Be a Model Before You’re Married
It’s a recent Saturday afternoon, and I-at long last-am a male model. I’m dressed in stylish clothes, sitting atop the colorful pillows of Chef Karim’s Moroccan restaurant, and holding my head at the perfect tilt beneath the bright lights.

Joe reports that the fourth annual Portland Jazz Festival boasts a celebration of the prolific German jazz label, ECM records, as well as the North American debut of saxophone sensation, Trygve Seim, the “real coup of the festival.”