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...PORTLAND, ORE. Protests mark the fourth anniversary...
...between the third and fourth innings, both scored by Vertovez, who went 2-for-4 in the game.Murphy led off the first inning with a solo home run.Harvard’s defense finished the bottom half of the inning with a quick 1-2-3 by Vertovez.HARVARD 6, PORTLAND STATE 5In nine innings, Harvard battled Portland State (7-12) to earn its second win of the day on Saturday.The Crimson’s victory redeemed last year’s shutout loss to the Vikings.The win came from a key base hit in the ninth, when Kerper knocked...
...others are trying. Restaurants from Cinque Terre in Portland, Maine, to Mozza in Los Angeles are run by cooks who strive always to find local products first. Some chefs are not only buying locally but actually growing the food. The two Blue Hill restaurants in New York--one in Manhattan and the other in Pocantico Hills--buy less than 20% of their ingredients from outside the New York region, according to chef Dan Barber. Much of both restaurants' food (including all the chicken and pork) is raised on about 20 acres next to the Pocantico Hills location. In the 31/2...
Getting to know Menomena can take time. The emerging Portland, Ore. trio’s name is playfully enigmatic, like an inside joke to which you’re not privy. A Muppets allusion, perhaps? The music doesn’t make the band’s intent much clearer. Their third release, “Friend and Foe,” opens with the richly layered “Muscle ’n Flo.” Its dynamic rhythm and slide guitar give way first to a shifting piano melody and then again to an organ surging...
After changing everyone’s lives (thanks, Natalie Portman), James Mercer and his Portland posse are back. The Shins, whose jangly melodies and eccentric poetry became all too well-known with a double appearance on the “Garden State” soundtrack, now experiment with a more fleshed-out sound on their third album, “Wincing the Night Away.” The tracks off “Wincing” are less instantly adorable than the band’s former hits. Upbeat tunes “Australia?...