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...Nerese Ammons, the black police detective, single mother and childhood acquaintance who wants to get to the bottom of the crime. The bottom is dark and deep. In Ray you find some of Price. They're both from high-rise public housing, which is where Price learned the urban folkways he mapped out in his 1974 debut novel, The Wanderers, that made him, at 24, Studs Lonigan for the generation that would adopt the Ramones. Over the next nine years, he published two formidable books and one that was not so formidable, and discovered cocaine. After a struggle...
...though they’re exiled on the East), Dartboard does not stick up for the ray-soaked wasteland and wishes eastcoasters and westcoasters would just get over it. Southern California doesn’t deserve such reverence. It more than makes up for its brilliant weather with disgusting urban sprawl, choking traffic, pollution, aesthetic debauchery and an intellectually stifling “laid back” atmosphere. The city is a huge expanse of strip malls, crumbling homes and apartment buildings that were in bad taste to begin with, crammed freeways and unbelievably crowded public schools. Sure, rich...
...Often used as a doggie playplace by urban pet owners, this enclosed area may occasionally contain—ahem—remnants of previous canine users...
...soldiers of 1st Brigade, the fact that things didn't go according to plan did not mean that they were unprepared. As one soldier said, "We trained for urban combat, for a possible street fight in Baghdad. That same training works just as well in An Najaf." It also worked fine in Karbala and Hilla, two other cities where the 101st had to squelch strong paramilitary resistance, which had not been in the original plan...
Except for cable series like Showtime's Soul Food, TV is averse to dramas that star African Americans. Even UPN, with its stable of "urban" comedies, mostly populates its dramas with white folk and the occasional Vulcan. Platinum would be notable simply for its casting, but its blackness goes deeper. Writer and co-creator John Ridley (Three Kings) has produced a story about the ascendancy of black pop culture in America, not only among black people, and the ironies that result when the art of the dispossessed goes mainstream. Ridley, who is black, is fascinated by the world...