11/18/2005
"My goal in life is to infuse chic with happiness.": Apartment Therapy chats with pottery designer Jonathan Adler.
Andy Roddick has an inordinate fear of the Easter Bunny.
Is Key West going straight? The NYT mingles among Key West's residents and asks the same question the Boston Globe asked a couple months ago about Provincetown — in what way is gentrification is changing the southernmost point? Both articles point to one common culprit: real estate. "Once a low-cost retreat for those who wanted to get away from it all - both gay and straight - it is now one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country. While transplants once could buy up attractive but dilapidated houses in Old Town, those 'Carpenter Gothic' houses have now been restored with pastel paint and shiny tin roofs to a standard that would make Martha Stewart applaud."
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the gays can't be stopped... we are making over your dilapitated towns one by one!
Posted by: PopMuse.com | Nov 18, 2005 12:02:16 PM
nice nice.
Posted by: Wannabeleader | Nov 18, 2005 12:28:16 PM
Gay men made Key West the paradise that people love today. If it's taken over by the breeders, it's over for us there. No big deal. We can make another one anywhere, anytime.
It's what we do best...Making lemonade from lemons that nobody else wanted.
Posted by: Jay Croce | Nov 18, 2005 2:57:55 PM
>>He's Easter Bunny-phobic
I have a fear of most people in costumes, clowns in particular, but I get a little anxious anytime I'm around someone, and I can't see their face.
If that's Andy's biggest problem, I'd still have his babies.
Posted by: Jay Croce | Nov 18, 2005 3:02:42 PM
Wasn't Anya the former BtVS Vengence Demon afraid of rabbits in any form? Bunnies especially?
Posted by: Ted B. | Nov 19, 2005 4:58:49 PM
We've been going to Key West for the last 5 years. We're not going back for a while after this last year. It has changed so much in just the last year. The city council is trying to make it a family friendly desitination ala Las Veagas tried and failed a couple of years ago. Hopefully in a couple of years, they'll realise that it won't work and things will be back to normal.
Posted by: LeanOhioGuy | Nov 20, 2005 8:07:22 AM