Okay, so I got to get the print edition of this. I am absolutely loving every paragraph of this article, which skews Portland as some boho lotus land.

American Eden
Portland, Oregon has many sides. Tom Austin favors its idiosyncratic indie scene, where fair-trade cafes and strip clubs draw the same clientele, ethics are in, and music fuels the urban engine.
From August 2007, Travel+Leisure
By Tom Austin

(Thomas) Lauderdale lives and works in a converted commercial building close to Mary's (Club). Pink Martini's offices and rehearsal studios are on the ground floor, and their parties—attended by the likes of former Interview publisher Paige Powell, a Portland native who is devoted to causes like the Wildlife Rehab Center of the North Coast—tend to spill out into the street and mix with the after-hours set lurking around Voodoo Doughnut, last call for Red Bull doughnuts and "voodoo" weddings: $25 Intentional Commitment affairs as well as entirely legal ceremonies with doughnuts and coffee. After midnight, Voodoo Doughnut is always full of local musicians, and music, often driven by neopsychedelia conceits and smart lyrics, is the engine that drives this city: Portland has long since surpassed grunge-era Seattle as an indie cultural capital. One young alt-rock snot dismisses Portland as a "retirement home for indie rockers," though the local all-stars include members of Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, the Shins, the Decemberists, Spoon, and the Thermals. (Gino Vannelli, glam god of the 1980's, also lives in town for some reason.) Portland has even entered the Great American Songbook: in "I Will Buy You a New Life," Art Alexakis of Everclear promises to give his beloved a home in the West Hills, the Portland equivalent of Beverly Hills.

I love how the Pink Martini offices are suddenly right by Voodoo Donuts! Or that between Mary's and VD, you could have crowds overflow. Let's just ignore Big Pink. Don't let those 8 blocks stand in the way of a good story!! Anyways, it's a funny read.

My pal, Jessica, is now doing BootsnAll's Portland Logue (yay!!), and that's how I know about this