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Fuller’s Coffee Shop

136 NW Ninth Avenue facebook.com/fullerscoffee

While the revitalized Brewery Blocks are like a shiny penny Fuller’s, at this location since 1955, is 100% old school! Two half-circle counters with stools face the kitchen and the menu is classic breakfast all the way. The staff is friendly, and the morning crowd is diverse. A recent fire has temporarily closed their doors, but they are expected to re-open later in 2023. Watch their Facebook page for news.

Hello From Portland

120 NW 10th Ave hellofromportland.net

Hello from Portland is cute, colorful, and just the spot to find unique souvenirs and gifts with Portland, Oregon, and Pacific Northwest themes. In northwest Portland for five years, they just opened in the Pearl in 2022. They carry products from local artists, makers, and crafters and have private-label lines of apparel, stickers, patches, and other accoutrements. Their online shop carries a complete offering of their exclusive products.

Screen Door Restaurant

1131 NW Couch Street screendoorrestaurant.com/pearl-district

Their first restaurant on East Burnside was so popular they opened a second location in 2021, also serving Southern favorites with a Pacific Northwest flair. They are open for brunch every day and the local owners (with Louisiana origins) work to support regional growers and vendors to provide the freshest ingredients. Fried chicken (served with waffles or biscuits, or on a bun) is their major draw. We ordered the Fried Chicken Sandwich, and it was worthy of the buzz!

NAU Clothing

304 NW 11th Avenue nau.com

NAU Clothing got its start in Portland 15 years ago and after being acquired by a company in Seoul, now exclusively sells Korean-designed apparel. They are serious about the environment and create clothes with sustainable textiles to be durable and timeless. NAU has clothing lines for men and women and specializes in outwear. The Pearl District is their only retail outlet in the United States, and they have an on-line store.

Cosmic Bliss

207 NW Tenth Avenue cosmicbliss.com/locations/the-pearl-district

This brand out of Eugene got its start making vegan, frozen treats packaged and sold in regional grocery stores. Newlyopened in December 2022, their first foray into a retail shop also carries grass-fed milk options. The light, bright corner shop is perfect for grabbing a dessert after catching a play, shopping for books, or just enjoying the neighborhood.

Cosmic Bliss Frozen Treats

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: KATIA KYTE

Katia was raised in an industrial port town in Siberian Russia by a family of physicians. She decided not to follow in their footsteps. Instead, inspired by her mother’s side of the family, ethnic Germans who lived in Russia for generations and kept their language and culture, she went to college to study languages. After becoming fluent in English and German, she moved to Germany where she became immersed in the language and culture. She returned to Russia in 2006 where she started translating and interpreting mostly English/Russian. At work in Russia, she met her future husband who is a native Washingtonian, and the reason she immigrated to the United States in 2008.

Art was always a part of her life. At an early age, Katia’s parents recognized an artist’s talent in her and at the age of ten she began a four-year program to study the basic skills of drawing, painting, and art history. Art became her focus after moving to the Oregon Coast where she began showing her work in 2009. Inspired by the Impressionists she painted frequently with a palette knife working mostly en plein air. She was also teaching art classes and continuing her own art education through workshops and self-study. Painting helped her overcome difficult periods. 2015 should have been a happy year when her daughter was born, but the same year proved tragic when she lost her husband in a car accident.

She takes a direct approach to painting and leans toward the abstract. She likes to find strong compositions in nature or in still life, wanting to say something specific about her reaction to a place or a moment in time - to capture the essence of what moves her. She believes that artists are poets rather than journalists. Katia pursues her painting with zest, boldness, passion and sincerity. Her paintings are full of color, shape, light, and energy. She prefers to keep her paintings suggestive rather than refining them to a polished state. Katia believes that saying less is more powerful.

“I prefer painting directly from life because I perceive it firsthand and connect to what excites me. The natural world is my teacher, and it has all the information I need. The challenge is to create a new reality on canvas, that is at once vibrant, exciting, alive, and harmonious. The empty spaces or less defined areas give the viewer an opportunity to fill in the gaps and to participate in the creation, like life itself. It teaches me to let go, to support myself through every right or wrong decision, to trust that I am enough, and how less is more. It reminds me how overthinking creates a weaker painting, change is inevitable, how important it is to take a deep breath when feeling overwhelmed. It reminds me that I’ll enjoy life and painting more if I relax in the present moment and trust that the creative power will lead me.”

In addition to her painting, she is busy raising a child, teaching yoga, and pursuing a degree in psychology.

Recent oils created en plein air.

The Lightness

by Emily Temple

One year after her father leaves home for a meditation retreat and never returns, Olivia yearns to make sense of his departure and to escape her overbearing mother. She runs away and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center, where she enrolls in their summer camp. Between fairy tales, physics, cognition, religious fervor and youthful obsessions, is it really possible to know anything about faith or family? (Fiction)

Lud-in-the-mist by Hope Mirrlees

The town of Lud is a prosperous country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Hills, is a source of great trial to a town that rejects fanciful nonsense. When a perfect plague of faerie influences hits the town, it becomes apparent to even the stuffiest town resident that Steps Will Have To Be Taken. (Fiction)

Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. What will she do, and how will she survive all this "quality" time with her rambunctious family?

(Children's Fiction)

Urban Forest

by David Paul Bayles

For more than two decades, photographer David Paul Bayles has been making images of trees in cities and suburbs. This volume showcases his extraordinary vision of urban trees and their often precarious, sometimes triumphant place in the human landscape. (Nonfiction)

Sea of Tranquility by

Hired to investigate the blackskied Night City, a detective discovers an anomaly in the wilderness, where he encounters a strange group of individuals who have all glimpsed a chance to do something extraordinary that could disrupt the timeline of the universe. (Fiction)

Through A Glass, Darkly: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle And The Quest To Solve The Greatest Mystery Of All

by Stefan Bechtel

A chronicle of the Spiritualism era in America discusses how it was largely instigated by a grieving public in the aftermath of the Civil War and how it was supported by famous notables including Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

(Nonfiction)