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Event date: Dec 3, 2011

Event location: Sellwood and Westmoreland businesses

On December 3 the Sellwood-Westmoreland neighborhoods will host the 5th annual Decemberville event. This winter event kicks off the holiday season offering FAMILY PORTRAITS WITH SANTA, HOLIDAY WREATHS, SNOWFLAKES IN SELLWOOD, a FREE MATINEE at the Moreland Theater AND super sales & discounts. 11AM FREE MOVIE! Saturday, December 3rd 11AM-12:30PM Free matinee to the community at the Moreland Theater located at 6712 SE Milwaukie more...

Let’s imagine that it’s already Halloween, you have your patio lights up and a few carved gourds on the porch, and the important question lingering in the fall air is: what on earth are you going to be serving to your thirsty, be-costumed guests? Grog, fellow drinkers. Go with grog. Because there is no better complement to a night dripping with zombie anythings and sexy everythings than a drink whose last true heyday was more...

We know you haven’t had enough of old-school drinks and cocktails yet, so here’s the next in line we’d suggest for your go-to winter list: sherry. That’s right. Sherry. There’s a dry, complex quality to this Spanish wine that makes a lovely pair with the crisp (erm, soggy) autumn breeze starting to blow around Portland. It’s a great drink to offer guests arriving at your dinner party or to sip on more...

When Kristl Bridge opened Portland Homestead Supply Co. in Sellwood in June, a visitor asked her why anyone would take tasks such as canning, pickling, and soap-making into their own hands when it’s often easier to pay someone else to do the work. “It was our first day open, so my first response to it ... was to sort of panic,” Bridge recalls. “I thought, ‘Wow maybe nobody will [do this], and we’ll more...

Four weeks of summer in and it’s nearly autumn again, at least according to the calendar. In other words, this is the perfect time to start infusing everything from olive oil to brandy! Because in four weeks when you are cold again, and have spent all of your money on patio beers in the sunshine, life will be better when you look around and see all kinds of home infusions that have turned your little counter bar and your kitchen more...

Event date: Sep 17, 2011

Event location: Tilde, 7919 SE 13th Avenue

Join the anniversary celebration from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with 20% off almost* everything in the shop!! (*excluding the work of our featured visual artist). We’ll be serving Blue Kangaroo coffee in the morning & after 5 p.m. join us for us for a glass of wine from The Portland Bottle Shop. Purchases over $20 receive a special, handmade giveaway from Molly Muriel. So, stop by and enjoy a sale, treats, a gift, and great company! more...

When the New York Times published a story in November 2008 about a renewed national interest in root cellars, the featured root cellarist was someone from Portland. It stands to reason. Here in grow-your-own, do-it-yourself central, we Portlanders would naturally be on top of a revived, time-honored trend that relates to homegrown food. Okay, so almost three years later, it’s exposé time. Harriet Fasenfest, the Northeast more...

It used to be that a collection of seeds was a vital possession, and that protecting seeds from one’s own garden meant protecting a family’s food source and livelihood. “Seeds were smuggled from Russia, from places in Europe,” says Corina Reynolds, a Portland-based permaculturist who grew up with victory-gardening grandparents. “People would sew them into their skirts or their suitcase linings when they more...

Event date: Aug 6, 2011

Event location: Sellwood & Westmoreland neighborhood

Dance at three music stages, enjoy treats at 25 restaurants/bars, visit shops with sales galore on Saturday, August 6th for the 5th annual Passport to Sellwood & Westmoreland. Visitors acquiring 10 stamps in passport booklets (no purchase required) can enter a drawing to win gift certificates from over 100 local businesses. Those gathering 16 stamps can enter drawings for one of four grand prizes, including two nights for two at The more...

If you want a definition of optimism, find someone in Portland who’s installing solar panels—especially with the summer we’ve been having. Oh, and it doesn’t help when experts say that Portland gets the same amount of sunshine as an average American city. We live here. We’ve earned the right to question that. Still the promise of solar energy is intriguing. Who doesn’t dream of telling the power more...