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Washington D.C. Is Forbes' Coolest City — Here's What Went Wrong

&quot;If naming DC the coolest city in the US didn&#39;t sound any alarm bells, ranking Riverside the (8)th-coolest should have,&quot; tweeted&nbsp;Laura J. Nelson at the&nbsp;<em>Los Angeles Times</em>.

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Something went horribly, horribly wrong with Forbes' "America's Coolest Cities" list: it named Washington D.C. the coolest city in America. It then went on to name other decidedly uncool cities in its top 20, including Riverside and Sacramento, CA. As Laura J. Nelson at the put it, "

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