Here we have a video of a young (probably suburban) man wielding an AK-47, gangsta style: "AK fo-ty se-ben... something something bitch ass something... shut yo muthafuckin' mouth up something something [bang! bang! bang!] Oh my god. Oh fuck."
The tony New York suburb of Rye has been dealing with two separate coyote attacks this weekend. Today, trappers tracked down and killed the coyote thought to be responsible—but not before it bit its pup's head off.
Just in time for the demographic shifts that will turn suburbs into America's new slums, the folks in Johnson County, Kansas are planning a National Museum of Suburban History. What do you put in there?
Over the weekend some kids in Washington Heights left seven Drano bombs outside a school, but none of them exploded. No self respecting kid in the suburbs would ever build a dud Drano bomb.
The Way We Live Now: Going about this the wrong way. What is this, backwards day, economically speaking? You don't give the working class benefits and outrageous salaries, or bring poverty to the suburbs. Duh. Is it the Walgreens booze?
Studies and conventional wisdom tell us that the suburbs are the new slums. But that is not stopping developers from building thousands of brand new houses—with elevators!—among the empty shells of foreclosed suburban homes. And people are buying.
Any good student of dialectics knew this was coming. A new report on demographic trends shows that the suburbs are slowly but surely becoming what they were expressly designed not to be: the home of the disadvantaged.
Is it possible to spin a fabricated trend story with a local angle out of the fact that Jayson Blair is now a life coach in Northern Virginia? The Washington Post found a way!
Ah, the Burbs. So many good times. Sadly, with the collapse of the economy, they'll probably disappear along with the middle class. The rich will live in inaccessible luxury high rises like in Land of the Dead, or on well-guarded manses like in a Philip K. Dick novel. The rest of us will hunker down in urban…
Ever wonder why there's never any news on the weekends? It's because come 5:00 PM on Friday, all the respectable adults who write the stuff decamp to greener pastures. Maybe the most verdant of said pastures? Montclair, N.J.— a wondrous place a bit more than twelve miles west of Manhattan (20 miles as-the-car-drives),…
Remember the consolidation of the Times regional sections we mentioned before? Apparently, it's not going so well. Sure, providing the same stories for New Jersey, Long Island, and Connecticut might make economic sense, but West Orange guidos are completely different from Bayshore guidos, and there's no way a single…
• Will the shareholder revolt at the Times Co. finally force the Sulzbergers to address their Pinch problem? Could well be, Arianna say. [HuffPost]
• Times site goes down for four hours last night; world survives. [AP via Newsday]
• Times to consolidate its four weekly suburban sections into one. We told you this a…
If you're not from the suburbs — and, come on, deep down, though you may not admit it, aren't we all at some level — you may not be familiar with the weekly regional sections of the Times. They're the suburban equivalents of the City section, part of the metropolitan edition of the Sunday paper — as distinct from…
