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It's been too long since we've had a breakthrough in underwear design. Here it is.

On the day NBC sells out to Comcast, the daughter of a self-styled TV visionary muses on broadcasting's Nordstrom effect.

Some kind words for the late Reverend Ike, who raised up his radio listeners by speeding up the arrival of the Promised Land

When Amazon whisked away Orwell's 1984, something made this writer want to hang onto those things with paper pages and covers

The last real Northwest men's club may just be Horizon Air's regional shuttle service. When I ventured into the Portland and Seattle airport gate areas for a recent weekday roundtrip, I felt like I...

The rap on Oregonians: Cut us and we bleed green. Yeah, sure, when we're not indulging in public displays of affection for trees, we're recycling old Volvo parts into useful household items. Even if...

One of Portland's fertile bloggers is Rick Seifert, whose thoughts on all manner of things turn up in all manner of places, starting with The Red Electric. The blog is named for an inter-urban train...

Portland's rep is growing as a place with nurturing soil for small-house snazzy designers – of clothes, furnishings, jewelry, urban spaces. An item on ULTRA, the city's heard-it-here-first design Web...

Maybe you haven't noticed, but most urban coffee shops have doors that are relatively easy to open when exiting with full hands. Most of the time they have some kind of push-bar thing you activate...

Back in the 1960s, Ralph Nader got rid of all the pointy instruments inside cars and nagged automakers into adding seatbelts. (Mom sold the Corvair.). Next, cops got huffy if you had one little beer...