This past weekend I took a trip up to Portland from Eugene with my bike. I really appreciate the fact that I can bring my bike on the train, as it gives me the choice to do whatever I like when I arrive at Union Station. Upon arrival, one can bike to the nearest bus line to [...]
Also filed in Bikes, Community, Downtown, Government, Pacific Northwest, Portlandesque, Transportation
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Tagged Amtrak, Bike, Bikes, Downtown, Eugene, ODOT, Oregon Department of Transportation, Portland, Seattle, Train, Union Station, Vancouver B.C., Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDT
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In an attempt to quantify the unquantifiable, I will begin to quantify my PDX soujourns, or “PDXjourns,” if you please. Here is one such PDXjourn from this past weekend, sarcasm included! Be sure to check out my other PDXjourns on the new PDXjourns page. You will ask: why is the difference between this and the [...]
Also filed in Bikes, Community, Current Events, Downtown, Portlandesque, Site, Southeast, Southwest
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Tagged Aida, Bike, Downtown, Hawthorne, Leanne, Made in Oregon, Made in Oregon Sign, Maggie, Mom, Northwest, Ottavia, Otti, Pearl, Quincey, Weekend
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When home in Portland, I go to cafés. And to the local ones I go. My favorites include the previously mentioned Broadway Café and the “Downtown” location of Stumptown Roasters. The World Cup in Powell’s is not that bad, nor is the one on NW Glisan and Floyd’s Coffee Shop in Old Town is a good place [...]
Also filed in Community, Downtown, Portlandesque, Southwest
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Tagged Broadway Café, Broadway Coffee, Coffee, Downtown, Eugene, Floyd's, Floyd's Coffee Shop, Full City, Full City Café, Poesy, Poetry, Stumptown, Stumptown Roasters
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PDXppl is a series of profiles of Portlanders and what they do. Be sure to take a look at the PDXppl page on the right-hand sidebar of this page where you can keep up on the urban gens of Portland!
Over the past couple of weeks I have been a harsh critic of the University of Oregon’s (UO) [...]
Also filed in Community, Controversy, Current Events, Downtown, Government, Politics, Portlandesque
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Tagged Chinatown, City Council, Downtown, Made in Oregon, Made in Oregon Sign, Nancy Stovall, Old Town, Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Portland City Council, University of Oregon, UO
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As a relatively new blog, I’ve been playing catch-up on Portland hot topics. The “Made in Oregon” sign sparked a controversy which culminated in a shouting match between City Commissioner Randy Leonard and former President of the University of Oregon (UO), Dave Frohnmayer. The compromise, as agreed on by the city council, will make its [...]
Also filed in Accountability, Controversy, Current Events, Downtown, Government, Portlandesque
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Tagged Autzen Stadium, Bill Naito, Bureau of Development Services, Chinatown, Frohnmayer, Landmark, Lariviere, Leonard, Made in Oregon, O, Old Town, Old Town Water Tower, Oregon, Portland, Portland Historic Landmarks Commission, U of O, University of Oregon, UO, Water Tower, White Stagg
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This past weekend I was able to take a trip away from my luke-warm Eugene existence to the bastion of freedom. Yes, Portland is one of the nation’s most liberal thinking cities, but this is not what makes it so free. Portland isn’t afraid to show its stripes. My meanderings about the city show this [...]
Also filed in Downtown, Portlandesque, Site, Southeast, Southwest
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Tagged 4th of July, Books, Cameron's Books, EcoTrust, Fourth of July, Hawthorne, Portland Saturday Market, Portland State University, Powell's, PSU, PSU Farmer's Market, Vivace
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I recently saw a post over at Bike Portland regarding a recently-installed “bike corral.” Bike corrals are a series of bike racks aligned in a row, in spaces usually reserved for parking cars. With the bike scene taking the city and its on-street parking by storm, the locations of these corrals are appearing across Portland. [...]
Also filed in Bikes, Downtown, Government, North, Northeast, Portlandesque, Southeast, Transportation, Uncategorized
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Tagged Apple, Arterials, Bike, Bike Corrals, Bikes, Cars, Mississippi, Neighborhood, Public Space, Streets
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For my readers in “Track Town,” take note that I am in Portland at the moment, savoring some Portland vistas after some intense finals. It’s been a while, three weeks as it were, since I’ve been up here in the Rose City, but it’s been much to long. Here are a couple views that caught [...]