Word: raves
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...certainly wasn’t the first Saturday night they’d partied together. CityStep members rave that the organization has connected them to a close social network. “You spend such an inordinate amount of time with these people, it’s impossible that they wouldn’t become a big part of your social life,” says Executive Director Abigail...
...behavior some retailers are seeing in the soap-and-detergent aisle. "I don't like to use the word addiction, but customers become fanatical about this stuff," says Cindy Cooper, proprietor of 560 Main, the shop in Pleasanton where Kimberly Wendt replenishes her cleaning supplies. Customers "rant and rave," says Charles Conn, a merchandiser at Whole Foods Market in downtown New York City. "I hear them say that 'Mrs. Meyer's made me like doing the dishes...
...pseudo-academic jargon for “I should be able to turn up my music because I like it.” (Ideally, then, I’d live alone in a warehouse.) The fact is that most of this stuff comes from club and rave culture, where booming soundsystems are the norm. Below a certain volume threshold, it loses effect—thus meaning—completely. Leftfield drum & bass producer Equinox makes dub basslines so deep (below 30 Hz) they’re barely audible at high volume on standard speakers. They’re meant...
...hard to stick on an NHL roster, but after two years of playing mostly in the minors, Moore had finally done it and was earning rave reviews...
...woman comedic performance that was recently greeted with rave reviews in San Francisco. The show’s protagonist must portray an entire neighborhood’s worth of characters, all connected through a musical network of passion and poetry. The show explores such hot topics as homophobia within the black community, obscuring former boundaries and inducing laughs while discussing “sexuality, health, love, faith, and fear.” Includes performances by Kuumba, Baron Wright, Spoken Word Society, Oke Iweala, Shadow Box, the ’O5 Steppers, and Shanti Hubbard. 8:00 p.m. Tickets $7 general...