In the way New York drew artists in the '50s, this city at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers seems to exert a magnetic lure on talented chefs who come from almost anywhere else and decide to stay right here.
Churches have been reported making the most of the sudden influx of young secular players; signs have popped up outside shops reading "No purchase, no Pokémon" and "come for the Pokémon, stay for the selection of retro clothes at affordable prices"; and bars and pubs have found that even if they aren't an official Pokéstop, dropping a lure on-site results in a short-lived flood of Pokémon.
Bennett Sykes Blackburn's amusing "Tourist Trap," last seen in Greenport's "Footfalls" outdoor exhibition, is on the lawn, where its satiric comment on the lure of a fishing village is less effective than it was on the Greenport waterfront.
The lure of a reward works on legit customers, too.
Bastianich's background as the son of hard-working immigrant restaurateurs, who really are small business people, trumped the lure of a lucrative life on Wall Street, so he chose to be a hard-working restaurateur himself.
After intermission the audience was lured on a sonic magic carpet ride to the languorous, sultry Arabian nights of Rimsky-Korsakov's evocative "Sheherazade".
It is shocking that she was lured into taking on a secured loan as well.
Peacocks and some other species of birds lure females by putting on a Mr. Universe-esque show of their collective machismo.
The attack on the trainee physiotherapist, who was lured on to a private bus on a foggy December night, repeatedly raped, tortured and then left on the side of the road to die, turned worldwide attention to women's safety and gender-based violence in India.
But for Kate Hughes and Toni Suppa, friends since high school, it was the guilty pleasures of TV's "Gossip Girl" that helped lure them on a recent evening to the Lobby Bar of the Empire Hotel on West 63rd Street, a fixture in the series about hard-partying Upper East Side teenagers.
