Portland Adult Entertainment: A bicycling tour connects one tough economic time to another
by kingofportlandMoscato knows the sting all too well. Raised in Buffalo, N.Y., he came west to study arts administration at the University of Oregon in 2001, then moved to Portland a few years later. He worked for various arts organizations, nonprofits and as communications manager for the City Club before getting tapped to be marketing manager for the Museum of Contemporary Craft in early 2008. A terrific job — right until a financial crisis last fall required the museum to lay off something like a third of the staff.
Randy L. Rasmussen/The OregonianMarc Moscato runs the cycling tours of various Portland sites.
Adrift, Moscato thought of Chicago’s Dill Pickle Club, a Depression-era organization dedicated to giving dispossessed and eccentric folks throughout society — members included doctors, labor leaders, prostitutes and hobos — a forum to share ideas. Inspired by the group’s endless curiosity and open, playful spirit, Moscato worked with a few friends to found a new Dill Pickle Club in Portland.