Remember this about Urb: it reflects to a large and admirable degree the market it is in. As of the 2000 census, there are 10 million people in Los Angeles:
31% Caucasian non-Latino 10% African-American 12% Asian-American 45% Latino (white and other races) Raymond Roker, the publisher of Urb, may have his limitations, but he saw the future in LA and successfully developed Urb in that direction. Thus it has become musically and culturally a far broader magazine than almost anything else out there. What magazine in Detroit can say the same? I give some credit to Metro Times, but even they fall short in my humble outsider view. (so did my old long-forgotten paper, the Unicorn Times in DC, but let's not bring up *archeology* shall we!) What real coverage does MT really give to the Arab-American community not to mention other groups and areas outside central Detroit (it is "Metro" Times after all!). But I used to work for a paper like that so I know what kind of monetary limits they are dealing with. All the same, vision is reflected in what you put in print... Of course, along those lines, to be sure, Raymond does have a weakness for putting the Chemicals, Armand, Wink, etc. etc. on the covers. I see him as sort of the Jann Wenner of the 1990s in some ways (of course, Rolling Stone ain't what it used to be, and neither is Urb). You should *see* Rolling Stone from circa 1969-70. A real mindblower of a magazine. As was Urb in the early 1990s. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
