Mr. Devane was among 20 Delray Beach residents who gathered at the cafe one recent night for a weekly counseling session.
Inside a covered market that cuts between peeling monoliths of public housing, middle-aged men gathered at a cafe on a late afternoon to play cards and sip steaming vials of mint tea.
The mayor's assistant received a call from a source who told him that a cease-fire for funerals would soon expire, and that the fighting would start again at precisely 3 30 p.m. Sure enough, before a clutch of curious townspeople who had gathered at the cafe to watch, the gun trucks appeared at the appointed hour and the fight resumed.
ATHENS — Late on a recent evening, crowds gathered at the Radio Bubble cafe in downtown Athens, drinking beer and talking politics.
In Fresh Meadows, about 200 Afghan New Yorkers gathered at the Mustang Cafe Restaurant, an Afghan establishment, to discuss the situation.
His emigration earned her great prestige (as did her ability to speak 3 languages) with the other mothers of her district, who gathered at the Vorosmarty Cafe to exchange news of their children abroad.
In New York, among the hundreds of stylish and toned 20-somethings who gathered at an outdoor cafe in Union Square on a recent Thursday evening, not one could be seen wearing a headset or ear piece.
A few blocks away, city workers plant palm trees by the road, while men gather at a cafe nearby to chatter and laugh.
This surreal scene in which activists gather at a cafe with high-speed Internet to a backdrop of tear gas illustrates the contradictions of Bahrain — a cosmopolitan, successful banking center with a well-educated population that is facing crushing repression and sectarian tension.
As Israeli planes pounded Hezbollah's stronghold in the south of the city, Young and his friends gathered at the Chase, a cafe in downtown Beirut.
