News & City Life

Mudroom

Trophy Lives

Your first step to going pro? Attend Jesuit High School

08/18/2009 With Brian Barker

Slideshow

Slide Show: Fruitful Fete

08/12/2009

Music

The Ballad of Fred and Toody

Fred and Toody Cole, Portland's rock lifers, reflect on making music and staying in love after 40 years of marriage and life on the road.

07/21/2009 By Bart Blasengame

Mudroom

Light Show

Traffic signals keep rhythm with the city’s new MAX lines

07/20/2009 By Kasey Cordell

Mudroom

30 Seconds with... Greg Craven

[science teacher, YouTube sensation, author]

06/23/2009 By Kaitlin Johnson

Saving for the Future

Seed Saviors

When civilization coughs up its final death rattle, one of the last bastions of mankind’s survival will lie near Corvallis behind a modest sign touting a simple mantra: "Preserving plant genetic resources for all time."

05/26/2009 By Rebecca Clarren

Mudroom

Shortcut to Heaven

The path to the Pearly Gates just got a little smoother.

05/26/2009 By Sam Holder

Mudroom

Hot-Rod Hybrid

Forget puny econo-size electric cars. Portland’s latest hybrid is sex on wheels.

05/26/2009 With Brian Barker

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

Curl Up

Cold Play

Sure it’s strange, but give the offbeat Scottish sport of curling a chance and it might just sweep you off your feet.

05/19/2009 By Jonathan Fine

History

A New Project Puts More Than 150 Years of Oregon History Just One Click Away

The Oregon Encyclopedia Project takes history high-tech.

05/19/2009

Winter Remedy

On Bended Knee

Don’t just ski this winter; set your heels free and go tele’ it on the mountain.

05/19/2009 With Brian Barker

Q & A

Rosie Sizer

The city’s top cop on gang violence, a diminished budget, and the status of her ego.

05/19/2009 By Ted Katauskas

Ahoy!

Hell & High Water

Waves can stand nearly four stories high and the weather can change in mere minutes where the Columbia River meets the Pacific. You wanna steer a ship through that? No, but the legendary Columbia River Bar Pilots do.

05/19/2009 By Bart Blasengame

People

Holy Diver

Steven Kimes believes the poor really will inherit the earth. That's why he quit his job, took his family to the streets, and became Portland's most radical servant of the homeless.

05/19/2009 By Bart Blasengame