2010 NW Natural Street of Dreams Features Dreams In All Shapes and Sizes From a 6,000 sq. ft. forest oasis to a hip ideabox home, this show’s got it all! For its 35th anniversary, the NW Natural Street of Dreams has evolved to highlight dream living, 2010-style. The show runs July 31-Aug. 29 and is based at Cresap Summit, a new development located atop Forest Heights off Skyline Blvd. This...Read the rest of this entry »

  CNN.com just rated Portland as having the best street food in the world!  Portland’s food carts have been around for a while but the trend recently exploded – with over 450 registered food carts in the city of Portland – an increase of 25% in the last two years.  As an L.A. Times writer pointed out visiting a food cart pod in Portland is practically like being at a “United Nations...Read the rest of this entry »

On Monday, July 19, 2010, the Portland Tribune reported that Solexant, a San Jose, California-based company that develops and manufactures thin film solar cells, will build the world’s largest solar nanotechnology manufacturing plant in Gresham, Oregon.  To start Solexant will be employing about 170 local workers.  Over time that number is expected to grow to 1,000 employees.   Solexant’s move to the Portland is just one of many solar technology companies over recent...Read the rest of this entry »

On July 19th, 2010 PETA named Portland the second most vegetarian- and vegan-friendly city among cities with a population of 300,000 or more in the United States and Canada.  Washington D.C. took the top honor.  Completing the top ten were Albuquerque, Atlanta, L.A., New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver, B.C.  The ranking was based on the results of a survey which included the number of vegetarian and/or vegetarian-friendly restaurants...Read the rest of this entry »

This weekend Pioneer Courthouse Square aka Portland’s Living Room will be filled with 450 tons of sand where amateur and master sand scupltors alike will duke it out in scuplting competitions the results of which will bring a smile to anyone’s face!    Add to the mix that Yoshida’s Sand in the City, sponsored by Pacific Power, is a benefit for Impact Northwest a non-profit promoting self-sufficiency and its a time...Read the rest of this entry »