On Saturday night, while our daughters, Juliette and Louise, were at Radio City losing their voices singing along with Lady Gaga, my wife, Maja, and I stayed home and relived the pleasures of our youth: an old-fashioned nineteen-thirties B-movie of the sort we used to see at a late beloved haunt, Theatre 80 St. Marks, a revival house and the home of rear-screen projection.
Totonno's is just one of scores of beloved haunts, old and new, that have been struggling in and around the city, in areas like Brighton Beach and Howard Beach, Red Hook and Hoboken.
Since the Armadillo closed in 1980, the Austin metropolitan area has grown to a projected population this year of 1.7 million, from about 846,000, gaining plenty of new clubs while losing such beloved haunts as the Black Cat Lounge, the Electric Lounge, The Back Room, Steamboat and (temporarily) the Hole in the Wall.
In its poignancy the movie even offers a clue as to why Mitchell stopped publishing: by the time Gould died, in 1957, the old, bohemian Village was already on its last legs, and so, too, were Mitchell's other beloved haunts, the New York harborfront and the farms and swamps of Staten Island.
Connecticut is full of famous and beloved haunted spaces: the "White Lady" of the Union Cemetery in Easton, the grave site of the Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam in Brooklyn, the house haunted by the murdered tobacco farmer in Simsbury.
Then last summer the Holland became one of those typical New York institutions: the beloved local haunt forced to shut down.
An offshoot of a similarly named disco-focused party, Little Disco NYC, residents Ashburn Davis and Kyle Meagher (a.k.a KLM) have moved their new shindig to beloved local haunt Baby's All Right.
In 1948, while working in the billing department at The Vineyard Gazette, West began a column on people, events and her beloved nature haunts in and around Oak Bluffs.
After the Balkan troubles of the 1990s, visitors are returning to the Adriatic haunts beloved by the jet set in the 1960s and 1970s, and long-neglected infrastructure is enjoying an injection of EU cash (roads and tunnels are being worked on wherever you look).
William's beloved wife returns to haunt his dreams in an ill-conceived scene in the first act.
But even more importantly, the event helped to dispel all the stereotypes and falsehoods that tend to haunt our beloved manufacturing industry.
