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The myth of the downtown boom
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Rod Dreher
How many stories have you read in the past few years about people moving back into downtowns, leaving suburbs and exurbs to wither on the vine? Joel Kotkin says it ain’t true. Excerpt: Housing prices in and around the nation’s urban cores is clear evidence that the back-to-the-city movement is wishful thinking. Despite cheerleading from…
How old are we? Ask Hall & Oates
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Rod Dreher
… that, as Bruce Sterling points out, we are closer to the year 2050 than we are to Woodstock. Fine with me; the further we get away from that cultural debacle, the better. But still. Today I was in a meeting at the office, and a colleague mentioned that Hall & Oates had played at…
Wanna smell like a declining celebrity?
By
Rod Dreher
Uh, I don’t think so: This might have made sense — might have — during the “Die Hard” heyday. But that was 20 years ago! Quick, name one Bruce Willis movie from the last 10 years. OK, yes, but nobody saw that one. So name another. Can’t do it, can you? If there’s one thing…
What was it like to find Spalding Gray’s corpse?
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Rod Dreher
Dude tells Esquire after having received permission: I got in touch with his wife, and I mentioned that I’d never try to exploit my discovery. She said, “No, please, do whatever you like. You don’t have to be tasteful. This is Spalding Gray. All he ever talked about was his own death.” Ever seen a…
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