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PORTLAND’S EASTSIDE ALIVE

An Outsider Guide To Portland’s Eastside ‘Neighbourhood.’ When Virgin Atlantic blogs about your city expect a few things to be off. Not wrong exactly, just not quite the same as it looks. Portland’s eastside has an Artisan Quarter. Artisan? Quarter? I’ve heard Paris has a French Quarter but this is the first I’ve heard of […]

NIC BATUM FIGHTS FOR FRANCE, and PORTLAND

Nic Batum Must Fight For France. He’s A Fighter. My inner history geek took a direct hit. My Greatest Generation grandfather spun in his urn. Nic Batum must fight for his country? If playing basketball equals fighting for France, then Coach Charles de Gaulle sends highest praise from headquarters where he fights the good fight […]

PORTLAND BEER HUNT

Portland Beer Of The Year Starts Here. Do you see a beer sign? A brewery sign? Anything that says beer is near? It’s not an accident. Once you park your car it’s still a mystery. To help out, this place in across the street, maybe two streets, from the Rose Garden, Modo Center, Memorial Coliseum. […]

THE JEFF BAKER 500

Portland’s Old Church Organ And Jeff Baker. He’s In The Shirt. As THE book and movie reviewer of record for The Oregonian newspaper, Jeff Baker goes Against. The. Grain. Taller than expected, he worked the Old Church mic like a pro. Could have thrown in a “Take my wife…please” and got away with it. Willamette […]

THE NBA EDUCATION OF DAMIAN LILLARD

In the era of One And Done college players, Damian Lillard went the distance. With no other reason but a promise to his mom and himself, Lillard finished his college education. How hard is it to earn a college degree? People with a Masters or PhD act like a Bachelor’s degree was nothing, like they […]

FOODIE vs eFOOD. WHAT TO EXPECT?

Foodie For Thought. You smelled what The ‘foodie’ Rock was cookin’? It was a metaphor, medium rare, foodie. In real life you’ve smelled food before it hits the table. You’ve sat in Portland restaurants watching plates fly by trailing a scent stronger than a pheromone cat collar. The next one’s got to be yours. Or […]

A MOMENT IN TIME

Dew, Dew, Dew Looking Out My Front Door. Some things last forever, some fade quickly. Time will tell. Water drops on a sunny morning? Not going to last. Each one will find it’s way home. Just like you, boomer. Happy Sunday.

HAMMERING ART IN THE HUMAN ARCHIVE

Inhuman With The Human Archive: Taking It Out On A Statue This is how a museum works: You study parts of museum collections to discover gaps in time, material, and style. It’s an archive of stuff made by human, a human archive. For instance, American clocks had metal workings before the Revolutionary War. Wooden workings […]

HEMP HYPE FROM A GANJA GANGSTER

What Is Hemp Hype? The Oregonian showed up with a front page above the fold image of someone about to roll a pile of weed into a single zigzag sheet. It’s an inflammatory image geared to race the hearts of the anti-hemp crowd. Baby boomers know this scene. They’ve either lived it or left the […]

A Gathering Of Oregon Sports News Writers

Part Of The Oregon Sports News Writing Crew. According to legend the most difficult task for online people is climbing out of their basement and actually going someplace. A google search doesn’t qualify as ‘going’ someplace. Meeting others at a particular time and place qualifies as going someplace. Joel Stein, writer for Time Magazine, understands […]