In 1983 painter and teacher Jim Mattingly submitted a proposal to paint a mural in downtown Salem. The mural was to grace the rear wall of the Elsinore Theater, then a movie theater, but with a long history of vaudeville before the movies. Mattingly’s proposal was chosen and in the summer of 1984 he went […]
Category: City
Restaurant News…
Well just about this time in 1991 we were “building” the Arbor Cafe…certain that soon there would be 10 downtown restaurants opening up. Oops. Never happened. But this summer in Salem the restaurant scene is heating up… Have you been to Maven yet…?? Good food, good ambience…State Street. for Salem-ites it’s right across the street […]
BUSY WEEK…
We zoomed to Portland this past week for a sleep-over…the weather was mostly like that pictured in this Michael Brophy painting… but spirits were high anyway. We visited Sara, checked in to our hotel of choice and headed over to Henk’s opening at Laura Russo. The paintings are gorgeous, big, full of drama. (As it […]
…And So it Begins…
We’re only five days in, but so far I’d say 2013 is behaving like every other year I can remember…routine, sublime, annoying, lovely, impatient, content, creative and MILDLY destructive (it’s the wheelchair, not me…scraping the woodwork, tsk…). So the sun set on our beach idyll… and we came back to the gloomy fog of the […]
Portland Friday
Today was a bit gloomy in that good Fall way…leaves fluttering down, a bit of rain. We took off early for Portland and after an errand, we caught up on a few shows in the galleries currently on… by some of our favorite artists… PDX Gallery (9th and Flanders) is featuring a very nice Marie […]
The Arbor Cafe
Anybody remember the Arbor Cafe? 21 years ago today we opened our doors…(and managed to survive in a hard business for 13 years…) and today when I went to the bank I saw that Broken Bread is making the space over…for a fall opening…and it was a familiar sight… and while I was taking a […]
Project Space, 2012
Monday…I went down to Project Space to get set up…open hours begin Tuesday (11-2, Tuesday through Saturday). It was bliss locked in there all by myself…now that Phil has put in the lights… The artists have begun to arrive and set up work spaces…little by little we are “claiming” the space anew… So I set […]
Happy Birthday to Ashton!!
We started at Leipzig Tavern/Gino’s where it was hard to decide what to have for dinner…(Amy helps Ashton out…) but after the feast, the REAL party began… In our many years in Oregon we had never been to Oaks Park, and if you are in the same boat, you’d better get over there…it’s pretty cool. […]
On The Way 