Last week, F.O.W.D. Ryan Weaver expressed dismay about the Herald's sassy, schlocky Women Drink Drinks article. I concurred. Can't we get some smart coverage of the Boston cocktail scene up in this proverbial bitch?
Well, looky here!* It's a recent article about the very same Boston cocktail scene, featuring the very same Misty Kalfoken. Only it's well-written, knowledgeable and appears to have an actual point beyond "dude, girls drink something other than melonballtinis."
Proving only, perhaps, that trade mags written for people who actually care about stuff are kicking the newspapers right in their grey, saggy arses.
Nightclub & Bar Magazine: 1; Herald: 0.
*Tip of the hat to UHub.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
"STOP THE PRESSES. WOMEN DRINK SCOTCH."
I am not going to go to town skewering the Herald's story today concerning the tendency of certain women to drink decent cocktails. Why? Because Ryan Weaver beat me to it!
Like me, Weaver is a fan of the good works of LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails), who are profiled in the story. I have Misty Kalfoken to thank, personally, for the joy that egg drinks have brought into my life. It's so dismaying to watch people who are good and decent and newsworthy even without their female bits get sucker-punched by a Women Do story. Here's Weaver's take:
...We have riffed with the genius Misty Kalkofen at her former post at Green Street, and rubbed elbows with Toro's Kirsten Amann (the female Scotch drinker in this piece) at Eastern Standard. Which is why we think they deserve better than a very belated Herald's article (which amounts to "dude, girls drink something other than melonballtinis?!")...
...Here's to more coverage of Boston's cocktail scene in general in 2009—in which the women who are the backbone of said scene aren't seen as exceptions, but rather the rule.
Right on.
Also, "Raising the bar"???? That the best you got, nameless Herald headline-writer? Feh.
Like me, Weaver is a fan of the good works of LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails), who are profiled in the story. I have Misty Kalfoken to thank, personally, for the joy that egg drinks have brought into my life. It's so dismaying to watch people who are good and decent and newsworthy even without their female bits get sucker-punched by a Women Do story. Here's Weaver's take:
...We have riffed with the genius Misty Kalkofen at her former post at Green Street, and rubbed elbows with Toro's Kirsten Amann (the female Scotch drinker in this piece) at Eastern Standard. Which is why we think they deserve better than a very belated Herald's article (which amounts to "dude, girls drink something other than melonballtinis?!")...
...Here's to more coverage of Boston's cocktail scene in general in 2009—in which the women who are the backbone of said scene aren't seen as exceptions, but rather the rule.
Right on.
Also, "Raising the bar"???? That the best you got, nameless Herald headline-writer? Feh.
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