Sometimes, we think we know a word’s meaning but really don’t. Until a few years ago, for instance, I thought that “hoi polloi” meant “the elite, the upper crust.” This probably stemmed from my mother ...

More options for beer lovers in Berkeley have recently popped up as Westbrae Biergarten and Hoi Polloi Brewpub and Beat Lounge are now open for business. Westbrae had been operating in soft launch ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In most of her speeches, and in her debate last week with Joe Biden, Sarah Palin seems to be speaking directly to the “hoi ...

For the company’s last production, it only took a single TikTok. Joe Weinberg, known on TikTok as Overthinking Theatre, posted on September 15 about Hoi Polloi’s latest show: a site-specific staging ...

Brooklyn performance and civic space JACK is thrilled to announce an extension of Hoi Polloi's White on White, co-directed by Alec Duffy and Lori Elizabeth Parquet, with a script by Robert Quillen ...

A brewpub, we're accustomed to think, is an echoing warehouse where humans drink in constant reminder of their place in the industrial world, dwarfed by silver tanks the size of a brontosaurus.

Not "The" Hoi Polloi. "Hoi Polloi" in Ancient Greek means, in essence, "the people" - thus "polity", "politics" and "politician". Its usage has now acquired a somewhat snobbish sense of "the unwashed ...

At night -- and sometimes in the middle of the afternoon -- he wields a Telecaster like a hellcat ... Quinn joins his friends from the band Hoi Polloi during the band's Summerfest set, which begins at ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Whenever people say mute point I hold my tongue. Sure, I might say something if the chance arises. Tell them the word they need is moot, ...

Off to ‘modernist brasserie’ Hoi Polloi in Shoreditch this week — which, I think you’ll agree, is a marvellous name for a restaurant. Whoever came up with that, have half a day off. I’m fascinated by ...

In his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides used "hoi polloi" – "the many" – in positive contrast to "hoi oligoi", "the few". Only recently, and long after Dryden and Byron got their grubby ...

In May this year I went out for dinner in east London and ended up in Margate. When I left the offices of The Independent that Thursday evening and got on the Tube, I had half expected it; it had been ...