More News & City Life

Out and About

Crafty Wonderland Returns

One stop shopping comes to the Convention Center December 10-11, as Portland’s creatives converge for a weekend extravaganza of visual art and handmade crafts.

11/26/2011 By Kristin Belz

Mudroom

Seed Money

A new company plows investment cash into organic farms.

07/22/2011 By Eleanor R. Brown

DIY

Urban Homesteading Portland Style

At this new shop in Sellwood returning to the prairie life is made very appealing…and you don’t even have to leave the big city. Learn how to can your summer garden, make fresh cheese and perfumed soap.

06/30/2011 By Teri Gelber

Read This

A Chicken-Keeping Primer

Always had a hankering to raise a few hens and enjoy fresh eggs straight from your backyard? This new book from local owners of the Urban Farm Store will help get you started.

05/06/2011 By Amara Holstein

Out & About

Portland AIGA Invites Local Designers to Talk Sustainable

Ten five-minute talks by local printers, packagers, and book designers who are all finding a better way to work and live, April 21 at the Ecotrust Building.

04/18/2011 By Teri Gelber

Events/Classes

Flower Class with Frolic!

Take a flower-arranging class on April 30 with Chelsea Fuss of the whimsical and wonderful blog Frolic! and learn to make fresh spring blooms from your garden (or the grocery store) so very stylish.

04/12/2011 By Amara Holstein

Beer Bulletin

It's the Water

Brewers pay it forward

02/15/2011

Portland Monthly Presents

Private Schools Guide 2011

Finding the right hallowed hall for your child isn’t an easy process. But we can help you get started with stats on more than 100 area private schools, and profiles of 12 that are excelling in everything from science to community service.

01/19/2011 Edited by Kasey Cordell

Article

NSFW

A dentist's online porn cruising shatters a practice and exposes the blurry legal lines over what's not safe for work

11/17/2010 By Lee Van Der Voo

Festival notes

It's the Pirate's Life for Me

Intern Geoff Earl serves as a buccaneer bouncer at the Portland Pirate Festival

09/22/2010

Sponsored

Best Lawyers 2010

A Special Advertising Section

05/03/2010

Bluegrass, books, and building monster forts

Fun For Ages 0-3

The activity plan for the toddler tykes is made up of a nature hike, a restaurant with a grandmother's feel, a playhouse for the wee ones, and storytime to enhance literary skills, among other enterprises.

04/19/2010 Edited by Kasey Cordell By Rachel Ritchie

Mudroom

Eco-Erotica

Love yourself and your planet with sustainable sex toys.

01/19/2010 By Meghan Hilliard

Mudroom

Chasing the Wind

Two local turbine manufacturers face off to harness the breeze.

01/19/2010 By Rachel Ritchie

Christianity in Portland

Jesus' Favorite City

A group of emerging liberal Christian leaders is rethinking GOD—in Portland’s image

12/11/2009 By Randy Gragg, Rachel Ritchie, and Martin Patail

the interwebs

Portland Googled

Our city's biggest searches

12/02/2009 By Robert Runyon

Slideshow

Slide Show: Fruitful Fete

08/12/2009

Mudroom

30 Seconds with... Greg Craven

[science teacher, YouTube sensation, author]

06/23/2009 By Kaitlin Johnson

Mudroom

30 Seconds With: David Moen

The Oregon Zoo's David Moen talks California condors.

05/26/2009 By Peter Beland

Mudroom

Memorial Lane

Before determining the coliseum’s fate, wrecking-ball swingers might do well to practice one very Portland trait: patience.

05/26/2009 By Randy Gragg