come on in & leave your wallet on the bar!

A few shots from the scene of Sunday's crime...

Here's Barbara West & Pinky Gonzalez, two ladies looking foxy in fur...

Cigars? Cigarettes? Fancy Brandy selling fancy merchandise....

These two are smiling innocently, but someting tells me there's somethin' fishy goin' on with Contessa & Scott.

What a set of pipes on this broad! To listen & learn more, check out misstessmusic.com.

These two broads look like trouble with a capitol "T"...

More pictures to come...click here to see more photos!

what fun!!

Last night was a smashing success -- we're thrilled! Photos and final tally coming soon. If you missed the LUPEC Tea Party, you can still support Jane Doe Inc. by volunteering or donating to the cause.

Space is limited, so buy your tickets now!!!

the LUPEC BOSTON TEA PARTY

Sunday, October 7, 2007, 7-11 p.m.
on the Louisiana Riverboat at Lewis Wharf

The party starts at 7 p.m. on October 7th. Ticket price is $50/ person and will include stationary appetizers, cocktail party fare, and an open bar! All proceeds from the LUPEC BOSTON TEA PARTY will benefit Jane Doe Inc. in honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

• Sunday, October 7th from 7 – 11 p.m. on the Boston Sailing Center’s Louisiana Riverboat at the Lewis Wharf
• Ticket price is $50/person including stationary appetizers, cocktail party fare, and an open bar!
• Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting Green Street, 280 Green St., Cambridge, MA or Toro, 1704 Washington St., Boston, MA

Stop by Toro for "Industry Night" tonight and the chance to win 2 free tickets!

Flapper Jane and the LUPEC BOSTON TEA PARTY

What better way to celebrate women & cocktails than with a Jazz Age Speakeasy cocktail party?

The Prohibition Era was the golden age of cocktail culture, and it was also a fascinating moment in women's history. Women had just won the right to vote, they were eschewing corsets, bobbing their hair, and shortening hemlines. But these flappers were more than just party girls! They ushered in a whole new modern era for American women...all to the shock & disgrace of older generations.

In this very pro-flapper article published in The New Republic on September 9, 1925, Bruce Bilven introduces us to "Flapper Jane":

...how wild is Jane?

Before we come to this exciting question, let us take a look at the young person as she strolls across the lawn of her parents' suburban home, having just put the car away after driving sixty miles in two hours. She is, for one thing, a very pretty girl. Beauty is the fashion in 1925. She is frankly, heavily made up, not to imitate nature, but for an altogether artificial effect--pallor mortis, poisonously scarlet lips, richly ringed eyes--the latter looking not so much debauched (which is the intention) as diabetic. Her walk duplicates the swagger supposed by innocent America to go with the female half of a Paris Apache dance. And there are, finally, her clothes.

These were estimated the other day by some statistician to weigh two pounds. Probably a libel; I doubt they come within half a pound of such bulk. Jane isn't wearing much, this summer. If you'd like to know exactly, it is: one dress, one step-in, two stockings, two shoes.

A step-in, if you are 99 and 44/1OOths percent ignorant, is underwear--one piece, light, exceedingly brief but roomy. Her dress...is also brief. It is cut low where it might be high, and vice versa. The skirt comes just an inch below her knees, overlapping by a faint fraction her rolled and twisted stockings. The idea is that when she walks in a bit of a breeze, you shall now and then observe the knee (which is not rouged--that's just newspaper talk) but always in an accidental, Venus-surprised-at-the-bath sort of way.

This is a bit of coyness which hardly fits in with Jane's general character. Jane's haircut is also abbreviated. She wears of course the very newest thing in bobs, even closer than last year's shingle. It leaves her just about no hair at all in the back, and 20 percent more than that in the front... Because of this new style, one can confirm a rumor heard last year: Jane has ears.

Flapper Jane created quite a stir with her clothes, but her ideas were what really threw the older generation for a loop. Says Jane,

"Somebody wrote in a magazine how the War had upset the balance of the sexes in Europe and the girls over there were wearing the new styles as part of the competition for husbands. Sounds like the bunk to me. If you wanted to nail a man for life I think you'd do better to go in for the old-fashioned line: 'March' me to the altar, esteemed sir, before you learn whether I have limbs or not.'

"Of course, not so many girls are looking for a life mealticket nowadays. Lots of them prefer to earn their own living and omit the home-and-baby act. Well, anyhow, postpone it years and years. They think a bachelor girl can and should do everything a bachelor man does."

What is that they say about history repeating itself?

The ladies of LUPEC Boston have invented the following cocktail, honor of Bruce Belvin's ubiquitous Flapper Jane:

The Flapper Jane

1.75 oz Plymouth Gin
.5 oz Fresh Lemon Juice
.75 oz Wu Wei infused Simple Syrup
dash of Peychaud Bitters

Shake in a cocktail shaker, strain into a cocktail glass, and toast your own fabulousness!

We'll be serving these in tea cups at the LUPEC Boston Tea Party this Sunday! Come raise a Flapper Jane in honor of Jane Doe Inc.!

As if open bar wasn't enough...

...the food at the LUPEC BOSTON TEA PARTY is not to be missed!

Jamie Bissonette, Chef de Cuisine of KO Prime, Patrick Connolly, Chef de Cuisine of Radius, and Andres Grundy, Sous Chef of Clio will all be participating in the event, and will be preparing appetizers and light cocktail party fare for the evening. Lionette's Market will supply a plate of fine cheeses and Island Creek Oysters will offer a delicious raw bar.

Here are the details...

• Sunday, October 7th from 7 – 11 p.m. on the Boston Sailing Center's Louisiana Riverboat at the Lewis Wharf
• Ticket price is $50/person including stationary appetizers, cocktail party fare, and an open bar!
• Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting Green Street, 280 Green St., Cambridge, MA or Toro, 1704 Washington St., Boston, MA

Tickets on sale now!!!

Come on in, but keep a lid on it…we don’t want to alert the FUZZ to the…

LUPEC BOSTON TEA PARTY

When: Sunday, October 7, 2007, 7-11 p.m.
Where: the Louisiana Riverboat at Lewis Wharf

On October 7th the lovely ladies of LUPEC Boston will transform the Boston Sailing Center’s permanently docked Louisiana Riverboat at Lewis Wharf into a Prohibition-era Speakeasy for an evening of vintage cocktails, live music, dancing, delicious nibbles, and a prize raffle!

The party starts at 7 p.m. on October 7th. Ticket price is $50/ person and will include stationary appetizers, cocktail party fare, and an open bar!

Local jazz/blues diva Miss Tess will perform Jazz standards as well as her own "Modern Vintage" originals from 7 – 9:30 p.m.

A prize raffle will feature tons of hot prizes, including gift certificates donated from Stella, the Milky Way Lounge & Lanes, ZipCar, Magpie, apparel from thereadseat.com , a "Brix Pix" gift bag compliments of Brix, and more!!!

All proceeds from the LUPEC BOSTON TEA PARTY will benefit Jane Doe Inc. in honor of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month .

• Sunday, October 7th from 7 – 11 p.m. on the Boston Sailing Center's Louisiana Riverboat at the Lewis Wharf
• Ticket price is $50/person including stationary appetizers, cocktail party fare, and an open bar!
• Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased by visiting Green Street, 280 Green St., Cambridge, MA or Toro, 1704 Washington St., Boston, MA


About Jane Doe Inc.

Jane Doe Inc., The Massachusetts Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence brings together organizations and people committed to creating social change that addresses the root causes of this violence and promotes dignity and liberty for survivors. Jane Doe Inc. plays a leading role in shaping public policy through legislative action and policy development that will support survivors, hold offenders accountable and ultimately, make our communities safer. They are guided by the voices of survivors.

Currently, over 60 community-based sexual assault and domestic violence service and advocacy programs in Massachusetts comprise the membership of Jane Doe Inc. These independent non-profit organizations deliver comprehensive services to over tens of thousands of women, men and children every year, in every community across the Commonwealth. Crisis hotlines, emergency shelter, safe homes, legal and medical advocacy, educational and support groups, counseling, advocacy, safety planning, children's advocacy, economic development programs and transitional housing are just some examples of services available. Community education is also offered on an array of topics including sexual assault, teen dating violence, and the role of men in ending violence.

The work of the Coalition complements these life-saving prevention and intervention services, resources and advocacy. With its sixty member organizations, Jane Doe Inc. engages law enforcement, the courts, health care, housing and service providers to develop and promote best practices because every victim should have access to a range of high quality services, responses and options, in every community regardless of where they are in the state. The creation of the Men's Initiative for Jane Doe exemplifies its belief that men and boys are essential allies in the movement to end violence against women, men and children. Jane Doe Inc. works with survivors and advocates to break the silence and to dispel the myths that deny victims the right to safety, justice, and healing.


About LUPEC Boston

The Boston chapter of LUPEC (Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails) is a classic cocktail society dedicated to breeding, raising, and releasing nearly extinct drinks into the wild ( a.k.a. Boston-area bars and restaurants.) Founded in February 2007 by Misty Kalkofen of Green Street and ten fellow cocktail enthusiasts, LUPEC Boston is the city's first and only female-oriented cocktail society. The ladies of LUPEC Boston meet once a month to sample delicious cocktail creations from a bygone era, and educate themselves about the important and nearly forgotten forebroads who sipped them.

In addition to preserving our own personal Joie de Vivre by guaranteeing members one good cocktail party every month, LUPEC Boston strives to enhance and improve the lives of Boston-area women through fundraising events for local women's charities. LUPEC Boston partners with local bars and liquor purveyors to offer co-ed classic cocktail parties and special events. For more information about what we're mixing up around town visit http://lupecboston.blogspot.com.

The LUPEC Boston Tea Party

October 7, 7pm: Buy your tickets now for the first annual LUPEC Boston Tea Party! All proceeds benefit Jane Doe Inc. in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The night aboard a Louisiana riverboat will invoke Prohibition-era Speakeasies with the croonings of the talented & lovely Miss Tess, Art Deco inspired décor, and vintage cocktails served “on the sly”, in tea-cups. Vintage dress and creative cocktail attire is encouraged.

Tickets are $50, cash only and available for purchase at Green Street Grill (Central Square, Cambridge) or Toro (South End). Get there!

Meanwhile, keep drinking up for This One's for the Ladies!