Sean Patton

It follows Evan, a gay high school English teacher, and his fellow teachers in Austin as they try to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seem to change every day.

This year, we'd like to talk about values, about the qualities we appreciate most in the places where we drink. The normal designations - "sports bar," "dive," "cocktail lounge," etc. - they don't speak to our ideals and our standards. Our hopes. So we collaborated with our friends - most notably Esquire drinks guy David Wondrich - to come up with a new taxonomy of bars. The point is, if you find yourself in a bar that doesn't fit into any of the five categories investigated, you might want to find a different place to drink.