spiffed-up

It wasn't always a comfortable fit for a singer who made his name playing spiffed-up guitar pop, and not just because the half-empty audience had a predictably substantial contingent of teens and tweens.

Boston.com Top Stories 2011

The popularity of the spiffed-up machines is clear: just a quarter of the bank's customers used to deposit money through ATMs while today half do -- and the percentage is growing, Waite said.

Insight: BofA cuts foretell downturn in branch banking Reuters 2011

Nowadays Molly Malone's is a bona fidedly hip music venue with an expansive stage area, an impressive dinner menu and a respectively spiffed-up decor; back then it was a smoky, scruffy, one-room pub where hard-core drinkers came to suck down Jameson and Black n' Tans and get into knock-downs that ended with sweaty man-hugs and often -- to my mercenary delight -- wads of cash knocked under sticky tables to be found after closing.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Neil Boyle, Molly Malone's and Pretty in Pink Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

Nowadays Molly Malone's is a bona fidedly hip music venue with an expansive stage area, an impressive dinner menu and a respectively spiffed-up decor; back then it was a smoky, scruffy, one-room pub where hard-core drinkers came to suck down Jameson and Black n' Tans and get into knock-downs that ended with sweaty man-hugs and often -- to my mercenary delight -- wads of cash knocked under sticky tables to be found after closing.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Neil Boyle, Molly Malone's and Pretty in Pink Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

It closed last fall and now in its place is a resurrected version, spiffed-up and with an excellent cocktail list.

Makeover on 47th Street 2011

Nowadays Molly Malone's is a bona fidedly hip music venue with an expansive stage area, an impressive dinner menu and a respectively spiffed-up decor; back then it was a smoky, scruffy, one-room pub where hard-core drinkers came to suck down Jameson and Black n' Tans and get into knock-downs that ended with sweaty man-hugs and often -- to my mercenary delight -- wads of cash knocked under sticky tables to be found after closing.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Neil Boyle, Molly Malone's and Pretty in Pink Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

The popularity of the spiffed-up machines is clear: just a quarter of the bank's customers used to deposit money through ATMs while today half do -- and the percentage is growing, Waite said.

Insight: BofA cuts foretell downturn in branch banking Reuters 2011

Nowadays Molly Malone's is a bona fidedly hip music venue with an expansive stage area, an impressive dinner menu and a respectively spiffed-up decor; back then it was a smoky, scruffy, one-room pub where hard-core drinkers came to suck down Jameson and Black n' Tans and get into knock-downs that ended with sweaty man-hugs and often -- to my mercenary delight -- wads of cash knocked under sticky tables to be found after closing.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Neil Boyle, Molly Malone's and Pretty in Pink Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

But this year's 47th edition, unspooling from September 25th to October 11th at a spiffed-up Alice Tully Hall, has engendered outright bursts of hostility.

Erica Abeel: Splendors and Challenges at the New York Film Festival 2010

But this year's 47th edition, unspooling from September 25th to October 11th at a spiffed-up Alice Tully Hall, has engendered outright bursts of hostility.

Splendors and Challenges at the New York Film Festival 2010