In Other Words, the Portland feminist bookstore that inspired the "Portlandia" sketches about the store's inflexible and strident women owners (played by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein) and also acted as the location for the sketches, has told the IFC series that it is not welcome anymore, citing a laundry list that proves that the people who run it are as humorless as the characters Armisen and Brownstein play:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/30/496072761/feminist-bookstore-slams-portlandia-and-says-show-can-no-longer-film-there?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160930 It seems that the volunteer-run In Other Words had a different management group when "Portlandia" started six years ago that didn't mind the show, which is in an African-American neighborhood that some have called "gentrification" (one of the accusations that they made of "Portlandia"). That group is long gone. Allegedly, last season the producers asked the store to take down a "#BlackLivesMatter" sign in the window. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
