Another overpowering element that night: the group in the booth next door, who at one point filmed themselves on their phones singing along to "Papa Don't Preach".
In a booth next door, news producers prepare the daily diet of mayhem and more: three bodies found in Bakaro market; President Sheik Sharif preaches reconciliation at a mosque; Islamic scholars speak out about the Shabab insurgent group cutting off hands; the livestock market is looking up and the price of goats, thank God, is steadily rising.
The Suitable booth was next door to a gadget manufacturer advertising "the beauty of made in China".
I was pleasantly surprised to stumble across this bookshop where a very nice older man explained to me that he recently had to close shop in protest of a police booth stationing itself next door (in front of the Dutch embassy no less), and sold me loads of starcharts for cheap because I knew a little bit about the Ottoman Empire.
Next door, in the booth of the Milan gallery Massimo de Carlo, there stood a headstone bearing the epitaph "Everyone is broke", by the relentlessly cheeky duo Elmgreen and Dragset.
(Can you say, driver distraction?) Not to be outdone, next door at the Sirius booth the company was hawking its new Travel Link service, which is $6.99 a month.
Right next door to Saxx was a booth for a company named Oneball, which I thought was a bold name for an underwear manufacturer, but it turns out Oneball actually makes snowboard wax and snow tuning tools.
It is tucked away behind a telephone booth in Johnny's Tavern, a humble bar-and-grill, next door to the Club Samoa, that is patronized by the exuberant musicians on the street and their camp followers.
THE unshaven guy working the mini-cannoli booth in Madison Square Park glanced from side to side, making sure the vendors next door were busy with their samosas and shaved ice.
In 1864, on the very night that Confederate sympathizers singled out the Lafarge Hotel next door in their plot to burn down New York, the Booth brothers — John Wilkes, Junius Brutus Jr. and Edwin — starred in "Julius Caesar".
Discriminating, value-conscious eaters belly up to the long bar or fill the warm, convivial room's three booths and the five tables in the charming little dining room next door.
