Dropping in on a cousin in Brooklyn Heights for a weekend usually involved silly-boy escapades like daring each other to try and buy beer, then using one can from the six-pack to bribe the guard at the Wollman Rink rock concerts to let us in for free.
We end up driving around Fort Yates for another half an hour, looking for yet another gym, before cranking the volume on the only station we get an amalgamation of skating rink rock and Ozzfest metal and cruising back to Cannon Ball.
The American ship Independence of the Seas, with an ice rink, rock-climbing wall and simulated-wave surfing pool, departs 10 August for a fortnight.
But you will never hear anything like that from David Miles Jr, better known as "the Godfather", the legendary black impresario who has been running Burning Man's popular 24-hour roller rink, Black Rock Roller Disco, since 2000.
HONG KONG — When the Mariner of the Seas arrived in Shanghai in June, it became the largest ocean liner with a home port in China — a 138,000-ton mega-ship that boasts an ice rink, 10 pools, a rock-climbing wall and a mini golf course.
Morrison spent the summer of 1968 playing rock clubs, roller rinks, high-school gyms, and amusement parks across New England with a group of local musicians, under the banner the Van Morrison Controversy.
Each has an ice-skating rink, an inline skating track, a rock-climbing wall and eight dining rooms, and the Explorer will also have a marine laboratory and classroom.
Uptown Theatres (1 Rink Street, Park Drive, + 41 582 1428, uptowntheatres.co.za): Jazz, rock, blues, cabaret – you name it, they play it.
Weather aside(there have only been 3 cancellations due to rain the performers have learned to cope with distractions such as rock concerts at the Wollman Rink and low-flying 747's.
One of the more upbeat tracks off More Specials, the single mix of Do Nothing added the contribution of "Ice Rink String Sounds" to a dreamy lovers' rock glide harbouring a sharp lyric about the dangers of obliviousness.
Today's cruise ships boast movies, lectures, art and cooking classes, casinos, Broadway-style performances, magic shows, rock climbing, surfing, ice-skating rinks, comedy shows and well-known entertainers.
