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How does Boston bartending legend and musician Brother Cleve spend his days during the pandemic? A lot less travel, and a lot more experimentation with drink recipes. “I’m always thinking about drinks, especially while I’ve got records playing,” the current beverage director/head bartender of Paris Seaport Bar and Creperie said. Brother Cleve got his start in the local bartending scene in 1988 at the George Lewis-owned Hoodoo Barbecue by Fenway Park. He spent the following years bringing back forgotten cocktails, crafting new menus, and launching the first weekly lounge music and coc...

Greetings cocktail fans! My name is Brother Cleve, and I’ve been drinking cocktails since the ’70s, and making them since the ’80s. As a musician and DJ, I spent most of my life touring around the world, eating and drinking local all along the way. (Some of you may remember The Del Fuegos, Barrence Whitfield, The I-Tones, and Combustible Edison, the world’s first “cocktail music” band.) I was arguably the first person in Boston to bring back classic cocktails at a time when everyone was ordering Sex On The Beach, Woo Woo’s, and Mudslides. Not many people cared back in 1988, but ...

Chandler Travis Philharmonic preps ‘Ivan Variations’ for release Updated Jan 25, 2021; Facebook Share As with all things Travis, this new project comes with a twist. “The Ivan Variations” consists of 12 wildly different versions of the same song. It will appropriately be released on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2. “Can this be done in an entertaining way?” mused Travis in an email. “Well, it sure entertains the hell out of us.” “Ivan” is a song from Travis’ second solo album “Ivan in Paris,” a track he describes as “almost an afterthought.” It has found new life with the...

Illustrator Ralph Steadman Makes Splashes and Blots That Bite At 84, the British artist surveys his career as a satirist and ‘Gonzo’ partner of writer Hunter S. Thompson. Ralph Steadman’s illustration ‘Lizard Lounge’ accompanied ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ when it appeared in Rolling Stone magazine in 1971. Photo: Ralph Steadman: A Life in Ink, published by Chronicle Chroma 2020 By Tobias Grey Jan. 8, 2021 2:00 pm ET The British illustrator Ralph Steadman often begins a picture with a splat of ink on a white page. �...

“And so this is Christmas,” sang John Lennon. This Christmas season was different for everyone. Events we have come to expect, those traditions we count on to make Christmas Christmas were not a part of Christmas 2020. With all our downtown events canceled, churches, restaurants and other venues closed or limited, we were left to make the best of a bad situation. And so this was Christmas 2020. I decided to celebrate Christmas in New Mexico with my sister. My brother-in-law Rex Gray passed away unexpectedly of a heart attack in August. Spending the holiday with my closest remaining ...