Frozen River sets the notch for American indie films one notch higher.
Amy J. Ruiz
Posted inMovies & TV
Damn that Dam
Up the Yangtze: Up Shit Creek, Sans Paddle
Up the Yangtze: Kinda like being up Shit Creek, sans paddle.
Posted inNews
Hall Monitor
Charter Disagreement
Auditor Gary Blackmer tries to amend the city charter—and runs into Commissioner Dan Saltzman.
Posted inPortland
Blog-Off 2008: When Nessie Attacks
Today’s challenge for the Red Cross-Water Bureau Blog-Off 2008 came from a Blogtown reader: I’d like to hear a response plan from each agency on a Nessie-esque beast in the water reservoirs. Assume it is dangerous, eating skinny dippers, dragging dogs underwater, etc. I upped the ante for the bloggers, challenging them to illustrate the […]
Posted inPolitics
Auditor Gary Blackmer Pulls Charter Amendment Proposal
I was fully prepared this morning to write what was clearly going to be the most boring Hall Monitor column EVER. (More boring, even, than anything that Scott Moore ever wrote. Kidding! Miss ya, Scott.) I mean, check this out: I was going to write about Auditor Gary Blackmer’s move to enshrine the city ombudsman’s […]
Posted inDrunk
Brewhaha! Barack, Bingo, and Beer
Mark your calendar–on Thursday night, August 28, the Mercury and the Bus Project are hosting a very special Brewhaha to watch Sen. Barack Obama accept the Democratic presidential nomination. Bonus: We’ll be playing bingo during the speech. For prizes. This event is going to be so cool, it’s even listed on Obama’s very own website! […]
Posted inPortland
The Blog-Off Begins!
Remember the Blog-Off between the city’s Water Blog and Red Cross Blog? It starts today. Are you ready for this? We’ve got five genius challenges. Today’s challenge for bloggers at both sites is to do a post related to the top international news of the day, President Pervez Musharraf resignation in Pakistan. Make it relevant […]
Posted inNews
Good Morning, News
We should learn Obama’s choice for VP this week. A new study found that 13 percent of U.S. citizens are “‘net newsers‘ – web users under 35 who read more political blogs than watch national news coverage, rely heavily on web-based news during the day and have a strong interest in technology and technology news.” […]
Posted inBooks
Reading Tonight: Thomas Frank at Powell’s
There’s a great reading tonight at Powell’s, with Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew, his book about conservatives in Washington, D.C. who have misgoverned to the point where the federal government is nearly in ruins (hello, privatizing and outsourcing to contractors!). I had a great interview with Frank last week, and we talked about […]
Posted inHomo
Take That, Homophobes!
This morning, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the anti-gay activists who’ve been whining that the state unfairly tossed out signatures from their initiative petition, which–had they collected enough valid signatures–would have put the new domestic partnership law on hold until the voters had a chance to weigh in this November. The court […]
Posted inNews
Ballot Box
A Dozen Ballot Measure Vie for Your Vote
Watch out! Here come the crazy 2008 ballot measures.