Usually this is the best time of year to buy past-season winter/fall merch at deep discounts and comfortably wear it through May. Yesterday I bought a winter dress that I’m not sure I’ll be able to wear without sweating through it until November. Those new, full priced spring arrivals are starting to look like something […]
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The Port of Portland Just Lost $83 Million in Annual Business
This is not good: The Oregonian has reported that Hanjin Shipping has pulled out of Portland (potentially as the result of delays brought on by striking longshore workers). It’s through them that Oregon exported its agricultural products to Asia, and it was they who ferried the materials used by our big sportswear brands in and […]
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New In: The Day’s News in Local Fashion, Retail, and Design
—Orox Leather Co. has dropped its new 2015 line, which includes handy basics like iPhone 6 cases, a Dopp kit, camera strap, and this ultra simple cross-body purse for everyday banging around. I love how unpretentious and solid it is, ready to “hold up to whatever wear and tear you subject it to.” (Don’t test […]
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This Week’s Style Events: Valentine’s Day Edition
If you are not running around this city picking out jewelry, you are way behind the game. And now for your accessories sales already in progress: • Now through Saturday, take advantage of Lizard Lounge’s “Sweetheart Sale,” with 20 percent off accessories: jewelry, watches, scarves, candles, and wallets. Lizard Lounge, 1323 NW Irving, now through […]
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This Week’s Style Events
Aaaaand, we’re back in business, snapping back into action on the eve of a retail-heavy First Thursday, just like old times. • In First Thursday fashion, Porch Light is staying up late for a trunk show of jewelry (Amy Olson, Jesseca Anne) and unique candles and planters (Aspen Summit), for Valentine’s purposes or otherwise. Porch […]
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New In: The Day’s News in Local Fashion, Retail, and Design
The city’s independent design, retail, and lifestyle brands? Here’s what’s up with them as of today: —Shark Tank has moved its airtime from Fridays to Tuesdays, and who should be on tomorrow night’s episode but Portland lip balm company Balm Chicky Balm Balm! I chose their variety pack as one of my holiday “wish list” […]
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Heartburn in Portland City Hall over Hales’ Call to Give (Some) City Workers $15 an Hour
Mayor Charlie Hales’ office forecast a “great debate” over living wages in city hall this year, after the Mercury‘s Dirk VanderHart last month examined the likely sizable cost of jumping aboard the growing national movement for a $15 an hour minimum wage. The mayor’s people had a good reason to say so: Hales, during his […]
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This Weekend’s Style Events
Like everyone else, Portland’s independent lifestyle businesses are starting to unfurl after their post-holiday nap. Here’s what’s stirring for the weekend: —Most every retailer has marked down their wares since the start of the new year, but if you want something specific? Woonwinkel‘s winter sale—featuring up to 75% off—officially kicked off today. Meanwhile Garnish announced […]
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Saltzman Forecasts Broken Promises, Votes Against New Infrastructure Spending Policy
Illustration by Jess Smart Smiley Commissioner Dan Saltzman was plainspoken this morning when standing apart from his Portland City Council colleagues—all of whom had enthusiastically backed Commissioner Amanda Fritz’s new plan to spend more of the city’s excess cash on painfully deferred maintenance. “We’re setting ourselves up to be criticized,” the veteran commissioner said not […]
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Sheriff Dan Staton Won’t Do Away With Face-To-Face Inmate Visits, After All
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is backing off a contract provision that would have eliminated face-to-face visits in the county’s two jails in favor of video kiosks. That decision, announced today, comes after a Street Roots report earlier this month highlighted the change, suggesting it might be a sweet deal for a technology company the […]
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Making Infrastructure Sizzle? Fritz Sells Colleagues on New Plan to Spend City Surpluses
Illustration by Jess Smart Smiley Portland City Council’s oft-ignored policies on infrastructure spending and maintenance are about to be refreshed, and with great fanfare—another sign of the weird political times we’re living in almost a year after Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick embarked on a troubled campaign to raise millions in new transportation […]
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Portland Cab Companies’ New PR Blitz Now Includes a Website, Online Petition
Illustration by Jon Sperry Portland’s cab companies swear they’ve gotten a bad rap. Since the ride-share service Uber stormed the city gates last month—forcing a series of events (fines! a lawsuit!) that will culminate in a new task force meeting for the first time this week—Portland’s cabbies say they’ve stood agog as news accounts painted […]