The city could use a more expansive stadium-convention-center complex to augment the Javits Center.
The banjo, accordion and the bass drum operated by Marcus Mumford's foot have indeed vanished as promised, but they've been replaced by expansive, stadium-friendly indie-rock filled with surging choruses and guitars smothered in U2ish echo.
Many of the league's goals seem out of step in a state where high school coaches draw six-figure salaries and where booster clubs raise money for expansive stadiums and fancy scoreboards.
The capital's biggest music soiree jams more than 125 performances across numerous hallowed mainstages — including the opulent Kennedy Center and the expansive Kastles Stadium at the Wharf (a repurposed tennis complex) — and approximately 40 smaller clubs and centers around the city.
(Sisario) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND THE E STREET BAND (Monday) Mr. Springsteen's latest, "Magic" (Columbia), is a time warp back to the mid-1980s heyday of his time with the E Street Band, with songs of war and disillusionment ("Gypsy Biker") camouflaged in expansive, upbeat stadium rockers.
Here, though, the band's thick, juddering rhythms begin a transformation into something sleeker and more expansive, and while stadiums are still years away, Love Song still sounds so gigantic that few venues could hold it.
Looking out the windows of his expansive corner office at Lane Stadium, which the Hokies and their fans have turned into one of the best game-day environments in the nation, he sounds humbled and reflective.
It's pop music, but it's anchored to the expansive and athletic dimensions of stadium rock; genetically they're less derived from Take That and Backstreet Boys than from Queen and Def Leppard.
Among the most important new structures were an Odeum, a Stadium, and an expansive palace on the Palatine Hill, known as the Flavian Palace, which was designed by Domitian's master architect Rabirius.
Sports stadiums, with their expansive roof spaces, are an important market for solar systems, Stone said.
When we made a trip to the site, we found an expansive stage in an intimate house with stadium seating, like the most modern multiplex cinemas -- all still under scaffolding, vacant and waiting just for us.
