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2016 Acura RDX: Hitting the sweet spot
The compact luxury crossover market is sizzling hot these days. Encourage by falling gas prices, many consumers are turning their backs on small cars but are hedging their bets and not buying full-size...
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The escape artists
Raymond Latocki and his children expand their spooky entertainment empire on the Westside Puzzles and tricks and frightening sights? For the Latockis, its a family business. Raymond Latocki and his...
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Last week, Sept. 4 The Transporter Refueled; A Walk in the Woods; Before We Go This week, Sept. 11 The Perfect Guy (Screen Gems), PG-13, 100 minutes About: A woman enters into a relationship...
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Renamed theater group has no time to wait
NWCTC restructures, puts new spin on Beckett's classic 'Godot' The initials are the same, but the meaning has changed: Northwest Classical Theatre Company has become Northwest Classical Theatre...
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Title puts Miss Tall on top of world
Erica Hand towers over competition as international champ Playing basketball and volleyball while growing up in Woodburn, and not having anything to do with pageants, Erica Hand never envisioned that...
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Clackamas Repertory Theatre 'One Man' sure to be crowd pleaser
Its not every day that a hugely successful, Tony-award winning Broadway show makes its Northwest debut in Oregon City, but that is exactly the case with Clackamas Repertory Theatres production of...
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Live Music
Sept. 10 Shera delight Lauren Sheras third album, Gold and Rust, recently was named Best CD of the Year in the Singer-Songwriter Category by Indie Acoustic Project, and one listen will tell you...
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The Short List
MISC. Volunteer Expo The annual event, put on by The Standard, shares the virtues of volunteerism for Portlanders eager to make a difference. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, Pioneer Courthouse...
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2015 TBA Fest: Experimental Magic
All the city's a stage for avante-garde arts performances The people who run the Time-Based Art Festival understand that deep-thinking performance and art is not going to click with everybody, that...
View ArticleBits & Pieces: Miss America?
Ali Wallace, the reigning Miss Oregon from Portland, hopes to garner votes and win over judges to be in the running for Miss America, which crowns its winner on Sunday, Sept. 13, in Atlantic City (9...
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Cat's out of bag: Chefs pen 'Heartlandia'
Country Cat owners release heritage craft cookbook this month It took four years to write, but Adam and Jackie Sappington promise their first cookbook Heartlandia: Heritage Recipes from The Country...
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Who makes the best chocolate cake in the state? Somebody will have bragging rights after the Celebrity Chocolate Cake Smack-down at noon Tuesday, Aug. 25, at the Oregon Historical Society, 1200 S.W....
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Last week, Aug. 21 Hitman: Agent 47; American Ultra; Diary of a Teenage Girl This week, Aug. 28 No Escape (Weinstein), R, 103 minutes About With Owen Wilson in a serious role, an American...
View ArticleBits & Pieces: Music, lights, cannons
Itll be the annual Waterfront Concert on Sept. 3, as the Oregon Symphonys music fills the space, and skies over Waterfront Park are lit up by fireworks following Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture,...
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Annual film fest: Best place to sit in dark
Lineup includes docs, narratives, short flicks; Vinton to get award The third annual Portland Film Festival continues to grow, featuring 80 narrative and documentary feature films and 134 short films...
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State fair is 'Crazy Fun' since Day One
Oregon State Fair celebrates 150th year Harking back to when they had to find a place to park a horse, communicate with a telegraph, read a newspaper (gasp!), drink from a well, and grow or shoot...
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Aug. 29 Trio to try, try again Somewhere between the world of grunge and the world of progressive rock dwells Failure, the L.A. trio whose 1996 album, Fantastic Planet, has been cited by all the cool...
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The Short List
MISC. Festa Italiana Pioneer Courthouse Square becomes Piazza Italia for three days of fun in the popular annual event, which features a food court and a wine garden and music. Opening ceremonies at...
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Catch Orange fever, pack a picnic
Orange is the new food color in Portland this month. Its inspired a special beer. And ice cream. And a bevy of other orange-themed artisan treats that thousands of revelers brought to the fireworks...
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2016 Acura RLX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD: Green done right
No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. The full name of the new hybrid version of Acura's flagship RLX sedan is Sport Hybrid SH-AWD. That's "Sport" as in sporty and SH-AWD as in Acura's excellent Super...
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