Word: dennings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Grendel’s Den, Koole says the ban could present the problem of people drinking outside...
Marianne Koole, manager of Grendel’s Den, sits at her bar with a drink. Laughing with patrons, she pauses to take a drag from her cigarette, blowing out the smoke slowly and sharply tapping...
...government doesn’t have the right to dictate whether I have the right to smoke or whether [an owner] has the right to allow smoking in his bar,” says Ram Mosher, the bartender at Grendel’s Den. “I’ll have to take smoke breaks, and it’ll be a pain...
...hour for a table at either place on weekends. The Gypsy serves beer and wine with its menu, while the Habibi serves no alcohol. Still, the latter's hazy, dimly lit lounge, with people sprawled lazily on animal-print couches, puffing away, evokes the decadent look of an opium den. "I have a lot of people come in and say, 'Are you smoking weed? What is that?'" chuckles Mickey Fathi, who co-owns the Habibi with his father Saad. "They kind of look at it like it's a bong or something...
...dinner. Lynne kicks off the discussion but is aware the group doesn't need much help, since there are few shrinking violets. "Smart people are naturally funny and clever." The Cheneys spend some nights at official events, like the Kennedy Center Honors, other nights eating off trays in the den and a surprising number of nights casually out and about. The Cheneys have even dined at the mecca of Georgetown limousine liberals, chez Ben Bradlee and Sally Quinn. The Cheneys are the most social of the Bushies, asserts Quinn, which she feels accounts for the relatively friendly press coverage...