Brian joined the SagaCity team in 2006 as a fact-checker with Portland Monthly. Details were sweated and issue upon issue, he took on greater responsibility, from managing departments to wrangling interns to organizing and executing cover features and narrative stories.

In 2010, with SagaCity’s custom magazine department growing by leaps and bounds, Brian took an opportunity to combine a love of travel writing and the wide-open spaces of Oregon by serving as a project lead for visitor guide clients, which now includes Travel Portland, Eastern Oregon Visitors Association, Eugene, Cascades & Coast, and Santa Monica Convention & Visitors Bureau. He shares a century-old bungalow at the foot of Mount Tabor with his wife, young son, and newly adopted Great Pyrenees-Lab mix.

Appendix

Parlez-Vous Bro?

Your guide to snow slang for those upcoming days on the mountain.

11/09/2009 With Brian Barker

Feature

Mt. Hood

From Peak to Valley: An Insider’s Guide

11/09/2009 By Kasey Cordell, Christopher Van Tilburg, Rachel Ritchie, and Kelly O'Connor Edited by Brian Barker

Web Exclusive

Going Coastal

Southern Oregon & the Oregon Coast

09/11/2009 Photography by Brian Barker

FALL TRAVEL

Explore Hidden Oregon

30 great reasons to hit the road

09/11/2009 By Kasey Cordell, Randy Gragg, and Rachel Ritchie Edited by Brian Barker

MUDROOM

Holy Water

Portland brewers rally to save their craft’s most sacred resource

09/10/2009 With Brian Barker

Mudroom

Trophy Lives

Your first step to going pro? Attend Jesuit High School

08/18/2009 With Brian Barker

EAT THIS NOW

Fried Crawfish Pie

A downtown food cart brings the taste of NOLA to PDX.

07/20/2009 With Brian Barker

Burgers

Portland's Best Burgers

30 Finger-lickin', fixin-drippin' masterpieces, from high-end to drive-in that will cure your burger lust

07/20/2009 With Martha Calhoon, Randy Gragg, Brian Barker, John Chandler, and Rachel Ritchie Edited by Kasey Cordell

Mudroom

Summer Lovin’

Six ways to savor the last days of the season

07/20/2009 By Kasey Cordell With Brian Barker

Currency

Street Cents

As it turns out, the money the Portland Bureau of Transportation received from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act only equals 1.25 Raef LaFrentzes.

07/20/2009 With Brian Barker

Mudroom

Singled Out

When it comes to cycling Portland has it all—except mountain biking

06/22/2009 With Brian Barker

Mudroom

Hot-Rod Hybrid

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

05/26/2009 With Brian Barker

Get Out

Hikes & Bikes

One of the best things about living in Portland is the ease with which we can escape the city for more rugged delights. So we paged through guidebooks, consulted local experts, and wore a little leather off our own boots...

05/20/2009 Edited by Kasey Cordell With Brian Barker By Kaitlin Johnson, Ariel Bleicher, Victoria Nguyen, and Bart Blasengame