Adam Weissman, a volunteer at Wetlands, said the idea was to encourage people to think before they spent.

Lee (Scratch) Perry had a lot on his mind on Friday night at Wetlands.

Later this month, he plans to invite his whole office to watch him at Wetlands.

More than half a dozen club owners (including those at Wetlands and Fat Tuesday's) have put up for sale, sold or closed their spaces.

They'll play to a considerably smaller crowd tonight at Wetlands.

At Wetlands, each song was a suite with recurring movements, near-symphonic crescendos, speed-fingered melody lines and plenty of idiom hopping.

On September 7, 2001, the original line-up took the stage for the first time since 1994 to play at Wetlands.

Most of the crowd at Wetlands, a club set up neither architecturally nor acoustically for dance music events, didn't dance.

At Wetlands he helped create a single strong identity, but at the Ritz, he said, he is looking to do something completely different.

Now several of those rappers are playing select dates with War, including a stint this weekend at Wetlands in Manhattan.