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Lizzy Caston

Macy’s Ghost Bikes

Macy’s Honors Killed Bicyclists in New Valentines Day Window Display?

Symbols are powerful things. So when I spotted this new window display at the Macy’s on SW Taylor and 5th, the first thing I thought of was GHOST BIKES.
Yes, those white painted bicycles that are put up around town as momento mori to killed cyclists. Bikes [...]

02.04.2009 See the rest → 6 comments

Going to PDX on Tri-Met? Travel Tips.

Obviously, these are tips for getting to PDX during Snowpocalypse ‘08. Getting to the airport on Tri-Met under normal circumstances is generally a breeze. Not so yesterday. Here is my experience and some tips, from someone who spent 3.5 hours on slogging her way a few miles from inner NE Portland to PDX and then [...]

Watch Where You Step!

by Lizzy Caston

**This is a public service announcement about a health hazard plaguing the streets of Portland.**
It might have been early training navigating around the copious amounts of merde on the streets of Paris, France, but I tend to look down when walking the streets and sidewalks of Portland. Usually what I see is fairly innocuous: lots [...]

10.08.2008 See the rest → 5 comments

Whose Chinatown is it Anyway?

by Lizzy Caston

Last night, Portland filmmaker Ivy Lin showed her documentary Pig Roast and a Tank of Fish at the Someday Lounge on NW 5th and Couch. The film looks at the rich history of Portland’s Chinatown. From rough and tumble beginnings, through an era of thriving business and a large ethnic residential district, to the [...]

09.29.2008 See the rest → 2 comments

Urban Gripe: Trimet Ticket Machines

by Lizzy Caston

At first I thought it might just be my bad transit luck (or karma). Is it me, or are the clunky ticket machines along the MAX Line — especially the ones downtown and near Lloyd Center — broken more often than not? Turns out other people have noticed as well, including the always observant [...]

07.08.2008 See the rest → 12 comments