Interesting challenge posed by E.D. Kain at League of Ordinary Gentleman: what are the nation’s (and world’s) least Bohemian cities, and what factors lead to the selection. The topic itself was a spin-off of a post by Tyler Cowen on the same, but Kain adds zoning regulations as one of the determining factors: Essentially, sprawl [...]
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East Coast Bohemians?
Posted in Cities, tagged automobile, Baltimore, Bohemian, Detroit, E.D. Kain, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Southwest, zoning on June 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Narrow-minded and Parochial”
Posted in Baseball, Cities, tagged Baltimore, Baseball, Kevin Cowherd, Mark Teixiera, New York, Orioles, Severna Park on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of ten reasons NOT to give up on the Orioles disastrous season, according to Kevin Cowherd: What’s more fun than booing Teixeira for spurning the Orioles for the bright lights of New York? Sure, it’s narrow-minded and parochial. But it’s a good kind of narrow-minded and parochial. Yup. Severna Park still hates him.
The Provincial and The Cosmopolitan
Posted in Cities, Communitarianism, Libertarianism, Politics, tagged Arizona, Baltimore, Bob Irsay, Colts, cosmopolitan, Jonathan Chait, liberal democrats, Mark Penn, Michael Olesker, Nick Clegg, provincial, UK election on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Late one March night in 1984, the Baltimore Colts facility in Reisterstown was emptied out, the team’s equipment loaded onto Mayflower moving trucks, and the team relocated to Indianapolis. The following day, local columnist Michael Olesker wrote the following, under the title, “Loyalty is Nothing:” Something precious and irreplaceable has died, not just a football [...]
A clustered world
Posted in Cities, Communitarianism, Culture/Trends, History, Politics, tagged communitarianism, FDR, Latitudes and Attitudes, Michael Weiss, Richard Florida, Rise of the Creative Class, Roger and Me, rural electrification, tea party, The Clustered World, waking ned devine on March 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
About a decade ago, I found a book in my college library called “Latitudes and Attitudes” that gave demographic and marketing information for every market in the nation. It had nothing to do with anything I was studying, but I became obsessed with it. I loved learning that places had character; that their individual tastes [...]
Rowhouse land
Posted in Cities, Communitarianism, Culture/Trends, tagged beer, generation, gentrification, hipster, introversion, rowhouse, self-esteem, small talk, yupster on July 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I live in rowhouse land. A city block in an old part of an old city – mostly gentrified and made hip in the early part of the decade, but with enough longtime residents, shops, and local customs to have kept some measure of authenticity. I’m part of the gentrification boom. I’m under 30, from [...]
B-A-L-T-I-M-O-R-E
Posted in Baseball, Cities, tagged Andy MacPhail, Baltimore, Melvin Mora, Orioles, Peter Angelos, road jerseys on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Looks like it’s official: after what will have been 36 seasons, Orioles fans win. Starting in 2009, the team road jerseys will read “Baltimore,” symbolically tying the team to its city. Apparently, the decision was made by Peter Angelos, which should create some dissonance in the fans who have been demanding this change while simultaneously [...]
Future neighbor
Posted in Cities, Politics, tagged Baltimore, Jenna Bush, Larry King on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know how I missed this in the news a couple of weeks ago, but apparently Jenna Bush is moving to Baltimore. She and her soon-to-be husband have purchased a 2 BR rowhouse in a South Baltimore neighborhood, which they will move into after their wedding next month. Baltimore has an amazingly positive effect [...]
Teaism
Posted in Cities, Culture/Trends, tagged Dupont Circle, Teaism, Washington D.C. on March 6, 2008 | 72 Comments »
I’ve now been accused (by my brother) of “out Izod’ing him,” which, in our family just means having a reflexive dislike of anything bordering on popular or trendy. Ridiculous… I voted for Howard Dean in the ’04 primaries and Barack Obama this year — both definitely “trend” candidates to some extent. I was a huge [...]
