Ditch Digger Laborers’ Local 320 SW Broadway and Market Ditch diggers are the unheralded heroes of civilization. Ever since the shovel was invented, men and women have been displacing dirt, making it possible for us to drink water, flush toilets, drive on scenic interstates, and kiss under the Eiffel Tower. Sasha Clapper’s been shoveling dirt […]
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Suzzette Fasching Stylist Akemi Salon 3808 N Williams 542-5246 The number-one promise at Akemi Salon is a “cruelty-free haircut.” (And they’re not talking about nicking your ears with the scissors.) Owner and hairstylist Suzzette Fasching is deeply committed to using only hair care and beauty products that aren’t animal-based and do not test on little […]
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Anna Marie Burchett Fit Specialist Oh Baby 1320 NE Broadway; 722 NW 23rd When life’s got you down, a new bra can really pull things back up! Oh Baby lingerie stores are the surest fix for a bad day at the office or in divorce court. Gorgeous underpinnings are playfully displayed among vintage books and […]
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Brian Applegate Medicolegal Death Investigator Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (various locales) Brian Applegate got his start working at a funeral home transporting bodies, and was soon assisting during autopsies under the direction of a very cool doctor who cut up corpses while rocking out to the Misfits and the Dead Kennedys. Brian’s considerable aptitude […]
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Jeffrey Rose
It’s been a snowy week—more than Portland’s seen in years! If you, like many wise souls, decided to give your cars a break to avoid skidding around in the ice and slush, your options were hoofing it or taking the bus. And even on the first day of snowfall, when the city quietly panicked, the […]
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Rebecca Wolfe
Rebecca Wolfe is a familiar face to most Portland barflies. The proverbial angel-flying-too-close-to-the-ground, this drop-dead beauty has been bartending in Pabst-land’s grittier establishments for almost a decade. The daughter of two artists, Wolfe is herself a painter. She started bartending to allow her to focus on her art, first at the Panama Red Room and, […]
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Sunday Costell
Sunday Costell was always an animal lover. She became an animal nurse at age 20, and was soon a veterinary technician and professional groomer. She was then lured away from animal nursing by the more exotic service industries, but continued to groom and minister to her friends’ furry friends. Two years ago she returned to […]
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Jane Cowan
After working as a paralegal for 12 years, Jane Cowan realized that shuckin’ and jivin’ for the man wasn’t her thing. So, she became an aesthetician and started her own business three years ago, and now she has about 200 regular clients, many of whom are local notables immersed in Portland’s creative scenes. Thanks to […]
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Eric Bohlander
SE 48th and Belmont If there were a Christmas tree vendor pin-up calendar, Eric Bohlander’s swarthy good looks and sexy Carhartt duds would make him a perfect candidate for it. Eric joined the family business five years ago when he moved back from California. His German stepfather has been growing Christmas trees his whole life […]
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Freelance Designer
A trip to the Nike Campus is nothing short of exotic. The über-manicured grounds and über-manicured people give you the eerie feeling you are trapped in a computer-generated architectural drawing. Thank god they occasionally see fit to import some of us more “normal” types to help out—folks like Daniel Garcia from NYC. Daniel is a […]
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Steve Reno
Steve Reno was all but born into the food service industry. He started cooking for pleasure when he was only three years old, making elaborate architectural edifices on his kitchen countertop out of tomatoes and such, alongside his mom way out in the Chicago hinterlands. At four, the family moved to Brazil, where he learned […]
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Joanne Helterline
Therapists are a dime a dozen, but good ones are hard to find. It’s possible to stack the odds in your favor by seeking out an elder. Historically and worldwide, elders are known to possess wisdom only time can teach. They’ve seen their best friends through tumultuous affairs, steered their children along the rocky road […]