This is the actual, opinionated, regularly-updated guide to entertainment we recommend at The Sober Curator. Some of it is about sobriety. Most of it is just good. The point is, all of it makes a sober Tuesday more interesting than it has any right to be.

At first glance, the name alone may not tell you much about the product, so let's start there. TOMONOTOMO is a non-alcoholic distilled agave spirit created by Amanda Chen. The name loosely translates to "I drink, I don't drink," reflecting Amanda's own journey during lockdown, when the former bartender became sober after relocating to Mexico.

🎟️ No events on the calendar this week, but BACKSTAGE is loading something gloriously unhinged. On June 3rd, it's the Conspiracy PowerPoint Party.

You bring a deck, a wild theory, and your most confident "trust me, the dots connect" energy. We bring the snacks and zero sobriety to question whether birds are real. This is the kind of night you actually remember. Slides. Receipts. A room full of grown-ass sober adults arguing that the moon landing was filmed in a Trader Joe's. Get inside Backstage →

Anna David has been writing about addiction, recovery, and the spectacularly messy middle of modern life since before that was a genre. She is a New York Times bestselling author, a three-time TEDx speaker, and the founder of Legacy Launch Pad Publishing, a hybrid press that helps people with real stories turn them into real books. She has been doing this long enough to know which stories have legs. And her recovery-adjacent catalog? Has legs.

Mental health and addiction are often treated as separate workplace issues, but for many employees, they are deeply connected. Sober Curator Contributor Sarah Alaimo shares her perspective as an HR professional in long-term recovery on what employers, managers, and HR teams need to understand when crisis shows up at work.