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January 01, 1990 - March 07, 2013 + The Urban Man
Sophistication 
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A couple months ago, the Urban Man achieved a perfect moment of West Coast sophistication, and I thought it should be, you know, recorded for...
Not Planning the Future
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I like to keep tabs on the future, so last month I went down to a contest to plan the L.A. of 100 years from...
Predictions for 2007
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It's New Year's Day, time to release my predictions for greater Los Angeles in 2007. Once again I've utilized fractal modeling, heuristic methods, and media...
Hints and Metaphors
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It's the holidays, and the Urban Man has gone looking for metaphors of redemption. Never mind the colored lights strung along the balconies of Eastside...
Sophisticated Gift Objects
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On your doorstep tomorrow morning you will find the Urban Man's Signature Holiday Catalog for 2006. As always, it will be a spritely round-up of...
Things Weighty and Trivial
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Like most people here, I know that Hollywood succeeds by maintaining a
careful balance between the weighty and the trivial. On the one hand,
you have your...
Pheromones at the Car Show
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Today, I've gone down to the Convention Center to walk through the L.A. Auto Show. Like any red-blooded Angeleno, the Urban Man wants to smell...
Love Songs
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Everywhere we go in the city, we want to hear love songs: in restaurants, hotel lobbies, departure lounges. Even on escalators we strain to hear...
Glory Days
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It's late afternoon on the Music Center Plaza, and the Urban Man has gone for a stroll before a matinée. Suddenly the sun cuts through...
Flipping Real Estate on First Street
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Back in March of 2000, when the Chandler family announced that it had sold the Los Angeles Times to some guys in Chicago--thus ending 120...
Smart Bombing the Body Politic
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It's the eve of a major election, and the Urban Man spent this afternoon making calls from here on the West Coast to places deep...
In Search of the Empty Costume
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As educated people, we know that Halloween is no longer a pagan
holiday, but a homework assignment from Psych 101. We're told that
dressing up in tights...
Public Beauty, Part IV
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If you listen to this show, you know that the Urban Man often tries to find beauty in what many consider an ugly town. Not...
Choosing Just One
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Now, like most people, I have a love/hate relationship with salesmen. I scoff at their simple slogans, but I long to hear them say, "Here's...
Entirely New Visions
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Like many, the Urban Man often goes looking for entirely new visions. I'm not talking about spectacle. If I need spectacle, I can buy a...
