An Ode To One Of America's Best Dive Bars  You've probably never
heard of Bowling Green unless its college basketball team, the
Hilltoppers of Western Kentucky, has broken your bracket, one
year or another. The city sits between Louisville and Nashville,
and people drive there from all over southern Kentucky to eat,
to shop, and, most of all, to drink. That's the first thing to
know about Bowling Green: Kentucky's counties still divide
themselves into "wet" and "dry" camps, with the dry ones
prohibiting the sale of alcohol. Bowling Green's county is one
of those—except for the city itself, whose wetness makes it a
mixed county. The technical term is "moist."  The second thing
to know is that Bowling Green, pop. 60,600, is currently home to
one of the best music scenes in the country. It starts with Cage
the Elephant, a band that's young, popular, and good—three words
that almost never go together in modern rock. (Check out their
recent performance on Letterman, which got so rowdy it actually
woke Dave up.) Th