Ghosts Against Dad Rock: Ian Svenonius’ Supernatural Strategies
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The cold snap appeared to be on its way out. The good old Call Joe sign on the Time & Temperature Building was flashing 22 degrees. 
Living In Portland
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Everyday Outside
/ This week, Women's Health (in partnership with Men's Health) released their fifth-annual report on the country's healthiest cities for women. The editors come to these rankings using a fairly wide array of data in 41 categories, including nutrition, cost of living, and cancer rates.
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Food to Look Forward to
/ It seems that everyone welcomed Eventide Oyster Co. with open mouths in 2012.
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"Love is Love." Same-Sex Couples Marry at City Hall
/ By midnight a crowd of well-wishers had gathered outside Portland's City Hall. Mayor Michael Brennan offiicially opened the clerk's office at 12:01 am EST on December 29th, the earliest time that same-sex couples could exercise their new right to marry.
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The Value of Being A Backwater: Bohemia Isn't Doomed Here
/ I'm currently reading William Gibson's prescient 1999 novel All Tomorrow's Parties. In it, the San Francisco Bay Bridge has been put out of commission by an earthquake, and the length of the bridge deck has been taken over by informal, jury-rigged settlements, dives, and workshops — an alternative community set apart from the high prices and regulations of the cities on either end.
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Obsolete Highways Make Way for Creative New Neighborhoods
/ Downtown Portland used to be a pretty dreary place. As recently as the 1990s, we had lots of empty storefronts and abandoned buildings.
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Smith Street; Back Cove; Mount Washington
/ Mount Washington, the biggest mountain in the northeastern U. S.
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My First Time as the Second Degree
/ Last night I attended my first 2 Degrees Portland event. 2 Degrees, another program of the Creative Portland Corporation (which also sponsors this website) describes itself as "a sort of 21st century welcome wagon" for those of you who aren't Portlanders yet.