Culture Vulture

wcyy.com Just let that image sink in. Now, think about swinging the driver...arcing a bunker shot...holing out on your first day of play after this damn winter.  Then the 19th hole.

After taking the Holidays off to let us all just glide, I went out on 2015's First Monday night for Mac And Cheese (it's a verb)** and some great "reader-writers."

You kind of back into having a child with a challenge. You get the diagnosis, then there's lots of time spent just collecting resources to help your kiddo. If you're lucky, you get what you need.

The hipster bar tosses your can to the curb, and up Pine you go. You end up in the hammock still hanging on your back porch and settle in for a nap until the leaves gotta fly!

It takes a village, they say. It takes all kinds, they say. Put those two ideas together: collaboration between arts-driven organizations and Portland benefits.

A cosmopolitan place like Portland deserves great ways to get around it...just look the hell out.

Without thinking about it, Portland, what two things would upset and/or make you happy today?  My vote is for driving someplace, because we rock as drivers,  and a unique meal. Yeah.

Last week, I came up with a few ideas for indoor fun this winter...among the ideas was to hit the PMA--well, I went up early because it was Third Thursday. Come along.

Two hundred years of any one thing in Portland is not only cool, it calls for a celebration! That's what's going on this weekend for Fort Allen on Munjoy Hill: The Fort's Bicentennial is this Friday and Saturday.

I don't usually cop an attitude when a Portland summer screams by like the last one did--so, I'm not going to, now, either. I prefer to think about indoor activities that define Portland's Culture.

Dating online can have it's upside; and, if you like a lot of unscripted living, you can turn it into a vacation. One network just calls it Love Prison.

Thanks, again, for coming along for the ride this past Summer on my #PortlandQuest. It was a good time getting out there, and seeing some sights. Along the way there were weeks where you guessed the correct answer and others where you were stumped, but it was all intended to be fun and educational.

I got a picture postcard on my desk at CYY, and was immediately intrigued: a man wearing a turban and a Swatch, smiling at the camera, while a cobra climbs his face.

A few days ago, I posted some pictures of a historic place within the boundaries of Portland.  Quite the place!

I've had a great summer playing #PortlandQuest, happening on a few unknown spots, and a few that are too well known--Gold Street, for example!

A few days ago, I put up a couple pictures of something pretty commonplace in Portland--iron gating running along the front of a trimmed lawn somewhere in the city. More commonplace than I thought.