Marc Moscato
Marc Moscato
Contributor
BIOGRAPHY

Marc Moscato is Executive Director of the nonprofit organization Know Your City (formerly the Dill Pickle Club). Based in Portland, Oregon, DPC's mission is to broaden knowledge about Portland's past, present, and future, and it fulfills this mission through tours, lectures, publications, and school programs. Also a curator, filmmaker, and public speaker, he has presented work at art spaces, colleges, film festivals, and non-traditional venues across the country, including the Portland Art Museum, Pacific Cinémathèque, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and more. He has more than ten years’ experience in nonprofit administration and directed the DIY arts center My House in Eugene, Oregon from 2001 to 2003.

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A brick wall with a doorway labeled with a large sign reading Danger and arrows pointing down. The door bears a warning: Step high, stoop low, leave your dignity outside.
Dill Pickle Club, bohemian club, cabaret, and (from the mid-1920s) speakeasy in Chicago that operated from about 1914 to about 1933 (though sources vary). Its patrons included hoboes, prostitutes, and gangsters as well as leading scholars, literary figures, and social activists, among them writers…
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