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TWO TABLES, ONE DINNER

July 14, 2016 by

Two tables are ready. Those are the magic words for a big dinner party. Unless it’s a big dinner at your house and you want one table instead of two tables. Then what? Crowd in. This is no restaurant, this is back deck dinner. Careful where you sit if you’re wearing white, it might not […]

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BASEBALL, BEER, FIREWORKS, BOOMERPDX STYLE

July 5, 2016 by

In a search for holiday ideas, there’s BoomerPdx Style. Who drank a beer yesterday? Anyone? Super Patriot in their flag focused ensemble leads a toast. Slinky character in a DD214 t-shirt cheers him on. Everyone else joins in. If that’s your Fourth of July, you did it right. If it didn’t go that way, take […]

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4th OF JULY PORTLAND FLAG HUNT

July 4, 2016 by

Part of the fun of 4th of July in Portland is the Portland flag hunt. You can do it anywhere in the city, but walking along the waterfront is the best viewing. How many can you count between the Burnside and Hawthorne bridges? Leave the count and locations in comments. Of course a drone shot […]

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PORTLAND TAPROOMS: NINE COMMANDMENTS

June 29, 2016 by

A cry for beer opened Portland taprooms, but suburban taprooms like Tigard’s Tapphoria make our day. An ocean of new beer flooded Oregon in the 1980’s. The original Portland Brewing next to the old Acapulco’s Gold on NW 14th and Flanders was enough to make beer lovers cry. Then things changed when small batch beer […]

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GOODBYE PORTLAND IT’S BEEN FUN

June 27, 2016 by

If you leave, just say goodbye Portland. That’s all. Portland visitor’s say goodbye Portland when they leave. Maybe they’ll be back, maybe not. Saying goodbye Portland says it all. You came, you saw, you didn’t stay. If you did stay, if you decided Portland was the only place in the world for you, then you […]

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PORTLAND’S LEBRON? CLYDE DREXLER

June 26, 2016 by

Soon to be Damian Lillard as Portland’s LeBron? Every team has it’s guy, it’s face, it’s go to player. When you say their name you know their team. Will LeBron James ever sound like Miami? Dwyane Wade carries that one. Cleveland? They’ve got LeBron for eternity. He’s the Chosen One, The King, and he’ll wear […]

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MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SUSHI

June 25, 2016 by

When a birthday dinner turns to Shakespeare and Midsummer Night’s sushi. Imagine if you will a birthday dinner, but not just a regular birthday dinner for a regular birthday. Instead, it’s a milestone birthday dinner, a biggie, so you plan and time and schedule and connect. Because it is an older birthday, one idea is […]

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LUMINEERS PLAY PORTLAND

June 1, 2016 by

Once you’ve seen a Lumineers concert your baby boomer brain starts working. It might happen with others, too. If so, leave a comment. Are the players in Lumineers channeling their inner Grateful Dead? Phish? Who do they sound like? At some point all bands share a common note, a thread of recognition. Then they played […]

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CLYDE DREXLER: GREATEST TRAIL BLAZER IN PORTLAND HISTORY

May 25, 2016 by

Proof of greatness? Wheaties says it all for Clyde Drexler. The Glide is as close to the best that ever was that will ever wear a Blazer jersey. And it’s not even close. The only thing missing on his teams was a Robin to his Batman. Put him on another team with a near equal […]

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HISTORY, OREGON HISTORY

May 18, 2016 by

You could walk by this building on NW Everett and just keep walking. Nothing to see here, just a worn out facade in a beat down part of Portland with chips and stains. A couple of radiator shops across the street complete the view. If there was anything special about it, there wasn’t a sign, […]

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