I love being in the city. I am an urban person.
As a lover of commerce at the time when urban areas are in the grip of a hostile Lefty ideological hysteria, I look at the list of arts, readings and events with great trepidation.
The problem for me is that most theater is focused on Lefty propaganda and the same is true for comedy, readings, public talks and poetry. Comics are 99% more likely to seek laughs about Sarah Palin than about Michelle Obama. Poetry is more likely to be about the oppression of some weak person or people than about the travails of existence.
I know this problem will pass. In the meantime the list of activities of interest in the city is limited, for me to the world of great novelty and subterranean innovation.