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DIY

Map-Making 101

Mapstack’s groovy new database lets you unleash your inner cartographer and create beautiful, unique maps for free.

08/22/2013 By Kristin Belz

OUT AND ABOUT

Catio Tour of Portland

Who says dogs should get all the attention? These cool cats live the cush life, luxuriating on their own outdoor catios.

08/14/2013 By Kristin Belz

OUT AND ABOUT

Portland's Urban Grange

Raise a glass to community and sustainability at the Independence Gardens benefit for Zenger Farm’s Urban Grange Thursday, August 15.

08/08/2013 By Kristin Belz

EDITOR'S NOTE

The Father of Oregon's State Parks

How Samuel Boardman preserved—and created—Oregon's statewide green spaces

08/01/2013 By Randy Gragg

SCENE & HEARD

Portland's Wheelchair Fencing Champion

Who: Leo Curtis, a wounded Iraq War veteran who now pursues global glory on wheels

08/01/2013 By Zach Dundas

NEWS

The Portland Pulitzers

As the Oregonian sheds reporters and editors*, we bestow the first (and last) awards for the journalistic voices Portland will miss.

08/01/2013 By Randy Gragg

CULTURE

Fifty Shades of Gus Van Sant

Portland's gay art-house cinema legend angled to direct the mass-market "mommy porn" movie and lost.*

08/01/2013

CULTURE

Portland's International Mural Festival

Forest for the Trees will turn global street artists loose on the city's blank spaces.

08/01/2013 By Sam Coggeshall

PORTLAND GLOSSARY

Word on the Street: Glamshackle

What Portlanders are saying—or should be.

08/01/2013

PDX INDEX

PDX Index: Fire in the City

A by-the-numbers guide to the hottest emergencies in Oregon

08/01/2013 By Alisha Gorder

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RAINMAKER

Marketing Business-to-Business Tools in Portland

At McClenahan Bruer, Kerry McClenahan masters selling tech to techies.

08/01/2013 By Zach Dundas

NEWS

The Perfect Party August 2013

A made-up mash-up of the month's most fascinating people

08/01/2013

NEWS

The Joy of Cooking Invasive Species

From backyard aquaponics to grilled nutria, the next local food movement will put weirdness on the menu.

08/01/2013 By Virginia Gewin

CULTUREPHILE

Mitchell S. Jackson's 'The Residue Years'

The local writer's debut novel is a requiem for 1990s Northeast Portland, drugs and all.

08/01/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

FEATURE

Marketing Portland's Music to the Masses

Sara Matarazzo, Chris Funk, and a budding local cluster of music connoisseurs are making Portland a capital for a new music industry, one ad at a time.

07/23/2013 By Aaron Scott

OUT AND ABOUT

Hug a Tree for Hoyt Arboretum

Help Portland's Hoyt Arboretum break the Guinness Book of World Records' record for the number of people simultaneously hugging a tree!

07/16/2013 By Kate Bryant

TICKET GIVEAWAY

Win Passes to the 8-Track Relay

Throw out your iPod. Portland's hottest bands play live for this 24-hour marathon. July 20–21.

07/09/2013 By Aaron Scott With Claire Gordon

GOLF GUIDE

Oregon Golf Guide

In our tour of Oregon golf, we map Black Butte's new course, rank the resorts, get the dirt from the caddies, and offer options for apres-links dining.

07/01/2013 Edited by Kasey Cordell With Tim Neville, Gino Cerruti, and Branden Andersen

NEWS

How Performance Art Turned Into a High-Concept Business

Jennifer Armburst's intuitive approach to creative consulting.

07/01/2013 By Jonathan Frochtzwajg

HISTORY

The Willamette River's History

A Portland cartographer reveals our favorite river's unseen movements.

07/01/2013 By Gino Cerruti

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