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Good idea! I've been meaning to visit Remote Lounge for a long time now & this is a great incentive.

Recommendations? Genre's flexible. I know about the one at Filter 14, although I've yet to check it out.

Besides Avalon's own website, which seems to upload/maintain a pretty slim selection of photos, are there other websites where I can view Avaland pictures (as well as pics from other clubs/parties in Boston)? NYC has allnightclubs.com, for instance; is there something similar in Boston? I'm esp. interested in pictures/video-streams from the 7/12/02 event....

Where is it, what's the cover, is it a weekly party, and is it, like Rise, members-only?

that Louie DeVito's appearance at Avalon tonight will have gotten way more attention on the Boston board than Deep Dish's last night (which was stunning by the way). Would it be accurate to say that Boston has plenty of social clubbers but a paucity of musical connoisseurs? So many people were simply standing around while Sharam was quaking the universe. Are Bostonians more hesitant to dance than most? (Last night at Avalon/Axis was my first visit to a Boston club, so that's not just a transparent rhetorical question.)

That's okay... what about some chill dance clubs with decent music and good-looking, laid-back people? Emphasis on dancing, rather than lounging.

And how does someone without a friend/acquaintance who's a member get into it?

I'm back to Boston this summer after many years away. Have been spoiled by by the NY club scene (which despite all its pretentiousness and catatonias I still find plenty to enjoy about), and am already feeling oppressed by what appears to be the complete lack of partying gusto among my Bostonian peers. In the City my favorite places were Vinyl, Baktun, Centro-Fly (at least several months ago), and Filter 14. Apart from Avalon, which, sure, I'll drop by on the occasions they feature DJs I like, what other spots should I check out?

The one time I got a haircut with Giselle's hairstylist he recommended a product line called SENSCIENCE and for me it's been perfect. Leaves my hair frizz-less, matte, shiny. Best of all it's under 10 bucks.

Because Diesel began marketing itself extensively in mainstream media and successfully tapped into dull regressive suburban desires for the look of active urban futurism. As a result it's become the weekend wear of choice among investment bankers and prep-schoolers aspiring delusionally to nonconformism.

I second the suggestion about SEVEN (awesome fit) and MISS SIXTY. MARC BY MARC JACOBS jeans also have a 34" inseam, and EARL's inseams are typically 33.5". All of these retail for more than $100, but there are always sales... and eBay.

Agreed. Even the Diesel sample sale last month sucked, and the current ad campaign is remarkably boring. But you can still get good stuff from last year at Bluefly.com.

You can also see them perform on Saturday morning for free, according to the PSB website: PSB on 'Today Show, Weekend Edition' NBC News' 'Today Show, Weekend Editions' presents its annual Summer Concert Series, 'Saturday Today on the Plaza' beginning May 4th. Fans are invited to come down to 'Today's' Studio 1A in Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan for the live, free outdoor concerts every Saturday morning at 7 a.m. On Saturday, May 25th: We present the Pet Shop Boys. Fans can gather at the Plaza as early at 6 am for concert rehearsal and warm-up. The Today Show Plaza is located midway between 5th and 6th Avenues, and 48th and 49th streets.

I attended the first of their 6 shows (Wed. 8pm) and at the entrance I saw staff handing out tickets to people pretty liberally. That must in part have been because it was a Wednesday, but had you simply gone and waited at the door you might have gotten in. Tix reserved by those who didn't show up punctually were immediately redistributed. An amazing show: lovely music, lovely choreography, lush and outrageous costumes as expected. They'll be performing in London next, under the Bridge. What a spectacle that would be.

I have to admit, I appreciate the lyrics somewhat more than the music on this new album, but I do also quite like "Home and Dry" and especially "I Get Along." DISCOGRAPHY contains most of the classic PSB songs closest to my heart, so provisionally that's my favorite. And you?

True, their new album is a more rock-guitarry than synth-poppy, but the songwriting remains strong -- and there's no doubt they'll drop many of their 80s crowd-pleasers at the show. PSB fans are a devoted bunch; I'm looking forward to the singalongs.

yeah, I just found out yesterday and was surprised as well, as there doesn't seem to have been much publicity about it (at least in NYC). The world tour was launched a couple of days ago in Miami. NYC dates are 5/21 and 5/22 and tix still seem to be available for $48 through Ticketmaster. Check out more info at the PSB website: www.petshopboys.co.uk. This is such a rare event; I'm tempted to attend both nights....

...performs next Tuesday & Wednesday at Hammerstein. Is anyone going?

With regard to porto-johns, I'd recommend also that TOILET PAPER be restocked periodically.

Cracklin' Oat Bran, Frosted Mini-Wheats, and Maple Pecan Dream (one of those muesli/granolas found in natural food stores).

The DJs I saw were consistently amazing -- DB, S.S., DJ Dan, Sandra Collins, Max Graham, Derrick May, DJ Funk, X-Dreamer, Donald Glaude, Slick Rick, et al. (Missed Hawtin, unfortunately, because Slick Rick was on simultaneously and he was unmissable, and I thought I could catch Hawtin another time in a solo perfomance.) But I wanted to add that, apart from the performances, the crowd was pretty amazing too -- at least those not sitting idly outside, smoking up and dropping off. I'd rarely if ever seen so many people moving their bodies so energetically, whether it was slamming, hopping, stomping and thrashing about in the D&B tent or hopping, twisting, bouncing, flipping gravity-defying breaks in the hip-hop tent. It might be true that many of the kids there were out there just to enjoy 4/20, but in any case it was clear that they were feeling the music. Seeing those breakdancers in the last couple of hours in the hip-hop tent alone was worth my money. Did anyone else see them? And the fire-dancers were unbelievable as well. Sometimes I wish the kind of massive unified energy seen at these sorts of events could be harnessed for positive political change.

With tax it comes to $60+; via TicketWeb the end total is $56.50. I like CP but what's the advantage here? Will the line for picking up tickets be any shorter?

Money's tight these days and I probably won't be able to order tickets online until Thursday. Could anyone project whether tix will still be available then?

Okay; wish I could say it was a joke but it was just my idiocy. Sorry guys.

Yeah, weird how this wasn't publicized much on the board. Overshadowed, I guess, by the Tenaglia/Deep Dish bash.