Word: portland
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...present level is bad enough for Kathryn Wimmer, an apparel designer from Portland, Oregon, who was visiting a friend in Paris last week. "When I came here six years ago, things were a little expensive," she says. "Now you just watch the dollar going down every day. Pretty soon it's going to be hard just to come here." As for Christmas shopping in Europe, forget it. This year, Wimmer's only buying postcards...
...Austin, Texas, a bait-and-tackle shop with high-design sensibilities in Providence, R.I., a Persian ice cream parlor in Hollywood or Japanese tapas in Brooklyn, N.Y., these compact urban guides may be for you. Each volume focuses on 90 locally owned shops or restaurants in cities from Portland, Ore., to Paris...
...took a year off to decide whether to come to college,” he says. In the interim, he earned an apprenticeship with a Portland, Oregon ballet company and applied—successfully—to Harvard...
...pretty jaded, but I had no idea that peoplewere getting sick of restaurants. Apparently, though, hipster foodies in cities from Portland, Ore., to Melbourne, Australia, find the whole look-at-the-menu, eat-the-food, pay-the-check monotony so soul crushing that they're taking refuge in underground restaurants arranged by groups like the Oakland, Calif., outfit Ghetto Gourmet. You pay online, show up at someone's house and sit next to strangers while an off-duty chef prepares a fixed menu of whatever surreal creations he or she has always wanted to try: rabbit adobo, fried grasshoppers...
...aggrieved property owners have filed 2,724 claims seeking $6.1 billion in compensation. Under the law, local authorities can "pay or waive," and so far, strapped for funds, they are mostly choosing to waive zoning rules. As a result, some Oregonians fear that sprawl will soon strangle Portland's famous greenbelt...