July 2011
2 posts
On navel-gazing
Takeaway quotes from “A Twee Grows in Brooklyn: The Portlandification of the increasingly borgeois borough,” by Adrianne Jeffries in the New York Observer:
Portland was “Brooklyn before Brooklyn was Brooklyn,” as NPR correspondent Ari Shapiro once quipped. His colleague Kurt Andersen, host of the public radio show Studio 360 and co-founder of Spy, put it more starkly: “Brooklyn without black...
