Church unscripted Jul 26, 2008
This "church" has two pool tables, two Foosball tables, a ping pong table and band instruments that belong to the One Eighty Teen Center. McGregor, who also heads the Teen Center, played Foosball with an attendee after one of the gatherings broke up. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Bill Gates Bids Farewell to his Colleagues with a Lump in his Throat Jun 29, 2008
Foosball tables and free vending machines. Bill Gates. (Gizmodo Australia)
Ex-Tech worker admits fraud May 14, 2008
According to federal prosecutors, Gamble used grant money from the National Science Foundation to buy all sorts of items, ranging from foosball tables to lawn tractors. Gamble entered her guilty plea to 22 counts of mail fraud and theft from an organization receiving federal funds. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Intel starts to think outside the cubicle May 11, 2008
Many contemporary tech companies, launched during the go-go dot-com era, pamper their employees with gourmet food, foosball tables and lunchtime sports leagues. It's a trend toward thinking a little less about a company's products and a little more about the people making them. (OregonLive, OR -- Business)
Palm Bay center targets everyone Feb 23, 2008
The city used proceeds from its kid's night out to pay for about $9,000 in new equipment, including big-screen televisions for Wii and Playstation gaming systems, Dance Revolution, foosball tables, ping pong tables and air hockey. The space was used for classes and for summer camps, but those uses will shift to other areas of the community center. (Florida Today)
New ASU student-housing complex provides luxury-resort experience Feb 17, 2008
It has a huge, heated pool with cabanas and cooking facilities, basketball and volleyball courts, amphitheater, a community center with four tanning booths, a theater, billiards, ping pong and foosball tables, an 8,000-square-foot gym, yoga room, lounges and arcade games. Each fully furnished apartment includes cable television and Internet, faux-wood floors, lavishly appointed kitchens, large living rooms and full closets. (AZCentral -- News)
Murrieta teen center on track Feb 1, 2008
The first phase will consist of the main building, which will offer classroom space, a kitchen, a computer room, a multipurpose room with a television and pool and foosball tables, said Murrieta Community Services Manager Debbie Tharp. A gymnasium will be built during the second phase. (North County Times)
Student finds right school Jan 23, 2008
Each Friday, students with enough points are allotted time in the Alameda Center's recreation center, which has foosball tables, pingpong, air hockey and other games. It says, 'We're not going to ask you to do these things out of your own inherent understanding about what's right. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
New YMCA features high-tech equipment, view, parking Dec 26, 2007
-- Youth and Family Center -- Like a family rec room, with ping-pong and foosball tables, a television. Basically a place for kids to hang out and socialize. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Merry Christmas, tubby: More people purchasing fitness equipment for the holidays Dec 11, 2007
A lot of the team sport stuff, a lot of ellipticals, treadmills are really big, hockey tables that we have, foosball tables, that kind of thing. Pedometers are actually good stocking stuffers for people, said Bo Swierc, a supervisor at Academy. (KHOU.com, TX)
Bar exam: Peter Rowe points to best bar taps in town Nov 1, 2007
Creature comforts: Two Foosball tables, one color TV, deli-style sandwiches, eclectic rock (Coldplay, Elton John) in background. Tip: Bring quarters for campus parking meters. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Hopes Run High For New Youth Center Oct 26, 2007
Friday October 26, 2007. (handout) Mary Ann Montalvo and her son, Christopher Montalvo, 12, play pingpong in the Howard Beach Community Youth Center on Monday night. (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Brunswick Declares Common Stock Dividend Oct 25, 2007
Brunswick Corporation endeavors to instill "Genuine Ingenuity"(TM) in all its leading consumer brands, including Mercury and Mariner outboard engines; Mercury MerCruiser sterndrives and inboard engines; MotorGuide trolling motors; Teignbridge propellers; MotoTron electronic controls; Albemarle, Arvor, Baja, Bayliner, Bermuda, Boston Whaler, Cabo Yachts, Crestliner, Cypress Cay, Harris, Hatteras, Kayot, Laguna, Lowe, Lund, Maxum, Meridian, Ornvik, Palmetto, Princecraft, Quicksilver, Rayglass,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
It's time for new ways to give Oct 9, 2007
Given the high cost of housing and the crowded freeways, many Bay Area firms in fields from biotech to real estate can be overheard trying to guess what beyond foosball tables or work-at-home Fridays will help them attract and retain the next generation of the best and the brightest in our workforce. Our new study, Corporate Philanthropy in Silicon Valley, contains several clues. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Center opens for area youth Sep 25, 2007
While two foosball tables, an air hockey table and a pool table stood nearby, the young people attending the opening were more interested in the new electronic game with sensor batons, instead of the standard joystick, which require the player to move in the same way as the character on the screen. Other kids in the room watched the big screen TV the game was plugged into, patiently waiting their turn. (Washington Journal, IA)
'We'll go from Genesis to Revelation in nine holes' Sep 13, 2007
Not only that, the church has a small dodgeball field, plus a pool table, air hockey and two Foosball tables inside. The idea, he said, is to get young people away from a life of video games and into more participatory activities, especially outdoors. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Remodeled Woody Hayes Center Second To None Jul 27, 2007
A total of 39 flat screen televisions are in the building, which Tressel said can be tuned into anything from team practices and opponent film to "Oprah." A game room features foosball tables, billiards, more televisions, a juice bar, what Tressel termed an X-Box arena and even a cornhole set. While providing the Buckeyes with plenty of ways to unwind, Tressel says the lavishness has a practice purpose as well. (Bucknuts.com)
Brunswick to Shift Production to North Carolina, Close Salisbury, Md., Boat Plant Jul 3, 2007
Brunswick Corporation endeavors to instill "Genuine Ingenuity"(TM) in all its leading consumer brands, including Mercury and Mariner outboard engines; Mercury MerCruiser sterndrives and inboard engines; MotorGuide trolling motors; Teignbridge propellers; MotoTron electronic controls; Albemarle, Arvor, Baja, Bayliner, Bermuda, Boston Whaler, Cabo Yachts, Crestliner, Harris, Hatteras, Kayot, Laguna, Lowe, Lund, Maxum, Meridian, Ornvik, Palmetto, Princecraft, Quicksilver, Savage, Sea Boss, Sea Pro,... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The NBA Draft awards, SIOC style Jun 30, 2007
But this year in the midst of the deepest draft in years -- I don't know -- maybe they're looking to add air hockey and foosball tables, too. The Lloyd Bentsen "Snappy Comeback" Award. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Teen drop-in Center opens May 11, 2007
This, plus the generous help and support of other volunteers and donors have made it possible for them to purchase several Xbox games and TVs, three computers, two air hockey and two foosball tables. The Studio is also a hot zone for wireless Internet. (Mt. Lake Observer/Advocate, MN)
Running a Seasonal Business Mar 29, 2007
To avoid having to lay off any of its full-time employees during the slow season, 10 years ago the company began offering top-of-the line pool, ping pong and foosball tables, as well as bars, barstools, and bar tables and chairs in their store showrooms during the fall and winter, transforming a seasonal business into a year-round enterprise. In fact, the off-season pool table business has become so successful that Patio. (MSNBC -- Business)
Outreach center shows off its digs Mar 4, 2007
The 26,000 square foot center includes a massive, youth oriented activity area with pool and foosball tables, a basketball court enclosed in a floor to ceiling cage, computers and iPods, a wall of electronic game systems, a cafe, seating areas, and a bookstore that will sell Christian titles and apparel. An adjacent sanctuary includes a stage, sound system and lights mapped out by an Indianapolis designer whose credits range from "Good Morning America" to a stadium event for the Christian men's... (The Hawk Eye)
Video game visionary Feb 26, 2007
"Russo quit the water bed place in 1993.Apollo has grown to have retail outlets in Bradenton, Brandon and Fort Lauderdale. These days a growing amount of sales -- 15 percent -- are done online.He stocks 1,500 games at any given time, either in the stores or warehouses throughout South Florida. He also sells neon beer and motorcycle signs, classic wooden bars, foosball tables and even one of those shuffleboard-court-looking things with sand on it where you slide a metal puck down to the other... (Herald-Tribune)
IMU goes new Jan 18, 2007
Ping-Pong and Foosball tables flank the sides of the pool tables, creating a long line of entertainment possibilities waiting for students. This isn't a hip new sports bar in Iowa City. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Skipped ping-pong? Stay after school! Oct 23, 2006
But that could change when the foosball tables arrive at Mississauga Secondary School later this month. The class-time fun and games are part of the school's mission to prove that you don't need to sacrifice academics to put regular activity into Ontario high schools. (Toronto Star -- GTA)
Design Master: The Builder Oct 6, 2006
He sees that period, with its office foosball tables and desk-side bean bags, as representative of "a puerile notion of rebellion." He thinks of his designs as being rather more substantive, and others seem to agree. "Clive's work doesn't come from cool and groovy; it comes from thoughtfulness, honesty, and humanity," says Cindy Allen, editor-in-chief of Interior Design magazine, which last year inducted Wilkinson into its prestigious Hall of Fame. (FastCompany)
Amazon is out, Rio is in Sep 29, 2006
It will also feature more than 20 televisions, 10 pool tables and, for children, some foosball tables. Lee owns and operates two similar restaurants: the Galaxy Sports Restaurant in Langley Park and Breakers Sports Bar in Herndon, Va. (Laurel Leader, MD)
More churches offering contemporary worship services, but many Christians still prefer the faith of their fathers Sep 17, 2006
The youth room includes table tennis and foosball tables. Volunteers also understand growing teens like to eat and offer snacks. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
UW-Madison dorm goes coed after 66 years as women-only hall Aug 31, 2006
Except for slight modifications to bathrooms and the addition of foosball tables, the building has undergone few changes. Freshman Dan Blake said he wanted to live there because he figured the decades of female tenants must have kept it clean. (Rhinelander Daily News, WI)
Shootin’ for fun: A new business offers games for all ages in a pleasant setting Jul 24, 2006
The 5,600-square-foot room has four pool tables, a nine-hole miniature golf layout, three dartboards, two foosball tables, a pair of air hockey tables and a ping-pong table in the back. There s also a small snack bar with candy bars, chips, popcorn and bottles of soda pop and juice. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Not America's cup Jun 18, 2006
At the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, the little men on the foosball tables stand still. Trophies from U.S. victories in the 1991 and 1999 Women's World Cups go unadmired. (Albany Times Union)
TECH CHRONICLES Jun 16, 2006
A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate. It was a risky move," Meyer said. "Now he looks like a genius. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Liquor license not renewed for nightclub owned by Packer Jun 10, 2006
unohoo wrote on June 09, 2006 10:14 AM:"Why don't you give the address of the place. I remember when the Pink Flamingo was refused a license. The last night of business, I think it was June 30 the crowd there was huge. People loved that place- it was next to a big place on Lime Kiln and East Mason at that time it was called The Pack and the Hounds they had live entertainment in the back bar and food, fun, and sports in the front bar. The Pink Flamingo was next door on Lime Kiln and what a place!... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Post-proms hit the big time May 26, 2006
Activities such as human foosball tables, jousting and sumo wrestling keep the students entertained. "I was on crutches and had one of the best times there," Mark Gorden said. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
With book charity, kids bound for success Feb 12, 2006
Video games, air hockey and Foosball tables and a fun photo booth vied for attention. A charades game had people acting out children s book titles. (Boston Herald--Lifestyle)
Tourney Is Battle Of The Hands Feb 11, 2006
" The scene for fans at the state tournament should be similar to that at Rudy's in-house event Thursday night. Music, from rap to hard rock, pulsated through the bar, while cigarette smoke wafted across the foosball tables and swear words were spewed by players beaten by dazzling shots. Those lightning-quick strikes are known as pull shots, snake shots or the dreaded "dead bar," a shot that angles around the outside of an opponent's goalie and defenders. First-time spectators of the... (Tampa Bay Online -- News)
