicago today. The show runs from 5-7 pm Central (6-8 Eastern) and Patrick S is scheduled to be on around at 6 pm Central (7 Eastern).

Geoff’s show is about “cigars, cars, spirits, wine, beer, restaurants, music, sports, hot chicks, jets, Harleys, guns, bikes, and fishing.” You can even call in at 877-560-WIND to ask a question on the air. If you’re not in the Chicago area, you can listen live here (and if you miss it, a podcast will be available here). You can listen to last week’s appearance here.

-The Stogie Guys

This Sunday ( April 20) Patrick A and Patrick S will be talking cigars on the Livin’ Large with Geoff Pinkus radio show on WIND 560 AM in Chicago. The show runs from 5-7 pm Central (6-8pm Eastern) and we are scheduled to be on at the top of the second hour (after the lovely Chicago Blackhawks Ice Crew girls).

Geoff’s show is about “cigars, cars, spirits, wine, beer, restaurants, music, sports, hot chicks (hot moms), jets, harleys, guns, bikes, and fishing.” You can even call in to ask us a question on the air: 877-560-WIND.

If you’re not in the Chicago area you can listen live here (and if you miss it, a podcast will be available here).

-The Stogie Guys

Now that the 2008 NCAA Tournament is set, we are teaming up with our friends at CigarsDirect.com to offer the best cigar prizes ever for a March Madness bracket challenge. The fantastic prizes, courtesy of CigarsDirect.com, are as follows:

Grand Prize: Padilla 1932 Signature Humidor filled with 45 Padilla cigars ($1,500.00 retail value)

2nd Place: Box of Fuente Fuente Opus X Robusto ($799.95 retail value)

3rd Place: Box of Arturo Fuente Anejo #77 “Shark” ($579.95 retail value)

4th Place: Box of Fuente God of Fire Churchill ($239.95 retail value)

5th Place: Box of Fuente Hemingway Short Story ($139.99 retail value)

As always at StogieGuys.com, entry is 100 percent free. Please fill out your bracket here. You must register with CBS Sportsline, then after you log in with your username and password you will be asked to enter our league password (which is “cigars”).

Rules: Please make sure to enter a valid email address when signing up. CigarsDirect.com will notify all winners via email at the end of the tournament. If you do not respond within two weeks, the prize will go to the player with the next highest point total. All brackets must be filled in by March 20.

Fine Print: The contest is in no way affiliated with CBS Sportsline, and no one will have access to your personal information (except for your email and name). There must be at least 50 entries or else the prizes may change.

Good luck!

[Additionally, CigarsDirect.com is including free shipping on all other orders placed during the NCAA tournament. For free shipping simply enter the code "stogieguys" at checkout.]

-The Stogie Guys

photo credit: NCAA

We are pleased to announce an important addition to our StogieGuys.com team. Effective immediately, Jon N will join the StogieGuys.com staff as our Los Angeles Bureau Chief – strengthening our reporting from America’s West Coast.

Despite being 28, Jon smoked his first cigar 15 years ago (do the math) in Las Vegas, as his new bio explains:

Jon Nathanson introduced himself to cigars at the tender of age of 13, when he and some of his enterprising friends procured a fake ID and purchased a box of hand-rolled stogies at a smoke shop on the Las Vegas Strip. Having no clue how to smoke a cigar didn’t deter Jon, and he inhaled a couple of premium sticks. His juvenile curiosity was rewarded with a severe headache, nausea, and a vow not to smoke again for as long as he lived.

Never a man of his word, Jon took up smoking cigars many years later at the age of 25. Since then, he has learned to treat the hobby with the respect, appreciation, and determination it deserves. Now, at 28, Jon considers himself an ardent enthusiast, if not quite a seasoned expert. His personal knowledge of cigars, the cigar lifestyle, and the history of the industry is still a work in progress – but he is learning a great deal more each day.

Jon holds a BA in English and American Studies from Yale University, and he is planning to attend business school in the fall of 2008. He has been working for over five years in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, the city where he was born and raised. When not working hard, or hardly working, Jon enjoys writing, running, fishing, pleasantly inept karaoke, and leisurely smokes on the beach in Malibu (where he is very careful not to start fires).

Jon’s enormous, garish, White House-shaped humidor is the envy of no one in particular. Nevertheless, it is always well stocked with a diverse array of cigars from around the world. Jon’s personal favorites include the Arturo Fuente Hemingway line, the Rocky Patel Vintage series, and most full-bodied maduros.

Jon’s addition to the StogieGuys.com staff will diversify our perspective on reviews, news, commentaries, and tips from the world of cigars. We hope you are as excited to welcome Jon as we are, and we know you will enjoy reading his well-written prose.

-The Stogie Guys

photo credit: Stogie Guys