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Statesman Journal’s Best Of’s – Where the Masses Get it Wrong
It’s that time of year again, folks. It’s time to furrow your brow and shake your fist and cluck incredulously at how the public in Salem so often gets many of its own Best-of’s wrong. Say what you...
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A Clockwork Awesome
You were probably among the hundreds who gathered at a retooled space on Commercial Street last Friday to celebrate the opening of Clockwork’s Cafe and Cultural Center, a project dreamed up by Ryan...
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Welcome to the Secret Society
I had to giggle a bit a while back when I got lumped into Salem’s new creative class, but that got me thinking. An influx of new creative folks into Salem’s affordable, sometimes charming, often...
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Photo finish
If you find a bill for $3.00 on your credit card statement and it says it’s from “Fantasy Photos” and offers you an 888 number to call, don’t punch your partner in the gut. It’s from the time you...
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Trader Joe’s debacle — Salem’s the punchline
I remember the first time I walked into my first Trader Joe’s in Tyson’s Corner, VA. It was 2003, the signs were hand-written, the shirts were Hawaiian, the wine was cheap, and the brands were...
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Strawberry Season in Salem
These June weeks have been drab and grey, overcast and a tad glum until the sun hit hard and strong at the end of last week, leaving our love for summer in Oregon more than a little rekindled. All...
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Next session of free classes at Clockworks
Mark your calendars. Clockworks Cafe has put out its roster of classes (PDF) for its free summer session. I’ve had a lot of interest in my blogging class — we’ll be doing the same intro to blogging at...
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The crazy ants in my Salem kitchen
A single ant can seem almost heroic. There he is on the counter searching for food, lifting one hundred times his own body weight in – what? Cupcake crumbs? Dried juice? Spilled honey? Maybe I left a...
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Lessons learned from blogging class, vol. 2
Every teacher will tell you that one of the boons of the profession is the vitality of the classroom. You can have a real clunker of a class, with disinterested students and hours that feel like days,...
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The Dude abides in Salem
The dude sitting next to me gets it. He has watched The Big Lebowski 15-20 times already (his estimation) and is talking along with the movie, shouting out at the right parts, anticipating our...
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