Culture
Please, return engagement for Address Unknown
The lackluster press coverage was misleading. This Portland play was a gem.
Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
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Culture
Let the good reads roll
Large gatherings of writers are normally not fun. More than two in a room are enough to make one wish for an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting instead, where more of the stories are true and no one asks you for your agent's email address. Yet, here I am, four hours into Portland's Wordstock [http://www.
Politics
Catalytic-converted thieves
It seems ironic that here in God's green country (or Goddess's, if you swing that way), the heist of choice for auto-parts thieves is the catalytic converter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_converter]. The Columbian of Vancouver, Wash., reports on the trend [http://www.columbian.com/news/loc
Politics
It takes a village to raise a blog
PR Newswire [http://www.prnewswire.com/], that busy source of tips and announcements that fills our e-mail boxes just as press releases used to fill those wire in-baskets, has some highly relevant-to-blogging content. Survey results [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/s
Politics
Busted for bussing while busing in Portland
Two 14-year-old girls were kicked off the No. 12 Tri-Met route for kissing, and a driver is in big trouble. But how the story developed on the Web is just as interesting.