You Are Not Here, Matt Tait,
Flaneur
Urbanite Matt Tait examines the recent New York City trend of bars
and clubs stealing the accoutrements of ‘quaintly outmoded
blue-collar business[es].’ In Flaneur, the online
magazine dedicated to celebrating urban living, Tait prods at the
idea of the beauty salon-cum-bar, at the exclusivity and campiness
of it all. ‘And because of my recently increased access,’ he
writes, ‘my gut feeling … has become a reasoned conviction that
these places are disingenuous, one more smokescreen afforded by the
exact demographic that could do with one less.’
–Sara V. Buckwitz
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