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as an aside to my previous comment... i agree with the general point of your post that putting up these cookie-cutter condos everywhere is silly (they're filling up to what, 65% capacity on average?)....

"We bristled at the notion that corner of Madison and 21st was an eyesore. After all, most of the crime there was drug use and sales, which we tend to not equate with actual crime..." actual crime li...

What a bunch of fuckery this all is. Nowhere in the post does the writer imply that barrio is offending anybody. To me, it seems implied that it's simple an ironic, and possibly poor choice in naming...

there hasn't been anything all that interesting to come out in the last decade... these jokers sound like muse on heroin....

possibly worth nothing: pagliacci's current seasonal is a cheese festival primo... got one last night, and it was pretty damn tasty....

haha @ belltown crackheads. i see some absolutely bonkers crap in my alley that i wish was on video. anywho.. what about all the beatings? in addition to all the belltown/u-district cases where peop...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_tossing in chicago i took them as a general indicator of gang territory. not a specific gang, but more "be careful what area you're about to enter". i see them a lo...

the company i work for rents from mt. baker lodging for our annual christmas parties... when we were there in december the cabin i was assigned to had a hot tub outside that wasn't grounded properly, ...

i'm assuming there will be some retail/food space in the bottom of these new condos? please don't bring us any more places like kurrent :[...

siding with turnip2000. i moved here from san antonio (i'm from chicago). for the first few years i hated texas (and most texans) with a passion, but you can really start to appreciate it eventually :...