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Almost every major grassroots-turned-pop trend in recent history has had, at its center, a basement or a nightclub in which the phenomenon was born. ’77 punk had CBGB’s; Grunge had Seattle’s Crocodile; Berkeley punk had the Gilman St. Theater. And so Harvard must have its share of venues...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Inside the Campus Band Establishment | 10/10/2003 | See Source »

...always had an image of myself playing in a nightclub and some small, bearded man in the back saying, ‘Hey, that’s a great song. Got any more?’” Flaherty said. “Sure enough, one night we were playing a number from Bedazzled, and there was a small, bearded man in the back saying, ‘Hey, that’s a great song. Got any more?’” Flaherty said. “Sure enough, one night we were playing a number...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Ragtime' Composer, Lyricist Talk Shop, Life | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

...This is a wonderful moment for us here in Cambridge,” said Cambridge Chief Public Health Officer Harold Cox, who addressed a packed crowd at Toad, a Porter Square nightclub. “We’ve been working on this in incremental steps since 1975...I know how hard this...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: At Bars, Anti-Smoking Advocates Toast Ban | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...cause of all this carnage is gaijin hubris?the belief, embraced by foolish foreigners, that one can get away with anything in Japan. Jessica Romano, a blond-bombshell nightclub hostess from Chicago, and Chris Ryan, a Floridian slacker and small-time drug pusher, have a particularly bad case. And who can blame them? Jessica spends her nights tending to infantile businessmen at a posh, Osaka club. Chris, a nobody back home, finds himself treated in Japan "like he was Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt"?after two months he has already bedded a dozen girls. So when Jessica hatches a scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bedeviled | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...stationing of so many well-armed troops in Kathmandu Valley has made some in the capital complacent. This week the Miss Nepal 2003 contest will go ahead as planned in Kathmandu. And in a bizarrely bold move, a new city-center nightclub, called Platinum, aimed specifically at Nepal's high society, is also due to open this month. "A lot of people still believe the risk is not real," says Bhandari, the media mogul. "There's a degree of denial. History tells us there are always parties and merriment just before regimes fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living On the Brink | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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