Harlem.

Riverside Park, Upper West Side.

The NYT Magazine's music issue was quite good, but I'm still trying to make sense of William Safire's related column.

In categories like the chanted patter of hard-core rap, the fast-faded, grubby-dingy grunge, the anguished, rock-influenced introspection of post-grunge, the off-beat, Jamaican ska-punk and the British garage, violent sex is still a seller.