Here in Portland Rudy’s barber shops are about as ubiquitous as Starbucks. They’re what hair people call “chop shops” – the Supercuts for hipsters if you will. Read More
Portland
aka PDX, Bridgetown, P-town, Rip City, River City
Well, Well, Well, Michelle
Marissa | January 30th, 2012
Michelle Lesniak Franklin designer of m i c h e l l e i s w e l l has been a Portland based designer since the late 90′s. Starting with handbags. Read More
Intel Is Making Me Look Up
Marissa | January 28th, 2012
Well, I know the economy is still pretty bad. Read More
R. KELLY NIGHT @ DIG A PONY
Marissa | January 27th, 2012
Q: How would Portland celebrate the birth of a modern legend? Read More
Summerland in the PDX
Marissa | January 27th, 2012
Summerland online clothing store is a carefully selected small shop that is curated by Megan Hart. I recently sat down with the newly married Humboldt County native and here’s what she told me about the store. Read More
Industry Standard
Marissa | January 27th, 2012
As a correspondent at the Scout Network blog we have to cover an array of topics, some of which, admittedly, I am a bit of a novice. In particular, all things techy. Read More
Sticks & Stones Brick and Mortar
Marissa | December 28th, 2011
Sticks & Stones, started in 2009 by designer Stephan Alexander, jeweler Benjamin Posin, and digital media designer Marc Ishida. Their collections bring together the world’s finest and most unusual natural materials to create wearable art. Utilizing reclaimed exotic wood, fossils, prehistoric ivories, fine metals and gemstones, Sticks & Stones breaches the present age to tell stories of time, history and the experience of earth. Read More
Serious Biz Boys
Marissa | December 28th, 2011
Serious Businessis really anything but. The rap, electro, dance duo loves to make light of pop-culture references like MILF, croning “why buy the milk when you can get the cow for free”. Or when speaking about the olympic swimmer “if you look like Michael Phelps, it helps” one of the many boy on boy loving lyrics from their most popular single “Hot Damn” – watch the video below and I dare you not to dance. Read More
Deshcutes Chef Challenge
Marissa | December 27th, 2011
While Portland may be a small place and sometimes feel more like a town than a city, what we lack in bright lights and skyscrapers we make up for by leaps and bounds in the culinary department. The amount of tasty restaurants in this place are impossible to count. Read More
(head)Bangin’
Marissa | December 27th, 2011
Tied Up And Tousled is a family affair, and when I say that I mean it in a “Daddy sang base Momma sang tenor” but with a modern take like, “sister, Annie, does web design, brother, Bobby handles the back end of the business, and other sister designs each band by hand”. But I digress. Tousled is new to Portland by way of Ohio but not without a road trip through the states first, in which they went on “tour”. Read More
Body Worlds and the Brain
Marissa | December 26th, 2011
The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry or OMSI to locals just got the all new Dr. Gunther von Hagens BODY WORLDS & The Brain exhibit. Read More
The Only Bar In Portland With a Champs Button!
Marissa | December 25th, 2011
When you live in a town that is basically all bars and restaurants, you keep yourself well appraised of all new openings around town – especially ones in your neighborhood. The Old Gold is the newest outpost in N Portland, which just so happens to be a hop-skip and a jump away from my house (and that’s good news as the PPD told me I wasn’t allowed to go to bars and drive home anymore).
THIS Nate Smith Has Ridiculously High Standards
Marissa | December 25th, 2011
Have you ever set high standards for yourself? If you have I doubt they’re as high as the standards, Portland Comedian Nate Smith has set for himself. Get this, he wants to be the best stand up ever! With over 2,500 Nate Smiths in the US, he’s making it his mission to be the tippy top best Nate Smith EVER! Read More
What’s Mine Is YOURS
Marissa | December 24th, 2011
The trippy, jammy, soulful pop (man, hope that sums it up!) band Yours consists of two dudes. Guitarist Matthan Minster and drummer Adam Trachsel. They formed right here in Portland in 2010. Read More