I’m posting this for no other reason than that Peter Gabriel‘s third album was released on this very day in 1980. Here is a “demo” version of “And Through the Wire,” perhaps the least known song on that record and probably my favorite as well. I don’t think this is a “demo” at all, but […]
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Take Your Mod Mom on a House Tour
I’m perpetually catching up on my TV stories, so it wasn’t too long ago that I got my first lovestruck glimpse at Don and Megan’s bitching pad in Season 5 of Mad Men. That shit is the bomb! If you’re at all interested in mid-century doodads, decor, or architecture, you’re in luck this weekend, my […]
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Frank Bruni on Jason Collins
Read it: “I’m a 34-year-old N.B.A. center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” The gay part will now define him, in the public eye, more than any other. It will be the prompt for the loudest cheers he basks in and the nastiest jeers he sloughs off. But in the opening paragraph, it comes after his […]
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The Portland TV Nostalgia Power Hour
Look, I’m no Portland newby; I’ve lived here a long time and have paid my dues and then some. But like many of you, I didn’t grow up here, and only really found out about Portland because of reasons that can ultimately be traced back to Courtney Love. That’s one of the reasons that I […]
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The Iraq War Anniversary
It was yesterday. Also yesterday, in Iraq, bombs took the lives of 65 people. In America, polls showed a solid majority thinking the whole thing was a mistake. On Twitter, Donald Rumsfeld remained unapologetic.
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Mt. Tabor Theater to Reopen as Alhambra Theatre
image from 1916 edition of Moving Picture World The Mt. Tabor Theater is becoming the Alhambra Theatre. Or, rather, it is becoming the Alhambra Theatre again. When the venue opened its doors in 1913, it was a movie house called the Alhambra. It changed its name to the Mt. Tabor Theater along the way—this photo […]
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Things I Learned at the Oregon Coast
PAT MORAN I’ve spent the past two weeks at the coast: First Neskowin, for an annual family beach trip, and then up to Astoria for the 16th annual Fisher Poets Gathering. I learned two things. Thing 1: An Oregon company called Pronto Pup claims to have invented the corndog. The above poster hung in the […]
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Native American Protests Anti-Immigration Protest; Wins Protest
When an outspoken Native American visits a very vocal anti-immigration protest, guess who suddenly gets much less vocal? Racists—you just got OWNED.
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Call for Oregon History Diorama Submissions
Color me a sucker for anything with the suffix “-rama” (yes, even diarrhearama). So I’m super jazzed to announce the call for submissions for the second annual Kick Ass Oregon History Diorama Contest. It’s put on by the excellent local podcast Kick Ass Oregon History, who had no small amount of fun with this last […]
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The Hollywood’s Marquee Fundraiser Is Preeeetty Close to Succeeding
About a month ago we called your attention to the Hollywood Theatre‘s launch of a Kickstarter campaign (something we do very sparingly) to replace its marquee, which is leaking, causing other damage to the building, and just generally falling apart. The proposed replacement is based on the original, which opened with the theater in 1926—an […]
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Behold! The Hippie-Friendly Pamphlet Portland Distributed to Discourage Protests in 1970
I’m reading Matt Love’s book about the Oregon Vortex, the giant state-and-business funded “biodegradable festival of life” that kept Portland lefties occupied with drugs and music instead of protesting the Vietnam War in the summer of 1970. Included is this amazing pamphlet the city printed and handed out to counterculture businesses that summer: The “Peace […]
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Frida’s Closet
If you have the means and the presence of mind to book yourself on a flight to Mexico in the next five months or so, I have one request in the name of vicarious living: Pay a visit to Appearances Can Be Deceiving: The Dresses of Frida Kahlo, now on view at the Frida Kahlo […]