Lane DeGregory's A Matchmaker Named Katrina; Tom Hallman Jr.'s Bill Porter: Life Of A Salesman; Rick Meyers' 14 Tips For Building Character; a slew of stuff that won American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors honors in 2004; and, finally, Michael Brick making the Times' Shaken and Stirred column a must-read:
On a television screen above the bar, people named Tia Carrere and Maksim Chmerkovskiy whirled in "Dancing With the Stars." They smiled like idiots in pain. The regulars speculated on who would win and whether Ms. Carrere's costume would come off. They smiled like newfound friends, and they mentioned specialties of the house.
"Try the Long Island Iced Tea," Kim Birkett proposed. "That's how we got here."
"Here" was a place called pleasantly drunk. Jallow Wow, a Gambian barman, poured sneak attack drinks, sickly sweet salmagundis, the Waiting to Exhale and the Kiss Me to start.
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