There is something mystic about a waterfront on a dark day: an ethereal quiet hanging just below the clouds, the call of a gull who could be from another world, the scent of newness.
KEYPORT WATERFRONT "Sunday Night Concerts".
But Mr. Sneddon pointed out that before Fairway's arrival, the waterfront had been a dark and dangerous place.
Yet once you're past the bamboo and palm thatch frontage, this waterfront venue is suitably dark and smoky, with shamrocks decorating the menu, classic rock posters on the walls and a blissfully Marley-free soundtrack of jazz, blues and rock.
After dark, the waterfront bars promise a scene where drinks are cheap and backpackers, eco-tourists, divemasters-in-training and locals party by moonlight.
A short bus ride from the city centre's rainbow-coloured houses and trendy waterfront bars, though, a different, darker Bristol quickly emerges.
From his fifth-floor office in Knoxville's City-County Building downtown, Mr. Hill can see across the Tennessee to the South Waterfront development and the freshly turned dark ground where footings are being poured for Cityview at Riverwalk.
A wide stretch of Lower Manhattan remained dark, as did the Jersey Shore, waterfront neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, and most of Long Island.
Immediately below our hotel was a dark vacant lot on the waterfront, where she took over the driver's seat again and lurched over the uneven ground, stalling less than on the previous evening.
For this show, the back room at Coco 66, near the waterfront in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was almost completely dark, punctured only by columnar white lights rotating on either side of Mr. Lopatin and by red and green pinpoint lasers, which strafed his face and the heads of those near the front of the room.
