Word: salooning
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...storm was capricious. At John's Bar & Grill in Evans City, 23 miles north of Pittsburgh, about 70 horrified customers hit the floor when a twister hovered overhead. The tornado razed surrounding buildings but spared the saloon...
Calls for spirits are the lowest ever at the superdeluxe Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles; wine accounts for 80% of sales. Patrons of New York City's most famous saloon, the "21" Club, are rattling the aged bar with their orders for such low-proof and nostalgic concoctions as kir royale--champagne sweetened with a spoonful of French black-currant liqueur. At Elaine's restaurant, an uptown Manhattan hangout favored by the likes of Woody Allen and Michael Caine, the wee-hours drinkers have evaporated; the bar empties "early," around 1 a.m. Commuters on the Long Island Rail Road...
Rickie Lee Jones: The Magazine (Warner Bros.). Rickie Lee Jones was unique and wholly left field even when she had a surprise hit, Chuck E.'s in Love, from her debut album back in 1979. She sounded like a saloon singer with Listerine in her shot glass and wrote songs that came off like juke joint Kerouac. This is only her third full album, and she seems bent on proving, quite unnecessarily, what she has already established: she is the most enterprising woman writer making records today. The Magazine, a spiraling cycle of songs organized around themes of loneliness...
...having a chat with the dead Henry David Thoreau: "Sex can be messy; art can't. That's why I've always preferred it." Then just about everyone shows up in Montana, where Louisa falls for General George Armstrong Custer, and Charlotte dallies with a Dietrichesque saloon singer who is really a man. They all die at Little Big Horn and go to heaven. And in the wink of a REM, the dream is over...
...take the full measure of itself. Now each pilgrim takes back a piece of his heritage, something that was overlooked when the possessions were divided before the move took place. (Here is a yellowed card, signed on Feb. 12, 1911, confirming membership in the "Abstinence Department of the Anti-Saloon League." It pledges abstinence, saying further that intoxicating beverages are "productive of pauperism, degradation and crime.") Faded photographs are particularly difficult to reject (this one has them roller-skating in Central Park during the Depression), as are imperfect potteries, one's own juvenilia. Each visit becomes a sort...