BostonNOW Ran my Pub Review

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

I've been submitting to the local BostonNOW paper these last few months and they ran my little review of Sligo Pub in this morning's edition. Here's the original submission, before the editors censored my gritty description of the townies:

Get Your Dive On: Sligo Pub

You’ll either love Sligo or you’ll hate it. It’s somewhat creepy that this old-school bar exists in the middle of Davis Square, arguably the most yuppie place on earth, and perhaps that’s why it seems like such a refuge. This is not a hip rockabilly pretending-to-be-a-dive-bar, it’s the real deal. You’ll find a handful of aging townies drinking themselves to death between their insulin shots, and they’ll get the first service from the bartend, but they’ve earned it. If you want to go in solo, frontload the juke with Johnny Cash, and sigh into your three buck beer on a Monday afternoon, I highly recommend Sligo Pub, 237 Elm Street in Davis Square.

Comments

[ron_newman]

And what text did they actually run?

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

They ran the whole thing except the third sentence that starts, "You'll find a handful of aging townies..."

I'm fine with the edit, it's a pretty casual affair, but I still thought that was the best part!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I guessed that's what they took out as I read it. :-)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting published!

Interestingly, though, every time I've popped into Sligo, I've found it infested with apparent frat-boy types. I wonder if it's a night-of-the-week thing.

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

They tend to overflow into Sligo on night's when Joshua Tree is full or there's "a game on." But most of the time it's just the regulars.

[ron_newman]

That's what Mike's felt like when I went there to watch the end of ALDS Game 3 Sunday night.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

I agree--it's not really what it was 5 years ago.

[komos.livejournal.com]

You mean the gaggles of hipsters who visit what used to be just a solid neighborhood pub so they can have a "genuine dive bar" experience?

Yeah.

Um.

Yeah.

[jspazzer.livejournal.com]

"Davis Square, arguably the most yuppie place on earth"

Excuse me? Do you have any idea what a yuppie is? Go take a walk in Wellesley or Weston, and don't you dare call Davis Square full of yuppies.

[ron_newman]

the "u" in Yuppie stands for "urban". Nothing urban is found in Wellesley or Weston.

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

The y-u-p in yuppie stands for Young Urban Professionals... that's the vibe in the square the last five years I've been living around here. Surprised that you'd disagree. We do have some Tufts students and a handful of artists, but it's pretty Yup.

[komos.livejournal.com]

Davis Square IS full of yuppies.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Sad to say, I agree with the etymology above. I've spent a lot of time biking in Wellesley and Weston, and I teach a lot of kids who live there, and I wouldn't call those folks yuppies -- just really rich. "Yuppie" != "rich".

I was pretty disturbed the day I realized I'm a yuppie. But...well...I'm 29, I live in Somerville, and I'm a teacher. 3 for 3, eh?

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

You calm down with your "don't you dare" threats. She can call Davis Square full of green weasels if she wants. She has just as much right to an opinion as anyone else.

-Moderator, an aging yuppie in Davis Square

[ifotismeni]

oh man, i live in davis and am TOTALLY a yuppie, as are all my neighbors and many of my friends. what davis do you live in?

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

I agree with jspazzer's definition. Yuppies need to be wealthy, drive Volvos, and spend lots of money on expensive stuff. This from the American Heritage dictionary:
yuppie: A young city or suburban resident with a well-paid professional job and an affluent, materialistic lifestyle.

This from Merriam-Webster:

yuppie: a young college-educated adult who is employed in a well-paying profession and who lives and works in or near a large city

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

Yesyes. For "just sitting and drinking" I usually prefer the Sligo. Like pheromone notes, sometimes it's full-to-overflowing with fratboys, but those are nights for being home anyhow.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Davis Square isn't "full" of Yuppies.
I'd call it about half Yuppie.
And half Hippie.

With a few beatniks thrown in for good measure.

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

LOL! Most of the hippies I know in the square are actually fairly well-to-do professionals who try really hard to hide it. Yippies?

[unsi-sempai.livejournal.com]

Heh, they liked it so much, they ran it today, too!

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

I laughed so hard when I saw it - they included the formerly omitted line this time - they must have a mole in the davis_square community!

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

I would say that in Davis there's a sort of a Paper Rock Scissors game going on of Yuppie/College types, Hippie types, and Families/Townies. I would definitely say that heading towards Porter/Cambridge, it yuppifies more.

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

I think it's a great dynamic, all things considered. That's why I choose to live here. There is a good saturation of yuppies to keep the economy stable and the indie businesses running, as well as enough free spirits to give it charm. Still, it's a high Young Urban Prof ration to the others for sure!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I find those categorizations strange, since I think most of the families in Davis are yuppies (or aged-out yuppies), not townies. College/Hippie is a more natural grouping, imho.

The group I'd most want to be rid of (or at least cut down on) are the college types. Summer is the nicest time of year. :)

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

I missed the cut-up version in the paper and now wonder how they managed to edit that into an ungritty cut.