Yes, there are sales—including a few late-breaking Labor Day deals that didn’t make print—but there’s also a destination dining experience. Who knew?! • The small but mighty Demimonde is throwing open its newly spruced-up doors to welcome ceramicist Martina Thornhill (originally a Portlander, she now lives in North Carolina) for a one-evening trunk show of […]
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Multnomah County DA Rod Underhill and a Local Substance Abuse Hotline Are Also Against Legal Weed
In this week’s paper, we’ve got a brief look at the forces coalescing to support Measure 91, which would make recreational pot legal in Oregon if approved in November. The opponents are bemoaning their fate—there’s no way they’ll have the monetary draw we’ve seen with weed proponents—and say they’re counting on people taking the advice […]
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This Week/end’s Style Events
Three is a perfect number: • Summer is for outdoor activities, for which some clothes are better than others. The Salute to Summer party and fashion show brought together by Next Adventure and Deschutes Brewery focuses on outerwear looks for 2015, plus party favors like an “extreme” photo booth and free custom pint glasses for […]
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The Retail Shuffle
If three’s a trend, four is too many to ignore. Four of Portland’s higher profile independent clothing(-ish) shops have either recently moved or are in the process of doing so, so in the interest of supplying you with the two hands needed to find one’s own ass, please note the following: —Stand Up Comedy is […]
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The Portland Apparel Lab (and the Hopefully Hopeful Future of Manufacturing in General)
After the summer kicked off with both a City Club forum dedicated to stoking the economic development of Portland’s independent fashion industry and a months-long regional fashion exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, it’s been a year of unprecedented attention for the local industry. I’ve personally been attending the meetings of a committee that […]
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Donations are Trickling in to Recall Mayor Charlie Hales. Nada for Novick.
If Portland voters are upset enough with Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick to force a recall vote, they’re not showing it with their pocketbooks. Nearly a month after southeast Portland resident Ray Horton began campaigning to kick the pair out of office, contributions have barely dribbled in, Horton concedes—and what has come in […]
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This Week’s Style Events
Art, fashion, and commerce all hang out, so a First Thursday week means a busy week in the world of local style. Here’s all the shindigs fit to print, plus a couple o’ sneakers that came in after deadline: • It’s testament to the eyes behind Maven Collective—Kim Ludy and Jacklyn Arvin—that I followed them […]
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Those Tiga Murmurs
Word has been spreading that beloved NE watering hole Tiga is going to close, after the owner of a planned Southern breakfast joint (Laura Rhoman of Muscadine) spilled the beans about her plans to take over the lease of the space and open at the start of October. A drop-in last night indicated that Tiga’s […]
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Why Restore (Some) Money for the Downtown Marketing Initiative? The City’s Looking at a New Surplus Likely Worth At Least $10 Million
Mayor Charlie Hales has said timing and need governed his hand in looking to restore partial funding for the Portland Business Alliance’s Downtown Marketing Initiative—some five weeks after he and the rest of the Portland City Council passed a budget that gave the program nothing. In a 4-1 vote today giving the PBA just $170,000 […]
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Cargo’s New Digs
Longtime Portland import-retailer Cargo (which also has an adorable mini-me in Astoria) began on Portland’s eastside before becoming one of the early adopters of the Pearl District 16 years ago. With their lease coming up, partners Patty Merrill and Bridgid Blackburn took advantage of the window to make a change, and set their sights back […]
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No Joy in Mudville—Seattle Has Won the Oregon Manifest
In what might be considered a worst-case scenario, gloating and haughty Seattle has won that bike design competition we mentioned last week. Worse than that, Seattle deserved to win. The bike produced by design firm Teague and Sizemore Bicycle looks sort of funny, but it also sported by far the most inventive feature in this […]
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ODOT Settles With Angry Campers, Once Again. That’ll Be $60K.
Dirk VanderHart Portland police help with a campsite cleanup, on city property near the Springwater Corridor. For the second time since 2011, the Oregon Department of Transportation has settled a lawsuit with homeless campers who claimed the department unlawfully confiscated their personal items. Under the agreement, ODOT will pay out $60,000 and faces additional rules […]