Prefontaine
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, ‘I’ve never seen anyone run like that before.’ It’s more than just a race, it’s a style. It’s doing something better than anyone else. It’s being creative. ~ Steve Prefontaine
Read MoreExposed: Art in the Bathroom
The Porcelain Diaries: A Peek at Portland’s Funky & Fabulous Bathrooms is a collection of 51 bathrooms that are humorous, inventive and artistic. The men’s room at Rontom’s on East Burnside falls within the artistic slot of this book. Colorful, local, vibrant art, with a touch of whimsy, adorns the interior walls of this bar while a darker, deeper vibe courses it way into the men’s restroom. Kris Hargis is the artist who created these images which leave so much room for interpretation. I’ve always felt a place, an object and people become...
Read MoreMarchFourth Marching Band: Joy Now!
MarchFourth Marching Band, a Portland based music and performance group that typifies the colorful, unconventional, and curiously captivating nature of Portland and Portlanders, has just celebrated 10 years of success this past March. If you’ve never had the wildly entertaining pleasure of encountering them while out and about PDX, or worse yet never heard about them, read on. Portland Monthly wrote an excellent expose of this band, their history, their contagious joy and their national success. Check out MarchFourth’s website for tour dates around the country and mark the calendar...
Read MoreA Book, A Psychic, A Reading
Deja vu is derived from the French and literally means “already seen.” It’s a strong feeling that whatever you are currently experiencing or seeing has been seen or experienced in the past. Science has attributed this feeling to a person been given a brief glimpse of an object or sliver of a situation and then it’s removed before the brain has had a chance to completely construct a full conscious perception of the experience which results in an anomaly of memory, giving the false impression that an experience is being “recalled.” This is not intended...
Read MoreMoonlight Snowshoeing at Trillium Lake
I’d been snowshoeing one other time in my life and it was a fun afternoon with a group of chatty women; and the sun was shinning high in the sky reflecting off the snow making sunglasses a necessity not just a fashion statement. Snowshoeing was a workout but it wasn’t as demanding as a spin class or boot camp, it was fun fitness. This year I had read about moonlight snowshoeing and that sounded like a creative spin on this already very likable snow sport. I rounded up 3 other warm bodies, umm I mean friends, scanned the calendar for the next full moon and scheduled our...
Read MoreROCK’IN IT WITH AINA HAINA
I was happily invited by a good friend, Alex Steininger from Portland based music label and Music PR Firm: In Music We Trust, to attend a private debut concert of a two man band, Aina Haina. Dylan Magierek and Mike Ailes met eons ago while attending school in Hawaii and learned they had a common passion for music, not Hawaiian music – 80′s rock ! After graduating, these two men set off on musical career paths. Dylan started Badman Records, a Portland label that produced albums for local artists such as Starfucker and The Builders and Butchers as well as a group out of...
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