Today, 1859 Magazine got the first look at the official designs for the James Beard Public Market (JBPM). Director of the JBPM project, Ron Paul, released the renderings, and the result is breathtaking. Plans for the new downtown food hub and cultural center have been fifteen years in the making and tomorrow’s JBPM Grand Reveal at OMSI will highlight the details of the designs.
The life of a luthier tells a story of discipline, detail and patience, in a world that is increasingly bent on instant gratification.
Heidi Berkman had an epiphany. The event planner resisted throwing out the large bouquets of fresh flowers from the weddings and events she coordinated. She also remembered how on a grey day in January 2002, a loved one and extended family member in hospice got an unexpected gift. “Flowers were delivered to the room,” said Berkman. “They were colorful, and they changed the environment. It gave us something to talk about other than the obvious. They were positive memories.” It was this sentiment that led Berkman to found The Bloom Project.
Brown Cannon III and K.C. Lockrem’s are siblings who collaborate to create mixed-media art.
From the outside, the office looks like an ordinary Scappoose barn. Inside, however, are creatures from a dream world.
Years ago, Ron Paul began laying the groundwork for a massive Portland development project that may put Oregon’s regional reputation for local food in a world-class setting.
Though this iteration of Alameda has been playing together for only a year, the maturity and melding of the band’s orchestral arrangements stitch seamlessly.
KOMBUCHA—a fermented tea first sipped by the Chinese in the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago—is ripe with legend: Did it really give samurai warriors their swag? Was it Ghengis Khan’s on-the-road-again beverage of choice? Did it save the life of gulag-bound Alexander Solzhenitsyn? Here’s a fact: The kombucha market in the United States is exploding, poised for $600 million in sales this year, according to Inc. magazine. One of the most successful brewers is Bend’s Humm Kombucha. Cofounder Jamie Danek credits a twenty-year-old recipe, Bend culture—and “magical fairy dust.”
Once upon a time—in the early 1960s to be exact—a resident of Silverton, a young father of four, started formulating ideas for a theme park.
