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porchlight
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This filming location for Portlandia was featured in Episode 6 of Season 1, in a sketch that could be best described as "gourmet chefs get crazy sexy on their photo shoot."
In the sketch, the exterior of the restaurant says "Porchlight", but it's a southern cuisine place called Screen Door. No word on whether the chefs really do lines of flour.
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This filming location for Portlandia was featured in Episode 6 of Season 1. The professional baseball team that Fred and Carrie are putting together, the Portland Thinkers, hold their tryouts here.
Everybody makes the team in Portland.
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The Women and Women First Bookstore (real name: In Other Words Women's Bookstore) is located here. Run by Toni and Candace (Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen), it has a pretty diverse client base, including Steve Buscemi, Aubrey Plaza, and Heather Graham. I haven't tried the campu-choochoo-choochoo tea there, but I heard it tastes like soot and hot water and looks like a stillbirth.
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In Season 1, Episode 6 of Portlandia, this coffee house is where Fred and Carrie meet the mayor (Kyle MacLachlan) when he has the bold idea of bringing a professional baseball team to Portland (and to get bagels). The Portland Thinkers are later transmuted into a cartoon at this same place.
view full location details...the unisphere
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In the first video for his '94 hit single 'Flava in Ya Ear', Craig Mack kicked the flava in ya ear at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, home of the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair. 'Flava in Ya Ear' was the first release from Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs' label Bad Boy Entertainment. The remix (with its own video shot on some boring sound stage) featured an early appearance by Notorious B.I.G. and a solo Busta Rhymes.
The theme of the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair was "Peace Through Understanding" represented by the iconic Unisphere, a 12-story high, stainless steel earth designed to celebrate the beginning of the space age.
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