Did You Know That Portland is The American Eden?

Shooter, over at Neighborhood News alerted me to this article (American Eden) from Travel and Leisure magazine.

So, is Portland America’s Eden and is this “Another PDX Love-Fest with The Predictable Criteria Included? YES to both–but I would say the whole Pacific NW is the American Eden (including B.C. of course–it’s called Cascadia).

Overall, it is a decent article and I haven’t seen Courtney Taylor-Taylor whine this much since DiG!

Portland Skyline

  • To Taylor-Taylor, a “keep Portland weird” groundswell is “precisely the kind of thing that guarantees Portland won’t stay weird.”
  • grab a beer and veggie dog at Acme (put this here b/c it is now Plan B and those veggie dogs have been replaced by real dogs wrapped in bacon!)
  • this country’s largest European-style city
  • The fashion-forward—pierced and fierce pretenders to the throne of Kurt Cobain heroin immortality, the neo-mods, the gloom- and-doom girls working an emo-lite look somewhere between Emily the Strange and Wednesday Addams

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PS. Eden Baby…Eden….Take that Reykjavik, Iceland

Brian Jonestown Massacre

Did we mention Anton and Crew and the Dandy Warhols will be here soon?