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JULY 3, 2012 - JULY 16, 2012 WWW.STUFFBOSTON.COM COCKTAILS DRINK LIKE A CHAMPION | BEER + LIQUOR = BUZZWORTHY | HOLLYWOOD TREASURES THE WORLD’S BEST RUM. WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/10CANERUM THE BEST WAY TO DRINK IS RESPONSIBLY 10 CANE™ I MPORTED RUM, 40% ALC/VOL, 2011 IMPORTED BY MOËT HENNESSY USA., INC, NEW YORK, NY. july 3, 2012 – july 16, 2012 HOTS 6 GET ...this or that 7 ...seen 8 ...close 10 ...cultured 12 ...pretty 14 ...out 16 STYLE 20 FEATURE OLYMPIC SPIRITS 22 WAITER, THERE’S A BEER IN MY COCKTAIL! 29 FEED food coma 37 5 courses 38 stuff it 39 liquid 40 RESIDE 42 29 SEX 43 Can’t decide between beer or liquor? Have both. Here Noon Inthasuwan of Moksa prepares her Irish Dragon, one FLASH 44 of several cool concoctions featured in “Waiter, There’s a Beer in My Cocktail!” on page 29. Or maybe you need to quench an Olympian-strong thirst like our cover model (Shawn Sweeney of Maggie Inc.). He raced all the way to The DAVID NICHOLAS’S STUFF 46 Hawthorne in Kenmore Square, one of several spots featured in “Olympic Spirits” on page 22. LETTER FROM THE EDITOR fanning myself with back issues ask us, Boston has no shortage help me finally score an orange pie can only do so much. Sitting on of innovators who consistently slice in Trivial Pursuit.) And since the windowsill, just beyond arm’s raise the bar on cocktails, from even cocktail nerds can crave an reach and mocking me like a lineup inventive individual mixologists ice-cold beer when the mercury of little boozy dwarves, are several to collectives like the Greater rises, Liza Weisstuch investigated still-unopened liquor bottles Boston Beverage Society, which the increasingly prevalent trend of acquired in the course of lifestyle- is spending the summer planning beer cocktails. On page 29, she magazine research: some vodka, the Hub’s first city-wide cocktail explores the myriad ways — from some whiskey, some mysterious festival for October (a prospect that enhancing aroma and texture to unmarked bottle that, when has us, pardon the bad pun, totally adding new flavor notes — that uncapped, may or may not give buzzing). beer can be used to create killer birth to a bean stalk. You know, So we were able to find a mixed drinks. And the rest of the tools of the trade. number of delicious drinks that are issue runneth over with more It’s all I can do to resist perfect for sipping this summer. cocktail, style, and entertainment rewarding myself with a long pour Since you’ll probably spend the coverage. of — well, something. Because next few weeks glued to the tube Pour yourself something I need a drink. on a hot summer day, nothing (and next to the A/C) watching strong and enjoy. I plan to. Lucky I’m writing this letter on tastes better than a cold cocktail. athletes swim, cycle, and sweat for me, drinking on the job is all in a the first 90-plus-degree day of It doesn’t even have to be of their way to gold medals, Adam day’s work. the year. (I think. Have fun fact- the colorful Miami Vice variety, Tokarz penned “Olympic Spirits,” checking that one, Ms. Houton.) the type served poolside in fake a guide to sporty cocktails you’ll My office feels like a greenhouse, coconuts with miniature umbrellas find on page 22. (Along the way, Scott Kearnan and I’m as red as a tomato. I’m or Krazy Straws. Any will do, he uncovered a slew of fascinating Editorial Director not a hot-weather kind of guy, and provided it’s well-made. And if you sports-related factoids that will @TheWriteStuffSK <4> 7.3.12 Editorial Director: Scott Kearnan Senior Managing Editor: Jacqueline Houton Design Manager: Janice Checchio Staff Writer: Miles Howard Food Editor-at-Large: Louisa Kasdon Fashion & Beauty Editor-at-Large: Lauryn Joseph Contributing Writers: Kara Baskin, Marissa Berenson, Renata Certo- Ware, Cheryl Fenton, Jeannie Greeley, Meghan Kavanaugh, Heather Bouzan McHugh, MC Slim JB, Luke O’Neil, Erin Souza Contributing Photographers: Natalia Boltukhova, Lara Callahan, Kelly Davidson, Michael Diskin, Kim Gray, Tim Gray, Eric Levin, Gina Manning, Melissa Ostrow, Chris Padgett, Joel Veak Party Photographers: Derek Kouyoumjian, Erica Magliaro, Natasha Moustache, Michael Young Interns: Luke Milardo, Hilary Milnes Vice President, Sales and Business Development: David Garland Vice President, Print Media Sales: Marc Shepard General Sales Manager: Sean Weymouth Senior Account Executive: Luba Gorelik Account Executives: Nathaniel Andrews, Chris Gibbs Advertising Operations Manager: Kevin Lawrence Traffic Coordinators: Jonathan Caruso, Colleen McCarthy Director of Marketing and Promotions: Brian Appel Interactive Marketing Manager: Lindsey Mathison Director of Creative Operations: Travis Ritch Advertising Arts Manager: Angelina Berardi Production Artist: Kelly Wight Online Content Coordinator: Maddy Myers Senior Web Developer: Gavin Storey Director of Finance: Scotty Cole Circulation Director: Jim Dorgan Circulation Manager: Michael Johnson STUFF Magazine is published by the Phoenix Media/ Communications Group Chairman and Publisher: Stephen M. 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It involved a particularly, ahem, phlegmatic classmate and a wad of compromised construction paper during indoor recess. (Move over, Pollock?) But for its new summer collection, Boston T-shirt brand Regan Smith Clarke (regansmithclarke.com) was inspired by a different kind of nose art: the graffiti- like images that creative military personnel paint on aircraft. Though it’s still done today, nose art is mostly associated with military life in the early and mid– HOT 20th century, when pin-up girls and cartoon characters were especially popular subjects. (One famous example is a warmongering Mickey Mouse that German general Adolf Galland slapped on his Condor Legion.) The RSC designs hew mainly to such vintage-style illustrations, with bombs and missiles paired with goofy wolves and rabbits. If the Looney Tunes characters ever enlist, we have their uniform. Now, anyone know a fighter jet that drops Acme anvils? HOT STEPPING Forget breaking in high heels; HOT TEA if you ask us, transitioning into Ever wonder what the Boston Tea Party flip-flop weather is the more would look like in 2012? (Our wager: painful prospect. (Plus, there’s hashtags like #OccupyOolong.) At the the added embarrassment of Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum those mangled talons we hid (Congress Street Bridge, Boston, all winter long.) Luckily, Lush 855.832.1773), which opened in late June, (166 Newbury Street, Boston, it looks an awful lot like it did in 1773. 617.375.5874) just trotted out its Just in time for Uncle Sam’s birthday, the limited-edition package Happy museum has unveiled its centerpiece: Feet ($24.95), specially designed replicas of all three ships involved in the for sandal season. It includes the American Revolution’s precursory protest. Volcano Foot Mask for cleaning It also boasts impressive exhibitions of and deodorizing, Fair Trade artifacts, but the museum isn’t just for Foot Lotion for moisturizing, an field-trip day: at the onsite Abigail’s Tea exfoliating Stepping Stone, and Room, overseen by nationally known the Geo Phyzz Bath Bomb, which tea master Bruce Richardson, you can will soothe your achy feet (and pour a cup of tea inspired by the varieties the rest of you) with a mix of sea that our forefathers poured overboard. salts and medicinal Hawaiian Sounds steeped in history. clay. It’s the toe-tal package. HOT AND HOMESPUN The name M3 (382 Highland Avenue, Somerville, 617.718.6666) sounds awfully high-tech, like a secret government warplane or a men’s razor that shoots aloe — and laser beams. But the newly opened restaurant from chef Jason Owens has a decidedly low-fidelity feel and appeal. Owens, formerly of South Boston’s Local 149 and Newton’s The Biltmore, was inspired by his Nashville upbringing, and his grandmother’s recipes, to craft a menu of Southern comfort food: think she-crab soup, chicken and waffles, pan- fried catfish, and pig’s ear sandwiches. It’s served up in a 40-seat room of reclaimed- wood floors and countrified accents — pendant lights made from Mason jars, a pressed-tin ceiling, vintage wood-grain- vinyl trim, and a recycled ’50s-style fridge — that leave us feeling like we’ve found down-home deliverance from big-city bustle. Popping the top on a can of beer from M3’s selection of 20 doesn’t hurt, in that regard. Oh, and the name? It nods to the “meat and three” style of Southern diner, where patrons choose one main and three side dishes. Owens also offers composed plates inspired by childhood memories. Yum-mm. <6> 7.3.12 BottoM Photo BY MELIssA ostROW GET SEEN CLOSE CULTURED GETthis... Anyone can make a martini or mai tai with a plain old cocktail shaker. But it takes an artist with equal parts swagger and street savvy to wield the Graffiti Cocktail Shaker ($22).