Author: Benjamin Zanol
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781490578958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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"The Official Unofficial Guide to the City's Uniqueness"2013 EDITIONHave you ever ridden your bike totally nude through the city streets with a thousand other naked people? Or ate dinner at a restaurant in complete darkness? Or went to a bookstore that handed out maps so you wouldn't get lost in the building? If you answered no to these questions then you have not truly experienced the uniqueness that is Portland, Oregon.Open-Ended Destinations is proud to bring you an alternative look at Portland, the big city with the small town atmosphere that takes pride in being, well, weird. The team we assembled highlights the top twenty-five unique/weird/odd places in the Portland area and then lists an additional forty-six places, events, and things that didn't quite make the cut but were indeed all worthy of being a part of Portland's Finest Cornucopia of Weirdness."Keep Portland Weird" is an official motto of this great Pacific Northwestern city, but it is not just a slogan to promote absurdity throughout the streets. Instead, its intended purpose is to encourage keeping things local by going to locally owned businesses to help keep them thriving, thus maintaining the uniqueness of Portland. Listed in this book are a variety of local establishments to visit to help uphold this motto.
Author: Scott A. Lukas
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0240820932
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Industry insider Scott Lukas teaches you how to design exciting, believable, authentic themed spaces. Make your immersive worlds come alive with the gems in this book, including key industry interviews and case studies!
Author: Bust it Away
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781366302342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Three days in Portland, Oregon, urban exploration and seascape adventure.
Author: Alexander Barrett
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
ISBN: 1621065200
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 65
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This is Portland is a first-hand look at a city that people can't seem to stop talking about. It's a guidebook of sorts, but not to restaurants and sightseeing. Instead, Alexander Barrett is your friendly guide to the quirky characters and atmosphere of Portland, Oregon and how fun, beautiful, and ridiculous it can be. With its approachable, often hilarious tone, this book is perfect for anyone who wants to learn more about bikes, beards, beers, rain, and everything else important about the city you've heard you should like.
Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 9781578633616
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Home decorating will never be the same. Close your curtains! Throw away your summery linens! Forget about those white eyelet pillow covers! And for Goth's sake, buy some black lights! Voltaire is here to help you with your home decorating dilemmas, guide you through the hardware stores and decorating centers (which are so difficult for Goths to navigate), and lay it all out on the line about which shade of black goes with which shade of black. Who knows?! One day soon he might have his own decorating line at a discount store. In this world of pastels and plaids, it's so hard for Goths to find anything aesthetically appealing. You go in search of Edward Gorey and wind up with an eyeful of Eddie Bauer. With Voltaire's Paint It Black you can turn the unbearably mundane into the delightfully macabre with little more than a touch of creativity and a can of black spray paint.
Author: Al Eufrasio
Publisher: Union Square & Company
ISBN: 9781402754661
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Pacific Northwest teems with colorful history and unique legends--and this tour of the Beaver State is no exception. Discover the "city" in eastern Oregon with a year-round population of zero to two, and much, much more. Can it get any weirder than this?
Author: Jack Kent
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733908009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Sketchy People is a comic by Portland cartoonist, Jack Kent. Jack draws who he sees exactly how he sees them. The weird, the obtuse, the sketchy! Welcome to Sketchy People, you could be next!
Author: Jeff Brawn
Publisher: Reedy Press LLC
ISBN: 1681064057
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 297
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“She flies with her own wings,” is the Oregon state motto and sums up Portland perfectly. No city has a greater reputation for being “weird” than Oregon’s biggest city, which is just another way of saying that people feel free to express themselves here. The city serves as the perfect backdrop for Secret Portland: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. The stories and places detailed within rarely get mentioned in most travel books or advertised—but they should grab your interest immediately. Few Portlanders even know all of their city’s wonders, as the area is so rich in interesting stories and places. This book will guide you to some of Portland’s lesser known treasures. Learn of gwomes and zoobombers. Crimpers and Setziol Doors. Horse rings and Zymoglyphs. Mermaids and Monkey Puzzle Trees. Hear the story of a downed alien craft, the world’s oldest drag queen, and where to eat garlic knots next to a ghost. Unlock the mystery behind She Who Watches and the secret to a Five Volcano Day. Portland artist Jeff Brawn shares what he’s learned of his city by leaving the usual paths and climbing a few hidden staircases. With this offbeat guide, find the authentic and uncompromising uniqueness that defines Portland.
Author: Gigi Little
Publisher: Forest Avenue Press
ISBN: 1942436246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers and game show hosts. Set in Portland, Oregon, these thirty stories blend imagination, literary writing, and pop culture into a cohesive weirdness that honors the city’s personality, its bookstores and bridges and solo volcano, as well as the tradition of sci-fi pulp magazines. Including such authors as Rene Denfeld, Justin Hocking, Leni Zumas, and Kevin Sampsell, editor Gigi Little has curated a collection that is quirky, chilling, often profound—and always perfectly weird.
Author: Nicholas D. Kristof
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525655093
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. This must-read book from the authors of Half the Sky “shows how we can and must do better” (Katie Couric). "A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.
