Throughout the town on Friday, residents held on to the good news out of the nursing home — any good news, like the story of a woman who saw a neighbor she had presumed dead walk through the doors of the town's post office, which was open for business and became a sort of joyous gathering spot.
What if you wanted to research hazards in a specific sort of gathering place?
If, at around 10pm, Ellis did slip quietly into the basement of Concrete, a former industrial space reclaimed for the pleasure of the hedonistic twenty- and thirtysomethings who throng to London's Shoreditch on a nightly basis, he might not have immediately recognised the spectacle before him as a bookish sort of gathering.
They had been circling each other for aeons in a sort of mating dance, gathering pace with each orbit, hurtling closer and closer.
On April 30th, ANTIFA, the anti-fascist league, hold a sort of riot rehearsal, gathering in the bohemian district of Friedrichshain to listen to rubbish Oi -ska and shOi -skangs andut capitalishouting a complethingsl-saboutf an idea.
Meanwhile, in a club in Hell's Kitchen, the night before 9/11 is marked with a very different sort of gathering.
A sort of standard news-gathering app, News Pro is Microsoft's own take on something like Apple News, or the third-party app Smart News, perhaps.
Once of Blur, now a scorer of Chinese operas, Albarn also operates as a sort of one-man British Council, gathering up musicians from various continents and plonking them on stages together.
But the International Conference on the Eradication of Dracunculiasis, which drew hundreds of scientists, politicians and others here, is not the sort of gathering a capital city relishes holding.
Meetup.com acts as a sort of broker: it schedules gatherings at any of 16,000 spots, which, in turn, pay the site for the business.
