Word: frumin
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Sporting a navy blue pullover and designer jeans, Frumin sits by a window at Europa before HSU, surveying the action as club staff prepare the venue and stock the bars. With no partygoers at the moment, the three adjacent rooms of the club Europa—dance floor, pool room and lounge—appear like hollow red caverns. As a club staff member walks by, Frumin stops him, asking, “When is this thing starting up?” “We don’t expect people until at least...
After deciding to host HSU, Corker, who co-chairs Mather HoCo and knew Frumin from the House’s winter formal, met with him to discuss a venue, the projected number of guests and ideal dates. The rest was left to Universal, which formally hosts the party and assumes insurance responsibilities in lieu of the University. “[Clients] come up with the theme, we give the direction,” Frumin says. “They tell us if they want a DJ, a band, a coat check or transportation.” Once a venue...
...It’s a mistake!” one forcefully claims as he is led by burly bouncers down Europa’s steep staircase entrance and out the door. One bouncer replies, “You took a chance and you lost.” Frumin grins...
More than simply a liaison, however, Frumin manages roughly 30 different area venues and holds exclusive management rights over Roxy, Matrix, Aria, Venu and Veronique, among others. “Basically, any event that happens at [one of those properties] has to come through us,” he says. On the same Monday night as HSU, Frumin has two other events in the vicinity—a concert by progressive rappers Atmosphere at the Roxy and a Jimmy Fund benefit, hosted by Tufts’ Theta Delta Chi fraternity, at the neighboring Matrix. Around 11:30 p.m., Frumin leaves...
Before heading back to HSU, Frumin takes a quick peek at the Matrix event, for which he has donated the use of the facility for the night and arranged complimentary bus transportation. The Tufts party is “just warming up” as a small, brightly-dressed crowd trickles slowly into the Jetsonian dance area, immersed in the ambience of DMX’s “Party Up.” Leaving the Matrix, Frumin notices yet another underage patron, this one dressed in a fishnet top and tight black pants, in trouble with...