ken kane

They say you can’t please everyone, but “they” haven’t joined the Tuscan Association of Oregon.  The Portland-based club offers a broad array of topics and programs from month to month, hoping to satisfy the curiosity, aesthetics or appetite of all …

It’s 8:59 am on a dank, drizzly Sunday morning. The spritely painted KBOO building in southeast Portland brightens up the gray day. Inside, the cramped studio is abuzz with activity: microphones are checked; earphones are clamped upon unsuspecting heads; CDs …

Located about 45 minutes south of Portland in the rolling hills above Dayton, Red Ridge Farms spreads out like a piece of Tuscany. The Farm is home to the carefully tended grapes of Durant Vineyards and the unlikely scene of …