Guitars, cellos, saxophones, toy pianos and more, the Streetcar Mobile Music Fest featured musicians performing aboard various streetcars throughout the night. Click the link to listen to and see what it was like when I went along for the ride. [...]
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September 16th, 2011 This week’s installment of Along for the Ride, my series of weekly chronicles of Portland, OR-area transit lines. is an audio postcard from a rush hour trip aboard the MAX Blue Line to Hillsboro. In a future edition, I’ll explore the rest of the line, from Downtown Portland, East to Gresham. [...] August 26th, 2011 Welcome to the second week of Along for the Ride, my series of weekly chronicles of Portland, OR-area transit lines. If you haven’t already, check out the first edition and if you like the series, please spread the word, or even cover my bus fare. This week, I woke early Wednesday morning intending to [...] August 19th, 2011 Today marks the public launch of “Along for the ride,”* a new series of mass transit adventure chronicles on Lascher at Large. Watch an Audio Slideshow | Explore the Map | See the Photo Gallery The concept: explore Portland as seen from the metropolitan region’s transit lines. Each week, through a highly [...] July 6th, 2011 Portland-based Sustainable Business Oregon reported yesterday that Stumptown once again won silver in Site Selection Magazine‘s Rankings of the nation’s most sustainable metroplitan communities. Once again coming in second to the Bay Area (Site Selection‘s lede about San Francisco’s ban on unsolicited Yellow Pages was cornily fantastic), Portland ranked high alongside Oregon, which came [...] November 3rd, 2010 Photo of Portland bike lane courtesy Flickr user Eric Fredericks. This week’s post for High Country News‘s “A Just West” blog explored discussions that came out of last week’s Ecodistricts Summit in Portland. Check it out here or read it — and many other great stories — on HCN. Hundreds of urban planners, architects, [...] May 1st, 2010 The day takes shape slowly. Getting out the door just happens. Once you do the bus is ten minutes late. Then so is the MAX, but you don’t mind. You’ve been quietly extricating yourself from time. You wait in the chill beneath an interstate, listening to teenagers gossip. Staring at the spikes lining [...] November 25th, 2009 Finding Community | Stopping to Breathe | False divisions | Continuing the discussion | Other Voices I arrived in Los Angeles late Monday afternoon. As I landed, I watched the sunset turn the Santa Monica Mountains that golden hue they turn in late fall, caught glimpses of the skyscrapers along Wilshire Blvd., marveled at the [...] March 17th, 2009 While I put off thinking of a snappier title for my weekly collections of images seen out and about, I thought I’d post a few images from quite a distance out (at least compared to my day to day around L.A.). I’ve been in Portland (the Oregon edition) since March 13 for what could easily [...] |
     
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