Lori Tobias

6 days ago | hgcomag.com | Lori Tobias

Whether it’s a bold blue or a splash of pastel, the new color-drenching trend promises to enliven any room with color, and the palette is as open as your imagination. We talked with Hannah Yeo, senior manager of color marketing at Benjamin Moore, about the dramatic new take on paint. Hannah: Color drenching is when you paint the entire room one color. It can be not just on the walls, but the trim, the ceiling, the built-ins. Some people even match the furniture.

1 week ago | orartswatch.org | Lori Tobias |Oregon ArtsWatch

In 2020, choreographer and performer Andrea Parson learned her 31-year-old sister, Christina, had been diagnosed with stage four metastatic breast cancer. COVID had just begun upending life as we knew it, but for Parson, it turned out to be something of a blessing. The NW Dance Project she had been with for 12 years closed, giving the lifelong dancer “six amazing, beautiful months” with her younger sister.

3 weeks ago | orartswatch.org | Lori Tobias |Oregon ArtsWatch

The letters came from as far as China and as near as a five-minute-drive away, arriving at post offices often established before their towns had names. The Postage, People, and Place exhibit at the North Lincoln County Historical Museum,  which opens with a reception Thursday, April 3, shares the story of how the U.S. Postal Service shaped the place we know as Lincoln City.

3 weeks ago | constructionequipmentguide.com | Lori Tobias

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport celebrated its most recent construction milestone in December when Turner Construction and Apex Steel guided into place one of the final steel beams atop the expansion project's highest point. In about 18 months, passengers at Sea-Tac can expect to enjoy a renovated Concourse C nearly tripled in size with a "wish list" of amenities.

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Lori Tobias

A wheelchair user since the age of 15, Ashley Schahfer knew all too well the feeling of being left out, so the idea of helping others avoid the same seemed a natural fit. As she soon discovered, however, “a career based around activism” could feel a little heavy. It was only when Schahfer began pursuing her passion for architecture that she found architecture combined with advocacy can make for a pretty inspired pairing.