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I know Portland isn’t on a par culturally with Berlin, Shanghai, New York etc. But when international cultural figures come here, we really turn out for them. A more appreciative crowd there cannot be. And generally, artists and thinkers of … Continue reading →

After a long trying day full of situations that were fubar and snafu’d, we were rewarded with an evening with a living treasure, jazz Hall of Famer Ornette Coleman. The Schnitz was packed to the point of overheating, and that … Continue reading →

Here’s the gut-wrenching line from the Joe Nocera business column in today’s NYT: “Are you ready to face a world in which your two biggest assets, your retirement account and your home, don’t automatically go up?” As he points, there … Continue reading →

Several posts ago, I wrote about my concern of the, well, Argentina-ization of the U.S. economy. OK, I was exaggerating to make a point, but the point is still valid. My point is that the U.S. could, through mismanagement of … Continue reading →

One of my clients has me thinking about how artists engage with global problems, render them visually expressive, and thereby raise awareness of them with leaders and sometimes the general public. This certainly seems to have been a function of … Continue reading →