Bourbon Street Beat

Taking the exploration of Bourbon Street hate to a whole 'nother level, geographer Richard Campanella writes: "Americans on either side of the culture wars hate Bourbon Street, but they hate it for entirely different reasons. The Right hates it for its commercialization of sin; the Left, for its commercialization of culture. The Right hates it because it is dangerous pretending to be safe; the Left, because it is safe pretending to be dangerous. The Right, because it's funky and honkytonk; the Left, because it's neither." [Design Observer]