The Onion after five years in the Big Apple.

An excerpt from the NYT story:

WHEN Joe Garden, the 35-year-old features editor of the satirical paper The Onion, thinks about the publication's move five years ago this month from Madison, Wis., to New York, he thinks about his first encounter with a staff member of The New Yorker. The emissary from the sleek Condé Nast building had traveled to The Onion's cavelike office in West Chelsea.

"She said to me, 'Oh, my God, I can't believe you're still wearing pleats!' " Mr. Garden recalled recently, his indignation unfaded by time. "I guess that was my introduction to provincialism."

Still, as Mr. Garden recounted the incident, there were hints that after five years big-city life has gotten better. "Everyone else I've met from The New Yorker has been great," he continued. "But that's because we play them in softball and in bowling, and it's mostly the cartoonists."

And then there is Mr. Garden's sartorial growth. "If you will notice," he said with a cocked eyebrow, "these jeans are not pleated." He lifted the bottom of his "Hee Haw" T-shirt to prove it.