http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/05/20/three-minutes-with-andy-shallal/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:05:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/05/20/three-minutes-with-andy-shallal/comment-page-1/#comment-538198 David Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:02:11 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/05/20/three-minutes-with-andy-shallal/#comment-538198 We could really use a branch of Busboys and Poets in Silver Spring. NOT in the "new"(and much welcomed)Downtown Silver Spring, but in the Flower-Avenue-at-Piney-Branch-Road neigborhood. Although this area is a crossroads of economic classes, and very mixed ethnically, our neighborhood movie theatre has been dark for decades, we recently lost our wonderful, independent Piney Branch Hardware, and my wife tells me today that (at least temporarily) a tatoo parlor is using the space. Gentrification in a context of ethnic vitality is alive and well in Silver Spring, and it is very welcome here. We could really use a branch of Busboys and Poets in Silver Spring. NOT in the "new"(and much welcomed)Downtown Silver Spring, but in the Flower-Avenue-at-Piney-Branch-Road neigborhood. Although this area is a crossroads of economic classes, and very mixed ethnically, our neighborhood movie theatre has been dark for decades, we recently lost our wonderful, independent Piney Branch Hardware, and my wife tells me today that (at least temporarily) a tatoo parlor is using the space. Gentrification in a context of ethnic vitality is alive and well in Silver Spring, and it is very welcome here.

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