A Portland primer: some things about a maverick city that Chris Coleman probably knows by now.(Column)
American Theatre, July, 2003 by Hicks, Bob
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A few things you need to know before moving to Portland to take over a theatre company: * It's the biggest city in OR-e-gun, not in Or-y-GONE. * It isn't the place with lobster, it's the one with Dungeness crab. * If you can't stand the rain, stay out of the kitchen. * Even with a metropolitan population pushing 2 million, it can't decide whether it wants to be a small city or a big town.
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* Beneath a surface sheen of polite boosterism, it's a maverick place filled with visionaries determined to reinvent the wheel, even if they're missing a spoke or two. ...
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