Pacific Northwest
Same time, next year
Yeah, yeah, 2007 was a busy year. Now, brace yourself for the Rose City in 2008.
Kimberly Marlowe Hartnett
Latest work
Politics
That's not a soup can, it's a political statement!
Shopping 'ꀘtill you drop is, like, so over. Consumers with time on their hands and anarchy in their hearts prefer shopdropping [http://weburbanist.com/2007/12/26/shopdropping-the-subversive-art-of-reverse-shoplifting/http://www.url.com], or reverse shoplifting, which entails adding bogus products
Culture
These slacks were made for dropping
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Portlanders are dying to drop their drawers for a cause. Well, not exactly a cause. OK, not a cause at all. But perhaps a case can be made that the "No-Pants on Max" event scheduled for Jan. 12 is a big, creative international improv event. Yeah, that's it! We're no
Equity
Homelessness: Read about it, act on it
When in Seattle, I peruse Real Change [http://www.realchangenews.org/]; in Portland I keep up with Street Roots [http://www.streetroots.org/about_us/index.html]. Both newspapers, of course, are by and for homeless folks, and they regularly serve up readable news not found elsewhere. The Rose City ve
Politics
Fare coverage
Let's say you run a business and your front door opens 310,000 times a day to let customers inside. Many are regulars, going in and out a few times daily. They are mostly strangers to each other, and once inside they spend a lot of time crowded together in small spaces. At any given time, some are r