The main downtown characters in "City on Fire" are the members of a punk band called Ex Nihilo and assorted hangers-on.
Antony and Constantine toured the streets and clubs, recruiting downtown characters to perform in their theatrical extravaganzas, which would always climax in a song by Antony.
While this parallel plot isn't entirely integrated into the main story, it lets more raffish downtown characters into the mix, adding their irreverent voices to the higher debate over how much it profits a man to build a shining city and lose his faith in himself.
Upon entering, one could expect to see a variety of downtown characters chit-chatting and smoking under the Cocteau-esque cloud ceiling that set the ambiance.
When it comes to cool cats and downright downtown characters, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better subject than photographer Mick Rock.
Another of her many dreams about to come true is a Rem Koolhaas-designed, Kickstarter-funded temple to herself in Hudson, New York, following, I guess, a Robert Wilson opera entitled, The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, a glossy picture book of which a bookstore owner in Berlin showed me last month, with depressing enthusiasm over "all the fascinating New York downtown characters".
Mr. Thiele said the Art Deco structure has long been a part of downtown's character.
And Marc Ribot is the quintessential downtown guitarist, a character actor sessioneer with an unmistakable sound (which you can hear on Tom Waits's new Bad As Me).
Town officials say they now possess a blueprint for a downtown with urban character that also has a pedestrian-friendly small-town feeling.
Two of his characters, downtown junkie artists, are given a 1927 Pontiac Landau, which is forever parked across the narrative.
