by Site Owner | Feb 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
By Mark Petruska Think of Portland, and what images pop into your head? Skyscrapers, bridges, and bacon-covered doughnuts, almost certainly. While the “heart” of the city may lie in its downtown core, crossing the Willamette and exploring the east side of town will...
by Site Owner | Jan 11, 2011 | Portland Publishers
By Mark Petruska Welcome to Rose City Unwrapped! Portland, Oregon is a vibrant and dynamic city full of interesting places (and people). There is nothing I enjoy more than venturing downtown and exploring its nooks and crannies. I’ve rubbed elbows with hippies,...
by Site Owner | Sep 22, 2010 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
By Rick Bayless Chronicle Books, $29.95, 224 pages Top Chef is a popular reality television cooking program on Bravo, and recently picked up an Emmy. Seven seasons in, it’s practically become a brand itself, with several spinoffs, merchandise for sale and, naturally,...
by Site Owner | Jun 29, 2010 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
By the Editors of Woman’s Day Filipacchi Publishing, $12.99, 96 pages Woman’s Day magazine’s popular Meals in a Hurry series of cookbooks gets a new installment, a spiffy, condensed volume that will appeal to fish lovers and seafood enthusiasts...
by Site Owner | Mar 6, 2010 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
By Strauss, Alix Harper Paperbacks, $14.99, 325 pages Looking for a grisly, gruesome, yet morbidly fascinating read? By its very nature dark and disturbing, Alix Strauss’s Death Becomes Them won’t appeal to everybody, but for those willing to come along for the ride,...
