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L.E.S. Quotes

October 2nd, 2008
Posted in City-Dwelling

And then you got the kids that, it’s like they’re in Rent but they have credit cards. So they don’t have to say, “Ooh, light my candle.” They’ll go to Restoration Hardware and buy a fucking lamp.”—Novelist Richard Price in NYMag on the inhabitants of the Lower East Side[ READ MORE ]

‘For Christ’s Sake, Have a Cuppa Tea’*

October 2nd, 2008
Posted in Food

This place sounds downright horrible: … Mr. Beckham … uses a similar model at his own coffeeshop in Crowne Point, Indiana, called, rather bluntly, the Conservative Café. “No, we don’t carry the New York Times,” he assures me. They do, however, carry the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune. Meanwhile, café televisions are tuned [ READ MORE ]

‘Young professionals in D.C. rarely cross the red/blue divide when making social plans.’

October 2nd, 2008
Posted in City-Dwelling

This morning my friend emailed me a silly Internet meme about the differences in neighborhood, nightlife and transportation preferences for DC’s “hippie or hipster left” and “preppy right.” Vaguely amusing, vaguely cringe-worthy. But later, via a link from DCist, I found myself reading an article by Ben Adler on Campus Progress about this very same [ READ MORE ]

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