I don’t want to get all provincial, but Malone, NY* isn’t where I would expect to fine some fine entertainment and cocktails. Yet there we were, last Saturday, to see Phoenix Mendoza perform at Café Nouveau. He’s a hell of a storyteller, songwriter, and musician, and the cafe serves a hell of a cocktail.
*Malone, however, is known for being the possible-but-unlikely resting place of Dutch Schultz’s fortune.