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My college roommate is normal on the surface. But she is also a “cat person.” Cats on her T-shirts, cats on her coffee mugs, and two little cats in our apartment, Abraham and Blanket, who ...
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From trail carols to NASCAR lights, Christmastime is here.
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ILLUSTRATION: Adam KruegerThe start of the Christmas season in Portland has always been sparked by one particularly bright bulb—Rudolph’s red nose glowing forth from the Made in Oregon sig ...
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Preston Johnson, 22, had just gotten out of class in Eugene when he got the call from a casting agency: “Do you still have long hair?” they asked. A couple weeks, hair length confirmation and multiple auditions later, the University of Or...
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Your answer to “What is your favorite Portland bridge?” says a lot about you. Are you showy like the Fremont? Flaky like the Sellwood? Reliable like the Marquam? Show how versatile ...
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Bar Reviews
As its name implies, Jinx (232 NW 12th Ave., 224-0173) seems destined to fail. What was marketed as a martini-and-Tater-Tot bar turned out to be a boring, uppity Pearl District den—without a sin ...
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It’s Man (and Woman and Child) Vs. Mud Puddle at Dirdy Birdy.
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All over Portland, runners with impressive speed and stamina—serious athletes—have been training to run a treacherous 5k race…in a gigantic pile of mud. The Dirdy Birdy is one of th ...
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On my way to Ron Jeremy's Club Sesso last night, I received a phone call from my father. “Be careful at that event, India… there will be some pretty unsavory characters present.” Unsavory? What did that...
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Schulz, eldest son of the famed Peanuts creator, just released a new novel that follows farm boy Alvin through a cross-country journey in the pre-Great Depression era. Think that sounds like heavy lif ...
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