Julia Lanning

Bored? Hungry? Thirsty? Satisfy any or all along Sellwood's 13th Avenue. Here are three of the food carts that caught my attention. The Airstream serves sushi, the step van serves Mexican fare and the caboose, while technically not a food cart, offers  tea. (It's now…

Another victim of bankruptcy. And throughout it all, she maintained her smile. She now has a  new home, secure from the ill winds of the economy.

I tried to find out directly from the Freddie's Portland corporate office when they expected to reopen but my call wasn't returned so I was forced to do a bit of sleuthing. An employee at the Raleigh Hills Fred Meyer told me the planned opening was around October 21st..…

Last Tuesday, I was touring homes for sale in Multnomah and Maplewood and stopped by this one. It's a commercial building smack-dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood.  It's older than contemporary restrictive zoning so it's been grandfathered in as neighb…