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Paradise Garage, also known as "the Garage" [1] [2] or the "Gay-rage", [3] [4] [5] was a New York City discotheque notable in the history of dance and pop music, as well as LGBT and nightclub cultures.
The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, entertainment, and comedy in their style of play. Over the years, they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 124 countries and territories, mostly against deliberately ineffective opponents, such as the Washington Generals (1953–1995, since 2015) and the New York Nationals (1995 ...
The Station nightclub fire: West Warwick, Rhode Island: United States 2003 100: 230 pyrotechnics acoustic foam Fourth-deadliest club fire in American history República Cromañón nightclub fire: Buenos Aires: Argentina 2004 194: 1432 pyrotechnics plastic net (media sombra), styrofoam and wood decorations, acoustic panels Worst club fire in ...
York Street Club. After Eva LeFevre's death the house was sold for $25,000 (equivalent to $317,036 in 2023), a nominal price, to York Street #1, a local group of Alcoholics Anonymous. Over $220,000 from State Historic Funds had been spent to restore it. The LeFevre's house is now the York Street Club. References
The Throb nightclub disaster occurred on 24 March 2000, when panic broke out after the detonation of a teargas canister at the Throb nightclub in Chatsworth, Durban in South Africa. [1] [2] There were 600 children from age 11-14 celebrating the end of term. The incident resulted with deaths of 13 children and 100 injured. [3]
The Rhythm Club fire (or The Natchez Dance Hall Holocaust) was a fire in a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi on the night of April 23, 1940, which killed 209 people and severely injured many others.
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director. Known for his work spanning over four decades of screen and stage, he has been regarded as one of the best actors of his generation, with The New York Times naming him the greatest actor of the 21st century in 2020. [1]
Four men were fatally shot and a woman was hospitalized with gunshot wounds during a spate of weekend violence in the Denver suburb of Commerce City. A person of interest in one of the cases was ...