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Blog: Gary Sheffield Tour Dates Announced

Rocky Patel Cigar Co. has announced a series of in-store events that will feature former Major Leaguer Gary Sheffield, who will be appearing in support of the Rocky Patel HR 500 cigar that was released in mid-September and reviewed here. The cigar commemorates the slugger’s 500 home runs, making him one of just 25 players [...]

Announcement: Holiday Party at Tobacco Grove

On Friday December 7, halfwheel’s editors (Brooks Whittington and Charlie Minato) will be at Tobacco Grove in Maple Grove, MN for a get together we are commonly referring to as halfwheel’s Holiday Party Pt. 1. The event will run from 8-10 PM and it sounds like there will be other industry folk in attendance as [...]

Blog: New Announcement Bar

We’ve recently started to have giveaways again on halfwheel and we’ve heard from a few regular readers they didn’t necessarily see that there was a contest being offered, so we’ve implemented a new menubar, which you can see in the screenshot below, for major announcements and contests. It will only run in 12-hour spans, and [...]

Blog: Why We Changed the RSS Feed

After more than a dozen e-mails, tweets and phone calls, it seemed like this might be necessary. A few weeks ago we changed the way halfwheel’s RSS feed displays within readers — more specifically — rather than showing a full post with pictures, the RSS feed only displays a short preview, usually less than 100 [...]

Blog: On Our Macklemore Obsession & Contest

If you follow Patrick Lagreid and/or me on Twitter, you might have noticed a reference to Seattle rapper Macklemore, a few times, particularly from yours truly. Given there’s actually been a reference to it on halfwheel proper, it’s probably worth some explanation. My interest is pretty simple, I really enjoy the music from Ben Haggerty [...]

IPCPR 2012: Live from Orlando

Welcome to halfwheel’s coverage of IPCPR 2012, live from the trade show floor in Orlando, FL. And by live, we mean halfwheel’s live coverage. This is the coverage you would expect from halfwheel: photography from Brooks, and editorial coverage from Brian Burt and myself. We will be visiting booths in much the same manner as [...]

Blog: Our Newest Sponsor — Defeat Prop 29

Today our newest sponsor’s ad appeared on the website, No on Prop 29. Proposition 29 is a ballot measure in California that will raise the state’s OTP tax to 54.89%, one of the highest in the nation. The ballot measures goes before a public vote on June 5. We’ve previously covered efforts from the IPCPR [...]

Blog: Welcoming Brian Burt

Before I welcome the newest member of halfwheel, we unfortunately are sad to say farewell to another. Charlie “Ray” Stahl, who wrote alongside me at TheCigarFeed from that publication’s modest start in June of 2010, is stepping aside at halfwheel. While Stahl never published an article at halfwheel, he was a key part of the [...]

Accessory Reviews

Today we posted our first halfwheel accessory review, although in fairness, one of the reviews from Smoking Stogie did make it over. Accessory reviews will be a monthly tradition on halfwheel, although I won’t say it’s always going to be the last day of the month. Unlike our cigar reviews, we won’t be scoring the [...]

Introducing the Blog

A blog starting a blog. It’s a bit confusing, but it’s all in a name. This isn’t about trying to shed the cigar blog moniker, because we are a cigar blog. Rather, we needed something where we could informally communicate site news, thoughts and other things that don’t really fit into a category. So we [...]