Actually, yes. This does bug me.

Splendor in the Grit, a Vanity Fair story that ran last month, looks back on the filthy/beautiful culture that crawled from the collapsing wonder of 70s NYC but makes no mention of hip-hop.*

The writer, James Wolcott, perfectly captures the weird cultural and social dynamics that produced CBGBs and gave Dylan, Warhol and Lennon a muse but nothing about the birth of DJ culture, breakin’, graffiti art, etc that happened at the same time.

Culture writers, it IS possible to mention hip-hop and Woody Allen in the same story.**

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*Also not mentioned: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island.

** I know, clever. Right?