Week three of the 2014 season see a visit to Autzen from the Wyoming Cowboys in the first ever meeting between the schools. Michigan State at Oregon is being hailed as the non-conference

Arik Armstead has had lofty hopes heaped on him since joining Oregon, largely through the hopes of the fans based on what they thought his ceiling could be. We've seen it before and we will se

Your morning helping of Oregon Ducks news. Putting up a bit of late Friday Quack for you. There are plenty of links to Pac-12 Media Day things at Pac12.com, and all the coaches will be plastered on

This article is by editor Linda Vergon. It used to be part of everyone’s existence, like going to the grocery store once a week. You’d stand in a teller’s line and hope everyone in front of you had uncomplicated transactions. Then you’d hand over your cash and the teller would stamp your passbook to record [...]

Unrestricted Free Agent Jake Tabor sits down in an interview and addresses the elephant in the room, where he will be writing this fall. We join the interview, already in progress.

We’re excited to be featured in a new documentary  (you can watch the trailer here)- “American Wine Story” – which takes a look at some of us in the wine business who left behind other careers to follow the unrelenting calling to make wine. This year’s IPNC (International Pinot Noir Celebratio

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth […]

ATQ continues the rundown of the best 20 Ducks of the last 20 years. Checking in at No. 11 is the Nick Reed. Nick Reed was an animal on defense. He didn’t necessarily fit

Your morning helping of Oregon Ducks links. Day two of Pac-12 Media Day starts today. Oregon guys were up yesterday. Links Former Georgia Tech Quarterback

This here photo thing is a four-photo panorama of the sunset from a couple of nights ago. It was shot on 3rd Ave., right where it crosses Fern Ridge Rd., looking west, because that’s where sunsets happen. I confess I’m not overly good at doing panorama shots, so the perspective …

Former GRS staff writer Donna Freedman has been researching the importance of teaching children about money, and she asked if she could share some things she’s learned. This is the first of two articles on the subject. Donna writes for Money Talks News and blogs about money and midlife at DonnaFreedman.com. While research

Here’s the scoop for the weekend. For more ideas on what to do this weekend, check the Events Calendar on Metro Parent's PDX Kids Calendar and the urbanMamas calendar page. Friday, July 25th Micah and Me at A Children's Place....

I'm an avid consumer of physics books aimed at the general public. "Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn" and "The Island of Knowledge" are my most recent reads. What comes through loud and clear in both books is how freaking far out...

ATQ takes a look at game No. 2, when the defending Rose Bowl Champions roll into Autzen. While the season opener against South Dakota presents Oregon with a completely overmatched cupcake, the secon

David Piper and Rusty Ryan dish on recruiting on the latest episode of Slingin' Quack. Because we love you all so much, we're giving you a second podcast in the span of three days. In the second epi

We knew, coming out to Oregon this year, we would be emptying out our storage unit in Scappoose, bringing all the stuff to Mom’s, sorting it, re-boxing it all into plastic tubs instead of old boxes, and then finding a much smaller storage unit here in town, closer to Mom, to put the remaining stuff […]

Guest photographer Terri Jo Adams spotted a big, beautiful rainbow just south of Stayton a couple of nights ago. She had trouble capturing it all in one shot, so she took a handful to try to display it properly. Looks good to me. Thanks, Terri!

This article is by staff writer Kristin Wong. When I first started writing for Get Rich Slowly, I’d just become interested in my finances. While I’ve always been frugal, I started to realize there was much more to personal finance than finding ways to save money. Here’s where I was, financially, at that ti

Gray’s Butte Posted at a rest stop on Highway 395, pretty fabulous! The tiny specks are birds! Lake Abert This awesome side car was made by its owner. How cool is that?! He and his wife were traveling with another couple from Iowa for eighteen days around the West, and seemd to be having the […]

Last week, the Pew Research Center released the largely predictable findings of a survey measuring how Americans feel about the nation's various religious faiths. While adherents unsurprisingly gave their co-religionists high marks, one factoid stood out. White evangelical Protestants love...

True confession: Even though I'm an avid traveler, I haven't always pored over the foreign news in the paper...especially the news that depresses me. So until a few years ago, I was ignorant about the situation in the Holy Land...and what I knew was heavily biased toward Israel, fed to me by the one-sided

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Lydia had a blast at her week-long day camp at Trackers Earth last month. She promptly taught her two older sisters how to finger knit. She learned a few other things, too. She milked a goat, made cheese and butter,...

After months of their much-hyped but still unproven charges of partisan skullduggery at the Internal Revenue Service, House Republicans this week took an axe to the IRS budget. The cost of the GOP vendetta is massive. Cutting the agency's funding...

I had never noticed this before a handful of nights ago, but now that I have it has me wondering — why are there two fire hydrants a few feet apart from each other on the corner of 3rd Ave. and Fern Ridge Rd.? They sit on the corner of …

This article is by staff writer William Cowie. Twice a year, the Federal Reserve’s Chair gives what amounts to the “financial state of the union” address to Congress, and it’s a good thing for everyone concerned with their finances to take five minutes or so to find out what the Federal Reserve is se

Henri Cartier-Bresson1908 - 2004FrenchFinished First in Phase 1, Flight 11 of the Play-In Tournament with a voting score of .909.Finished First in

Filed under: Flowers, Gardening, Macro Photography, Photography Tagged: beauty, evocative, Flower, gardening, macro, peach, Photography, rose, SwittersB

Baker City: What a gem of a town, with an abundance of fine architecture under baby blue skies. We breakfasted at the Lone Pine. It felt like it was plucked out of Portland, with finely executed, yet simple fare, and impeccable service with a dazzling smile. A hush of Stevie Wonder singing on the hi-fi […]

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With the body count growing daily in Gaza, the conservative commentariat has predictably circled the wagons around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud government. "Rarely does international politics present a moment of such moral clarity," Charles Krauthammer declared...

I discovered this gorgeous elusive creature roaming a field across the street from Dairy Queen on Cascade Highway. As you can see, it is the quite rare unicorn cow. Some may call it a unicow, but that is incorrect — while there is one (uni) cow, in this case, we …

I grew up on Salmon River Road in Welches, and of

This post is by staff writer Honey Smith. Recently on GRS I’ve been exploring the concept of motivation. But what if you didn’t need to be motivated at all? What if you did what needed to be done automatically, without even thinking about it? You’ve probably heard a version of the saying before: We’

It’s been a bumpy road often down dead ends, potholes and ditches causing many a delay and aches. A roadmap, a guidebook are meant to help, but the wanderlust, the beckoning  distracts from the joys meant to be. Wanderlost ~ SwittersB Filed under: Life, Nature, Photography Tagged: Cascades, journey, Life, love, Photo

I was never too enamored with Floribunda Roses. Less tidy, too unkempt, too something that just fell short of the tight, crisp beauty of the Hybrid Tea Roses. But, of late, I rescued a few Floribundas, not knowing their genetics, so to speak, when I took them. And, I have to say, they are growing […]

Today I heard from someone who discovered this blog by accident and has been enjoying my early posts. (The person is starting from the beginning, in 2004, and reading onwards.) At the end of the email message I was asked...

One of the enjoyable subsets of fly fishing is fly tying. Learning to tie and fish your own creations…and that attract fish. There are, it seems, a gazillion fly patterns out there. Really there are a few hundred patterns and many derivations of a single pattern. It is part of the exploratory/creative process of fly [

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Sunday's Television Critics Association presentations begin with the Fox network chairman and CEO sharing some thoughts about such shows as "American Idol," "Bones" and "24," and a panel about the much-anticipated "Gotham," which tells the origin stories of such DC Comics villains as

And so it begins… Breakfast in Pendleton: Home of the Round-Up Cabbage Hill View Point Wallowa Kombucha break in Lostine Gazing upon the Wallowas Toward Hell’s Canyon Zumwalt Prairie: Some fourteen miles of winding gravel wound us in and around one of the largest intact bunch grass prairies in the world. Vast, m

‘Dear Boys…May I make your girlfriend scream louder than you ever will? Signed Spider’ ~ Filed under: Nature, Photography Tagged: Humor, Nature, Photography, Spiders, SwittersB, Tony Muncy, web

Photos from the second day of PDX Pop Now!, with the Resistance, Orquestra Pacifico Tropical, Rio Grands and more.

Hillsboro professional theater company Bag&Baggage Productions threw its annual gala at Oakwood Gardens for the first time Saturday, July 19. Here are five things artistic director Scott Palmer thinks people should know about Bag&Baggage.

Hillsboro professional theater company Bag&Baggage Productions threw its annual gala at Oakwood Gardens for the first time Saturday, July 19. Guests included neighbors, actors and Hillsboro Mayor Jerry Willey.

The Onion, July 21 1969. There will never be a better commemoration. (

Which of the late James Garner's roles is your favorite? Vote in our poll, or leave comments about your memories of watching Garner at work in TV and movies.

Portland's Pittock Mansion marked its 100th anniversary this year. Over the next year, enjoy a special behind-the-ropes visual tour of this historic residence, inspecting, one at a time, each of the 23 public rooms (and maybe even some not-so-public spaces)....

The 2014 TCA Awards honored Matthew McConaughey and "True Detective," "Breaking Bad" as Program of the Year, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and "Veep," and "Orange is the New Black,"