Enough with the cosmos. The lady likes bourbon.
- Peggy Noe Stevens is on a crusade of sorts to empower women. It started in the late ’80s when Stevens, a Kentucky native, lived in Chicago. When she went out, her friends would order wine spritzers. She’d order her regular: bourbon on the rocks.
PAUL MCMORROW
Beer wars in Massachusetts
- The laws that govern beer distribution in Massachusetts are terribly backwards and rigged in ways that dampen competition.
BY THE GLASS
High-fidelity wines from Italy’s Campania region
- Winemakers want to claim terroir for their properties, but authentic terroir isn’t all that common.
Mass. residents more likely to binge drink
- Mass. was one of the states with the highest rates of binge drinking with nearly 22 percent of adults saying they overconsumed alcohol - compared with a national average of 17 percent.
Gift ideas for drinkers of spirits and liquors
- In the spirit of the season of giving, here’s a basic roadmap to help you navigate the liquor store.
Gather round with American wines at the feast
- For most of our history, cider and beer would have been the traditional accompaniment to the festive harvest suppers the Thanksgiving meal is intended to recall. It was only in the late 20th century that a new fault line in national values emerged over the question of whether roast turkey and a boiled turnip were better served by a bottle of red or a bottle of white.
Plonkapalooza: biggest values in little wines
Opinions by the glassful on what tastes best - red and white - and tops out at $12 at the register for your weeknight supper.
SJC will study rate of OUI acquittals
- The state’s highest court has opened a formal inquiry into whether the acquittal rate in drunken driving trials before judges, a rate that now eclipses 80 percent, is unusual and excessive, a step it called necessary to assure the judiciary’s integrity.
State to probe drunken driving acquittal rates
- The state’s highest court opened an inquiry following a Globe Spotlight investigation into high acquittal rates in trials presided over by district court judges.
SPOTLIGHT REPORT
For drunk drivers, a habit of judicial leniency
- When state judges hear OUI cases without a jury, they acquit the vast majority of defendants, no matter how blatant the alleged offense. It is one more way Massachusetts stands out nationally — for all the wrong reasons — on this crime.
