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Vivian McInerny
Portland, Oregon
Member since: Jun, 2008
Last login: 10/23/2009
Last update : 10/08/2009
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Staff feature writer for The Oregonian, a daily newspaper in Portland, OR for past 11 years. Articles regularly reappear in other publications through the Newhouse and AP wire. Have also freelanced for several publications including Glamour, Baby, Women's Day, Oregon and Northwest magazines. Short fiction in Fishtrap Anthology, Tallus & Scree, Oregon East. Novel currently being shopped by agent. Numerous journalism awards; also fictiion awards include Metropolitan Arts Commission grant; Fishtrap Fellowship.

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Independent of the indies
October 8, 2009
- So you go to the farmers' market to buy produce, drink organically grown fair trade coffee, and listen to indie music. Are you really going to wear a little dress mass produced by desperate children in developing nations? It's cheap, sure, but doesn't it make you feel an itsy bit dirty? Do clothes have karma or do you just feel better when you know the person who made them? Are ...
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Tanning is the new smoking
June 19, 2009
- Fashion needs risk takers. If somebody hadn’t dared to wear the first bikini we’d all still be treading the proverbial waters in our woolen swimsuits. The trouble is some fashions have serious consequences. And we don’t just mean photographic evidence of that micro mini fiasco coming back to haunt you on Facebook. We’re talking permanent damage. We’re talking suntans. ...
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Portland fashion
June 3, 2009
- FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE OREGONIANTuesday, May 17, 2005VIVIAN McINERNYThe man wore a tuxedo and a blindfold. The woman wore very little at all. Strutting down the fashion runway in tall shoes and tiny lingerie, she led the formally attired man by a red sash that bound his hands.Fashion Paloozazaza 2005 earned its extra "za"s.The quirky fashion event last Saturday featured clothes, ...
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Portland fashion
June 3, 2009
- FIRST PUBLISHED: The Oregonian, January 27, 2002It was a dark and stormy and stylish night Hundreds of people stood in the rain in a line that snaked around an inner city warehouse district, otherwise deserted on a Sunday night, waiting to get into an 8 p.m. fashion show. Calvin Klein? Ralph Lauren? Michael Kors? No, the crowd gathered to see the original creations of about 20 Oregon ...
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Celebri-tease
May 12, 2009
- Celebrity» Click Here For The Latest PostsCelebri-teasePosted by Vivian McInerny January 01, 2008 10:45AMEdited soon there after It has come to our attention that readers like celebrity gossip.Editors suggested (She means superiors insisted!) that I blog (write snarky stuff) about said celebrities. But we are, in our heart of hearts, rather nice. (She's out of touch with pop ...
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Writing: Articles & Stories

Serge D'Rovencourt: Survivor

Holly Jolly Sweaters

Thanksgiving diinner: My goose is cooked

Pink: Victoria's Secret line

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Comments I've Written

Wow
Great writing. I can feel the heat and the neighborhood. Do you speak Vietnamese?
Oregon sun
True, Portland is usually cloudy. But cloud cover alone doesn't fully protect from damaging rays.
What to say to a naked tan person
"Are you happy to see me, or is that a very unusual white bikini you're wearing?
Quenttis
People with the kind of deep, dark, suntan they've obviously worked to achieve simply look creepy to me. Of course, they probably think I look sick. Ah well.
Lead bras
I'm ahead of you, bro. I've been buying lead bras from the back of that same comic book.

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