Beijing's most famous street-ball venue, Dong Dan consists of two dozen or so half-courts flanking a large soccer pitch.
This year's festivities will be cause for special celebration: In March, the ball and its venue, Pioneer Hall, were honored with a Texas Historical Marker.
Student-heavy throngs fill the domed brick ballroom space under an oversize disco ball for the venue's popular club nights, like "Guilty Pleasures," an ode to all things pop, held on the first Saturday of every month.
A confetti cannon was also kept for the performance of "Applause" and the giant disco ball of the venue was used.
8) HEAD BANGERS' BALL One of the leading venues for live music is NASA (Thorvaldsenstraeti 4, 354-511-1313; www.nasa.is), on the same grass square as the Hotel Borg.
The sort of venue where a ball gown would not look out of place.
This venue, where the ball famously flies off the bat because of the 4,000 feet of altitude, is universally associated with huge limited-overs scores.
On Thursday, April 28, the New York-based, all-female collective Haus of Spice will team up with forward-thinking bass label Loveless Records to host "Spice Ball" at the Ridgewood, Queens venue Trans-Pecos.
He is seeking even more exclusive venues for future Tory balls.
Assembly rooms had been built early in the 18th century, but a new venue for balls, concerts and gambling was envisaged in the area between Queen Square, The Circus and the Royal Crescent.
Just over a year after buying the tournament in December 2009, Larry Ellison took the costly decision to install Hawkeye, a computer program that can show whether a ball hit the line, on all of the venue's eight courts.
