Hoo-boy, that last post was wishful thinking. Many weeks since I last blogged. Now I'm once more poised on the brink of a new school year after an exciting summer of online teaching, travelling, and parenting. Maybe some of those summer activities will make the Dabbler; maybe not. For now, I'll just pick up as though I never left...
One of my favorite coffee spots in southwest Portland, Coffee Plant (in John's Landing), is currently featuring wonderful panorama photographs of Portland all done by Stuart Allen Levy, whose website, http://www.stuartallenlevy.com/file/Portland_Panoramas.html#25, features many of the Portland photos as well as some from Eastern Oregon and San Francisco. I'm quite impressed by them and encourage all Portlanders and visitors to stop in at Coffee Plant over the next month and take a look.
Other news: Food and travel writer (and friend of mine) Jeff Koehler will be coming to town in early November promoting his new cookbook/culture study "Rice, Pasta, Couscous". It looks as though he'll be setting up an event at Vino (SE 13th and Lexington in Sellwood) on the weekend of Nov. 7. Stay tuned for more info on that. In the meantime, visit Jeff's site, linked in my "You Should Know About" list over there to the right.
What else? Read Michael Gruber's book "The Forgery of Venus" while gallavanting around England and Paris between Aug. 27 and Sept. 10. I'll call it a beaching man's think read. Good fun to be reading it whilst seeing the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery, London (that painting and the life of Velasquez is central to the book's plot). Is it too much (or too little...or too insulting? whatever) to call Gruber the American Arturo Perez-Reverte? That's my feeling at the moment.
Saw the current North Bank Artists Gallery show yesterday in Vancouver WA and quite enjoyed it, especially the two still lifes in the window by Char Fitzpatrick, friend of my colleague Don Erskine and his wife Jane. See some of Char's wonderful work here: http://www.northbankartistsgallery.com/fitzpatrick.htm.
Anything else? Probably, but I'l back off for now and leave you with an Ian pic. I took him strollering around London one day. He fell asleep on the tube and woke up in Trafalgar Square. Here he is enjoying his nap in Piccadilly Circus. Silly boy.
One of my favorite coffee spots in southwest Portland, Coffee Plant (in John's Landing), is currently featuring wonderful panorama photographs of Portland all done by Stuart Allen Levy, whose website, http://www.stuartallenlevy.com/file/Portland_Panoramas.html#25, features many of the Portland photos as well as some from Eastern Oregon and San Francisco. I'm quite impressed by them and encourage all Portlanders and visitors to stop in at Coffee Plant over the next month and take a look.
Other news: Food and travel writer (and friend of mine) Jeff Koehler will be coming to town in early November promoting his new cookbook/culture study "Rice, Pasta, Couscous". It looks as though he'll be setting up an event at Vino (SE 13th and Lexington in Sellwood) on the weekend of Nov. 7. Stay tuned for more info on that. In the meantime, visit Jeff's site, linked in my "You Should Know About" list over there to the right.
What else? Read Michael Gruber's book "The Forgery of Venus" while gallavanting around England and Paris between Aug. 27 and Sept. 10. I'll call it a beaching man's think read. Good fun to be reading it whilst seeing the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery, London (that painting and the life of Velasquez is central to the book's plot). Is it too much (or too little...or too insulting? whatever) to call Gruber the American Arturo Perez-Reverte? That's my feeling at the moment.
Saw the current North Bank Artists Gallery show yesterday in Vancouver WA and quite enjoyed it, especially the two still lifes in the window by Char Fitzpatrick, friend of my colleague Don Erskine and his wife Jane. See some of Char's wonderful work here: http://www.northbankartistsgallery.com/fitzpatrick.htm.
Anything else? Probably, but I'l back off for now and leave you with an Ian pic. I took him strollering around London one day. He fell asleep on the tube and woke up in Trafalgar Square. Here he is enjoying his nap in Piccadilly Circus. Silly boy.
Ciao!
CD
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