“It has become fashionable these days to emphasize, even to celebrate, the assimilation of bohemian ideals to capitalist realities. The ‘bourgeois bohemian’ is becoming a stock figure in social criticism, or what passes for it. Trendy boutiques and lame attempts at politically correct purchasing have become the stuff of neo-conservative satire. The implicit message of such gloating is always the same: bohemia has disappeared into up-market fashion. And one would be hard pressed to deny that this new pop-sociological cliche has a basis in reality.” – The New Republic 08/14/00