The grittier Central Square is home to great clubs and cheap, sophisticated ethnic restaurants, and Inman Square is fast becoming the funkiest neighborhood in town.

Sunday readings every other week at 8 P.M. in a funky neighborhood watering hole with a bar down one wall and bare brick down the other; next reading is on Feb. 9.

Maturing suburbs from Anaheim, Calif., to Hialeah, Fla., have become big cities complete with large foreign-born populations and funky neighborhoods.

That is the time that a wall clock stopped inside the club, a funky little neighborhood haunt at 2751 Broadway near 105th Street that was known for its cheap beer and free music.

Soho has always been London's funkiest neighborhood, even if its darker bacchanalian side has sometimes got the better of it.

And who needs a walking tour of historic Georgetown when you can explore Adams Morgan, the funky neighborhood where many young Clinton imports can be found jogging and chowing?

This weekend the funky neighborhood of Gràcia in Barcelona hosts an equally funky festival - Sa Pobla.

We lived in a funky neighborhood full of people who had named their children Asia and Savannah and Cheyenne.

The hospital clerk lived in a recently remodeled building in Adams Morgan, a funky, ethnically rich neighborhood.

Less than a mile across Rock Creek Park from Salon Roi is Adams-Morgan, the city's funkiest neighborhood, with a Latin flair and a lively night life.