By Guest Contributor Aymar Jean Christian, originally published at Televisual
Taking a break from film/TV/web series today to talk about an issue dear to my heart: the urban coffee shop. Specifically, the dying Manhattan coffee shop (and how Philadelphia is better).
I originally wrote this for Splice Today, but decided to re-post here after hearing from a [...]

by Latoya Peterson

“Gentrification is coming,” says Morgan, “and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.”
What’s the difference between East of the River and River East?  According to a March 3rd article in the Washington City Paper, it depends on who you are.
Anacostia is located in South East, DC, made notorious for high levels of [...]

By Guest Contributor quadmoniker, originally published at PostBourgie

I’m going to be vague on location here to avoid giving away too much, but I had a friend who just had to interview a group of homeowners in a portion of the northeast that’s very wealthy and smugly liberal. The group was concerned about a mixed-income housing [...]

By Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

In New York, a woman is suing a Flushing Queens co-op board for trying to force her and her family out of their apartment building because she’s Chinese: Woman sues co-op for saying: Live with your people.
Lisa Sheen says board members at her building [...]

by Latoya Peterson
In this month’s Marie Claire, Cameron Diaz is gracing the cover and bringing a message. The popular starlet has embraced the environment as her new motivation, and is doing a low budget movie/documentary about the state of our fair planet.
The reporter follows Diaz to her old neighborhood in Long Beach, California, noting [...]

By Guest Contributor Jamelle, originally published on United States of Jamerica and PostBourgie

On his blog earlier this week, Ryan Avent made a really insightful point about the legacy of the Baby Boomer’s attitudes towards urban/suburban design:
But the really interesting point to me is that the Boomers have also screwed themselves. The policies mentioned above — [...]