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...read, socialize and meet in an informal setting. These beautiful, frequently wood-paneled rooms are the sort of places Harvard plasters over its brochures, enticing naïve applicants with dreams of endless intellectual discourse in quaint, posh settings. In reality, however, most Junior Common Rooms are not hangout havens, but overflow rehearsal space. They are usually booked well in advance by homeless a cappella groups and roving theater productions...
DIED. MILTON GABLER, 90, record producer and founder of Commodore Records, the first independent jazz label; in New York City. Gabler ran the Commodore Music Shop, widely celebrated as New York City's most comprehensive jazz record store and a hangout for fans and musicians. In the 1930s Gabler began recording such artists as Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee and paired Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald for the first time on vinyl. In 1954 Gabler produced that seminal rock-'n'-roll tune, Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock...
...Hope's Oasis is among the first establishments of its kind in Vang Viang?a casually vibed hangout where foreigners can smoke ganja, drink beer and listen to early '90s house music. It's the sort of place you might expect to find on Khao San Road in Bangkok or in Ko Samui?and its appearance along with a few Internet caf?s means Vang Viang is in the initial throes of a tourism boom. Indeed, the first video bar has opened down the street. Martin Dillon hasn't even named his joint yet. But as the twentysomething Englishman sits...
...philosophy class ends, and several young men offer an impromptu campus tour: This lot is where the new high-tech center will be built. This circular driveway is the main outdoor hangout. And in this otherwise empty dormitory, a lone television set is playing. The TV, visible through a window, glows on, always tuned to the same channel, day and night. "After the second murder, they evacuated the building," says one of the students through an interpreter. "And they forgot to turn it off. Kind of eerie...
...idea began in Amsterdam at a hangout called the Supper Club, which features long beds for patrons to lounge on while eating finger food or grooving to a D.J. About two years ago, Miami's B.E.D. restaurant made its debut in South Beach, attracting celebrities from Oliver Stone to Matt Damon and holding events like Recovery Night, when staff members in hospital scrubs give massages and hand out vitamins. It didn't take long for Los Angeles to get hip to mattresses, as four places began offering different futon feeds...