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30 Years of Loving Portland

2010 marks an auspicious moment in my life–I have officially been a Portlander for 30 years. Learning about Portland is somewhat of an obsession for me, and has hit a new height recently, when I was hired as a Travel Advisor for Travel Oregon. I work at the Oregon Welcome Center at Portland International Airport, [...]

A Chat with Burgerville

by Aaron

Over the past few months there have been a couple articles here on OurPDX featuring Burgerville, a local business that does things a bit differently than most of their fast food competitors. Jeremy wrote a piece in April talking about Burgerville’s local, sustainable practices, and last month I wrote a recap of a tweetup [...]

06.14.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

My first visitor

by A. L. Venable

Although I’ve been in Portland for nearly 2 1/2 years, I haven’t had many of my East Coast friends or family visit me. To date, the only person was a high school friend who was in town for a conference earlier this year.
And now, my mother is visiting. Not just any visit, but she [...]

09.21.2008 See the rest → 8 comments

OurPDX shared bookmarks for August 25th

by Betsy Richter

Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for August 25th

Home :: Shizzow – I have 7 4 beta invites I can forward along to interested PDX people who want to try out this new social networking site. What's Shizzow about, anyway ? It helps [...]

08.25.2008 See the rest → 1 comment

Here comes the new food to replace the old food

by A. L. Venable

Upon taking a late lunch this afternoon, I walked over to the Fleur de Lis Bakery. They know my name at the bakery because I’m in there so often. I like to think my enthusiasm about the restaurant sent customers their way. Today, I opted for the roast turkey sandwich and a basil lemonade. From [...]

08.19.2008 See the rest → 1 comment