Every place has a unique history and it contributes to the magic of the location and the people.
As you’ll see in the slideshow below, there is a cool art show coming up.
Acadia Bistro
Sunday, March 16
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
1303 NE Fremont Street, Portland, OR
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Travel + Leisure magazine has recently named Portland “American Eden,” and the article is worth reading. A few choice quotes:
Rich or poor, they all come to Portland for the quality of life. In the past few years, Portland has become a metaphor for enlightened humanism and progressive government, a little pocket of Sweden in the States.
I assume that’s a compliment?
Portland is a city of youth and intelligence, full of microbrew-chugging tech nerds from the campuses of such higher-learning institutions as Intel, Nike, and Adidas. The new people in town are fleeing mainstream America, especially the deracinated, let’s-grab-a-bite-at-the-multiplex life of the soul-crushing suburbs.
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Name: Cinco de Mayo Festival
Date: Thursday, May 4-Sunday May 7
Location: Waterfront Park
Contact information: www.cincodemayo.org
Cost: $6 Adults, $5 Seniors (62+), $5 Kids 11-18 yrs, Children 10 and under free
FREE Admission before 2 p.m. on Thursday & Friday.
What is it: “Portland’s Largest Cultural Festival”
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Name: Greek Festival
Date: First Weekend in October
Location: 3131 NE Glisan Portland, OR 97232
Contact information: www.goholytrinity.org/festival.php
Cost: Whatever you spend on food and knick-knacks
What is it: A festival of food and Greek entertainment
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Portland may not have as large a homeless population as some other cities, but there is most certainly a homeless community in Portland. In a somewhat controversial move in late 2000, a small group of homeless people and activists claimed some unused land in downtown Portland as their own. They renamed it Dignity Village, and it did more than give its residents a place to call home - it has also given them a political voice.
The original site for Dignity Village was in downtown Portland, but residents were under constant pressure to move because they weren’t licensed to use the land they were on. Eventually, through the efforts of homeless activists and some local politicians who sided with the Dignity Village residents, the group was relocated to its current location and recognized as a legitimate community. The current site is some seven miles from downtown in an area of NE Portland called Sunderland, and although a location so far from downtown was initially something the Dignity Village residents fought against, in time they accepted it as a compromise.
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Portland International Airport said on March 5 it expected to have served its 300 millionth passenger since beginning operations 66 years ago. PDX also apparently set an all-time record of more than 14 million passengers served in 2006.
The Portland Saturday Market, now in its 33rd year, is once again open for business.
A new book titled Read Portland: The City in Prose has gotten a write up in the Portland Mercury. The book, which engages in a “literary exploration of the city’s past and present” via almost eighty written selections of various authors and forms of written word, …
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I like reading travel info about whatever city I’m living in. I can usually discover new places, or at least laugh at how ‘off’ a writer can be. The New York Times gave Portland its time in the…errr, clouds….recently:
At first glance, late fall does not recommend Portland. The sky turns the color of old oysters. Clouds obscure the inspiring Dairy Queen dollop of volcanic Mount Hood until May. Rain drools from eaves.
Just because winter is fitfully settling in, however, doesn’t mean the residents are doing the same. The Rose City, so frequently dismissed by Seattleites and San Franciscans by …
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Name: Polish Festival
Date: Third weekend in September
Location: 3900 N. Interstate Avenue
Portland, OR 97217
Contact information: www.portlandpolonia.org/festival
Cost: Free
What is it: A festival celebrating all things Polish
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