This piece in the New Yorker caught my attention:

So Janet Reno was hanging out by the jukebox at Manitoba’s last Wednesday afternoon, down on Avenue B. She was sitting in a booth, sipping from a bottle of water, and staring straight ahead, in the direction of daylight, which there isn’t much of in Manitoba’s. She had on a black pants suit and moccasins. Her eyeglasses were a bit smudged. The owner of the bar, Handsome Dick Manitoba, the lead singer for the Dictators, the proto-punk band, had fed the jukebox with dollar bills, granting Reno credit for fifteen songs.

Read the entire "Talk of the Town" piece by Nick Paumgarten here......