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!

• 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• grab a beer and veggie dog at Acme (put this here b/c it is now Plan B and those veggie dogs have been replaced by real dogs wrapped in bacon!)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