Reuters:
New Orleans museum exalts the art of the cocktail.
Ted Haigh was fascinated by Hollywood's portrayal of cocktail culture even when he was well shy of legal drinking age. (more...)

Washington Post:
'Cocktail Geeks' to the Rescue.
The sixth annual Tales of the Cocktail, held here last weekend, was a mix of academic conference, trade show and, as one bar owner called it, "Star Trek convention for cocktail geeks." (more...)

New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Mastering Tales of the Cocktail with a clear head.
So many seminars, so little time. So many sips, so little capacity.(more...)

New York Times:
In the Big Easy, two cocktails reign.
I’VE been leafing through a bunch of cocktail manuals recently. Aside from the vicarious pleasure, I’ve been trying to figure out the logic of the Louisiana legislature, which, apparently having finished its work with the Hurricane Katrina cleanup, has moved on to the pressing business of selecting an official cocktail for the city of New Orleans. (more...)

Chicago Sun-Times:
Summer sippers.
Your home garden holds the makings for some tasty seasonal drinks (more...)

Chicago Herald :
Shake things up with a Raleigh Collins.
Michael Waterhouse, of Manhattan's Devin Tavern, concocts a summer sipper (more...)

Chicago Tribune:
Museum raises glass to the cocktail
Buzz about the grand opening of the Museum of the American Cocktail space in New Orleans ramps up. (more...)

ABC News :
More coverage of the Museum's opening.
In New Orleans, cocktails are serious business. What better town for a temple to the tasty history of the American libation? Many outsiders may get their idea of the Big Easy's cocktail culture from the jumbo-sized plastic cups of punch slugged down by tourists on Bourbon Street. But the Museum of the American Cocktail opening in July will focus on the rich history of sophisticated drinks that have been served since Thomas Jefferson was president. (more...)

Washington Post :
I'll take Manhattan.
H.L. Mencken famously called the martini "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet." The sonnet, as anyone who took freshman English may remember, is a poem with a specific meter, a structure of exactly 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme. This being the age of free verse, no one writes sonnets anymore. Which is just as well, since almost no one reads poetry anymore. (more...)

San Francisco Chronicle:
Readers' Platform: The cocktail divide.
The June 27 Wine section cover story, "The cocktail divide," started a vibrant discussion about cocktails on the comments of the article online. Here's a selection: (more...)

Hartford Advocate:
Bartender Buddha.
A few questions for Connecticut bartender Jennie Lackey. (more...)

San Francisco Chronicle:
The cocktail divide: West Coast and East Coast cocktail cultures couldn't be more different - right?
The cocktail divide: West Coast and East Coast cocktail cultures couldn't be more different - right?
Like true sons and daughters of the hippie generation, the young bartenders of San Francisco tend toward organic cocktails filled with homegrown this and hand-fed that. Their creative juices are sweetened only with the pure agave nectar.(more...)

Wall Street Journal:
No kidding, it's good.
Loretta Lynn's 2004 disc, "Van Lear Rose," was a remarkably modern-sounding record for the country-music veteran, thanks to the production and guitar-work of the White Stripes' Jack White. But for all the fashionably zitherish keening of the guitars, the CD's most popular song starts off with a paean to an anachronistic drink. "Well, Portland Oregon and Sloe Gin Fizz," sings the coal miner's daughter, "if that ain't love then tell me what is."(more...)

Concierge.com:
Tales of the Cocktail 2008
Tales of the Cocktail is creeping up, and tickets are still available for the New Orleans food and drink (or, rather, drink and food) festival.(more...)

News Tribune:
Brazilian cocktail Caipirinha catches on.
For 21 years I’ve watched this lovely little cocktail coyly circle the bar hoping to be noticed. When you marry a Brazilian, the potent lime and sugar cane cocktail automatically becomes the house drink. But it’s only in the last year or two that the caipirinha has been showing up on local bar menus.(more...)

STLtoday.com:
KC pub crawl proves illuminating.
An Irish lass jigged on a tabletop. A cowgirl in a black bra danced on a bar. At the club next door, guys and girls with spiked hair and inked bodies writhed to a pulsating techno beat.(more...)

Examiner.com:
Meet your mixologist.
his week, everyone here at Team Cocktail is a little sweet on bartender Robert Schramm. He keeps the masses happy at Slide, the former speakeasy so named because you can actually take a slide from the second level to the first. (more...)

On June 24th, the Museum of the American Cocktail displayed an exhibit of cocktail menus and memorabilia at the RumFest Rum and Rhythm Celebration, which was part of a larger event, the First Annual Caribbean Tourism Summit.  The Summit was held in the International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., and featured exhibits, cuisine, presentations, seminars, a silent auction, live music and dancing, all with the theme of the islands of the Caribbean, tourism, and trade promotion.  Many Caribbean nations were represented, as were many of their excellent rum producers, including Martinique, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Bermuda, Anguilla, Curacao, and several others.  Several hundred people were in attendance.

Phil Greene represented the Museum with a portion of his menu and memorabilia collection, offering about 35 priceless examples of 1930s, '40s, '50s, and '60s era menus, booklets, bar guides, matchbooks, coasters, and other memorabilia, including a 1940's copy of the Trader Vic Bartender's Guide, a 1941 menu from Don the Beachcomber, two 1930's menu/booklets from La Floridita in Havana, several items from the Roosevelt Hotel and Pat O’Brien’s in New Orleans, and many, many others.  Phil plans to incorporate several items from his collection into the live exhibit in New Orleans, as well as make all of them available for viewing as part of a virtual exhibit on the Museum's Web site.

Phil’s participation in the Carribean Tourism Summit was courtesy of Dori Bryant and The Polished Palate™ (www.PolishedPalate.com), which did a tremendous job in staging the successful RumFest Rum and Rhythm Festival.

Shreveport Times:
More trouble for the 'official state cocktail.'
Some Louisiana legislators balk at naming the Sazerac the offical cocktail of the state. (more...)

Boston.com:
Mr. Cocktail?
When it comes to the art of bartending, Jackson Cannon sets the standard in Boston. (more...)

amNewYork:
Molecular cocktails' break into New York's nightlife.
Calcium chloride, carbon dioxide, liquid nitrogen -- you wouldn't expect the stuff that you played with in chemistry class to find its way into your evening cocktail. Yet creative mixologists around the city are using science to invent new drinks for their menus. (more...)

MetroMix:
Cocktails & (sepia-hued) Dreams
Clover Club's Julie Reiner serves swizzles, royales and other old-timey drinks to thirsty Brooklyn. (more...)

Examiner.com:
Meet Your Mixologist: Jackee Princeau
In a saloon town such as San Francisco, the bartender plays a crucial role. Confessor, friend, sounding board — the man or woman behind the plank sees to it that our needs are met with elegance, grace and often wit. (more...)