The last real Northwest men's club may just be Horizon Air's regional shuttle service. When I ventured into the Portland and Seattle airport gate areas for a recent weekday roundtrip, I felt like I...
The rap on Oregonians: Cut us and we bleed green. Yeah, sure, when we're not indulging in public displays of affection for trees, we're recycling old Volvo parts into useful household items. Even if...
Portland's rep is growing as a place with nurturing soil for small-house snazzy designers – of clothes, furnishings, jewelry, urban spaces. An item on ULTRA, the city's heard-it-here-first design Web...
Nah, Howard, your Starbucks isn't a "victim" of its success, it's just feeling the downside of inevitable maturity. America's bad-boy, break-out, Maxwell-House-whuppin' coffee is – middle aged. That's...
When in Seattle, I peruse Real Change; in Portland I keep up with Street Roots. Both newspapers, of course, are by and for homeless folks, and they regularly serve up readable news not found elsewhere...
Shopping 'ꀘtill you drop is, like, so over. Consumers with time on their hands and anarchy in their hearts prefer shopdropping, or reverse shoplifting, which entails adding bogus products or...
The traditional running-of-the-shoppers that takes place each December continues, but in Portland's retail arenas, the atmosphere is quieter than, say, downtown Seattle. One might assume this is due...
