stamping ground

Off-off-Broadway, the natural stamping ground of alternative theater, arose in opposition to compromised opposition.

The scenes that birthed Stefani and others fizzled out, as people aged out and fled their old stamping grounds to the suburban limbo of south Orange County, or to places like Nashville.

Now 37 and a furniture designer in Los Angeles, Ms. Klemick is returning to her hometown but not to her old stamping grounds.

I bring up the South End cities not to dump on them — that’s my old stamping grounds, where I got my start as a reporter for the now defunct Valley Daily News.

We walked by the erstwhile locations of old stamping grounds Sunset Beer Co. and the ArcLight Hollywood.