Love this look? Drop by FEZ Studio on First Thursday for pointers, product and pampering that will leave you looking and feeling fabulous.Get event details at The Beauty Source.Fez StudioThursday, November 15-9 p.m.1125 NW 9th Avenue503.227.2226 more...

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BodyVox is offering a special Family Matinee of Water Bodies on November 10th at 2:00. The Family Matinee performance includes special intermission activities for children ages 5 and up. BodyVox takes great care to make art that is suitable for children without being childish.We'll be there - would you like to get together after the show?More info on Water Bodies, from the websiteIn celebration of BodyVox’s tenth anniversary we have a more...

PICA’s fifth annual Time-Based Art (T:BA) Festival experienced notable upticks in attendance, ticket sales and economic impact, according to a TBA Festival report recently published by the non-profit.The eight-page report details audience demographics, TBA's impact on the greater Portland area and critical highlights from among the 251 international artists and performers featured in the fifth festival, which ran Sept. 6-16 at 21 venues more...

Fup, the resident cat at Powell's Technical Books, passed away on October 25. She was 19 years old. She continued to greet her admiring public to the end, when her health failed and there was no choice but to put her to sleep. Her lifelong veterinarian made the trip out to the store to perform the task and Fup died peacefully at home with several of her longtime co-workers present.Fup was born on or about June 30, 1988. She was adopted more...

The Crane Building historic rehabilitation in Portland’s Pearl District was honored with the award for the best Oregon interior design for 2007 by the American Institute of Architects. The award, also given to Emmons Architects, was the International Interior Design Association’s (IIDA) Jurors’ Award at the IIDA Oregon Chapter and the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Portland Chapter Design Awards, held October 12.The Crane more...

The next big thing for your neighborhood: How about the Portland Streetcar?Emboldened by the success of the downtown streetcar line, city leaders want to expand service into a network that would crisscross the city.Unlike bus service, city planners say, a streetcar could generate business and political momentum for clusters of midrise housing and commercial centers that could spread the walkable feel of popular urban neighborhoods.read more...

If you love beauty tips, check out The Beauty Source, a new blog by FEZ Studio. Upcoming Posts include:20 questions with Billy B (makeup artist to Beyonce, Sharon Stone, Pink, Dixie Chicks, Destiny Child, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Silverstone, and Missy Elliot ...just to name a few)Get the Look: Katie Holmes hair (from her personal stylist and my good friend, David Gardner)My conversation with one of the most in-demand Celebrity Makeup more...

Yesterday Pearl Girl and I decided to try Isabel's for breakfast. Its been a busy week, we are on deadline for both the newsletter and e-newsletter, I've got to get my images together for November's show at City Hall, and also for a private show in December. We needed a break. As we walk in we find fellow NN blogger Nancy and her family enjoying breakfast before heading to the Farmer's Market. While chatting and eating who happened to more...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Like a glacial breeze off Oregon's Mount Hood, Portland blows away the cobwebs of same-old travel.Instead of dutifully slogging through museums, how about pulling up a chair at a sidewalk cafe, sipping chai or a microbrew and asking your server where he'd go? Or renting a bike and seeing how many neighborhoods you could breeze through before happy hour?And what's not to love about a city that embraces not one, but two, more...