A few days later, I visited The White Sun of the Desert, another ethnic hangout.

The finance minister spoke to the public about the budget, not on TV, but in a Google Hangout.

They turned the ransacked mansion of a member of the former ruling family into a hangout for creative minds.

Severance was one of the house bands at an original music club called Honky Hoagies Handy Hangout, otherwise known as the 4H Club.

And this is a video with two Congolese brothers separated for 15 years who met for the first time on Google Hangout on Air after locating each other via Refugees United.

In Accra, a trendy street club named Strawberries is well known as a hangout for gays, and there are a few prominent, if still discreet, clubs where homosexual men and women gather.

In this episode of the Global Voices Hangout series GV Face, we discuss the movement to pardon Oscar López Rivera with the team that covers Puerto Rico for Global Voices Firuzeh Shokooh Valle, our Spanish Language Editor Angel Carrión, musician and GV contributor and historian and GV contributor Ana Gabriela Calderón. You can sign the White House petition to pardon Oscar here and read Oscar's moving letter to his granddaughter, Where the sea breathes here.