A wave of new seminaries opened, some no more than storefronts, from which clerics issued fatwas and declared Shias heretics and apostates.
At Arancini Bros., the partners' new storefront in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the globes of rice are the size of tennis balls or, actually, oranges, from which they get their name.
But then I noticed that the storefront post office was actually an art gallery called Posted, and that the Wilton Way Cafe had flea-market furniture and a booth in the window from which a Web broadcast emanated.
Nader Daghoghi, the owner of this tiny storefront space, which seats a mere 20 people, is from Tehran, but left Iran in 1973.
Many veterans seek treatment from the V.A.'s network of some two hundred "storefront centers," which are operated independently of the psychiatric departments of V.A. hospitals.
On breaks from college at Penn State, he works both at the storefront cafe, which opened in September, and at the market.
It was basically a beautiful little storefront in which we had porcini mushrooms, heirloom apples, all sorts of produce from the local farmers who supplied the restaurants.
The colorful storefront cafe, which has counter service and 12 seats, does not have a full kitchen, and cooked meats are brought in from an outside commercial kitchen.
Fresh from his gripping performance as Gustavo Fring in the television drama "Breaking Bad," Giancarlo Esposito has been cast as the lead in John Patrick Shanley's new play, "Storefront Church," which the Atlantic Theater Company will produce this spring, the company said Friday.
She arranged to meet up with Lucien Bahaj, who operates a French bistro, the Pink Pony, in the storefront next door, which he sublets from her. Bahaj was waiting outside the Pink Pony when Rimkus arrived, wearing a furry leopard-print coat, wide-legged light-blue jeans, and bright-green suède sneakers.
