Note to Magazine Writers

From The Atlantic:

In early February I sat in a Starbucks in downtown Washington with Dan Feldman, who is helping to organize Senator John Kerry's foreign-policy team.

If you are going to mention where you met for your interview, you better damn well be sure it's an interesting location or, in the very least, has some relevance to your story. The local Starbucks doesn't cut it. Sorry.

This and the "light streamed through the window" are possibly the goofiest magazine writing cliches around.