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Jan 15, 2012
Appreciation
Designer Eva Zeisel died peacefully December 30, 2011, in her home in New York City. It’s a safe bet she died of old age: she was 105. One of the foremost ceramic artists of the mid-20th century,...
Jan 11, 2012
get dirty
Dry, relatively mild weather in January? In Portland? It may be unusual, but it’s a welcome kind of unusual after the past few destructive winters.
So far – and I’m crossing my fingers that it...
Jan 10, 2012
Market Watch
Winter gardens in the Pacific Northwest produce more than just potatoes, squash, kale and cabbage. Open your eyes (at least in the right garden or farmers’ market) and you’ll find cardoons,...
Jan 9, 2012
Desirables
Holidays are over. It’s back to work. It’s time to buckle down. But…if you were lucky enough to get a set of Buckyballs as a present, you’re golden – distraction and procrastination combined with...
Jan 8, 2012
Desirables
The recent coincidence (or perhaps it’s a cosmic convergence) of the new year and the start of the NBA season (finally, after the long lock-out) has left me with a new dream for the new year: my...
Jan 8, 2012
Desirables
Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co., age not yet ten, has graduated: from its old, bright yellow storefront in the Central Eastside to big new digs in the Northwest Industrial district. And...
Jan 5, 2012
plant this!
Whether you’re a devotee of rainy PNW winters or you just endure the gray skies while waiting for our all-too-brief, annual glut of summer sunshine, your garden will be enhanced with the...
Jan 3, 2012
Desirables
George Washington Vanderbilt never worried about downsizing. He hired famous architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a home for him in the western North Carolina mountains, near Asheville. What...
Jan 2, 2012
The Year of Tangering Tango
In case you haven’t already heard, Tangerine Tango has been named color of the year by The Pantone Color Institute, the company that selects and disseminates color standards in the design,...
Jan 2, 2012
Road Trip
Here in Portland, we pride ourselves in being weird, but of course we don’t have a patent on that precious, perfect weirdness. Most of us know that Austin is weird, but have you heard about...
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