The True Crime
By Mitch Berg
Paul Schmelzer at the MinMon writes:
City Pages accused of fabricating quote: City Pages’ Peter Scholtes is getting heat for his cover story, “Where the ladies at?” Among the complaints about his piece on the B-Girl Be hip-hop festival: that he fabricated quotes.
Perhaps a more appropriate accusation against Scholtes: “Where the ladies at?” is a gruellingly-long exercise in name-dropping (if one can drop names that nobody outside of the Twin Cities’ rap scene knows) that seems intended to get him invited to a higher grade of afterparties, but does a lousy job of telling the story of the Cities’ female hip hop scene. While it seems to be a flak piece for the “B-Girl Be” female rap festival, it even does a lousy job of flakking.
It evokes the ghost of Margaret Grebe, an old “Twin Cities Reader” writer whose fatuous body of work chronicled the lives of dissipate Twin Cities hipsters by gurgitating Twin Cities hipster trivia that, Grebe breathlessly assured us, she was observing first-hand. The “Why” was never very clear.
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:06 pm
What’s hilarious about this whole thing is that this white liberal goes out of his way to be diverse and tell everyone about gals rapping and then still gets tarred and feathered for his lack of sensitivity.
I imagine his guilt is even higher now than it was before.
He’s probably flogging himself with a corn row as we speak (write, whatever).
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:27 pm
ROFL
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:54 am
[…] Earlier this summer, the City Pages’ Peter “Snoopp Peete” Scholtes wrote about the Critical Mass bike rally: What always strikes me about this parade is its quiet, a gap in rush-hour racket that absorbs even the clink of chains, the shouts to passersby. The effect might explain why participants prefer to joke with–rather than preach at–people they pass. On a previous ride, when the cyclists glided past a man looking under the hood of his overheated sedan, one rider couldn’t resist yelling: “Time to get a bike!” […]