The Faces of Portland’s Hawthorne Boulevard
1859 photographer Joni Kabana and her students took to the streets to photograph the denizens of Hawthorne Boulevard.
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2012 Pendleton Round-Up: Raina Stinson’s Gallery
Here are Raina’s images:
Deschutes River Recordings: Singing for a Cause
Two of Oregon’s finest exports, Deschutes Brewery Beer and Portland indie music, have joined forces to help preserve stream flows in the Deschutes River through a recently launched project called “Deschutes River Recordings.” Watch the video and learn more about the project.
From Where I Stand: Mount Angel
Mount Angel is the German cultural center of Oregon, with a small community that’s all-in come Oktoberfest.
Top 5: Cheryl Strayed
Author Cheryl Strayed latest is a memoir about losing and finding yourself on the Pacfic Crest Trail.
Behind the Scenes of the Editor’s Letter Photoshoot
We were working on the ‘Haunted Oregon’ piece for the September/October issue of the magazine. Because of the inexplicable oddity called The Oregon Vortex, we had to include that as part of this bewitching feature. This is a place in Southern Oregon where gravity seems to bend and mass can grow and shrink by merely crossing a threshold. Just about anyone with a scientific theory has failed to explain this phenomenon. Old Albert Einstein even left it with no satisfactory understanding. No kidding. Anyway, it was then, that Guy Olson, our design assistant, spoke up. “There’s a place like that here,” he said sheepishly. What? In more than a decade here, I had never heard of a Central Oregon vortex. Of course this couldn’t be true. Guy is a, well, guy, who shaves his head and face in with different outcomes every week, to our, and, I imagine, to his…
Laurence Bennett: The Extended Interview
Lean and tan, Laurence Bennett looks every bit the movie star. But as a production designer, Bennett is actually the wizard behind the lens. We all have a sense of what a cinematographer, an editor and a director does, but the production designer’s role is often cloaked in mystery. Bennett’s job is what he calls “the artistic author, responsible for bringing to life the entire world the characters inhabit on film.” Bennett’s film and TV credits include the just-released The Company You Keep and five-time Academy Award-winning The Artist, as well as Crash, The Valley of Elah, Freedom Writers, The Next Three Days, “Grey’s Anatomy” and “EZ Streets.” We caught up with Bennett at his restored 1904 farmhouse in Estacada. Here, with his wife, Nina, and a menagerie, Bennett is able to recharge.
Returning to Roots
Like a blanket in a woven Indian basket, 4-year-old Wak’amu would fold herself inside the gnarled roots of an ancient juniper tree and gaze across the Oregon high desert.
The Best-kept Musical Secret: House of Snow
As angels descend from the heavens, they must sound something like Laurel Brauns. If they don’t, they could hang out awhile to find inspiration from below in House of Snow, Brauns’ latest release. With vocals that range from angelic sweet to Patsy Cline strong, Brauns at times wanes only waiting to wail in her next track.
