Results tagged “LUPEC”

                                          

We sipped Painkillers (active ingredient: Pusser's Rum) and double-fisted Ken-Tikis, and admired fezzes.

Chuck Bass has opened a speakeasy (on television). Is the speakeasy is over (for real)?

Tiki, with its "exotic" beverages and fashions, is how the 1950s imagined the faraway tropics and, back in the day, Bostonians seeking to escape the onslaught of wintry mix patronized "Polynesian" establishments serving up high-proof tropical fantasy. Bostonist talked to president Hanky Panky and spokesbroad Pink Lady about their annual charity shindig.

The Archdiocese of Boston urges Catholics to hold off on the consecrated wine, lest they catch transubstantiated swine flu.

We were already wary of the suffix -tini, and now it's been combined with Twitter.

              

Gin distiller Desmond Payne is responsible for Beefeater and its fancy new offspring Beefeater 24. How told us how tea got in his gin, confesses a love of the Negroni, and makes us want "Monday Gin."

We're so glad that Lissa Harris, former editor at the Weekly Dig and eternal badass, has started a blog to catalogue what she calls "Women Do ____" stories. Apparently, women get and create tattoos, use electronics, and, according to the Boston Herald today, drink "manly" drinks like Scotch.

Friday, November 21, 7-11 pm, $45

LUPEC Boston, the local chapter of that august sisterhood Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails, celebrates the second edition of their Little Black Book of Cocktails tonight at Grand. (Further details here—there will be punch!) The book features Matt Demers's photography, which makes Boston's most attractive bartenders and cocktail enthusiasts look like Louise Brooks, pearls and all. The book's proceeds will benefit the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans’ Women’s Unit.

        

When Bostonist arrived at the Hendrick's-sponsored Beantown Bartender Battle last night, we found a table piled with gleaming cocktail shakers, cans of Barritt's ginger beer, copious bottles of gin, Pimm's No. 1, and our favorite saints, Germain and Elizabeth. And that was the tip of the iceberg.