Dry Cleaners

There’s never a good time to spill red wine onto a white shirt, but letting that stain set overnight might make that Merlot a permanent part of your wardrobe — unless you’re lucky enough to live near a 24-hour dry cleaner like Milt & Edie’s Drycleaners in Burbank, Ca., which promises customers a clean shirt in two hours, whether they come in at 2 in the afternoon or 2 in the morning.
College Classrooms

Community colleges today know they have to cater to a wide variety of students and schedules, and a few of them around the country are responding to that demand with midnight classes. “If you’ve got faculty that’s willing to teach at an unconventional hour, then it’s a solution for a lot of things,” a college association executive told USA Today in a recent article. Kind of puts that 8 a.m. lecture into perspective, doesn’t it?














