Welcome to Thursday, Blogtown. Let’s have some news. The Portland Police Bureau last year allowed a 16-year veteran officer to resign with little fanfare after he was caught lying about having sex, both on and off duty, with a woman he met while on a police call. Over in Clackamas County, the cops are keeping […]
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Blazers Recap: Boring Wins
At least the Hawks had their moment in the sun last year, what with the four All Stars and perfect January and trip to the Eastern Conference Finals. That team was fresh and exciting. Kyle Korver carried rocks underwater to train during the offseason! Dennis Schroder did kickflips into the hearts of America! Jeff Teague […]
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It’s Official: PSU Employee and Cafe Owner Sarah Iannarone’s Running For Mayor
Portland State University We mentioned this the other day, but it’s official now: Sarah Iannarone, who works with Mayor Charlie Hales’s wife, Nancy, at Portland State University, plans to announce her candidacy for mayor this morning. According to a news release sent out last night, Iannarone will hold an event at Portland City Hall at […]
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Update: A Homeless Camp Is Waylaying Needed Homeless Day Storage Under the Steel Bridge
Remember a couple weeks back when I wrote that the City of Portland was finally about to launch a series of day storage sites for homeless people months late? Then remember how that didn’t happen because the driver who was supposed to deliver the modified shipping container got sick? Well the storage site was supposed […]
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Fertile Ground Preview: Faith Helma’s Trial By Failure
Courtesy Faith Helma THE JUMPSUIT IN QUESTION And performance artist Faith Helma. Longtime Hand2Mouth Theatre performer Faith Helma’s ode to personal failure, I HATE POSITIVE THINKING, was an unexpected delight at last summer’s Risk/Reward festival of new performance. Helma’s infectious, tongue-in-cheek effervescence is best embodied by what she calls the show’s “icon,” a turquoise jumpsuit […]
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Which Colleges and Universities Are Bigoted? It’s About to Be Easier To Find Out
Multnomah University More and more, religious universities around the country are seeking federal permission to baldly discriminate against LGBT students, but it’s never been particularly easy to figure out when that’s happening. That’s about to change. Responding to a request from lawmakers including US Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, the US Department of Education […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—The word to accurately describe the sounds that Detroit electronic artist Shigeto makes hasn’t been invented yet. Unless there is a word that means “an igneous interplanetary pixel-trellis music-box lightsaber-illuminated bebop balm for your ears and brain.” Webster? NED LANNAMANNw/Groundislava, Philip Grass; Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi, 9 pm, $12-14 FILMS—So this is awesome: Portland’s […]
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First World Problems
You know who you are and I hate you for being who you are. You’ll complain at a Grocery store because your 2$ a lb Organic Apple has a blemish. Or complain because there’s the one apple you can’t have out of 8 varieties to choose from. You’re also the douche bag that complains about […]
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Whiteness
When I was younger I worked for a local electrician. It was OK for lots of reasons but the owner of the company is a racist nazi. In fact, I got fired for making anti-christian jokes, or pro jewish jokes. Many years later, I am doing some work for this guy and he doesn’t know […]
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David Bowie Day, Two Great New Tunes, and a Scumbag Publicist: Good Midday Music News!
Jimmy King • It’s David Bowie Day in New York City! Those of us for whom every day for the past week and a half has been David Bowie Day can only nod in agreement at the decision made by Bowie’s adopted hometown; NYC mayor Bill de Blasio will read a proclamation tonight following the […]
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: How Can I Unscrew This Screwed Pooch?
Long time reader, first time writer. And I should probably begin by saying I’m pretty fucked—in the sense that everything has kinda blown up in my face. I should start at the beginning. I was in a very vanilla relationship with a woman for nine years. A woman who I loved and who really loved […]
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Good Morning, News: Campaign Gossip, 2015 Was Hot, and Burns Sez, “Hillbillies GO HOME!”
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Well I tried to tell you so (yes I did), but I guess you didn’t know. As the saddest story goes, baby, now I got the flow. LET’S GO TO PRESS. It’s day 19 of Oregon’s standoff with the Yahoo Militia, whose very limited popularity seems to be waning by the day. […]