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Portland, Oregon has been taken over by Pod People. But they're not snatching bodies, they're feeding them -- everything from kimchi quesadillas to chocolate caramel potato chip cupcakes. All served from pods of food carts populating empty lots all over the city. Accounts differ, but there could...

It's official: the chicken came before the egg. At least that's the finding of British researchers at Sheffield University. But here in Portland, Ore., we've known for years what comes first: the coop. Portland ordinances allow residents to keep three chickens (or ducks or rabbits or pygmy...

Cancel your flight to Amsterdam – the U.S. just got its first marijuana cafe on Friday. Located in Portland, Ore., the Cannabis Cafe shows how attitudes have changed since the Obama administration moved into the White House. A month ago, President Barack Obama told federal attorneys to ease...

...and people come. Oh, do they come. Tuesday night, I had just put my kids to bed late due to summertime high energy, and I checked in with Twitter. All anyone could talk about was Dave Chappelle, and the thousands of people waiting in Portland's Pioneer Square for him. Was he coming? Did the...

Comcast's (CMCSA) plans to launch WiMAX service in Portland, Ore. were announced in March to some skepticism. The company's rebranding of Clearwire's WiMAX network hearkened back to the old days of line resellers for long distance phone service, and many wondered whether the piggybacking would...

Ahh, Mayor Sam Adams. We Portlanders so want to love you, with your yellow bike helmet and your openly gay self-ness. You reflect all that is Portland, bike-geeky and weird, weird, weird.Lately, however, you reflect us a little too well. Like one of those magnifying mirrors that lets you see your...

In Portland, Oregon, jaywalking has long been a topic of public discourse. One former mayor and police chief was famously quoted as saying that jaywalking was the first step in a slippery slope ending at the water park of anarchy (note: I've embellished his sentiment but he did say it). But in the...

Here in Portland, Oregon, we're a wee bit snowed in by THE STORM OF THE CENTURY! ARCTIC BLAST 2008! and other titles concocted by local news crews to justify 'round the clock team coverage. City officials are telling Portlanders to stay at home and off the roads unless there's an emergency.After...

This is one in our series on people, places and things than have found new life in 2008. My neighborhood association chair has a dream. His dream isn't about people of different races living together in harmony, no, it's more about an iconic mode of transportation whose tracks still run, buried,...