Insider's Guide to the Gorge

Kite Rider

Hood River resident Aaron Sales (yes, that’s his real name) dishes about life as a pro kitesurfer and snowkiter.

05/25/2012 By Christopher Van Tilburg

from the songbird's beak

Getting To Know Ashia Grzesik

The cabaret cellist and soprano songwriter sits down with a Culturephile correspondent to talk about music, fashion, gender-blending, and the Polish-American experience. See her live tonight!

05/24/2012

CRIME

Dark Journey

As a teenager, David Pedersen went to prison after robbing two coffee stands. At 30, he got out—and went on a killing spree. This story examines his history in Oregon’s courts and prisons.

05/24/2012 By Alison Barnwell

Parks & Wreck

How John Yeon Shaped the Columbia River Gorge

One visionary Portland architect used bulldozers, Ming china, and political chutzpah to create a stunning personal landscape—and save the Gorge as we know it.

05/24/2012 By Randy Gragg

Long Story [Short]

The Refugee

Ismet Prcic, 35

05/24/2012 By Taylor Clark

Bright Lights

Portland Nice: The Rose City’s Thorny Race Politics

05/18/2012 By Rhea Combs

Around Town

Of Mad Men and City Plans

A long lost short film made by the AIA in 1965 offers a useful comparison to today’s city planning.

05/05/2012 By Kristin Belz

Rainmaker

Tree Titan

Matt Donegan helps Oregon’s timber business branch out.

04/27/2012 By Bill Lascher

Article

Haute History

A tour through fashion emblems of the past century—and where to find them now

04/27/2012 By Eden Dawn

Long Story [Short]

The Straight Shooter

Randy Leonard, 59

04/27/2012 By Sarah Mirk

Mudroom

Hand Jive

A nonprofit aims to save endangered languages with a few simple gestures.

04/27/2012 By Will Lambeth

Mudroom

This Land Is Whose Land?

A Portland law professor takes on Lewis and Clark (and colonialism).

04/27/2012 By Chris Lydgate

Mudroom

Affairs, Snared

A Portland tech start-up “traps” hot news stories.

04/27/2012 By Shane Danaher

Desirables

Maximum Remote Control

How to be away from home, but still very much in control.

04/22/2012 By Kristin Belz

UFO Oregon

A Guide to Oregon’s Extraterrestrial Past and Present!

To celebrate the 62nd anniversary of the state’s most famous UFO sighting, we probed experts and skeptics for a guide to our otherworldly history.

04/20/2012 By Martin Patail

Desirables

Stereo Totale

Perfect sound forever (or at least for today), with the latest technology.

04/09/2012 By Kristin Belz

Out and About

Tea, Ceramics and the Art of Healing

Renewal comes naturally with springtime exhibits at the Japanese Garden.

04/01/2012 By Kristin Belz

Feature

Running in Place

Three contenders vying to be Portland’s next mayor pick spots in the city that reveal the souls of their campaigns.

03/23/2012 By Zach Dundas

Mudroom

Odes to Crash

Local poets pay tribute to Gerald Wallace, the Blazers’ departed heart and soul.

03/23/2012

LIVING HERE

Nimby Nation

Neighborhoods are PDX’s secret superpower.

03/16/2012 By Amanda Waldroupe