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...stay in the city center, of course, New Yorkers will move - as cultural workers have done for decades, migrating from the West Village to Soho, from Soho to the East Village and from there across the river to Long Island City in Queens and to Williamsburg and Red Hook in Brooklyn. But in recent years those neighborhoods, too, have been gentrifying, pushing the cultural workforce even further afield. And that art-world diaspora causes a more subtle disruption to the fabric of the creative economy. Creative people thrive on interaction. They need to be near one another to reach...
...same time, London and New York City were bywords of urban decay. In 1981, London had seen some of the most bitter riots in a century. The city was run by a hard-left political clique whose understanding of capitalism came straight from Marx. (Its leader was "Red" Ken Livingstone; some 25 years on, now mayor, he sings the praises of London's financial-services industry and is pals with New York's plutocratic leader, Michael Bloomberg.) New York almost went bankrupt in 1975; by the early 1980s, its streets were potholed, filthy and dangerous. The city routinely had nearly...
...Dylan made a pilgrimage to Woody Guthrie. Decades later, Southern Sacred Harp royalty generously embraced the wild-eyed newcomers--many of whom were nonbelievers--in what Awake My Soul co-director Matt Hinton calls "red-state, blue-state harmony...
...concept of designer clothing for children is not entirely new. More traditional brands like Polo Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger have been in the business for years. But more recently, fashion-forward labels, better known for their $2,000 handbags and red-carpet-worthy frocks, are starting to take a closer look at the kindergarten crowd. "So many of our friends started having babies, and they asked us for thermal cashmere sweaters for their kids," says Robert Duffy, president of Marc Jacobs International. "We started making a few items and selling them in our stores." The items became so popular...
...save everyone the trouble of testing the midnight ride by sending in our own hard-hitting investigator. 3:08 AM—After about fourteen consecutive hours of Facebooking, guzzling energy drinks, and crafting origami from my Gov notes, I decide to hit the road. I get another Red Bull from the vending machine, grab my passport and head for the Quad. 3:13 AM—I’m standing at Boylston Gate, waiting for the welcoming yet disheartening “Reading Period” sign to radiate from an approaching shuttle. 3:28 AM?...