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FEATURE

Portland's Top Schools 2014

Our annual report card for more than 600 public and private schools in Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington, and Clark Counties.

02/03/2014 Edited by Marty Patail

REPORT

The Scoop on Powell's Books' Downtown Remodel

Portland's beloved bookstore overhauls its Burnside flagship with the future in mind.

01/21/2014 By Zach Dundas

ARCHITECTURE

To Save or Not to Save: Is the Portland Building Better in Person or the Pictures?

As one of the most controversial buildings in Portland faces a $95-million overhaul, its place in our civic line of sight is called into question.

01/13/2014 By Randy Gragg

INTERVIEW

The Future of Portland Shopping

Tom Cody, developer of Union Way and South Waterfront’s Emery apartments, expounds on place, profit, and how for-profit development can build community.

01/02/2014 By Zach Dundas

NEWS

The Birdmen of PDX

A behind-the-scenes airport effort protects flying humans from avian threats.

01/02/2014 By Michael Zusman

REPORT

Portland, Oregon: Cash Magnet

Is Portland changing? Ask the tax man.

01/02/2014 By Marty Patail

TOP DOCTORS 2013

PDX Index: Health Care Workers

A by-the-numbers look at Oregon's doctors, nurses, and medical volunteers

01/02/2014 By Cari Johnson

HOME DESIGN

An Eco-Chic Passive House

After years of designing elaborate energy-efficiency systems, architect Jeff Stern turned to a simpler concept for his own home: the thermos.

01/02/2014 By Randy Gragg Photography by Bruce Wolf

ENTERTAINMENT

Live Wire Radio Goes for National Glory

After a decade of cracking up local listeners, Portland's radio dynamos aim to be public radios next big thing—and they just might make it.

01/02/2014 By Aaron Scott Photography by William Anthony

PORTLAND GLOSSARY

Word on the Street: Car2Slow

What Portlanders are saying—or should be.

12/02/2013

CULTURE

Portland's Weird National Rankings

Tattoos? Single ladies? Cigarettes? Stumptown's place on official and unofficial lists paint a bizarre portrait of the city.

12/02/2013 By Cari Johnson

FOOD NEWS

Oregon's Native Oyster, Reborn

Diners and scientists unite to revive the Olympia, the North Pacific Coast's only native oyster species

12/02/2013 By Virginia Gewin

PDX INDEX

A New Years Eve Countdown

Our by-the-numbers look at 2013, from the Dalai Lama's Trail Blazers gear to the perpetually in-the-works Columbia River Crossing

12/02/2013 By Marty Patail

CULTURE

Dude, Where's My Accent?

Why the California Vowel Shift may have us all by the tongue

12/02/2013 By Chris Lydgate

THE HISTORY ISSUE: AN APPENDIX

Ode on a Carpet, by T.S.A. Eliot

Soon, Portland International Airport will begin replacing the 14 acres of beloved blue-green carpet covering its terminals, a surface that has welcomed travelers since the early 1990s.

12/02/2013