The Cutaway • 30th September 2019

Ester Kim, Set Decorator

Featuring tufted velvet seats, white linen tablecloths, and wood paneling throughout, Taylor’s Steak House in Koreatown feels like a movie set, a vestige of old Los Angeles. The dim lighting gives the windowless interior a coziness underscored by its curved, dark brown leather booths. I half expect Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin to walk through its doors, but Ester Kim saunters in and slides into the booth where I’m nursing a dirty martini. The faded glamour of Taylor’s seems like the perfect envi

Digiday • 18th April 2016

Do you read me, HAL? When ad-tech comes to life: a robo-conversation

All tech is not created equal. That’s why you need to forget what you think you know about in-image advertising and focus on the tech behind it. Technologists will break your brain with the details, but it really comes down to smarts. Smart tech means smart ads, so we let our tech speak for itself. Meet our boy Henry and so-called competitor Hal —

HAL: A new mother. I will put the ad for baby formula on the image.

HENRY: Who

The Organ • 1st October 2004

Vote, A*t L*ver

If you're an artist, expect a phat check from the City of Portland. Feel free to blow it on expensive art supplies or beachfront property since rent's free until the vacancies on city council are filled. It's not surprising that city council candidates have conjured a Shangri-la-la-Land in recent conversations about the arts. Mayoral hopeful Tom Potter has suggested waiving expensive system-development charges for nonprofit groups, including arts organizations, while Sam Adams has claimed he'd like to "make celebrities out of" artists.

Econsultancy • 21st June 2013

Five Ways to Create Marketing Worth Sharing

Don Draper has left the building is an announcement bound to dismay any woman with a pulse, but it should hearten marketers.

That’s because Don Draper represents the old school of marketing, said Tom Fishburne, CEO of Marketoon Studios, at Integrated Marketing Week earlier this month.

In the Draper model, marketers decided what the brand stood for and what its strategy was. Every touch point . . .

SmartSign • 1st August 2013

How to Create a Permit-Parking Program

Parking in the United States is big business. In 2013, roughly 2,600 owners of lots and garages had a combined annual revenue of approximately $9 billion, according to a report released by First Research earlier this year. Much of that wealth was concentrated, with the top fifty businesses collecting 70 percent of the revenue.

Artcards Review • 7th December 2010

Artist in Focus: Alec Soth

In 2004, visitors to the Whitney were greeted by “Charles,” a large-scale color photograph of a bespectacled man in coveralls standing in the wintry outside beside a house. In each of his gloved hands, he held miniature biplanes, and he did not smile. The image introduced museum-goers to that year’s biennial, but it also heralded the arrival of photographer Alec Soth (pronounced “Sōth”) to a larger public.

The art world welcomed him enthusiastically, heaping praise upon Sleeping by the Mississi

FriendsEAT.com • 29th October 2010

A Talk with Taberna’s Jennifer Cole

Hurry to New York’s Upper West Side, where, on the east side of Amsterdam Avenue between 80th and 81st streets, you’re sure to find a diamond. Look close—you might miss it. The rowdy bunch at Brother Jimmy’s across the street may distract you, and the unfortunate scaffolding that hides it is apt to fool you.

Cable • 30th September 2011

Building Innovation: MetroTech Rejuvenates Downtown Brooklyn

On Thursdays during the summer, lunchtime crowds at MetroTech gather for performances by musical acts like George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic at the season-long R&B festival. About four blocks away, shoppers stroll Fulton Mall, where towering metal cranes and neon-orange road barrels attest to the construction characterizing downtown Brooklyn today. Later this year popular burger franchise Shake Shack and retail giant H&M will add even more bustle, while nearby the massive, if controversial,

REED • 1st December 2009

All the News

Barely a week after President Obama's historic election victory, thousands of commuters in New York City and Los Angeles were startled to read that the war in Iraq was over, universal health care was a reality, and George W. Bush had been imprisoned—all according to a "special edition of the New York Times."

Portland Monthly • 1st March 2005

The Wilds of Suburbia

If be-ribboned yippy-yappies are the wildest beasts you associate with the 'burbs, try again. Think Haitian curly-tailed lizard, White's tree frog or Quaker parrot instead. Beaverton teen Washo Shadowhawk keeps just such a menagerie at home, where his parent make room for the 40 or so animals cared for by their son. "Some of them go through identity crises," laughs his mother, Meadow Shadowhawk. "The cat doesn't know he's a cat."

MyParkingPermit Blog • 30th June 2014

NY Legislators Support New Disability Icon

Lawmakers in New York are following the lead of the state’s largest city and backing a change to the familiar icon representing the disabled. Instead of a stick figure sitting upright in a wheelchair, which advocates argue portray the disabled as passive, the revamped image shows the figure leaning forward with arms raised as if pushing the wheelchair ahead. The word “handicapped” appears nowhere on the blue square against which the icon is foregrounded.

The Republican-led state senate passed t

The L Magazine • 11th April 2012

Hi, I’m Brooklyn, and I’m a Locaholic

Obsessive Brooklyn locavores (locaholics?) have a new prey: small-batch spirits and wines, made right here in the borough. Sure, the small quantities can mean higher price points, so not a lot of bars feature them in their house cocktails (or else can’t yet get their hands on a bottled product)—but that just makes the hunt more exciting. Here then, is our brief guide to the best of local booze in Brooklyn. Happy drinking!

Careers in Nonprofit | WetFeet/Universum Media • 1st August 2011

Excerpt from "Careers in Nonprofit"

The greatest trend to impact the third sector in recent years has been a pronounced emphasis on the integration of for-profit business practices into nonprofit operations.

Portland Alliance • 20th January 2005

The Price of Admission: Access to Food Denied to Some

Some rankings aren't worth their boasting rights. The hungriest state in the nation? According to the Food Security Institute, that's Oregon. How about second in unemployment? Oregon again, the Oregonian reports. And while it seems incredible that the hungriest state could also be the fattest this side of the Mississippi, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention awards Oregon the tag.

Asian Reporter • 21st June 2005

Looking for an Asian-Pacific Voice in Portland? Let 'APA Compass' Be Your Guide

Chihiro Wimbush looked at KBOO's programming last fall and didn't find a single Asian Pacific American (APA) show broadcast in English. He thought he could help change that. Newly hired at the community radio station as its Public Relations & Outreach Coordinator, Wimbush spoke to Robert Jefferson, then head of KBOO's PM News & Public Affairs, and Chris Merrick, its program director about the hole in the station's offerings.