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Romantic Valentine’s Day: Hawaii

by Cristina on January 26, 2010

Romantic Valentine’s Day: HawaiiValentine’s Day is just three weeks away and probably most of you have already made plans. However, there are a lot of you who probably aren’t the romantic type or who needed a bit of time to think whether they want to plan something special for their sweetheart.

At this time of the year when all we want to do is crawl in bed with a cup of hot chocolate daydreaming about our sweetheart, lost loves or how to win someone’s

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Escape to Lisbon: mild climate during winter and springWith yet another cup of hot coffee in my hands, I take a look outside my window. Winter. It’s about to snow and the temperatures dip below freezing. It’s not that I don’t like the changing of the seasons in a temperate climate, but it does get old. And the older we get, the more we would like to spend time in warmer climates. You’d think that you get used to the cold, but no, it’s exactly the opposite: we

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Tin Shed Video

by BootsnAll on March 1, 2009

NYTimes articles about Alberta and the Tin Shed

This is my favorite breakfast place in Portland, Oregon. Try the Goat Boy or the Big Hit Burrito. Tin Shed Garden Cafe

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Blind Pilot - Portland’s next breakout indie band?Starting in mid July, I started hearing a new song on the ultra-influential KCRW.com that just floored me, and by about the third or fourth time I’d heard it I could tell this was not only one of my own favorite songs of the moment, but the same could be said for the on-air staff at KCRW, who famously “hand-pick” all their music. The haunting verse, rather than the chorus, has been running through my head off and on since

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Columbia Sportswear Sponsors Pro Cycling Team

by Jessica on June 17, 2008

I’m a fan of both cycling and Portland, so when I heard that a Portland-based company would be sponsoring a major pro cycling team, that was cause for celebration.

Columbia Sportswear is to be the new main sponsor of the artist formerly known as the T-Mobile Team, more recently known as Team High Road. The new team will be called Team Columbia, and the sponsorship is effectively almost immediately - the riders will be wearing their Team Columbia kit at this

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Portland Farmer’s Market

by Roger on April 14, 2008

Portland Farmer’s MarketThe Portland metro area is full of great farmer’s markets which thrive all summer long, but the Portland Farmer’s Market is easily one of the biggest and best. The main market is in the Park Blocks downtown on Saturdays from April through December, but there are off-shoot markets in a few other locations as well throughout the week. It’s not just a great place to get fresh produce directly from the farmers who grow it, the Portland Farmer’s Market is

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