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Youth Is Stranger Than Fiction

By AAN Staff
may 13, 2003  10:35 am
Youth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Eight young people talk with Pittsburgh City Paper over a couple cases of beer. "We turned on a tape recorder but kept our pie holes shut, asking one participant, Oscar Lehman, to act as moderator. (Well, we didn’t just sit there -- we kept their frosty mugs filled with pale ale and quaffed a few ourselves!)" Thing is, the interviewees were role-playing CP staffers, but the joke may not have been on readers. "The efforts of Pittsburgh’s self-appointed youth-retention and regional-marketing experts are so utterly inane, self-indulgent and classist, that it’s hard to make a joke about them," Editor Andy Newman writes.
View full article at Pittsburgh City Paper