‘TURNING POINT’
Some of its residents are ashamed to tell people where they live. Others lament the literal poop in the water. And yet, so many people are still in love with Tulum.
Winston Ross is a freelance journalist based in Portland, Oregon.
TUNE OUT THE NEWS
Portland is still the best city in the country. It’s still crafty, still a collection of charming neighborhoods, beautiful parks, great live music, and world-class eateries.
EAT SHEET
For a couple of decades, Portland’s food scene was one of the best in the U.S.. Luckily, that’s still very much the case.
BAD NEIGHBORS
The McKerrachers felt they had found soulmates in the Neustaters but their decision to buy an off-grid property together descended into a fight in British Columbia’s Supreme Court.
NAME A PRICE
How the sharing economy forces me to travel the West, from dregs to chic.
STRANGER THAN FICTION
A jury took about 24 hours to decide the fate of Oregon romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, who was accused of murdering her chef husband in cold blood.
‘SOMETHING WE AS HUMANS WANT”
The state said only Nancy Brophy had the means and opportunity while her defense said their love story leaves lots of reasonable doubt as her trial neared its close.
‘A CERTAIN CODE OF ETHICS’
Prosecutors said Andrea Jacobs would rebut the author’s claim that she had not in fact murdered her husband. But that’s not quite what Jacobs ended up saying on the stand.
CAN’T REMEMBER
Nancy Crampton Brophy was grilled on the stand Tuesday, telling prosecutors she can’t remember exactly what she was up to in the minutes her chef husband was murdered.
‘WEIRD SHIT’
Nancy Crampton Brophy, who once wrote an essay called “How to Murder Your Husband,” insisted on Monday that she was very happily married.