What sort of mixed beverage could serve as a metaphor for the current state of the union?
"Oregon pinot noir and Four Loko, about one part of the former and four of the latter."
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Two Boston joints have made GQ's Top 25 Cocktail Bars in America. [Eater]
The Dresden Dolls will reunite for a 10-year anniversary tour, including two nights at the Wilbur Theatre. [Boston Music Spotlight]
Today a park lamp powered by doggie doo-doo, tomorrow the Citgo sign. [Boston Herald]
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Brutal shaking is essential to the construction of many proper cocktails and, as an added bonus, makes bartenders make faces. Combier Liqueur d'Orange has invited Boston's mixologists to show off their best "shaker faces" at the Franklin Cafe in Southie (152 Dorchester Ave.) from 7 to 10 pm this evening. The public is invited to gawk at displays of liquor-agitating prowess and partake of the drink specials that so endear the Franklin Southie to us.
Today is National Punch Day. Bostonist isn't sure why or by whose decree, but we're told that it'll be properly observed at Green Street in Central Square, Cambridge. The Punch Party starts at 9 pm this evening, with $4 glasses of punch containing Bols Genever.
Tonight at the Franklin Southie, you're invited to show your support for the Nineteenth Amendment (and your implicit disdain for the Eighteenth) with delicious & affordable cocktails featuring Bols Genever and St-Germain elderflower liqueur. Never mind that prohibition and women's suffrage went hand-in-hand: Ladies United For The Preservation of Endangered Cocktails is doing their best to make up for that. [Facebook]
- Tipsy Cocktail Stirrers combine four garnishes into one very long garnish. You might see it as an all-purpose solution, but Bostonist sees it as a challenge: can we outdo this thing with some sort of garnish turducken? Lemogerkolinionento, a pimento-stuffed onion crammed in an olive, jammed into a gerkin, ensconed by a lemon peel. It wouldn't go with much, so you'd have to just cover it with some nondescript vodka and call it the Lemongerkolinionentotini. [The Kitchn]
Five of Boston's ascendent bartenders shook, stirred, muddled, ignited, danced, and sang their cocktails.
Carl Sutton and his formidable moustache are in town to help you taste the freshest vermouth you can get without chamomile-infusing it yourself.
Rachel Maddow on political cocktails, and Josey Packard on the Rachel Maddow Show.
“And remember, martinis do not contain vodka.”
There is bar so secret that we found out about it through its Facebook page.
- 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]
When life gives you beer cartons, make beer carton libraries.
Bostonist had heard all sorts of things blamed for the shortage of this cocktail staple: bottling mishaps, distribution issues, politics, and, shaking a fist in the direction of Brooklyn, the recent fad of formulating beverages that contain whole ounces of bitters per serving.
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.
Spring has come to Boston and with it, graduation season. And with graduation season come the herds of parents, siblings, and friends who want to take part in the big celebration and to seemingly annoy the hell out of every graduate in the city. We at Bostonist pondered this problem for a while and thought, “What better way to ease the tension than to drink?” We realize that liquor is not the answer to all of life’s problems, but having a place to go to entertain the masses will certainly help solve this problem at least.
The bartenders at Drink, in South Boston, are friendly enough that they have indulged, on several occasions, Bostonist and our entourage when we posed a series of "garnish challenges," wholly unreasonable demands to match a cocktail to something outlandish or much less classy than their usual Luxardo cherries or Cynar ice cubes. Circus Peanuts or beef jerky, for example.
This Bostonist owns many a compact, black and white volume of cocktail recipes, with small type and bare diagrams. Mixologist, booze consultant, and Museum of the American Cocktail founder Dale DeGroff's new book is, by contrast, a large, typographically lush (and generally lush) book of cocktail recipes with near-pornographic photography of perfect drinks, shivering in their garnishes. The Essential Cocktail is lovely, and, if we learned anything from its launch party at Drink on Monday night, you should take its commands seriously, including its injunction to flame those orange peels.
Cheap Mexican food is easy to find, but cheap sit-down Mexican is not so forthcoming. Luckily, Fajitas & 'Ritas in Downtown Crossing offers south-of-the-border eats with less cafeteria-style ambiance. Whether you're looking for appetizers and pitchers of margaritas or a full meal, there's plenty on the menu that will satisfy.
Join Fangela Fangula and about 700 other folks in the Boston Guerrilla Queer Bar project tonight as they take over a predominately straight bar. The action begins at 9pm tonight at the Cask 'n Flagon, 62 Brookline Ave Tequila Rain, 145 Ipswich St, in Boston. Flirt, skulk, dance, and show off those beautiful canines of yours. Gorilla-themed costumes are of course encouraged.
--Someone found violent messages in women's bathrooms, along with the date of February 28 (tomorrow), at Bridgewater State. Given recent violent incidents on college campuses nationwide, the school boosted security. Police are offering a $500 reward to find out who did it. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald]
The mayors of Boston and New York City, Mayors Menino and Bloomberg, are engaging in the standard "friendly wager" based on the outcome of the Super Bowl. If you compare the two lists, it's pretty clear which city has the better food options, and we're not talking about the Big Apple here:
Now that absinthe is legally available for sale in the US, the green fairy has landed on cocktail menus in Boston. Bostonist went to a couple local bars recently to try out the storied liquor of artists and poets. First, we tried out a more-or-less classic absinthe preparation at Kingston Station. It’s an interactive cocktail, and very pretty—you pour a bottle of spring water over a sugar cube sitting on top of a slotted spoon. The sweetened water trickles through a glass filled with ice and drains into a second glass, which holds your shot of absinthe (Kingston Station uses Kübler brand). As the water hits the absinthe, it becomes opalescent. Preparing the drink is maybe more fun than drinking it—the anise flavor is intense, and it is so strong (even when watered down) that it actually numbed our throats a little. Some of us loved it (the types who buy Good & Plenty candy), while others thought you might as well use NyQuil as a mixer. It’s definitely not for everyone. A couple guys down the bar from us ordered absinthes, each took one sip, and promptly ordered backup beers.
--Where have all the gay bars gone? Robert David Sullivan writes that we should be concerned about their disappearance: "In the Boston area, many of Harvard Square's bookstores, Kenmore Square's student eateries, and myriad other places that guaranteed a diverse urban experience have closed their doors, replaced by a far more uniform lineup of bank branches, chain stores, and upscale restaurants." A must-read. [Boston Globe] --If you haven't noticed with the cold temperatures and long...
-- The Mashpee Wampanoag celebrated federal recognition yesterday. "We are not celebrating Thanksgiving," said Shawn Hendricks, president of the tribal council. "It's not one of the better holidays for us. Columbus Day, that's not our top holiday, either." -- The sprinkler law is full of holes. Only 22 Boston bars have installed sprinkler systems. The rest remain as flammable as before. -- Pot advocates gathered 105,000 signatures, enough to get a decriminalization initiative on...
The Thomas Crown Affair and The Friends of Eddie Coyle Brattle Theatre, Harvard Square, Cambridge Wednesday-Thursday Showtimes and tickets Millionaire Beacon Hill residents have a lot of time on their hands. Who can blame them if they use it plotting bank heists? Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), which screens tonight and tomorrow at the Brattle, doesn't point any fingers. It's a schizophrenic movie with a paper thin plot and a clumsy script. Thomas...
MC Slim JB at Boston Magazine just did a piece about the wave of gentrification in the South End. People with obscenely expensive tastes are either moving in or visiting too much, and the prices are going up. Not only do the new residents like to throw money around, but they also look tacky doing it. One woman quoted in the piece proclaims, "The only cool people [at the Beehive] are the bartenders—half the...