With Portland institutions seeming to disappear at an alarmingly accelerated clip, here’s some good news from Potato Champion‘s Mike McKinnon about the fate of the Cartopia food cart pod on SE Hawthorne, long thought to be doomed to redevelopment: I received some great news today from our landlords at 12th and Hawthorne. We are getting […]
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Brass Ones: An Enterprising Thief Stole Metal From the Cops’ New Training Center
Sean Michael Kearney The Portland Police Bureau, after months of work and millions in bond money spent, is ready to unveil its new training center this afternoon. There will be tours and refreshments and local dignitaries, the PPB said in a news release sent out this morning. What the bureau didn’t mention, until another release […]
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This Week’s Style Events
This week in local businesses who care about how you look and smell, and want you to care back: • Adorn is just about to open a second location on SE Division, but first they’ve got something else to celebrate: The original northeast location is turning six, which calls for Prairie Underground exclusives, cocktails, raffles, […]
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Pine Street Market
The building a block over from the Mercury office, at 126 SW 2nd (and Pine) has big plans. A banner noticed yesterday posted on the Pine-facing side promises office and retail spaces ready to roll by fall 2015, in the former Quest nightclub spot. I have a call out to the developer (Design | Build […]
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More on PAL; More PAL to Come
Wednesday night was the first “launch” event of the Portland Apparel Lab, and I’m using quotes because the thing won’t launch anywhere unless PAL founders Crispin Argento and Dawn Moothart can get enough people/designers interested in Honolulu timeshares not-so-cheap membership commitments. I don’t think anyone was expecting the crowd to be at capacity, but it […]
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Why the Matador’s Actually Closing (Sort of What You Think, But Also Not)
The Matador’s Facebook page When news emerged last night that beloved Northwest District dive the Matador is shutting down tomorrow, it was easy to cultivate cheap outrage about gouging rents in a rapidly gentrifying city, of Portland institutions being shunted aside in favor of new, more expensive, less charming spots. The Matador’s departure might have […]
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Meet the New Street Fee! It’s Different! That Might Not Matter.
The controversial “street fee” proposal certainly has, uh, blossomed since being unveiled four months ago. The latest proposals for finding millions in new yearly revenue to patch Portlands roads are almost totally unrecognizable from that toddling regressive flat fee for residents, combined with a sliding fee for businesses (based partly on the number of car […]
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This Week’s Style Events
A short and sweet list of design and retail happs to match the shortening daylight hours: While the Museum of Contemporary Craft‘s Fashioning Cascadia exhibit has almost a month left to go in its run, most of its associated events, residencies, and lectures have already passed. Over the course of the summer, visiting artists have […]
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That Back to School Smell and ADX’s New Scholarship Fund
This time of year still makes me want to go out and splurge on fancy pens and anything related to scholastic self-improvement, so it seems appropriate to mention that ADX and Portland Made have recently launched the Make it! FUNd in conjunction with the Equity Foundation. ADX is at the fore, locally of working to […]
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This Week’s Style Events
It can’t, it won’t, and it don’t stop. Retail! • Northwest jewelry outpost Twist welcomes New York’s Jill Platner, a 20-year veteran of the business known for pieces that are substantial enough to wear while surfing or camping. Platner will have her entire collection in tow, in addition to a number of one-of-a-kind studio projects […]
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PAL: Today in Things I Won’t Shut up About
I wrote about the Portland Apparel Lab launch in print this week, a smidge earlier than I would have normally. Since the paper comes out on Wednesdays, it always seems like things happening on that day might not reach peak awareness in time. So the “launch,” which I’ve been thinking about more in terms of […]
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Back to School: Portland Sewing Launches 40 Apparel Business Classes
It comes up again and again. Everyone, in general, likes the idea of Portland becoming—some way, some how—a bigger player in the nation’s garment industry. And when groups of people convene to talk about it, as they have been with more frequency than ever (?) this year, a theme emerges. Apparel design students aren’t coming […]