"seven hot trends shaping how and where you live!"

Portland Monthly probably reached its self-parody phase long ago, but the words screaming out from the new cover story, "Buy Here Now," available at an overpriced grocery-store magazine stand near you, have sealed the deal for me. "Seven hot trends shaping how and where you live"?? I'm well aware of what is shaping how and where I live, and it sure is a trend, but I don't find it all that "hot." Click to enlarge and view the rah-rah.

Or click left to view PM as it ought to appear. Sent in by a reader - hey, we're getting there!

Comments

[Bridgetownpeddler]

At first glance I thought that second magazine was real... I was thinking. Damn that is a balsy title on that magazine!

Nicely done

[ecohuman]

that post was worth reading just for the American Gentrifier cover.

Portland Magazine is to journalism as Britney Spears is to birth control.

[martin]

Why do I automatically assume that making fun of a young white couple with a baby is offensive to me?

[Dave J.]

Oh, I get it. White people with kids hate black people, and love brie.

Trenchant insight.

[petrichor]

ok, that's a pretty funny magazine cover (well, both are funny, but i am referring to american gentrifier), however, it's a bit hypocritical, being that it comes from the leftish, cultural critique magazine "Stay Free!", based in Brooklyn, NY and produced by a, wait for it... a bunch of white people. i guess it's only unhip white people with babies who cause gentrification in brooklyn???

ok i still think it's pretty hilarious, but seriously--a bunch of **hipster *white people writing a magazine that is based in the freaking _flatbush_ neighborhood in brooklyn pointing to baby bearing non-hipsters as the source of gentrification.

i'm not trying to single out hipsters, but these days doesn't everyone agree that they are on the front lines as the foot soldiers of gentrification? it used to be punks, artists, writers and gays in the front; maybe now hipsters are just mad because the career minded, home buying breeders are jumping ahead in line?

* they may not all be white, but at least the editor, vp, board of directors and tech are.

** maybe they aren't hipsters, in which case the picture is poking fun at themselves. in that case, awesome.

***geez, why did i write so much on this topic? it's obviously just pure snark. time for bed

[PG]

Are not the terms "hipsters" and "fake hipsters" now understood to be synonymous? I mean, we're not William Borroughs, it isn't 1952, we are not wearing threadbare 3 pc. suits, shooting morphine and eating oysters in New Orleans...all that is GONE, right? "Hip" is just a shuck from the Real Estate fuckers isn't it?

And what's up with the hangup about Black people and White people? Get over it, man: the face of gentrification is lily white. The "Brooklyn edition" is a bit off anyway; it should be a White couple walking their fucking dog. I better brush up on my Photoshop...anyway the satire mag cover was something someone sent in, rings just a little too true I suppose.
Not ragging on "petrichor", his remarks seem pretty much allright to me...

[naysayer]

At least it gave PM a break from the monthly fawning over the same short list of restaurants, yet another article on "Portland's Best _________ " (doctors, schools, neighborhoods, lawyers, etc.) and highlighting the elitism smothering the city.

[petrichor]

"it isn't 1952, we are not wearing threadbare 3 pc. suits, shooting morphine and eating oysters in New Orleans..."

speak for yourself, daddy-o...

[WillJongIll]

I sent that in. I feel like a hero.