Sentences with phrase «cultural hotbed»

Downtown Peoria is a cultural hotbed and there are many companies contributing to the thriving arts scene and sense of community in this area.

[1] Basquiat first achieved fame as part of SAMO, an informal graffiti duo who wrote enigmatic epigrams in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the late 1970s where the hip hop, punk, and street art movements had coalesced.

Once upon a time, the Harbourside, now a cultural hotbed of arts and entertainment, was the city center, and it was here that Bristol society really began to let its hair down.

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True to form, the hotbed Irish Cultural Center issue is scheduled last on the agenda, according to published reports.

Together, the plot and subplot added up to little in the way of social, cultural, or political satire beyond the glaringly, non-controversial obvious («50s suburbia in the U.S. of A. was a hotbed of conformist, racist, and misogynist behavior) and the predictably clichéd (IQ - challenged criminals tend to suffer horribly for their sins, real and imagined to balance out the scales of cosmic justice).

It's no small irony that a Republican hotbed is embracing a pedagogy typically associated with the cultural left.

Smaller cities like Columbus or Jacksonville are less likely to be (or be near) hotbeds of industry or cultural attractions.

The main city in Portugal's Algarve region is a hotbed of cultural extremes; or rather the main thoroughfares and its nearby satellites are, once you start dipping your toes in the water, so to speak.

This exhibition explores the paramount role of Jewish women in the creation of Vienna's salon culture — social hotbeds of political discourse and a culture from the late 18th to the early 20th century held in private homes — while foregrounding the hostesses» contribution to the capital's cultural, commercial and political life even in the face of sexism and facism.

It's a political hotbed, and cultural in many ways, because for him, who would be talking about global warming but some liberals from the Northeast who probably paid us to come down there?

El Paso is just across the border from Ciudad Juarez making it a hotbed of cultural fusion.

With museums, world renowned theater, cinemas, landmarks, and delicious foods, New York City is a hotbed and the nations cultural capital.