"My nickname is Dr. Kevorkian Slow Death. I feed [people] alcohol, I feed them cigarettes, I feed them Viagra." By Eduardo L. Perro.

A cocktail bar owner has installed a Faraday cage in his walls to prevent mobile phone signals entering the building. By Sarah Knapton.

The only other person that I had known who possessed a similar charisma to Sunny Balzano’s was my first employer in New York: George Plimpton. Like Sunny, he both stood a head taller than most people and had such a distinctive bearing and manner that in a crowd, one’s eyes would fall on him first and naturally… By Tim Sultan.

A look at Southern Comfort’s history and the regulars who have made it a divey draw for decades. By Miranda Hawkins and Johnathon Kelso.

White Flint Mall, once the jewel of Rockville Pike, is history. A gleaming town center is rising on its ashes. But just across the Pike, the oldest bar in Montgomery County [Maryland] is still rocking. By Eddie Dean.