Inspired by the Post's What's In and Out for 2008, our own list at Just Up The Pike: "In and Out for MoCo: 2008 Edition." (Also check out JUTP's "In and Out for MoCo: 2007 Edition".) Your own submissions are rabidly encouraged.
Happy New Year!
OUT | IN |
The Birchmere | The Fillmore, Barring Any Change of Heart From Ike Leggett |
Knee-jerk opposition to development | Gracefully selling out to the highest bidder |
"Briggs Chaney" emo | Burtonsville hardcore |
Debating the Purple Line for twenty years | Debating the Purple Line for twenty more |
The Death Star | The Corpse Fortress |
"Town Centers" | "Meeting places" and "Village centers" |
Playing mallrat at Wheaton Plaza | Being neighborly on Bonifant Street |
so much more AFTER THE JUMP . . .
OUT | IN |
Speed bumps and humps | Speed cameras |
The Downcounty | "SoMoCo" |
"Downtown Silver Spring" | "The Promenade" |
$ilver Bling | The 'Sprang |
Hippies in Takoma Park | Marketers in Takoma Park |
$400,000 condos | $400-a-month rooms in group houses |
Looking down on P.G. | Looking up at HoCo |
OUT | IN |
Church-in-a-barn | Bedding Barn |
Chipotle | Pupuseria trucks |
Cold, hard concrete | Soft, squishy turf (for now) |
Moorenko's | Gifford's |
Redeveloping a historic all-girls' school | Redeveloping a historic Catholic school |
Dim Sum at Oriental East | Injera at Addis Ababa |
1 comment:
As a former resident of the Briggs Chaney area, I could relate to the frustrations that so many of the posters expressed about the decline of the area. Don't confuse truth with "emo".
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