posted by Joe Polk at 12:26 PM /
Is Mt. Lebanon a "crunchy suburb"? William Weston from Danville, KY thinks so.
Update: Mt. Lebanon blogger Erik Dahl offers his two cents on our "crunchiness".
Link: Aldo Coffee Co.
Link: Blue Horse Coffee
Link: Coffee Tree Roasters
Update: Mt. Lebanon blogger Erik Dahl offers his two cents on our "crunchiness".
Link: Aldo Coffee Co.
Link: Blue Horse Coffee
Link: Coffee Tree Roasters
Labels: aldo coffee, blue horse coffee, coffee tree roasters, crunch suburb
7 Comments:
And here I thought "crunchy suburb" meant something more like Highland Park ;0
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E2D61E30F937A35757C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
fwiw, judging from his post, he must've been at Coffee Tree. It's a zoo on school mornings.
I am both a Mt Lebanon resident and a former student of Beau Weston (sociology professor at Centre College). I'm not directly familiar with the concept he is citing, but from my experience, I'd have to say that we are very early in the stages of moving towards a crunchy suburb.
Lefty academics just crack me up...
Sociology professor. Swarthmore and Yale. Beard, Birkenstocks, Macintosh, Democrat. Latte-sipping intellectual. AND Married father of three. Ruling Elder of the Presbyterian Church. Front porch sitter in a small town in a very red state. Contented with it.
Bob Reich, Jr.
(Real non-tenured job, IUP & Pitt, no beard, Johnston & Murphy, Windows Vista Ultimate, Republican, pulpy orange juice straight from the bottle realist AND married father of three. Guilt-ridden Catholic weekly churchgoer. Too busy to sit in an increasingly blue suburb, not content with it.)
Just for the record, the idea of the "crunchy" suburb originated with David Brooks, a graduate of the University of Chicago and a Republican.
David Brooks left the compound long ago.....
Then he's in exile, because he's hasn't been embraced by the Blue Believers!
I think Erik is right that Mt. Lebanon is shifting. I don't know Pittsburgh neighborhoods well, but I think Oakland may be the crunchiest at the moment.
And to Bob Reich -- not a lefty, a centrist; hence The Gruntled Center blog.
I also commend Bill Bishop's The Big Sort on how neighborhoods are changing now.
I look forward to seeing how Mt. Lebanon develops for years to come on visits to my sister's house.
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