Word: funkier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...BUNGALOW New Jersey's funky beach town of Long Branch got a whole lot funkier this summer with the arrival of the Bungalow, BungalowHotel.net. It's a 24-room hotel with Technicolor public spaces courtesy of hip husband-and-wife interior team Robert and Cortney Novogratz of Sixx Design. Rooms have names like Aloha and Kahuna and are starkly white with cowhide chairs and kitschy flea-market posters. Pool, table football, board games and cocktails are found in the Bungalow Lounge. And while there aren't many amenities in-house, guests can pay a small additional...
...gotten just about everything in there for the history of Harvard Square.” Those who have witnessed the changes to the Square said they have noticed an obvious trend. “I think it’s gone from being a little grungier and funkier to being a little more upscale,” said Lotman. Likewise, Robert S. Manning, a Boston resident for the past ten years, says he felt “a little bit of nostalgia for the quirkiness, uniqueness, idiosyncratic-ness of Harvard Square,” while perusing the book...
...Abercrombie is having other problems. "They were the quintessential American prep brand, but the world changed on them," says Edward Yruma, an equity research analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets. "We're living in the Gossip Girl era, where we're seeing some funkier fashions." Abercrombie's classic look went out of style, and the company is just starting to sell dresses, which have performed well. "I've noticed that my kids aren't open to anything Abercrombie these days," says one mother of two teenage girls...
...that song, it was obvious to everyone in the room that Ambulance was still on its wheels and had pushed its sound to a whole new level. The crowd began to loosen up, and it’s arguable that there was a greater response to the new, funkier songs than to the tried and true...
...must-stroll is Benefit Street, lined with colonial-era houses and grand Victorian mansions that radiate the wealth of the 1800s, when Providence was a jewelry and textile center. There's good people watching here, too: Providence is home to the liberal bastion (and the I-can-be-funkier-than-you students) of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. RISD boasts a small but fine museum whose eclectic collection includes classical statuary, paintings by Edgar Degas, Mark Rothko and Georgia O'Keeffe, and blown glass by alumnus Dale Chihuly. On the city's south side...