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PORTLAND PLANNING VIEW FROM SOUTH WATERFRONT

March 12, 2018 by

    Does the top pic look anything like a Portland planning Christmas card? Stacked apartments dot the SW Portland landscape like a vision of Chicago from the Sears Tower.   That’s not the welcome mat Portland planning rolls out for new pioneers. Where’s that world famous food cart court next to a tap room? […]

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Theater In Portland And Tigard, How To Dress

October 15, 2017 by

    At some point I’ll probably get used to going to live theater, but it hasn’t happened yet. Actors and clowns still feel a little suspicious. So do writers, but what’re you gonna do.   No one dresses to write, everyone dresses for the theater, at least everyone with gray hair and I’ve got […]

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Portland Hearts Beat On Broadway, The Rest Of The City Keeps Time

August 31, 2017 by

  Portland hearts come in all shapes and sizes, all conditions and configurations. Like Portland, one size doesn’t fit all. Some arrive overwhelmed by the bigness of the big city. Buildings so tall and shiny dwarf pedestrians used to their own town. Try explaining Portland size in relation to the big big cities. Drop it […]

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Portland Italian Festival, Portland Haute Couture

August 25, 2017 by

    Not Little Italy, but Big Italy, Portland’s Italian Festival swinging in the biggest living room in Oregon, Pioneer Square.   Food, beer, and music mix to show the city in the best light possible, like an Italian chandelier.   Is it fun? Educational? Mesmerizing? All of that along with beautiful Italian women in […]

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TURNING PORTLAND INTO A STOP ON THE WAY TO SEATTLE

August 7, 2017 by

Turning Portland skyline The First Interstate Tower and Big Pink set a future that didn’t happen. Concerned citizens got a break before turning Portland into mini-Seattle One tall building was enough, or so the thought went, but two is better? Because they’re bookends instead of standing side by side, the space between them look as […]

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SHUT UP AND EAT: SOUTH PHILLY VIA SE PORTLAND

July 10, 2017 by

Geno’s or Pat’s? Or Shut Up And Eat? This cheesesteak. Or that cheesesteak. My readers know the value of cheesesteak. If I hear about a place from a reliable source, I’m there. Same for an unreliable source.

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DEPORTED IN PORTLAND: MEDICAL TOURISM VIA TIGARD AND BEAVERTON

July 8, 2017 by

If you need to be tough, but are a secret wussy man, bring the right back up. I brought Jason Witten to get deported in Portland. Not too many tougher than that. Together we deported in Portland; both of us on just this side of crazy celebration, yet calm.

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HAWTHORNE GOLD, PORTLAND BLUES, THE QUEEN

July 4, 2017 by

At just the right time of day the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland Oregon gives up the goods. Panning for gold? Here it is during the Golden Hour. You can’t take it home, or invest, but you can put it away in case you need something extra. And who doesn’t need something extra now and then? […]

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NOT A LOVE PRIORITY? HOW TO KNOW

June 7, 2017 by

A love priority changes your life. It also gives you the best excuse invented to dodge hard decisions. If you can’t do it with love, then you don’t do it? “I can’t do what you ask with love. Now what.” Option people ask questions that never come up with priority people. Option questions from priority […]

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PORTLAND MOVEABLE FEAST: COMMUNITY

May 29, 2017 by

    “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” Would Hemingway say the same about a Portland moveable feast? He would if he booked Eastburn for dinner. Try […]

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