Vivian McInerny's Writings
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Article
Feb.10.2013
Oregon Home Magazine: Feb/March 2012
Voodoo Doughnut casts its spell. Bleary-eyed crowds stand outside the 24-hour shops to buy the likes of bacon maple bars and doll-shaped fried dough. “I try not to question its success,” says Tres Shannon. He and business partner Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson employ 140 to operate two shops in Portland and one in Eugene, and “we’re flirting with Denver.”...
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Article
Feb.08.2013
Oregon Home Magazine
Some spaces are meticulously designed; they have just the right furniture, the latest flooring and the best lighting. But after initially inspiring admiration, those visually flawless rooms can feel as soulless as window mannequins.
Successful residential design is so much more than just a pretty space. Professional interior designers can bring experience,...
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Essay
Dec.21.2012
An earlier version appeared in The Oregonian, 2005
Here is what I want to tell you: My Christmas memories are rich with roasting chestnuts, singing carols and evergreen boughs bent from the weight of red cardinals on white snow.
That is what I want to tell you. But my most vivid childhood memory is less soft-focus nostalgic and more sharp-edge commercial. There was this doll, Chatty Cathy, and I wanted it...
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Article
Dec.18.2012
Oregon Home Magazine
Winters were cold and white where I was a kid. Sometimes big flakes drifted lazily from the sky like feathers from molting doves. Other times snow pelted and stung the skin of your face. One year Wilson Pond froze fast and fierce in a single night, forming ice as clear as window glass. We skated on its surface to watch fat gray fish circling slowly below...
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Article
Nov.13.2012
Oregon Home Magazine
She puts pencil to paper and a small world takes shape in shades of gray. Carson Ellis has illustrated album covers, posters and eight books, including the children’s fantasy-adventure series The Wildwood Chronicles in collaboration with husband/musician Colin Meloy of the Decemberists. They and son Hank, 6, live in a 1908 farmhouse on a densely...
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Article
Sep.26.2012
Oregon Home Magazine
Fancy countertops, nice cabinetry and the latest, greatest appliances would be nice. But that wasn’t top on the list for Sally and Steve Killgore’s dream kitchen. They wanted space for their five grown children and nine grandchildren to come together for holidays, special occasions and spontaneous cuttings of the rug.
“When we get together, we usually end up...
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Article
Sep.23.2012
Oregon Home Magazine
Graceful arches frame the kitchen. Hardwood floors and box-beam ceilings warm the living room. Exterior wood siding, covered front porch and chimney speak of a craftsman heritage. They lie. The house is actually an elaborate set inside a Portland warehouse for the NBC series Grimm, a cop drama inspired by fairy tales.
Actor Silas Weir Mitchell plays...
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Article
Sep.14.2012
Oregon Home Magazine
Written by vivianm@oregonhomemagazine.com (mailto:vivianm@oregonhomemagazine.com) ">Vivian McInerny Tuesday, 04 September 2012 00:00
You’d think a man who builds houses for a living would know better than to fall in love with an old one. But John McCulloch is a sucker for a pretty place.
The object of his affection? A Dutch Colonial Revival...
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Column
Sep.11.2012
Oregon Home Magazine
One wall of this contemporary condo shimmers with precious-metal glitz. The framed gold and platinum albums represent just a fraction of the music-industry awards presented to Eddie Martinez. “I think it’s around 25,” says the guitarist, who played with Robert Palmer, Meat Loaf and Run-DMC; toured with Blondie; accompanied Mick Jagger at Live Aid, and performed...
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Article
Jul.04.2012
Oregon Home Magazine
Photo by Michael Cogliantry
She’s thunderclouds and lightning bolts. She’s hurricanes and choppy seas. She lives large, loves larger and has a voice at least 8 miles wide. “I’ve grown up here onstage,” says Storm Large. “I’m kind of Portland’s adopted kid.”
Devoted audiences have followed her from early angry
performances in smoky nightclubs to a powerhouse one-...
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Her daily blog for the newspaper is fun and quirky and to the point.”
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About Vivian
An accomplished feature writer, McInerny's articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines nationwide. She was a staff writer at The Oregonian, a daily newspaper in Portland, Oregon for 20 years. For two years she was managing editor of Oregon Home...
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