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Stumptown Girl: An indie-rock star satirizes hipster culture, on “Portlandia.”

“Portlandia,” which débuted last winter, on the Independent Film Channel, and returns on January 6th, is the rare sketch-comedy series that has a sustained object of satire. It’s about life in hipster enclaves, and the self-consciousness that makes hipsters desperately disavow the label. Many of its characters are caught up in the prideful culture of D.I.Y. entrepreneurship, in which people reject office jobs in favor of becoming, say, an appliqué-pillow designer with a page on Etsy.

- This week, Margaret Talbot writes about Portlandia” and its unlikely star, indie rocker Carrie Brownstein: http://nyr.kr/tkB59a