Portland Places to Go
From major cities to the off-the-beaten-track destinations, we’ve got this place covered. We’ll share the hidden gems that only a local can discover.
Portland Notes: April 13, 2007
Sorry about the delay in posts - been out of town. Anyhow,
The picture at right is from a travel article the New York Times is running this weekend about 36 Hours in Portland. Highlights include Doug Fir, Portland Saturday Market and Portland Art Museum. All told it does a good job covering a quick trip to our Rose City.
Local baseball fans take note: The Portland Beavers open its first home stand at PGE Park TONIGHT!! A Beers of the World stand, better and better promotions and a bunch of other groovy things …
Date: April 13th, 2007 |
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Portland Notes: Mar. 16, 2007
Make sure you are wearing green tomorrow as you head out to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day Portland style. The Oregonian has some great ideas on ways to enjoy your favorite green beer drinking holiday.
Speaking of beer, many Portlanders seem to have a love-hate relationship with our local McMenamins brew pub chain. Some find the beer and food average while others can’t seem to get enough. The local beer blog Beervana has a nice write up on some of its favorite Mcmenamins locations in and around Portland.
If beer (green or otherwise) isn’t enough to quench your need for drinking …
Date: March 16th, 2007 |
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Portland Notes: Feb. 23, 2007
The Portland Trail Blazers are on a two-game winning streak and the word playoffs is being mumbled by some. Catch them in action at their next home game tonight at 7pm against the Memphis Grizzlies.
200 parking spaces have opened up in downtown Portland.
Skiers take note - 50-70 inches of new snow could be on Mt. Hood from Sunday to Sunday
Portland’s streetcars, which some may not know are Czech-made, got a write up in The Prague Post. In it, they talk about the Rose City approaching Škoda Transportation Feb. 9 to supply a prototype for more streetcars.
Today …
Date: February 23rd, 2007 |
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Portland Tram takes off
The Portland Tram officially kicked off to the public over the weekend by providing 10,000 rides to those who so wanted. The Tram, for those who do not know, is an aerial tram designed to carry doctors, patients and the general public between the upper and lower portions (part of a new neighborhood called South Waterfront) of OHSU in the southwest portion of Portland. Press coverage of the tram unveilng was huge, with everybody from the local Oregonian to the New York Times doing a write up.
And now that the festivities …
Date: January 29th, 2007 |
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Portland Taste of the Nation
Name: Taste of the Nation
Date: April 24, 2006
Location: Oregon Convention Center
777 MLK Jr. Boulevard
Portland, OR
Contact information: www.portlandtaste.org
Cost: $70 advance, $80 at the door, $95 VIP
What is it: An opportunity to snack on treats from many of the best restaurants in Portland
Date: April 25th, 2006 |
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Oregon Wanderings - Mar. 18, 2007
Oregon Wanderings, as I’ll be calling this occasional entry, is a brief and rough journal of travels I sometimes make around the state with my wife and/or others. The purpose of these entries will not be to provide in-depth reviews of locations visited, but rather snapshots of ideas for places you might find worth a stop off at if you are in the area. This first entry is related to a trip my wife, an out of town friend and I took on Sunday:
Oswego Hills Winery (West Linn) - …
Date: March 20th, 2007 |
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Portland Notes: Mar. 9, 2007
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, …
Date: March 9th, 2007 |
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The Press Club
Name: The Press Club
Location: 2621 SE Clinton Street
Portland, OR 97202
Contact information: 503.233.5656
Hours: Sunday to Thursday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m.
Friday & Saturday 10 a.m.-12 a.m.
Insider tip: Single-serving French Press coffee for only $2
Date: February 1st, 2007 |
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Top 10 seafood markets
An Oregon company makes CNN’s list of Top 10 Seafood Markets
Lighthouse Deli sits just south of the elegant arches of the Yaquina Bay Bridge, which connects to Newport. The deli rose to prominence in 1994, when Portland’s Oregonian newspaper declared it the purveyor of the best fish-and-chips on the Oregon coast. In 2001, Coastal Living included it in our annual roundup of great seafood dives. In addition to being a great casual restaurant, this slightly ramshackle place also sells a great selection of locally caught seafood, both on premises and through the Web site.
Date: May 19th, 2006 |
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Portland and Eugene Both Top Ten Green Cities
Good news for both Eugene and Portland - they’re both on the list of the top 10 greenest cities in the country, coming in at number one and number three, respectively.
The Green Guide took a number of things into consideration in making their list, including: Air Quality, Electricity Use and Production, Environmental Perspective, Environmental Policy, Green Design, Green Space, Public Health, Recycling, Socioeconomic Factors, Transportation and Water Quality.
Other cities on the list included Austin, Texas; St. Paul, Minnesota; Huntsville, Alabama and more.
The Top 10 Green Cities in the U.S.: 2006
Date: April 20th, 2006 |
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