The Nose Sweet.That's about the only way to describe the gig that Lt. Gabe Kalmanek, a veteran of the Portland Police Bureau, has going.Kalmanek is caught up in the brewing tempest over the beating of a man ...   More

The Nose The Nose giveth and the Nose taketh away. Fresh from a weekend of spring cleaning, here are several dungballs and daffodils from the Nose's cluttered attic of a mind.Daffodils to the Los Angeles L ...   More

The Nose Screwed.It's not a pretty word, nor is it one that the Nose's mother lets him use in her presence.But is there any other way to describe how Qwest has treated the Nose and other Portlanders? With ...   More

The Nose The Nose had a sucky week.Everywhere around him, it seemed, the walls were collapsing.Discouraged by matters as small as the newly discovered carpenter ants in his woodwork and as mundane as the una ...   More

The Nose Editor's Note: The Nose does not speak for the entire proboscis community.The above disclaimer is made for the benefit of Robert Williams, who took Avel Gordly out to the woodshed last week.You se ...   More

The Nose To paraphrase Yogi Berra, it smells like déjˆ vu all over again.Four years ago, Portland was hunting for its next school superintendent. After months of interviews, flights around the country ...   More

The Nose Bullets over Broadway? Hell, in Portland, we've got bullets in the middle of Broadway, and the toe-tag to prove it's no comedy.The Nose--unlike half the city, it seems--was not at the intersection o ...   More

The Nose As the B-1 and B-52 bombers rained death over Zormat, Afghanistan, early this week, the Nose's reaction was unequivocal.The Nose felt no remorse.Six months after Twin Towers became Ground Zero, much ...   More

The Nose The Schnoz remembers fondly those days when the State of the City address heralded big ideas. Building a new engineering school at Portland State University. Holding the line on the urban growth b ...   More

The Nose The Nose is frowning so much he's thinking about getting a shot of Botox® to relax his worry wrinkles.What's got the schnoz all stuffed up? The seeming disintegration of all that is right with ...   More