The Nose Maybe Joan Smith was wrong. Maybe we did just fall off a turnip truck.You may not know ol' Joan--the title "former Public Utility Commissioner" doesn't rate too high on the Fame-O-Meter. Smith earned ...   More

The Nose The Nose adores the holidays. The clanging of Salvation Army bells. The Festival of Lights. The sweet deals for the little Noses at downtown's fine pawn shops. Getting into a brawl with a crazed shopp ...   More

The Nose The Nose understands why so many are freaking out about the idea of plunking a Home Depot (or a Lowe's) down on Burnside. The fact that the Portland Development Commission, the city's urban-renewal ju ...   More

The Nose The Nose was in a seriously good mood the day after Thanksgiving--childlike well-being induced by L-tryptophan and pinot noir, plus a couple of Bud tallboys. The Nasal humour was such, in fact, that h ...   More

The Nose The Nose is smitten. He's fallen, nostrils over septum, for a fiftysomething preacher from North Carolina. A divorcee who, by her own admission, is a few pounds north of glamour weight. In short, just ...   More

The Nose As the Nose writes this, he has no idea whether Tom Potter won or if gays lost, whether Oregon's doctors can sleep through the night without having John Edwards nightmares or whether hair plugs helped ...   More

The Nose Over the weekend, during halftimes and seventh-inning stretches, the Nose sat down with the Voters' Pamphlet to begin filling out his ballot.The Nose can now speak authoritatively about how mobile hom ...   More

The Nose The Nose walked into WW's sit-down with Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb expecting to meet a Birkenstock-wearing, tofu-munching, wild-eyed whiner. You know the type: They own Volvos and l ...   More

The Nose Emotionally, the Nose does everything in his power to stay off the grid. Commitment, involvement, passion--these simply are not part of his MO.It makes for a less stressful life. A more selfish one, t ...   More

The Nose Maybe it's the burrito he ate the other night. The Schnoz would prefer, however, to think that his foul mood--he's feeling more ill-tempered than a Russian gymnast forced to settle for silver--is due ...   More