• The city’s foremost supplier of your favorite doin’ stuff-stuff, Hand-Eye Supply celebrates five years this week, with a First Thursday celebration featuring a set from garage rockers the Reverberations and live printmaking. Hand-Eye Supply, 427 NW Broadway, Thurs Aug 6, 6-9 pm • Popina Swimwear’s Pearl District shop has a fresh new look (including […]
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Defeated on the Willamette, Shell Takes the Fight to the Courts
The bridge was up around 7 a.m., but the Fennica went back to the dock. What’s a multibillion-dollar energy giant to do when 13 mean activists in hammocks block its ship from pressing Arctic plunder? Ask the courts for help, apparently. After Shell Oil’s ship the Fennica was forced back into dry dock this morning […]
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$5,000 Reward for Information on the Portland Cat Stabber
Guys, the person who stabbed Grand Theft Auto and Alibi—two cats in the Woodlawn neighborhood who managed to survive the June 25 attacks after being found near the intersection of NE 6th and Holman by their owner—is still at large. It seems the trail is going a little cold, so the national non-proft Animal Legal […]
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The City’s Paying More Of Its Workers at Least $15, and Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s Picking A Fight
As this morning’s Portland City Council meeting was originally conceived, city commissioners were supposed to gloss over a labor agreement that will give at least 86 low-paid parks workers increased pay and benefits. The city had placed the agreement—forced when the city lost a years-long labor dispute back in May—on the consent agenda, meaning commissioners […]
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This Week’s Style Events: Edward Jeffrey Kriksciun at Nationale, Summer Markdowns Abound, & A Mega Warehouse Sale
—Summer markdowns everywhere, including updated further deals at Woonwinkel and Machus, just for starters. —Here’s one way to announce an artist residency. Nationale has this to say about Edward Jeffry Kriksciun’s show, on view now through August 3: “Just because things are no longer like they used to be and your friends have moved away […]
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New In: Fashion/Retail/Design News with Urban Air Market, Up/NXT, & More
—I didn’t go to the first Portland edition of the Urban Air Market last summer because Pickathon, and from what I heard, you probably didn’t go either—blame a saturated market, an out of the way location… or Pickathon, but the SF-founded operation is giving it another shot, this time with a late-summer date that gives […]
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The Weekend Shopper: Sneaker Cart, The Portland Flea, & More Price Slashing!
Add these to the week’s earlier crib sheet: —Woonwinkel and Frances May have announced further markdowns on summer sale merch, but discounts up to 60 and 70 percent. It doesn’t get too much steeper than that. —Of course Portland has the “world’s first mobile sneaker store.” Who else? Called Sneaker Cart, the rolling retailer of […]
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New Site for Right 2 Dream Too May Cost $254,000
Dirk VanderHart Right 2 Dream Too’s new view? Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Amanda Fritz want to spent more than a quarter million dollars on a piece of property they’ve called the best option available for the homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too. An item on next week’s city council agenda, unveiled earlier this […]
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Could Speed Cameras Earn PBOT Millions? The State Thinks So.
PBOT Portland’s high-crash corridors, mapped. When Oregon lawmakers failed to find agreement on a gas tax hike this session, it seemed to doom the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s best hopes for badly needed new money. Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick in January decided to take a breather from the fire swamp that was […]
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New Store(s) Alert!
Further proof that the independently owned retail world in Portland is doing just fine: Exhibit A. Tender Loving Empire has announced the opening of a third location, in addition to the original in the West End of downtown, and one on Hawthorne, where the paint is barely dry. The newest one is headed to 525 […]
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New Music Comes Out on Friday Now. Why?
“FRIDAY, FRIDAY, GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY…” Curses! You win again, Rebecca Black. Fridays give us new movies. Sundays give us God (or the opposite of God, True Detective). Wednesdays are “hump day,” and contain the sweet, sweet promise of a Thursday-morning hangover. Saturdays are just inherently awesome. Until this week, Tuesday—the second-worst day of […]
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This Week’s Style Events: Hot Mass, Kate Towers, Timbuk2, and More!
—General summer sale update: Check out fresh markdowns at Stand Up Comedy, Roche Bobois, Una, Grayling, and Sara Barner! —Another one of these (kinda sketchy) RAW events is up again this week. Their events mash up a lot of creative elements from music to film to fashion. However questionable their business model, lets not penalize […]