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    PINO

    Wednesday, June 5, 2013

    “Life is too short to wear boring clothes.” Yes, yes it is. Crispin Argento, the main man behind PINO, a tailored apparel company, is always dressed to the nines. He is the type of guy you want to bring home to mom because he is either wearing a bowtie or pocket square (sometimes both) and [...]

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    CREATE + CULTIVATE PORTLAND

    Wednesday, May 29, 2013

    As you might have heard, our lovely co-founder, Delia, has accepted a position as Director of NO SUBJECT‘s new Portland office. While we’re sad to lose her, we’re so excited for what she’s planning with the Los Angeles-based NO SUBJECT team. Her first big event? Create + Cultivate, an inspirational day of workshops, DIYs, creative [...]

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    Vintalier: Vintage for the Office

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013

    Lady-like blouses are a specialty at Vintalier, a carefully curated shop that recently opened in the Pearl District. The shop’s racks of office-ready vintage finds reflect the sensible taste of owner Ellen Hsu’s personal wardrobe. “Honestly, I’m practical, a little bit fun, a little bit sophisticated,” Hsu said, laughing. “When I first came here [to [...]

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    The Man Behind Bridge & Burn

    Wednesday, May 22, 2013

    One of Erik Prowell’s first T-shirt designs showed a man holding a match to a bridge, with the words, “Don’t look back.” Those words resonated with Prowell, founder of the Portland brand, Bridge & Burn. They reminded him of the risk he took when he switched from a career in software programming to apparel design, [...]

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Jun
3

SWOONING ON.. JUNE 3

1. This beautiful video and the dancers behind it. Check out their Kickstarter! 2. These $100 wedding dresses. Yep, you read that right. 3. Everything at this vintage shop in Aurora. Read all about it here. 4. This collab with two local fashion giants! And their party on Thursday! 5. This Portland native living in [...]

Photo by: Imbibe Magazine
May
30

PDX DINING MONTH + NEGRONI WEEK

June brings the promise of sunshine and warmer days (fingers crossed), but also an abundance of amazing food and drink specials. Starting June 1st, locals and visitors will have the opportunity to feast on beautiful three-course meals at $29 each for Portland Dining Month (check out our interview with Bar Avignon chef, Eric Joppie, from [...]

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May
29

THE INCORPORATED

A few Fridays ago, the E+E was invited to ADX to a spring line launch entitled “Straight from the Slums of ’89 and ’90”. We didn’t know what we were in for, but Mark McGinnis from The Incorporated clothing company invited us and we thought what the heck. We checked out their lookbook and was [...]

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May
29

ADX 2 YEAR BIRTHDAY BASH

ADX, Portland’s beloved workspace and creative incubator, is celebrating its second birthday on June 1st. In honor of the special day, ADX is throwing a birthday bash complete with food, beer, bands, games, races, prizes and a car and dog wash. Yes, that’s right. Bring your dirty cars and pups to the event and let [...]

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May
27

SWOONING ON.. MAY 27

1. This sexy, hilarious and perfect photobomb. 2. And these sexy animals who may or may not be flirting with you. 3. These mojitos. Hot weather and Sauvie Island anyone? 4. This great San Fran event. Yes, please. 5. These beautiful images. Thanks Vogue. 6. This girl’s Instagram.  Like woah. 7. This meme. We feel [...]

Photo by: PDX Beer Week
May
24

PDX BEER WEEK

Portlanders love their beer. So much so, that there’s an entire week (technically, 11 days) dedicated to celebrating it. From June 6th to June 16th, the city will be flooded with beer-centric events and specials for the third annual PDX Beer Week. We’ve rounded up a list of the festivities to help you map out [...]

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May
21

Cardamom Rose Gin & Tonic

Last Friday, I went on a cocktail crafting spree. It was just one of those Fridays where I needed to do something creative. Make a fancy cocktail, take some pictures of a fancy cocktail, edit pictures of fancy cocktails… you get the picture (no pun intended). I made a deeeliciously boozy milkshake and then this [...]

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May
20

SWOONING ON.. MAY 20

1. This fun + beautiful shop. Article to follow next week. 2. This almost vegan cake. We want it for breakfast! 3. This is great. Thanks Ms. Swift for finally being cool. 4. These croissant-donut hybrid out of NYC. Who will be the first to do it in PDX? 5. This adorable fashion blog by the cutest [...]

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May
17

SPECK MOUNTAIN

On May 19th, Chicago band, Speck Mountain, will be making a much-anticipated stop in Portland on their west coast tour. With warm vocals from lead singer, Marie-Claire Balabanian, and dreamy, mesmerizing guitar from Karl Briedrick, Speck Mountain’s style has been aptly dubbed, “ambient soul”. Balabanian and Briedrick (who are considered musical soulmates) share the songwriting [...]

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May
14

(Almost Vegan) Everyday Chocolate Loaf Cake

  Ok, let me first start off by saying that you know you have the most badass kittens ever when they behave during a food photography shoot while blasting some ZZ Top on the record player (ie. not jump on the kitchen table full of delicately placed reflector boards, powdered sugar and cake crumbs everywhere). [...]