Posted This Week In Booze: Drink, Sparks, Hobos to Bostonist
Hobotime. Rachel Maddow and Bostonist have a thing in common: “I go to Drink and I drink.” [Herald] The FDA is cracking down on caffeinated booze. Bostonist does not mourn the demise of Sparks, but we hope the feds keep their hands off our Cuba libres and coffee flips. [Brookston Beer Bulletin] Some bar called Lord Hobo opened. [Bostonist] As did a very nice wine shop in Central Square. Beside a well-curated wall of...
Posted Tiki, Bashed: LUPEC's Luau In Pictures to Bostonist
We sipped Painkillers (active ingredient: Pusser's Rum) and double-fisted
Ken-Tikis, and admired fezzes.
Posted This Week In Booze: Questionably to Bostonist
Chuck Bass has opened a speakeasy (on television). Is the speakeasy is over (for real)?
Posted Tiki Bash: Help Women In Need By Wearing Loud Clothing and Drinking Loud Drinks to Bostonist
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.
Posted This Week In Booze: If You Build It to Bostonist
When life gives you beer cartons, make beer carton libraries.