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The New Yorker tells us why the East Village is dying by degrees: Artistic branding-by-suffering.

Fishbowl gives a nod to Roman satirist and man-about-town Juvenal, who knew the value of critiquing the critics before they carted him off into exile and a quick death, and proceeds, without further ado, by applauding Peter Schjeldahl for not inhaling the pixie dust sprinkled by the “East Village USA” exhib at the New Museum. Lead on, Pete:


In the newly Los Angelized city of New York, where waiters from nearby French brasseries throw a damask napkin on your lap if you’re just sitting down near Tompkins Square before charging you $10 for the privilege, you might not remember that there was a thing called the 1980s.

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