On the front cover of this week’s New York magazine is a headline about three performance artists who, quote, “are doing their outrageous best to prove that downtown lives on.” [Emphasis in the original.] And the article talks about this guy Dash who’s “a downtown legend.” Now, whenever I use the word “downtown,” six people leave comments to chastise me for referring to it, three people write to New Music Box to ask, “What’s this uptown/downtown thing about?,” and 14 bloggers go on the web to aver that there’s nothing in the world they despise more than people who talk about downtown music. Do you think that’ll happen to Ariel Levy, who wrote the New York article? Or is it only musicians who so resent the fact that something exciting once happened and they weren’t part of it that they feel compelled to vent their spleen whenever someone mentions it?