divey

But hey, what's a cool, divey rock club without a little mold?

It was my secret little dirty, divey place."

I've heard wonderful, divey things about the Roll-in.

This is where you want to start your day in Texas: murals, flashing lights, slightly divey atmosphere and excellent spicy comfort food.

There are no drink specials, very few students and little kitsch, not even the anti-kitsch of the self-consciously divey bar.

As usual, hunger brought me to a stop, this time at a divey Mexican joint called El Sombrero.

Few places are as aptly named as a divey little bar in southwest Las Vegas called The Hammer.

Outside the doors of the Down and Out, a divey downtown bar at the intersection of Spring and 5th streets, two very different worlds collide.

But nestled around the hulking terminal are the beauties to its beast; tiny cafes, mom-and-pop bakeries and satisfyingly divey dive bars.

They descended into Botanica, a divey subterranean bar on Houston Street that, on this Monday night at least, looked more like a boutique dressing room.

"I'm sure the 22-year-olds that do go out and are creative and cool would rather be at a divey rock club in the Lower East Side or Williamsburg."

But here in Ma Ma Buddha, a small, divey Szechuan restaurant in Washington's Chinatown, the two men were not superior and subordinate.

On their first date that August, they went to a divey bar in TriBeCa, where Ms. Frankel had to teach the bartender how to mix a cosmopolitan.

Audacity is four young men who have been chugging through Southern California since the late '00s, stealthily bombing backyard parties and gigging divey underground bars with solid, scream-along punk.

And his first play, "In Arabia We'd All Be Kings," a grim slice of life in and around a divey Times Square bar, opens in London next month.

Also in Montauk, the Crow’s Nest, a divey restaurant/inn that the hotelier Sean Macpherson took over last summer, has seen more renovations, including spruced-up rooms and a new two-bedroom cottage.

To spend a weekend dropping into its musty bookstores and sizable art institutions or idling between hilltop castles, divey small-town bars and doily B&Bs is like skipping a stone into a river: you bounce along, but barely break the surface.

A short drive from downtown is the Bar Bill Tavern, a not quite divey bar where locals go for chicken wings and “beef on weck” sandwiches, a regional specialty of roast beef and horseradish sauce on a salted caraway-seed roll.

Built above an original — and underground— San Francisco speakeasy in a truly divey part of town not far from Union Square, Bourbon & Branch is so swanky that not only is cellphone use prohibited, so is standing at the bar.

LaBeouf is relating the story from a divey Middle Eastern restaurant in a Hollywood strip mall, a Lionel Richie song playing in the background as a waiter delivers his usual order — "my chicken thing with those crispy deals" and some steaming Turkish coffee.

While originally featured on their 1973 debut, it's the rendition of "Free Bird" from their 1976 live double-album, "One More from The Road" (lengthened to 13 minutes and 40 seconds of treacle and frenetic guitar soloing) that has prompted many a divey rock club to ban any invocation of the song's name.