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  • Heyward Stewart Chats About the Academy Theater
    Heyward Stewart Chats About the Academy Theater

    The Academy Theater in the Montavilla neighborhood is a restored gem of movie house with three screens, 10 microbrews, pizza, sushi, childcare and affordable prices. Stop on by!

  • Meet Seth Aaron, Project Runway Superstar
    Meet Seth Aaron, Project Runway Superstar

    Project Runway winner Seth Aaron chat with Janna Lopez about family, Project Runway and the holidays.

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Parenting

Baby Food For Thought

Baby Food For Thought

You’ve consulted books, logged onto Websites and asked your friends — but you’ve still got niggling questions about feeding your baby safely that no one seems to know the answers to — until now. To help you sort through the confusion, we rounded up top pediatricians and baby safety experts to answer some of your [...]

An Overlooked Side to Sibling Rivalry

An Overlooked Side to Sibling Rivalry

While pregnant with my second child, I fretted endlessly about how my firstborn daughter would adjust to the dramatic change of a sibling. Every day I read books, articles, online advice, etc., advising me how to make the transition smooth and to reduce potential resentment. Such advice included scheduling one-on-one time, making my daughter feel [...]

Happy New Year

Keep Your Resolutions: Ten Ways to Change (Any) Behavior

Keep Your Resolutions: Ten Ways to Change (Any) Behavior

New Year’s resolutions often fail, and it’s not because people lack willpower. You may be stuck in the same old pattern because you’re overwhelmed by detailed (and conflicting) information about how to lose

Everybody Eats: Resolutions

Everybody Eats: Resolutions

The start of a new year is a time for reflection, and often enough we think of ways to improve the coming year. Right now I’m think about ways to be more frugal and improve my overall health (the picture doesn’t show it, but this chef likes to eat). With that in mind, these affordable, [...]

Fashion

It’s Not a Likely Story, Cinderella

It’s Not a Likely Story, Cinderella

Work, not a wand, will change your image Cinderella, Vivian Ward (“Pretty Woman”) and Eliza Doolittle. What do these three fictitious characters have in common? They all transformed the way they looked, which dramatically changed their lives. You may recall that Cinderella was transformed in the twinkling of an eye by her fairy godmother; and [...]

Wearing His Heart on His Sleeve

Wearing His Heart on His Sleeve

Seth Aaron Henderson wears his heart and finesse on his sleeve. Literally. A true fashion designer in every sense, when it comes to clothing, the seventh season winner of TV’s “Project Runway” adores all

Health

Learning from Children with Life-threatening Illnesses

Learning from Children with Life-threatening Illnesses

We had no idea our lives would change so significantly. Up until January 7, 2005, my family enjoyed the “perfect life.” Okay, maybe it wasn’t perfect, but let’s just say it was normal. But things changed drastically overnight. My daughter Karla was diagnosed with an inoperable tumor at the age of 14. She was in [...]

Safe Haven, Positive Changes

Safe Haven, Positive Changes

The Salvation Army White Shield Center Somewhere between the bustling movement of northwest Portland’s industrial district and the immense, peaceful landscape of Forest Park lies a large, mostly

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Family Fieldtrip: Old Town Chinatown

Family Fieldtrip: Old Town Chinatown

| January 3, 2012 | 2 Comments

In honor of the Chinese New Year, Portland Family is heading to Portland’s Old Town Chinatown neighborhood this month. Like the name suggests, Old Town Chinatown was originally two neighborhoods, the Skidmore District and Japantown New Chinatown District —both on the registry of historic places. Now known as Old Town Chinatown, the neighborhood is bordered [...]

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2011 Portland Family Gift Guide

2011 Portland Family Gift Guide

| December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

Holiday shopping doesn’t have to mean canned mall music, chain store tschotskes and impersonal gift cards. Portland is full of unique specialty stores staffed by people who know what’s new, what’s hot and what’s locally produced. From collectible books to salt cooking blocks, encaustic paintings to graphic novels, jousting to journals, and how to cart [...]

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Video Game Gift Guide:

Video Game Gift Guide:

| December 1, 2011 | 0 Comments

Avoid Buyer’s Remorse There’s really no way around it: if you have kids (or a spouse) in the house, you’ve got someone asking for video games this holiday season. You may even be thinking about games yourself—adult women represent a greater portion of the gaming population than boys 17 or younger (37 percent vs. 13 [...]

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