Portland is burning
April 20, 2021
As chaos spreads in Portland I wonder how the Odditorium is going. Circa 2001 The Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor-Taylor spent his US$1.5 million in royalties from the Vodafone 'Bohemian Like You' TVC to create the quarter-city block that includes a recording studio and so on, and also a wine bar. This prompted Wine Enthusiast's Lauren Mowery to ask the not unreasonable yet also completely unnecessary question, 'Why did you decide to open a wine bar, especially in your studio?'