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SUMMER FASHION 2008

Hot Spot

We know: It’s (finally) summer, and sweating your look is the last thing you want to do.

05/19/2009 Edited by Jill Spitznass

Market Watch

Hot ’Hoods

No matter what kind of buyer you are, one of these six ’hoods has a welcome mat with your name on it.

05/19/2009 By Stacey Wilson With Brian Barker

Housing Trends

The Home Front

Seven trends that are shaping how and where we live

05/19/2009 By Stacey Wilson, Kasey Cordell, and Camela Raymond

Market Watch

Above the Clouds

The national housing market is in free fall, but we’ve managed to stay aloft. Here’s why.

05/19/2009 By Stacey Wilson

Deck the Walls

You Need Art

You're a grown-up. You live in a grown-up home, wear grown-up clothes and sit in a grown-up chair.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

LONG READ

The Creek

This sober yet surreal coming-of-age tale got the final nod at Portland’s 2007 Wordstock festival.

05/19/2009 By Joshua Michael Riedel

Basketball

Calling the Shots

Before Kevin Pritchard took over as GM, the Trail Blazers were the most laughable, losingest team in the NBA.

05/19/2009 By Jason Cohen

Habitat

Lake Escape

"Remodel" would be an understatement for the overhaul that Bob and Stevie Burke gave to their spectacularly sited Lake Oswego home.

05/19/2009 By Harriet Klein

Beyond the Bridges

Close Range

12 Northwest mountain escapes where you’ll find plenty of powder—and none of the crowds.

05/19/2009 By Tom Colligan

Arts & Culture

The Shape of Memory

As Maya Lin creates seven landscape installations retelling the Lewis and Clark story from the perspective of Columbia River tribes, the legacy she charts is partly the region’s, and partly her own.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

Try It

Proven Practice?

Researchers put alternative medicine to the test.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

Medicine

Footing the Bill

Oregon insurance carriers say yes to alternative medicine.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

Alternative Medicine

Hippocrates, meet Lao-Tzu

From angioplasty to acupuncture, today everything's on the table.

05/19/2009 By Chris Lydgate

Habitat

Perfect Pitch

On a Mountain Park slope, Litmus Design’s modern twist on a Japanese lodge finds harmony with a plant enthusiast’s 50-year-old garden.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

Philanthropists

The $150,000 Question

When Oregonian Pete Seda met Saudi Soliman al Buthe in 1997, the two Muslims became fast friends. Over coffee, they founded the only U.S. chapter of al Haramain, one of Saudi Arabia’s largest Islamic charities.

05/19/2009 By Ted Katauskas

Green City

A Garden in the Forest

On a wooded slope near the city's most famous park, a private two-acre oasis blooms.

05/19/2009 By Emily Chenoweth

Onward & Upward

Project Me

Forget that your father was overbearing, your mother had money issues, and your college years were a bust.

05/19/2009 By Nancy Rommelmann

Finally Home

Coming to America

This year, inside the ceremony room of Portland’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 10,000 foreign-born residents will take the Oath of Allegiance, becoming in just three short minutes, Americans.

05/19/2009 By Ted Katauskas

Sustainability

Fathom This:

A machine so miraculous that it provides 10 percent of the world's electricity. Weans us from oil. Halts global warming. Saves the planet. Four such devices, designed to harness the energy of ocean waves, may do just that.

05/19/2009 By Rebecca Clarren

Beyond the Bridges

Club Med

Palm trees, a saltwater pool, and a gourmet garden make this Alameda house a private resort.

05/19/2009 By Camela Raymond

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