Over the weekend, Chicago held its first Independent Bookstore Day throughout the city, after—as Claire Kirch describes it in Publishers Weekly—not much more than a month of planning. By all accounts,… Read more »

Portlandia, the television show starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, which “lovingly [skewers] the people and values of Portland, Oregon by introducing us to Portland archetypes,” features a recurring and very… Read more »