Raichel pauses while reviewing the list of songs they will perform, "Everything that we decide to do is also a decision not to do something else.
"As everything progressed, we decided something lighter in tone would be fitting for the times," said Trey Laird, president and creative director at Laird & Partners in New York, the Gap agency.
"We wanted to avoid everything and we decided to not cross Paris and to instead stay in the locker room," Bierhoff said.
"When I finally got out of hospital, my husband had sold everything and we decided to move back to my house in El Chapare.
To keep everything fair, we decided to do another test back in the office, about an hour after drinking the Sober Up.
And even though we might not be in agreement on everything, we've decided that this is what we're going to do, hustled like holy hell to get it out, and launched it.
"This is where we decide everything that goes on in this town," said Mort Orinstein, 70, one of the early-morning regulars, as he sipped coffee the day before the shop closed.
Over Skype, they told me, "For years we had an attitude: 'Çarşı is against everything.' Then we decided that Çarşı is also against itself, because we wanted to show and prove to ourselves that we have a strong inner democracy.
Over Skype, they told me, "For years we had an attitude: 'Çarşı is against everything.' Then we decided that Çarşı is also against itself, because we wanted to show – and prove to ourselves – that we have a strong inner democracy.
"We didn't take any public funds so we could do everything just the way we decided to," Mr. Evans said.
