With the Lower East Side club Annex soon to close, Friday, September 11 was the last Ruff Club ever. And it was most definitely epic: A.R.E. Weapons played, M.E.N. DJ’d, and the party didn’t end until seven in the morning. The end of an era, indeed.
A young boxing enthusiast, Vladimir Nabokov, writing for a Russian émigré newspaper, called the Frenchman “the wonderful Carpentier,” a “modest, fair-haired young man.”
