Suburban Housing Developments are Conformist Political Deathtraps.

Suburban Housing Developments are Conformist Political Deathtraps.
Originally uploaded by rllayman.

I keep meaning to put this up. This image is from the www.urbancartography.com website and claims to be an actual ad from the Washington Post.

At the Historical Studies conference last week, had an interesting conversation about the issue of culture in the suburbs. An interesting article that I read in the Financial Times posits that culture in the suburbs tends to be more mainstream, much less edgy.

The Baltimore Sun reports that the Baltimore Symphony has cancelled some of its concerts scheduled for Strathmore Hall for budget reasons.