An Art Walk Through Alberta

The last Thursday of each month, an Art Walk is held in the Alberta Arts district. The walk takes place on Alberta Street from about 12th up to 22nd. This district is in the Northeast of Portland. ...

Meandering Through Southeast

On the itinerary for Wednesday was Southeast Portland. This quadrant is really large and split into many neighborhoods. Upon the recommendation of a few locals, we included Sellwood and West Moreland. These neighborhoods are far Southeast ...

An Exceptional Day In North Portland

For our first full day in Portland, we traveled by bus to North Portland. The bus system is easy to use and much safer than Baltimore. We planned to checkout a few neighborhoods in the north including St. Johns, Kenton, Piedmont, Humboldt and ...

Portland, We Made It!

After an early early morning and a quick stop in Chicago, Teresa and I touched down into PDX. Even though it was only 1030am, we were wide awake and full of excitement. By the time we checked into the Travelodge at 9th and Burnside, we had ...

Counting Crows At A Minor League Ballpark

They are calling it the Rock and Roll Triple Play Tour. The Counting Crows are out on the Road with Collective Soul and Live. They are stopping at Minor League ballparks across the country. The show ...

Baltimore All Jazzed Up, Sort Of

For the entire weekend, the PAETEC Jazz Festival Baltimore was being held. Performances were scheduled for Thursday through Saturday. Stages were set all over Baltimore. The performers list was varied ...

Mark's Surprise Karaoke Birthday Party

Mark was in India for his birthday. India wasn't his favorite place on earth. Jen came up with an idea: a surprise birthday day party. She coordinated a night when, a bunch of us could get together to celebrate his belated birthday. The ...

Hannastock 2007

This year was my first Hannastock experience. I believe, this is the third year of the festival. It is located near Oxford, PA. The festival is the brain child of Kelly and Matt Hanna. I was told, the its original concept was to celebrate ...

Best Quote Out Of Asia

"Henry, Eto'o and Ronaldinho playing together is going to work," coach Frank Rijkaard told reporters. "They're great players." The Dutchman added: "It's very promising. We have a lot of wonderful players -- I almost forgot about (Lionel) ...

My New Favorite Cable Station Is Sundance

That's right, I was sucked into the Sundance Channel. Live from Abbey Road got me a taste of this station. Ever since the first production of that music program, I have been watching feverishly ...

Best Reason To Use Tables For HTML Layout

"Another point in favor of tables is that my mom and dad can understand them. My parents will never 'get' CSS grid layout techniques like negative margins and faux columns, nor should they be expected to." -- Andrew Krespanis and Kevin ...

The Bridge, Taking It To Us

For the second half of this summer, The Bridge have a residency at the 8x10. The are playing every Wednesday in July and August. We have tired to attend at least one show in July. We didn't make ...