Five Points.

(by bitchphd, cross-posted from Bitch Ph.D.)

Dateline: downtown Denver.

NOTHING IS HAPPENING. There are a lot of cops standing around looking bored. There are a few people with press credentials and Really Big Cameras wandering around looking for something to take pictures of. There are occasional people with some [...]

The Trials of Lola.

Ever since Lola* — one of those eateries that attracts impeccably dressed, upwardly mobile young Negroes — moved from Chelsea to SoHo, it’s been fighting with the neighborhood alliance over its petition for a license for liquor and the right to have live entertainment.

The Patrick-Odeens, the mixed-race couple that runs the [...]

Gentrification Might Swallow Up Hip-Hop's Birthplace

Remember in Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo when Kelly, Turbo and Ozone had to stop the developer from tearing down the neighborhood community center? This is like that, but real and with fewer headstands.

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