You may not be able to afford to stay at the Magnolia, but that shouldn’t keep you from nabbing a drink in the hotel’s posh second-floor bar. There’s something almost ethereal about the place, which is decked out with plasma TVs and dozens of leather couches and chairs. There’s live jazz every evening, and a billiards room. A setting this luxurious doesn’t merely have a pool table. It has a billiards room.
This article appears in Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2007.