Archive for December, 2008

The smooth meets the idiosyncratic: Skinner/Kirk+Bielemeier

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Let’s just say we’re about to face-plant along a truly scouring patch of financial gravel road. Let’s just say. And those responsible for the emotional health of the citizenry (who would that be exactly?) start looking for a way to cheer us up, bread and circuses before we become an angry mob. Who should they [...]

Thursday scatter: church blues, high spirits, NW Biennial

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

So, what does a possible breakup of the Episcopal Church in the United States have to do with the price of tickets in Portland? Nothing, maybe. Then again, maybe something, after all.
At first blush this morning’s news in the New York Times that a small group of conservative bishops has declared itself divorced from the [...]

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