I don't have $5 to go to this event. All of my money went to pay for unfunded police pension payments.(Thank you folks, I'll be playing here all week!)

Please- someone ask the mayor why, when he had his car crash, he was taking I-5 back from going to the movies in Vancouver (Wolverine: Origins? really?) instead of patronizing any one of the fine moviehouses in our fair city. I mean, I recognize that a large number of our city employees can't be bothered to invest in, buy homes in, shop, or school their children in the city of Portland, but godammit, when the mayor wants to see a action packed thrill ride of a movie about mutants on a lazy weekend afternoon, he shouldn't leave the state to do it.

Oh, there will be much courtesy laughter.

What "disagreement" there is will be of the to-may-to/to-mah-to variety.

The event tonight is not a press conference. It's a discussion about architecture and city planning. Gragg is the former planning and urban design critic for the Oregonian; Adams helms a city with one of the best urban planning departments in the world; Cloepfil is arguably the city's currently most successful architectural export, with commissions all over the country.

Can he build a movie theater that the Mayor will lower himself to attend?

#6: He lives in Kenton. That was probably the closest movie theater to his house that was showing that movie. The St John's Twin shows first run, (and has beer,) but only has 2 screens, but after that, in city limits is Lloyd Center. And other than the Twin, most of the first run theaters in town don't pay living wages and the profit goes out of the area anyways, so I can't exactly see the rush to build more of them...

Of course, he had to drive, where as Lloyd (and Pioneer Square) are both on MAX lines, (and his house is about 1000 feet from a MAX station,) so I'm not going to defend him too much.

Maybe he should have the CRC designers contemplate a movie theater to be built on on the bridge next to the bike lane, car lane, bus dedicated lane, light rail lane and streetcar lane. They can put it next to the ultimate frisbee field on the top of the bridge.

Or he could wait for it to hit the Laurelhurst like the rest of us. If you don't get a beer with your movie you might as well live in Vancouver.