- The New York Times
- Luring New Yorkers to Portland with food.
“Portland’s just so authentic it almost hurts,” is probably the most Portland quote from the video accompanying today’s “36 Hours in Portland, Ore.” write up in the New York Times.
Reporter Freda Moon calls Portland a “bastion of good living, leisure and happy inebriation,” and visited so many places in the 36-hour visit that it made me a little tired just reading the story. Portland staples like Mississippi Studios and Powell’s get a predictable shout out, but the author also mentions less well known places like Stammtisch and Freakybuttrue Peculiarium.
The Times was here in 2011 for another 36 hours and seemed to like it here back then, too.
It’s likely that not everyone in Portland will appreciate the attention (if the recent rash of anti-California stickers on for sale signs signifies anything), considering Oregon was named the most moved to state in 2014 and even the Merc‘s own Ian Karmel wrote this week about our “rapidly changing city,” but, like it or not, it’s just getting more popular to be a Portlander.
Ian Karmel wrote a column? I’d read it, but, boy, these dirty dishes are sure piling up.