Brian Collins shared a project that made a splash during the two political conventions in Denver and St. Paul: CNN Grill, a smart take on your typical neighborhood sports bar, with big screens showing convention speeches instead of football games. CNN reporters and political figures made appearances, and the grill proved a fave among notebook/laptop-toting political scribes and bloggers (an AdAge report lauds the Charge Wall, where folks could use the free cell phones and laptops available or power up their own gadgets).

We loved how Collins described the project:

This new restaurant / broadcast studio hybrid opened at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions as a haven for finger licking and politicking.