Every year as the Portland Rose Festival opens their CityFair at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, they pull out the most fun the first Friday with music and fireworks. That Friday is today…the 25th. And, it’s all free! Here’s some of our tips for making it the best evening possible. Take public transit. You can take [...]

This week we were honored to receive a prestigious award – a Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor. And yes, we’re proud of it. But in the grand scheme of things, it pales in comparison to the honors and medals that have been earned by the men and women serving our country in the armed [...]

We get this question a lot. (Hopefully less and less now that the dry season is upon us.) In fact, we get a lot of questions a lot. Some of them could be answered by a careful read of the website, but we understand that people often don’t have access, or they read it too [...]

Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and you know what she wants … and deserves! Flowers Chocolate Your time But you don’t have to give the “ordinary” thing, like a vase of cut (withering) flowers, a cellophane-wrapped box of brown sugar bombs, or breakfast at the pancake house with hundreds of strangers. Give her something extraordinary, [...]

We know you’ve seen them, and you probably have even tried a few. But have you ever wanted to really explore Portland’s food carts to see which ones are REALLY the best? Well, now you can. With Portland Walking Tours’ Flavor Street tour, debuting today at 1 PM, you can taste for yourself which of [...]