Well I am just confused. Big city JW just trashed a major metro mainly on the availability of dive bars serving $3 domestics and then advocated a day trip to the LL Bean outlet? How much more suburban can it get than swilling down Budweiser in your LL Bean monogrammed fleece??? I'm guessing that our favorite AP writer might have a soft spot for Eddie Bauer too and not just to be ironic.
EDIT: Apparently LL Bean and Eddie Bauer are now accepted hipster garb and real dive bars, not craft cocktail/beer bars pretending to be dives just because they have cans of PBR in the fridge, are also the style. You win this round, jw.