Girls Gone Wild: Fairfax

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Fairfax – the city, not the county - is an interesting place. Latino and Korean immigrant families are moving in next to white empty nesters, while increasingly in-the-minority white families with children maintain political power and continue to run the show. And then, of course, the students of Virginia’s largest university have their own issues. It’s a four-part cultural mixing pot, and the ingredients do not always get along.

The latest and most entertaining spice was added by the college students. Unbeknownst in advance to anyone else but beknownst to them, one of the bars downtown last week brought in the Girls Gone Wild tour bus, surprising the respectable and for one night transforming Fairfax’s diminutive nightlife district into South Beach on Chain Bridge Road (or so I hear – I wasn’t there). It’s been quite a shock for the city that has fought tooth and nail to keep the college set from taking over.

But Girls Gone Wild? In Fairfax? Isn’t that a bit like Focus on the Family setting up a casino in Vegas?*

* Note to James Dobson if you are reading this: Don’t. It’s a horrible idea. No really. That is a truly awful, horrifyingly bad idea. I don’t want to be responsible for putting it in your head.

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