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Specialty markets, by contrast, write their own rules. They have personality and a specific subject, country, or regional ...

Here at Property Watch, we have a great fondness for the city’s historic garden apartments. They often popped up on the east ...

Chelsea Bieker: Thank you for writing about perimenopause. I’ve only become aware of the term in the past few years, which ...

Parsons has never been afraid of inconvenient truths. The stories in her short story collection Black Light, a semifinalist ...

Let’s be honest: you didn’t come here for cookie-cutter.

Let’s be honest: you didn’t come here for cookie-cutter.

“Keep Portland Weird” bumper stickers announce the metro area’s quirks with pride—but an Oregon road trip reveals a tendency toward the bizarre that permeates the state. So when a tourist came to ...

Hippie sandals, squirrel bridges, playgrounds, a car museum, hot pot, skydiving ... take a few breaks on the drive between Portland and Seattle.

Hippie sandals, squirrel bridges, playgrounds, a car museum, hot pot, skydiving ... take a few breaks on the drive between Portland and Seattle.

Hippie sandals, squirrel bridges, playgrounds, a car museum, hot pot, skydiving ... take a few breaks on the drive between Portland and Seattle.