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Laughing Planet Bike at Cirque du Cycling
Photo by skuarua

Pedalpalooza starts this week, and one of the highlights every year is the Cirque Du Cyclingevent on Mississippi. The 2011 event is this Sunday (June 12) and info follows after this awesome video by Brewcaster.

Cirque du Cycling Bike Parade from brewcaster on Vimeo.

Cirque du Cycling Bike Parade
June 13, 2009
Mississippi Avenue
Portland, Oregon
Filmed by brewcaster

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Portland’s Cirque du Cycling’s 2011 schedule & info after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Portland People is a series of profiles/portraits of dynamic or influential Portlanders that are slated to appear occasionally on PDX Pipeline. This week, PDX Pipeline editor Nathalie Weinstein and photog Natalie St. John interview charcuterie dynamo Elias Cairo, owner of Olympic Provisions.

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Words by Nathalie Weinstein
Photos by Natalie St. John
The moment that guided Olympic Provisions owner Elias Cairo towards a life of sausage may make the average person’s stomach turn. But to Cairo, having a beloved family photo of himself lying in a pile of lamb guts is nothing but nostalgic.

“Our father had just slit the throat of a lamb and sliced out the gut sacks,” Cairo said, laughing. “Then he decided to lay me down in it. I was just covered.”

Born to a Greek family living in Salt Lake City, Utah, Cairo learned early about what others now call the slow food movement. His father slaughtered his own meat, stuffed his own sausages and instilled in Cairo an ethos that the old ways are generally the best Read the rest of this entry »