After the Unthinkable Happens in Dallas, Local Bars Became a Port in the Storm
Jonathan Everidge nurses his cocktail, eyes trained on the TVs above the bar, watching as CNN reports live from two blocks away.
"This feels weird," I mutter into my beer, and Everidge responds without taking his eyes off the TV.
"It's beyond weird," he says, sounding deflated. "It's surreal."
It's 5:30 p.m. on a Friday at City Tavern downtown — prime happy hour in a dark, wood-paneled bar that, by this time of day, is usually filled with suits and the downtown office crowd. But not today. Wi