Special Valentines: Pooch poetry, cat chat, and warm wishes for goldfishes.
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Love and ink create a potent alloy. Shaw Flick’s chest
testifies to that. The 29-year-old Portland man is tattooed with a
nearly life-size portrait of his dog, Scurvy.
Make that Flick’s ex-d
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Andy Ricker takes Pok Pok to New York. Do his wings have a prayer?
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Pok Pok?
The
woman in the woolen hat mouths the words on the sidewalk in Manhattan’s
Lower East Side, where Andy Ricker has opened the latest outpost of his
Thai-food realm.
She scrunches
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Will 2012 be the year Oregon finally adopts a reasonable marijuana policy?
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Oregonians love marijuana. Take a walk along Southeast Clinton Street some summer evening and you’ll get contact confirmation.
The
most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, from
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The fastest-growing group of inmates in Oregon: Women. A look inside Coffee Creek.
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The archetypal prisoner of the last century wore stripes
and carried a ball and chain. In the early part of the 21st century, he
wore an orange jumpsuit.
The typical 2012 inmate may instea
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Grocers think they can finally break the state’s 80-year, nearly $500 million monopoly—but at what cost?
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Steve Pharo has something just outside his Milwaukie
office door that Joe Gilliam wants—$70 million worth of vodka, whiskey,
tequila and every other distilled spirit sold in Oregon.
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Getting off, snorting up and wrestling with family demons—excerpts from Storm Large’s new memoir.
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Storm Large is calling from the Four Seasons in New York,
where she is having lunch. “I’m looking at Martha Stewart, Tom Brokaw,
Vernon Jordan,” she says. “I’m in a den of 1 percenters.
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You didn’t need a funny outfit to make news this year, but it sure helped.
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All Images WW Photo IllustrationsDavid Wu’s tiger suit was the tip-off that 2011 was going to be a strange one.
The year opened with a
sitting congressman posing in a child’s orange-and-black
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Doughnut kingpin Tres Shannon wants to make the whole city his fun park.
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At 2:42 am, Tres Shannon decides we need to see if Occupy Portland has shut down the Port of Portland.
It’s a Tuesday
morning, 30 minutes after Shannon’s weekly set at Dante’s with his
Kar
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Thanks to Julian Assange, we now know how Oregon’s top company fights corruption, counterfeiting and Croatian smugglers.
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Packed aboard buses and flatbed trucks, the workers rolled
through the wide boulevards of the central business district of
Indonesia’s capital toward the tall towers of the Jakarta Stock
Excha
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Portlanders pay a steep price in the nation’s toughest rental market.
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The first place Lindsay Bozanich finally found to rent this year came with fingernail clippings in the bed.
They
probably belonged to the former resident of her $800 Murphy
bed-equipped
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