"36 Hours In Portland, Ore" is climbing up the Times' most-emailed list, and it's not hard to see why: who doesn't have a "some other city with good public transit that doesn't have all these assholes in it?" fantasy? But sadly, this isn't the pack-your-bags-now! article that some people (ok, "we") were hoping it would be. For starters, it seems to position "niceness" as a good thing. And there's also this sentence: "With grunge fading into music history, Portland's nightlife scene has become a mixed bag — everything from jazz clubs to torchy lounges to high-decibel indie hang-outs. " Grunge... fading? Did this article fall out of a hole in 1997? Oh, wait, no it so did not! "Catch emerging groups like the Decembrists." So, more like 2004.

36 Hours In Portland, Ore. [NYT]