The city's liveliest summer patio district is in boho Little Italy on College West.

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Middlehaven is home to Middlesbrough College and the town's Boho Zone, where dozens of creative businesses are based.

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Its eclectic programme features music ranging from 1960s to electro, and events such as fashion week parties and live tattooing draw in a boho clientele.

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The shops themselves come and go but the most interesting boutiques can be found in the boho neighborhoods of Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg and Friedrichshain.

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The resident boho crowd may be wary about the slick renovations of local institutions, but they have welcomed recent initiatives at the Kings X Hotel with open arms.

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The big news, though, came from Chicago, where BoHo Theatre did itself proud with the first big-city production since 2003 of Adam Guettel's "Floyd Collins, " the first great post-Sondheim musical.

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