I'm Writing About Liberty

Ellen Forney’s sexy ‘hands’ paintings used to hang inside this bar above the sofas, making it seem as if cartoons were reaching through the walls to try to finger the furniture.

Boring poster art replaced ‘hands,’ but nothing else has changed: plush couches are still available to intensify the warm sinking feeling after a particularly strong ginger-cucumber concoction and good bar music makes rather run-of-the-mill epiphanies sound profound.