Fashion fantasy weekend at the McMinnville UFO Festival
May 12, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat EVENT, Neat TRAVEL
Feel like spacing out in style this weekend? Fashion is all about fantasy, of course, and that makes the McMinnville 11th Annual UFO Festival a perfect weekend getaway or day trip for stylish Portlanders who want to keep it weird while still looking good.
The mothership lands in McMinnville, Ore., this weekend, taking over this picturesque [...]
Neat photos! Boutiques Unleashed pet fashion show 2010
April 10, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief
Entertainment for pet lovers doesn’t come better than this: A llama in drag, a scaredy cat and a rabbit wearing a graphic black-and-white checkered dress by Project Runway designer de jour Seth Aaron Henderon. Last night’s Boutiques Unleashed, the fifth annual people and pet fashion show to benefit the DoveLewis [...]
Neat PEOPLE: Pet talk with designer Seth Aaron Henderson
April 8, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat PEOPLE, Neat STUFF
Boutiques Unleashed is tomorrow night, and local designer Seth Aaron Henderson (of Project Runway 7 fame) is busy putting the final touches on two designs for the benefit people and pets fashion show. Henderson will dress two therapy animals-turned-models, Smokey (a llama), and Miss Mollee Muffin (a rabbit), and he’ll accompany Smokey down the runway. [...]
Win a copy of Wendy Diamond’s book, “It’s a Dog’s World!”
March 20, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF, Neat WIN
Fashion truly has gone to the dogs.
If all the cool cats will excuse us for just a moment, we need to discuss canine style. Because not only do stylish Portland pet owners know it’s a dog’s world out there, but so does author and famed pet lifestyle expert Wendy Diamond.
Diamond, editor of Animal Fair Magazine [...]
“Legally Blonde, The Musical” paints Portland pink
February 17, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
By Karen Vitt, neat editor in chief
Omigod, you guys. Last night’s Portland premiere of the touring Broadway musical “Legally Blonde” was totally fun.
Keller Auditorium was packed with pink for the stage adaptation of the wildly popular 2001 romantic comedy, which starred Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a misunderstood blonde bombshell who enrolls at Harvard Law [...]
Holy catrimony! Two cats say “I Mew” at Voodoo Doughnut
January 30, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
Last night, Voodoo Doughnut in Northeast Portland hosted the most wacky wedding ever (and you better believe this quirky sweet shop has hosted some wacky weddings), uniting two felines in purrfect catrimony.
Pet paparazzi turned out to watch as Mr. Mollie, the groom, and Café Mocha Valencia, the bride, said their “I Mews,” and nuzzled each other’s [...]
Cool cats to be wed at Voodoo Doughnut – for real
January 15, 2010 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat EVENT
Look who’s getting meowied! Voodoo Doughnut has been hosting wacky weddings for people since 2003, and now for the first time ever Portland’s sassiest sweet shop will unite two felines in purrfect matrimony at Voodoo Doughnut Too’s wedding chapel, 9 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29.
Meet the betrothed beasties, Mr. Mollie (right) and Café [...]
Neat SALE
Do your fired-up furballs need a pet playhouse?
Hurry! There’s a four-alarm sale on fire truck pet playhouses at Urban Outfitters! For just $24.99, kitty can trade up his favorite cardboard box and cruise around in this badass non-toxic cardboard firetruck. The playhouses are available online only, along with tons of extra 25 percent off deals on after-Christmas sale stuff. They have a hilarious [...]
Neat IDEA
Make a day trip out of adopting a cat
August 19, 2009 by karenvitt
Filed under Neat STUFF
Last week I tagged along with my boyfriend on a story assignment to a cat safe house in Madras, Ore. Jacques is the pet columnist for The Oregonian, and he was interviewing a woman who has opened her home to more than 40 homeless cats. Because the county shelter there only accepts dogs, Sandra Ballard [...]
