Pies We Love
A list of all the pies we know you’re sure to love. Find a new favorite gourmet pizza joint in your neighborhood.
Nicole Morales
Sticky Business
An OSU innovator is reinventing the science of adhesives.
PDX Index: Spring Cleaning
2.6 MILLION POUNDS OF TRASH removed from beaches and riversides, since 1984, by SOLV (Sustaining Oregon’s Legacy by Volunteering) in its twice-yearly efforts. SOLV’s Spring Oregon Beach Cleanup takes place along the coast on March 26. 200 Vintage vacuums on display in the VACUUM MUSEUM at Stark’s on NE Grand Avenue $0 Cost to RECYCLE […]
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Three of Portland’s bartending best serve up stories from behind the bar
La Niña
0.5 Minimum drop below average in Pacific Ocean surface temperature (in degrees Celsius) that defines La Niña, a climatic variation that often leads to a colder, wetter winter in the Pacific Northwest 50 Approximate percentage of current climate models that predict a “strong” La Niña this winter 430 Inches of snow at Mt Hood Meadows […]
PDX Index: Cemeteries
1846 Year local landowner J.B. Stephens buried his father in what eventually became Lone Fir Cemetery, Portland’s first official cemetery $10 Price of a burial plot at Lone Fir in 1866 $1,700 Price of an adult gravesite and temporary concrete marker today $50,000 Maximum fine an Oregon court may impose for defacing a historic gravesite […]