In Portland, badass is as the badass map says it is.

In Portland, badass is as the badass map says it is.

While at Stanford, Ph. D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google. Pretty badass, right? WRONG! You want to know what’s badass? Badass is when two Portland State University grad students used a variety of data to create a map of Portland that shows the level of badassery in neighborhoods across the city. (more…)

Portland’s wacky and wonderful neighboring cities.

Portland’s wacky and wonderful neighboring cities.

When news came out today that the ever-popular, property-value-setting, super-gourmet New Seasons Market decided to open a location in Portland’s nearest Washingtonian metropolis, Vancouver, it made us think fondly on all of Portland’s neighboring cities, towns and suburbs.

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