I’m watching Wallander with my dad now, and I’m having all these resurfacing emotions about Kenneth Branagh, and also about how much I want to buy him a bottle of Visine and a decent razor. Also, oh no, Henning Mankell.
Do you have literally any means of getting to Brooklyn?
I, like the author, have largely solved this by not signing off 75% of my emails at all! I just write the email and then hit send and assume they know I wish them the best and what my name is.
New Sappho poems! Not even, like, “commissioned by the estate of Sappho” new, we’re talking legit poems by Sappho.
I assumed there would not be a Williamsburg in my city, but there is, and I DO seem to recall there being a very nice Whole Foods there.
David Foster Wallace, an internet chat from 1996:
dfw: In my very first seminar in college, I pronounced facade “fakade.” The
memory’s still fresh and raw.
Tony Soprano’s crimes: the handy infographic.
I love how weird everyone is now.
Photos of the NYC subway in 1981.
I lost the Cochise County Spelling Bee by misspelling “facade” as “physsade”. I was in 4th grade. It’s still a painful memory.
I lost the Cook County Spelling Bee after misspelling “corduroy.” (Is that correct? Still not 100% certain.) It burns. STILL.
Spelling bees are the worst. I was a great speller, but just couldn’t do it without writing it down first.
Fifth grade – opera
Sixth grade – perish
I try to just not use those words, ever.
“Vehicle.” WHERE DOES THE H COME FROM? I maintain “veircle” was the more sophisticated answer.
I got around that in spelling bees by pretending to write the word on my hand with my finger and picturing what it looked like. It was a matter of Great Scandal in fifth grade whether or not that was cheating.
I still have to look up “corduroy” every time I type in. I fact, just now I cut and pasted it from your comment. Because WHAT IS WITH THAT WORD.
Bee embarrassment is the worst. I was in a geography bee in middle school (not because I was especially knowledgeable, but because I had crammed a lot of country names/capitals before the qualifying test) and when I was up in front of the whole school there was a question that I heard as “Which country in South America…?” I hadn’t the least idea, so I guessed Ecuador. Only to learn that the question had actually been “which country in Southern Africa…?” And to add insult to injury, the answer was South Africa, which is what I would’ve guessed if I’d heard the question correctly.
Ugh, I lost a geography bee in front of the whole school with a question about Canada. Still smarts to this day.
THANKS, CANADA
I lost a geography bee in 5th grade because I didn’t know that the busiest airport in the US (at least in 1999) was O’Hare. I had never flown at the time; I don’t even think I had a guess.
I love how these little things stick with us.
I won a geography bee because I knew St Andrew’s golf course had to be in Scotland, because St Andrew’s College was in Scotland and that’s where Prince William was, cutie that he was at the time.
Otherwise I would have had no idea.
Yeah, I would’ve known the O’Hare thing, but only because of Home Alone.
I volunteered as scorekeeper for my class’s geography bee specifically because I was TERRIBLE at geography and feared embarrassment.
I lost on “Antarctica.” HOWEVER, I will point out that I asked the prompter to repeat the word, and they very loudly, very clearly pronounced it as “Ant-ART-i-ca.” It sounded wrong to me, but I went with it.
I feel you– I lost a 5th grade bee with “Connecticut.” How did that third C get in there? I still feel sort of resentful towards the state in general.
In 7th grade, I lost the regional spelling bee because the prompter (probably in an attempt to avoid giving too much away) emphatically pronounced “occlusion” as AH-cclusion.
Related: I saw photos of myself at the bee recently, and they may well be the nerdiest photos of me ever.
I lost my 4th grade spelling bee on “obey,” which was SO FRUSTRATING because I KNEW how to spell it. I distinctly remember being up there, hearing the word, and thinking “Ok, o-b-e-y. Easy.” But what comes out of my mouth? “O-b-a-y.” I don’t even know what that was. Thanks, stage fright?
My friend ended up winning but lost the county finals on “corridor.” I was pissed because I totally knew that one, too.
Cochise County! I am from Pima County! Cooool!
Also, sorry for your loss ;-(
Oh also! Funniest spelling bee moment in our school was when this 8th grade bully guy somehow made it to the finals, and one of his words was “yield.” He said, “Yee-e-l-d.” Like he spoke the first part of the word. It was amazing and still comes to mind every time I hear that word.
Alas, I am not actually from Cochise County! I lived there in 3rd & 4th grade because my dad was stationed at Ft. Huachuca. I loved it there, though, and hope to take my husband to visit someday.
Ah! Good ol’ Fort Huachuca! I now live in NY, but my fondness for AZ is growing stronger every day. It’s the perfect place to retire.
ARGH. I lost my 5th grade class spelling bee on the word ‘layer’. We weren’t allowed definitions (I MEAN JEEZ), only repeats of the word, so I went with the spelling ‘lair’ because I was a jerk and ‘lair’ and ‘layer’ sound the same when I hear/say them and goddamnit, I thought I was being sophisticated by going for the more esoteric choice (for 5th graders, at least). I am still mad about this.
In 4th grade I had the word “taught” (which I got correct), but later my dad told me “You could have also spelled it T-A-U-T, as in a rope that is pulled taut”. AS IF A FOURTH GRADER KNOWS THAT. Also, I doubt the teachers running the spelling bee would have given it to me.
I lost my regional bee on “surmounted,” which I believe I spelled “sermounted,” and the only other possibility I thought of at the time was “sirmounted.” I will NEVER misspell it again.
4th grade, “vinegar”. It still stings (har har).
But coming from New England, where “vinegar” is “vinagah”, it was a lost cause from the beginning.
When I was in 5th grade I lost the Diocese of Scranton spelling bee because I didn’t know there was a c in “acquittal”. It haunts me still.
I was out in the first round of our 7th grade spelling bee with “continent.” I lost my place in the word and added an extra “nen” – I just kinda kept going with the “en-en-en” thing until I felt like I got them all.
When I was about 6, I broke my solid run of 20/20 for spellings (the only time I ever broke it, and I now spell for a living) because my sloppy handwriting led my teacher to want to make a point by pretending she thought the a in peach was a u, as it wasn’t joined up properly at the top. 30 years on my family still tease me about it.
I lost my 5th grade spelling by spelling “cavalry” as “Calvary.” Stupid Catholic Sunday school.
I lost first place in my school spelling bee for spelling “fluorescent” correctly. It was the judge, the school librarian, who was wrong. I proved it to her afterwards by cleverly opening a dictionary and showing her the entry, but she was all, “you’re already going to the district bee; give it a rest.” It’s almost twenty years later and I’m still mad.
4th grade, regional bee, “gubernatorial.” Particularly galling because we were down to the final two at that point — if I had gotten a LESS STUPID WORD, I might have ended up in the National Spelling Bee!
One of my most painful memories of all time was when I was eliminated on my first word in the school district bee, 4th grade. I was very very shy, and SO nervous when I got up to the microphone. My first word was “social,” and I took a deep breath and said “Social. C — ” after which I immediately burst into tears. I asked, defeatedly, if I should finish the word. They said yes, so I choked out “o-c-i-a-l” and sat down, where I had to SIT ON THE STAGE crying throughout the entire rest of the bee.
It was extremely scarring and I never competed in a spelling bee again.
Kenneth Branagh was my first real ‘imagine if I actually knew him’ crush. I’m not saying this is a super great admission, and I’m not saying it continued after I saw the endless, preposterous SoulPatch Hamlet with all those leather butt cheek shots, but as Wallander he still kind of does it for me.
I literally could not function unless I watched the Agincourt speech in his Henry V about twice a day for a year.
Benedick falling into the hedge.
I was sure someone had gif-ed that, but I unearthed this gem instead:
It is great.
ME TOO. I genuinely thought that if he met me, he would probably ask me out for drinks because I was so sophisticated.
EXACTLY!
I’m glad there is Branagh love here, b/c my high school cohort mocked me mercilessly for thinking he was a hottie.
I still keep thinking that I really must watch Wallander all over again, it was so very good. So VERY good that I don’t even think of Tom Hiddleston in it, despite his ridonkulous hair and mom jeans! I want to scoop up Branagh/Wallander and tuck him into a blanket like a burrito and feed him tea until he makes that tiny, sad smile.
Okay, question — is the Branagh Hamlet worth watching? Neither my boyfriend or I have ever seen it, and we were actually planning on watching it this weekend. (We’ve both seen the Mel Gibson and the Ethan Hawke, and there’s got to be SOMETHING better.)
OH I like the one with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart. Patrick Stewart plays Tennant’s father AND uncle, which is wonderful. And Ophelia is great, though I don’t know the actress who plays her.
ah, you beat me to it! They are both worth watching. And then when you need cheering up you can watch the branagh/tennant much ados back to back.
THERE IS A TENNANT MUCH ADO???
WITH A CATHERINE TATE BEATRICE!!!
I really like the Branagh Hamlet, in part because a bright, lavish Hamlet full of imperial pomp is such a change from the usual dank, grubby-robes Hamlet. And this Hamlet really emphasizes the public nature of his life: mirrors and open walkways and court galleries everywhere, so there’s nowhere to hide his grief.
I don’t have too many feelings about BBC Sherlock, but I do hate The Man, so that link made me smile like the Grinch.
I am SCREAMING about that Vengeance is Hers film line up and cursing that Brooklyn is quite literally (I looked up the maths) 10,000 miles away from me.
Morning Toasties!
I’m so excited about the new Sappho poems – what a cool start to the day. How interesting is it that there’s just ancient papyrus still lying around? (I know it’s more complicated than that, but seriously – how does one happen to own an ancient papyrus for a classicist to find Sappho poems on??)
I am extremely excited about new Sappho poems, and also about the fact that apparently you can be an expert in papyrus and be called a papyrologist. That just fills me with GLEE.
has anyone been able to find a translation? All the articles I can find have like, a summary, but I want to read the poetry!!!!
I don’t know if they’ve been translated yet! I saw the guy’s preliminary paper with the actual text and I am just about ready to dig out my Liddell & Scott to try and suss it out on my own …
You’re probably right. but the anticipation arghhhhlaksdj
Link to preliminary paper? IN THEORY, I know Greek, too.
http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/Fragments/Obbink.S…
There is a translation of the new Sappho poem at http://languagehat.com/new-sappho/#comments
GUYS, I’m reading a 55K word Mycroft/Lestrade fic (I actually never read fanfic, but it’s helping me piece through my Lestrade feelings right now), I’m about…20K words in, and they literally have barely touched yet, and it’s BANANAS. Like, Lestrade just made Mycroft a ginger/grapefruit granita, and it was the hottest thing.
I could seriously go for a ginger/grapefruit granita right now….
Right? I was a little “lol like lestrade can cook,” tho.
I…I may have read that whole series instead of doing important research stuff a couple weeks ago.
I don’t read novel-length fanfic usually, but there really is something about a looooooong slow build-up of sexual tension that no one seems to be able to pull off like a fanfic writer.
And you are not giving us the URL of this story WHY?
Then you would find out it’s actually 180K words.
See, now I’m just doing a mad Google of “lestrade granita” “mycroft lestrade ginger granita” “mycroft lestrade long story” but I’m not getting anywhere because I am the world’s worst Googler.
Link or it didn’t happen.
Have I read an 118,000 word Mycroft/woman!Lestrade fic and a 56,000 word Molly Hooper/Lestrade fic, all without caring about Sherlock that much? Yes, I have no regrets.
Oh God those are so amazing. rageprufrock! How do they even do that?
Same. Like, not with those exact fics, but I’ve inexplicably read a lot of longfic of shows I’m not even particularly into.
ARE YOU ME I LITERALLY JUST POSTED ABOUT THOSE.
Also now I’m reading it again instead of writing this introduction for a paper (which is also about fanfiction).
Let’s talk about your Lestrade feelings. This is a Safe Space. (As long as Maurice gets a mention.)
And Freddie “Your Floppy Hair (and Other Parts) Give me Palpitations” Honeychurch.
lolllll. How have you been a Sherlock fan UNTO THE THIRD SEASON and never read fanfic till now.
Nicole, I’ve been a Sherlock fan all along and just read my first fanfic about it last week.
(Uh, that, uh, may, uh, be only the 2nd or 3rd fanfic I’ve ever read. Hope that doesn’t annul my Toastie status.)
Lestrade deserves much better than Mycroft. That is all.
I love Mycroft, but yeah. He’s not great relationship material.
HE IS NOT CAPABLE OF LOVING GREG LIKE I WOULD LOVE GREG.
I think that fic is my favorite for Lestrade!feelings. That and the Molly/Lestrade one someone recced last week, but At Least There’s the Football has FOOD which is my ultimate downfall.
(There’s also a quite good female!Lestrade fic that I didn’t think I would like but….I do, I really do)
(/end Lestrade fanfiction feelings, but really no they will never end)
Twins! And now I want to go reread the Molly one. Everything needs more Molly in it.
I love the characterization of Molly in that fic! It puts everything she does in a much more sympathetic/she’s actually an awesome person light, whereas with most of her interactions in s1 and s2 you could basically write her off as uninteresting.
I like that Lestrade has a family and a history and hobbies and etc etc. I always like fanfiction where the characters have a past, you know? Like they existed in some way before True Love.
Whoever it was that originally recced that Molly/Lestrade fic last week, seriously, THANK YOU, it has made my life demonstratively better.
Is it Still Waters (Run Deep)? Because I am downloading that to my kindle NOW for my impending 20+ hour flight.
There’s a fanfic out there, still WiP, where Johnlock is canon but while Sherlock is helping Irene escape, they have sex one time and a baby happens, and Sherlock is an addict of some sort too… and the majority of the fic is flashback and aftermath.
Oh and there’s a third Holmes brother who is a movie producer in Hollywood.
I have it bookmarked at home so I can’t post the link but it is So. Good.
What’s the Williamsburg of Williamsburg, Va.?
Hahahaha Williamsburg VA has NO cool spots. Virginia Beach is closest, but only a little bit cooler
It’s almost an oxymoron to use anyplace in Virginia south of the Occoquan and cool in the same sentence.
At least back when I was at William & Mary, it was the steps of Tucker Hall, the English Building. English majors would sit there all day and smoke clove cigarettes and pretend to understand critical theory. I wouldn’t say it was cool, but it’s probably the closest thing we had to a Brooklyn.
And the DoG Street theater. I saw so many shitty and/or pretentious movies there — “Fritz the Cat,” “Baraka,” “Boxing Helena” — each and every one described as a “tour de force” in the oddly sized bulletin of coming attractions that my roommates and I would tape to a closet door. For three bucks a pop, you could tolerate a lot of lousy stuff, or you could cram in and watch the late show of “The Princess Bride” or “The Crow.” Ah, good times, good times.
Green Leafe, Cheese Shop, Movie theater. End of list. (tribe pride!)
Green Leafe and Cheese Shop 4EVA
I think it’s that park where they have enormous foam busts of all the presidents.
I don’t know if I’m more sad about the fact that Presidents’ Park no longer exists, or that I was unable to purchase Chester A. Arthur.
KENNETH BRANAGH HAS NO LIPS.
There, everyone. You will never be able to unsee that. You’re welcome.
It’s super true. They just don’t exist. I don’t know how his teeth aren’t bared all the time.
My mom calls him “the lipless wonder”.
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/polls/817000/8175…
Ahahaha YESSSS! When he smiles, he actually has NEGATIVE LIPS!
Oh, wow, I pronounced “facade” like that in college too! I was mocked mercilessly by an acquaintance who is now a writer for The Mindy Project. (Which is not the entire reason I don’t watch the show, BUT IT’S ONE OF THEM.)
“Do you have literally any means of getting to Brooklyn?”
Why yes. Yes I do. And now I am going to a double-feature of Ms. 45 and Blue Steel in February. The awesome is about to make my head explode. Thank you kindly, Ms. Cliffe.
YESS you and me both. I am doing 9 to 5 and She-Devil, if not a few more. BECAUSE I CAN WALK HERE. YES! finally my overpriced apartment proves its worth!
I totally wanna do 9 to 5 (maybe IN COSTUME???) and She-Devil, too! There are so many great ones!
Oh no, Henning Mankell. I have read so many of his books and love Wallander so much. Poor guy 🙁
I’m not a crier, and his words have me tearing up at my desk. Oh man.
NEW SAPPHO POEMS!!!!!!!!!!!
I am literally and actually crying at my desk right now. Oh my god.
Part of what’s so fascinating about this, to me, is that the Sappho canon we have has been passed down through centuries of translations and retranslations and loose adaptations. And these poems don’t have that! They short-circuited all the centuries between Sappho and us and are coming to us practically fresh. It makes me a little dizzy.
Can I use this space to ask people for their favourite Sappho translations? x
I’ve heard great things about Anne Carsons If Not, Winter, even from people who normally have mixed feelings about Carson’s shtick. I haven’t read the whole thing, but I heard her read from it and it seemed really beautiful.
I love If Not, Winter so much. So so much.
I’m hoping this doesn’t sound pedantic (or maybe I misunderstand your comment…?) — but I think this new Sappho papyrus is supposed to be 3rd century CE or something like that, and Sappho’s lifetime is generally dated to early 6th century BCE or so. That means that these transcriptions of Sappho’s poetry date to around 1000 years post-Sappho. Like, it’s her poetry (or has been ID’d as such), but it was written down 1000 years after she was alive.
I think that’s kind of amazing, in and of itself, though — it really gives you a feel for the vast chasm of time that separates us from Sappho; despite that, her poems retain this glorious resonance for a lot of us.
Thanks for the fact-check! When I was typing that comment I thought “maybe I should look again at when this papyrus is from,” but I had just come from that story and had enough tabs open already so I didn’t. (This sounds like something from “overly honest research methods.”)
That is cool, and I appreciate the additional context. What I was thinking of with my comment had less to do with Sappho’s readers in antiquity than with the tradition that’s grown up around her since the early modern period–mainly, all the versions of Sappho 31 from Racine to Tennyson to William Carlos Williams to now. To me, that tradition is just part of what that poem is. To get “new” poems now, without any received ideas about how to interpret them, feels a little like getting a gift from a time traveler.
THANKS FOR NEVER SENDING ME THIS COMMENT, INTENSEDEBATE >:(
But yeah, basically any a) surving fragments of NEW STUFF b) FROM ANTIQUITY is head-explodingly awesome.
I am so excited about that BAM series! They’re showing She-Devil. She-Devil! The best movie of all time and the only Roseanne-Meryl collaboration in existence!
I am so excited too!!! Thank you, Nicole, for bringing it to my attention! I will be spending all of my money at BAM.
I don’t think I know what “Williamsburg” means. I thought I had it down from “Girls” and like, pop culture generally, but Yaletown certainly isn’t an interesting part of Vancouver at all. They film the Real Housewives of Vancouver in Yaletown, it’s full of massive corporate hockey pubs and restaurants called “Society”.
I thought “Williamsburg” was code for “neighborhoods favoured by moneyed hipsters who use the British “u”; full of wine bars not dive bars.” I could be wrong.
Oh maybe! I use the “u” in neighbourhood, but I’m Canadian, so maybe I get a pass?
Coquitlam Gal born & bred and you are absolutely correct (albeit I haven’t lived in Vancouver for 15 years but I go back home every 3 months or so for friends & family catch-ups, just for the record).
Yeah, I had like Main St. or something like that pinned. Yaletown is like an urban suburb.
fwiw, Girls takes place mostly in Greenpoint, which is northeast-ish of Wmsbg.
I’m sort of pleased that my hometown isn’t on that “Williamsburg of your city” list. I know it’s because it’s not quite big enough but I’d like to think it’s because we’re all equally up-and-coming and love each other in spite of neighborhood borders.
Oh god, apparently I live in the Williamsburg of my city. But I love it and my rent is pretty reasonable and there’s lots of good food! And polish bakeries. Mmm.
Oh I lied. I live in the Bushwick of my city. Is that better or worse?
Samesies. What does it even mean to be “a Bushwick”? I have no idea.
I think it means the neighborhood that is next in line to be the Williamsburg, once your city’s Williamsburg is “over.” Generally less developed, cheaper (for now) and not yet super-white.
Noooo! I wasn’t sure what a “Bushwick” was either, but now I am afraid. Dear, sweet Somerville, please stay half nice and half shitty forever!!!
I’m okay with signing off my emails (thanks Outlook’s auto-signature) but suck at knowing how to address them so most of the time I leave off a greeting and just put in the message.
(We’re one of those weird schools where everyone just calls each other by their first name but I don’t feel totally comfortable doing that all the time and I don’t know a lot of people’s perferred addresses–chef, dr., prof., ms, etc; so I just avoid addressing anyone by name ever)
That Sherlock article is fine, but I haven’t been able to take the author seriously since…god, since her ridiculous antics in Harry Potter fandom like ten years ago. /feel old
You say that as though the ridiculous antics haven’t continued to the present.
(linking not working, so here: http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/t…
Haha, as soon as I posted that I was like, “actually most of her antics back in Harry Potter was more peripheral to the really crazy stuff happening, I think she’s actually gotten worse.” The Big Bang Press thing is a giant mess, particularly the paying-money-for-fic part, but I think my favorite recent one was when she planned to write an article about hockey fandom linking to fic about real players, and couldn’t understand why all the authors freaked out and locked/deleted their fic.
Oh my god, but I really like Hello Tailor! :llamaface:
I just don’t read anything on the Daily Dot ever because of her, which is totally irrational, but here we are.
GAHHH NOOO I do NOT have any way of getting to Brooklyn. BAM does some great film series, I was able to catch a few of the Cary Grant series a few years ago during trips home to see my parents.
Has anyone been following this Nation cover story thing about mainstream feminists being terrified into silence by. . .WOC with Twitter accounts? I had to read the article a few times to make sure it was real.
wtf
Do you have links to any good pieces about it? I keep hearing about it but I’ve been super busy at work (you know, doing my job that they pay me for, what’s that about) and I haven’t been able to find much.
Unfortunately I don’t – I was just read Mikki Kendall’s Twitter and following a maze of hashtags and retweets: https://twitter.com/Karnythia
It’s a good place to start, at least. Thanks!
Why is Sappho a POETESS? This is not a word any more. She is a Poet. No ess. I thought this was understood
Anastasia Krupnik thought this; therefore it is true.
Am I missing something in the email etiquette post? Why does she say the Japanese wouldn’t have this problem?
She says “I bet the Japanese don’t have this problem” but she is speaking from ignorance because in my experience Salutations and Closings in Japanese are a freaking minefield.
Yeah, from what little I know about Japanese, it’s my impression that using the precise situationally-appropriate level of politeness is a pretty Big Deal, more so than in English.
Maybe she means that because politeness is more required and precise, it would be easier to know the appropriate phrase for each situation -the requirements would be less vague and thus less fraught.
Wallander was one of the most bleak and depressing shows I have ever watched, and yet weirdly made me want to move to Sweden? (Where I no doubt would either be murdered and buried beneath somebody’s dairy farm, or fall into a hopeless depression and die of acute alcohol poisoning.)
My parents moved there and my mom cannot get enough of those books, even with the fact that SHE LIVES IN A PLACE WITH SO MANY MURDERERS. God.
Here is a translation of one of the Sappho poems!
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/30/read…
W00t!
OMGOMGOMG
So, in short, “my brothers are completely useless but I love them dearly”. Fair.
“The Williamsburg of Portland is Portland.” Mega LOLs.
I live in the New Jersey of Portland.
I laughed too. I suspect you’re talking about Vancouver (are we still calling it The Couve?) since it’s actually in another state, but my personally Newark will always be Beaverton.
Reno does NOT have a Williamsburg. I’ve never been to Williamsburg, but I can state that as a fact. Downtown is lovely, but Williamsburg it is not.
I <3 Reno so much.
If we are playing the game, I would say “Williamsburg” would be Old Southwest and “Bushwick” Midtown. Downtown Reno is…..casinos, the river, and excellent pho, to me.
(The English seem to favor “Love.” Americans like the “X,” which, though it means “kiss,” still seems a bit less fervent.)
Huh? I find that the English use “X” waaaaay more often than Americans. Especially in texts.
Yeah WTF that is so incorrect. English folks use tons of X’s and I have even heard them discussing how many to use for particular meanings. Everything is fraught!
I moved from one Williamsburg to another last year. Makes sense.
Anastasia Krupnik thought this; therefore it is true.
Oakland: Piedmont is our Williamsburg and Fruitvale is our Bushwick.
Either this is a joke, or I don’t know what being a Williamsburg/Bushwick is.
fwiw, Girls takes place mostly in Greenpoint, which is northeast-ish of Wmsbg.
I live in Baker here in Denver, and it’s more Bushwick than Williamsburg, which is to say that it’s in the process of being gentrified but isn’t quite there yet – the rent’s going up, but you’ve got new condos up north and a 5-block strip of nightlife and then it’s working-class housing and industrial shops the further south you go. The creep has just started. I don’t know why Highlands is meant to be our Wmsbg – that distinction definitely goes to Capitol Hill / Five Points. It’s where the local coffeeshops and DIY art spaces are. That’s how you tell.
As for Boulder being its own Wmsbg, it’s really its own lower east side – rich europeans and trust fund kids live in the city proper ’round CU campus but the outer neighborhoods and commuter hamlets around it are poorer and more heavily latino/latina.
I live in Baker here in Denver, and it's more Bushwick than Williamsburg, which is to say that it's in the process of being gentrified but isn't quite there yet – the rent's going up, but you've got new condos up north and a 5-block strip of nightlife and then it's working-class housing and industrial shops the further south you go. The creep has just started. I don't know why Highlands is meant to be our Wmsbg – that distinction definitely goes to Capitol Hill / Five Points. It's where the local coffeeshops and DIY art spaces are. That's how you tell.
As for Boulder being its own Wmsbg, it's really its own lower east side – rich europeans and trust fund kids live in the city proper 'round CU campus but the outer neighborhoods and commuter hamlets around it are poorer and more heavily latino/latina.