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?

[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 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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

Hipsters and frat boys aren't even close to the same thing. I've never seen any hipsters at Sligo, just a bit of collegiate overflow from Joshua Tree, etc. ::shrug::

[antimony.livejournal.com]

I always heard it spelled out as young upwardly-mobile professionals.

But, then again, I'm from the part of the midwest where being yuppie means suburban, not urban, because white flight has hit so badly that young hipsters wouldn't set foot in what is actually considered the "city", and they stick to the inner-ring suburbs.

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

i don't know - i've always thought of yuppies as being sort of stuck up, having enough wealth to send even their dogs to daycare, involved in only their own lives - not really the way i think of the residents of davis square.

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

It's not really a bad thing. Having clawed my way up the socio economic ladder to middle class, I'm pretty damn proud to be yuppie, so whatever.

[ron_newman]

What part of the midwest? (Can't be Columbus, where my family lives, or Chicago.)

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

I would consider that persona to apply to the upper class, but I suppose it's all a matter of perspective. I would definitely think most Americans would label Davis Square yuppie, while Newton and Wellesley would be upper class neighborhoods. For instance, the upper class don't live in apartments.

[ron_newman]

If you want a genuine dive bar I think you have to get away from Davis Square (and not to Union Square, either).

[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

[cemeterygates.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I thought it was a bit much, it's mostly a self-deprecating comment to begin with. Deep breaths, people! lol

[nuns.livejournal.com]

'Yuppies' can also be "Young Upwardly-Mobile Professionals", and either way it is usually associated with people in their thirties, not college-aged people.

[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?