Tag: Star Liquor

• snort

  July 9, 2011

  booze, daily drivel, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play

  Here’s a fun thing to do on a Friday evening after work: Stop by the Old Sugar Distillery for a snort. We have a few brew pubs in town where you can pull up a chair and ask them to draw a frosty glass of beer brewed right on the premises, but up until the Read.

• New Year’s Eve

  December 31, 2010

  beer, Boo, booze, daily drivel, entertainment, food & drink, movies, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants, television, vacation, work

  Today’s New Year’s Eve so we get the day off because we’re state workers. It’s one of the benefits that are showered on us like confetti at a hero’s ticker-tape parade. I can’t wait to see how that’s going to change. Watch this space. But for now, we’re enjoying the day off: Sleeping in a Read.

• Star’s cellar

  March 16, 2010

  beer, booze, daily drivel, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, O’Folks friends, play

  The ides of each month are special here in the Madison area, particularly on Willy Street at the north end of the isthmus. On that glorious day, the fifteenth of each month, Star Liquor offers a fifteen percent discount on every bottle of wine in the store. Well, almost every bottle. I was helping My Read.