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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Carrie Brownstein: the Northwest's funny girl

Brownstein seems to take inordinate pleasure in dressing up as various outlandish characters on "Portlandia." "I think when Fred and I embody different characters, that's a way for me to understand an emotional or interior landscape I don't often allow myself to explore normally," she says. "I've always used performance as a means of finding my place in the world."