Travel: All the World’s a Stage in Ashland and Portland
Posted in The Berkeley Scene on May 29th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to commentby Steed Dropout
May 28, 2012
All the world’s a stage said Shakespeare, and that would include Ashland, Oregon, home of America’s most famous Shakespeare festival as well as Portland’s Hillsdale district, which is only famous in a shakespearian sense, although it does have its own Sunset Boulevard, site of a stand-off between old-timers and newbies.
Hardly a day goes by without a media story on Portland’s allure, which has drawn artists, musicians, chefs, and slackers looking for cheap rent and the hottest new scenes.
PORTLAND’S SUNSET BOULEVARD READY FOR ITS NORMA DESMOND SCENE
Hillsdale, Oregon.
Only five minutes from downtown Portland, the hamlet of Hillsdale represents everything considered “enviable,” about Portlander’s lives. A family and dog-centered district of 2,000 households, which once was cow pastures is presently up to its spacious lawns in a controversy over a proposed sidewalk on America’s other Sunset Boulevard.
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