Cathedral Park

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The gothic arches of the St. Johns Bridge that loom over Cathedral Park (North Edison Street and Pittsburg Avenue) are among Portland’s most distinctive landmarks—Gus Van Sant used the suspension span in My Own Private Idaho, and again 16 years later in Paranoid Park—but no one ever photographs the other big item on the St. (read more) Johns skyline: the Schrunk Riverview Tower (8832 N Syracuse St., 283-1636), a slanting, 11-story public-housing complex built at the height of 1970s tacky ambition. Such is the conundrum of a neighborhood that can’t quite decide whether it is NoPo’s scenic enclave or a working-class outpost of moss-eaten old Oregon. So the sleepy main drag features canine “playcare” It’s a Dog’s Life (8709 N Lombard St., 286-2668, itsadogslifeplaycare.com), and Sauvie Island-supplied organic grocery Proper Eats (8638 N Lombard St., 445-2007) just down the street from twin Chinese-food dive bars, the Wishing Well (8800 N Lombard St., 286-4434) and New Portland Rose (8728 N Lombard St., 286-2815). Decisively tipping the scales is Pattie’s Home Plate Cafe & Fountain (8501 N Lombard St., 289-7285), a soda fountain with a thrift store in the back. Pattie’s is also the headquarters of the Western Bigfoot Society, which meets on the last Sunday of each month to talk about how lonely they are. —Aaron Mesh

• St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Stage
• Cathedral Park Live Music
• Twilight Room Live Music

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