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Is Logan Circle Clybourne Park?

03/31/2010

Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription, No. And I doubt the Clybourne Park depicted in Bruce Norris’s play on view at Woolly Mammoth Theatre through April 17^th is the true Clybourne Park either. We’ll get to that shortly.

Act I of Clybourne Park takes place in September 1959 as an African-American couple is attempting to buy a house in Chicago’s all-white Clybourne Park neighborhood. The sellers are leaving the city to be close to the husband’s job in suburbia, buy alprazolam cheap. The white neighbors protest strenuously along the lines of “not a good fit” (not their words), Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription. Why, these folks don’t even ski on winter weekends.

Act II takes place in “post-racial” 2009 as a white couple prepares to purchase and rebuild the house as a McMansion. Is alprazolam habit forming, They’re moving to the city to be close to their jobs in the revitalized downtown. Neighbors--among them an African-American couple--representing the local community association, protest strenuously along the lines of “architectural integrity” (not their words). Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription, Who’s skiing now.

We’re free to think whatever we want, but I suspect many come away from the play with the impression that racism is the unspoken rationale behind the arguments put forth in both acts, alprazolam versus lorazepam. Could be; maybe not—that’s the most fun part of our right to interpret what we see and hear any way we see fit.

Let’s talk about gentrification for a minute, because that’s the possible parallel between Clybourne Park and Logan Circle. Withdrawl symptoms from alprazolam, “Gentrification” is always a controversial term because it implies that someone is being forced out of a neighborhood as others who are more well to do move in. Property values and taxes rise and the original inhabitants can’t afford to stay, Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription. Right.

Well, the real story is far more complicated than that. If you look at the history of Logan Circle, alprazolam 0.5mg tablet myl, you’ll find that, at various turns, folks have sold their properties and moved to the suburbs as a matter of personal choice. Cheap alprazolam no nrx, In the 1950s, for example, people actively sought new lifestyles in cool, mid-century suburban developments. Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription, In the late 1960s, lots of African-American families left Logan because it had become a lousy neighborhood after the destruction following MLK’s assassination. That left a surfeit of available property, alprazolam drug, and both blacks and whites who didn’t have children and therefore youngsters’ safety- and school-related concerns started moving in. It was the beginning of gentrification in Logan Circle, but no one was forced out. Taking melatonin with alprazolam, Late last year, New York magazine published an article called “What’s Wrong With Gentrification?,” in which Lance Freeman, an associate professor of urban planning at Columbia, studied the degree to which people were displaced in New York’s Clinton Hill and Harlem neighborhoods, administration alprazolam route xanax, both predominantly African-American and rapidly gentrifying. In his book, There Goes the ‘Hood, Alprazolam 1mg, he writes, “much to my surprise,” that there was no causal relationship between gentrification and displacement. “More surprising,” the New York article goes on, “he found that ‘poor residents and those without a college education were actually less likely to move if they resided in gentrifying neighborhoods.’”

To be sure, gentrification has its victims, Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription. I know elderly singles living in big houses whose values have increased exponentially since the early 1990s. Were they not fortunate to be persons of means, alprazolam no perscription, wouldn’t they almost certainly be forced to move because they would be unable to pay their out-of-control property taxes. Well, maybe not. Alprazolam info color designation, You see, Washington, D.C. Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription, has for some time had a statute limiting residential property tax increases to 10 percent annually. Ten percent is hefty, to be sure, wis alprazolam a methamphetamine, but the law provided a lot of relief for owners whose home values tripled from 1993 to 2003. Another statute allows certain homeowners to pay taxes on a very low percentage of assessed value; until a recent change in the law requiring taxes on at least 40 percent, many were paying on as little as 10 to 20 percent of assessed value. Order alprazolam no prescription, How many homeowners have been forced out. We don’t have the data, but my guess is very few.

What about renters, Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription. Rents have soared along with property values and taxes, almost certainly convincing some renters that they’ll get a much better value in another, alprazolam interaction, less redeveloped part of the city. And long-time, low-income renters may have been forced to relocate when the lease shot beyond their means. Alprazolam zoloft, Even so, low-income renters have options. The redeveloped apartment buildings on the 1400 block of R Street, N.W., four blocks northwest of my home, which is stronger alprazolam or valium, have rental units set aside for people with incomes at various percentages of “area median income”; in fact, of the 130 units in the multi-building complex, only six are designated to rent at fair market value. Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription, Just around the corner from me, N Street Village completed construction in 1998 on 51 one-, two-, and three-bedroom units that go for 50-75 percent of comparable area rates. 2mg alprazolam overnight, Granted, these aren’t luxury units, but they’re plenty decent and they do allow a significant number of individuals and families of limited means to stay in Logan Circle if this is where they want to live.

Getting back to Clybourne Park: It’s a very clever play, and I like cleverness, alprazolam before dentist, at least up to a certain point. But I can’t help thinking back to two hit movies of recent years, The Hours and Crash. Alprazolam overnight shipping, I loved them, as I love Clybourne Park. Both films were clever beyond anything I could ever think up, but in the end they felt almost too clever, almost cutesy (were it not for the tragedy, that is), Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription. What happens with too much cleverness is a certain oversimplification. And that’s why I think neither Logan Circle nor the Clybourne Park depicted in the play fairly represent the true Clybourne Park. The real story is far more nuanced than the play would lead us to believe: There are both more elements of personal choice and more options available to those who want to stay in their native neighborhoods, alprazolam lsd.

But I am with the neighborhood association in Act II of Clybourne Park. Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription, It sickens me to see the abominations going up in close-in suburban Maryland and Virginia--take a spin down Lorcum Lane in Arlington, for example--with build-outs just a few feet short of the property lines. I’d like to see municipal governments and not just community associations take action (some are). Historic preservation or even just architectural integrity can only be argued as racist when they force low-income, Alprazolam sleep, minority families to spend more than they can possibly afford. That’s not the case when the new arrivals (or current denizens) want to tear down existing structures and build more expensive, inappropriate houses in older neighborhoods.

Oh, and by the way, picture of the drug alprazolam, the rules around historic districts in D.C. are grandfathered, so if you had an aluminum screen door or vinyl windows before the statute was implemented, you can keep them, Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription.

Back to the play, in closing: The antagonists in both acts of Clybourne Park are, Alprazolam 2 mg bottle, at turns, both bigoted and dishonest. They pretend that their racist remarks are fact-based and logical, and they are forceful about their prejudices. I would assert that we are all racist to some degree, alprazolam temporary blood pressure, but are to be forgiven if we make it a lifetime quest to unlearn the prejudicial attitudes we forged, or that were forged for us, earlier in our lives.

LCCA members can see any performance of Clybourne Park for only $30. Use numeric code 788 when arranging tickets. Buy Alprazolam Without A Prescription, Reservations can be made online (woollymammoth.net), over the phone (202-393-3939), or in person (641 D Street NW, Washington, DC). Clybourne Park runs March 15 – April 17, 2010. Performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm and 7pm. The week of April 13, performances are Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at 8pm and Saturday at 4pm and 9pm. Questions. Visit woollymammoth-dot-net or email Rachel Grossman, Connectivity Director, Rachel-at-Woollymammoth.net.

This offer is exclusively for current LCCA members in good standing.

--Tim Christensen.

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