Tables are cleared to make way for the dance floor, which moves from lounge to house music until two or three, depending on when the police close it down.
You'd have to get an 80-inch diagonal screen or move your lounge chair a whole lot closer.
White said to imagine instead, employees with iPads moving through the lounge and dealing with people individually to rebook them, send them to a lounge or to get a meal.
One of the first places along Vernon Boulevard to stay open late and cater to the younger residents moving in, the lounge quickly drew the ire of neighbors when it opened the backyard patio six years ago.
On the fourth night out, one of the passengers, a young man with bright blue eyes and a determinedly ingratiating smile, made the rounds of the main lounge, moving from chair to chair.
As a result, techno parties have moved to lounges, art spaces and bars.
But more recently, these brunches have been supersized, moving from smaller lounges to brassy nightclubs like Lavo and Ajna.
Lyfe Jennings's "Lyfe Change" (Columbia) opens at No. 4 with 80,000; Def Leppard is No. 5 with "Songs of the Sparkle Lounge" (Island), moving 55,000; the Roots open at No. 6 with 54,000 sales of "Rising Down" (Def Jam); and Portishead's first new album in 11 years, "Third" (Mercury/Island), bows at No. 7 with 53,000.
After five years, Amanda Stern's Happy Ending Music and Reading Series is leaving its namesake location — a former massage parlor (and possible brothel) on the Lower East Side, transformed into a sixties-era Vegas-y lounge — and moving just slightly uptown, to Joe's Pub, in January.
It's as if he's moved into my lounge or something, crashed on the sofa after a big night out and then refused to go home.
