Illustration by Joseph Harmon The pot-legalization campaign that’s faced down employee strikes and elections complaints from rivals has hung up its clipboards. As first reported by Willamette Week, Paul Stanford, chief petitioner for the Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp (CRRH), announced on Friday the campaign had ceased collecting signatures for Initiative Petitions […]
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Friends Are Trying to Crowdfund a Funeral for the Man Shot by Police on the Springwater Corridor Last Week
Dirk VanderHart Friends of the 23-year-old man killed by Portland police last week are hoping the public will kick in enough money to lay Nicholas Glendon Davis to rest. They’re using a page on gofundme.com in an attempt to raise $1,500 for a funeral. Police have painted a stark picture of Davis since Officer Robert […]
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Forest for the Trees 2014
Last year was the first for Forest for the Trees, an initiative founded to bring in a mix of local and international artists to paint permanent murals on walls around the city—walls that for many years were off-limits for such projects thanks to some legal challenges. The first year resulted in 10 completed walls by […]
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This Week’s Style Events
This is why this city is so awesome for seasonal sales. It’s summer one minute, and cold and raining the next, so no matter which season you are plucking from (for the apparel world marches to the beat of its own ruthless seasons regardless), you’ll probably be able to comfortably wear your new find within […]
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Sunday Emporium
Mostly through the Portland Flea organization, Portland is quietly proliferating its frequency of flea markets. They don’t have that generations-old mustiness cultivated quite yet, but it’s a fantastic way to ferret through vintage oddities and see the work of small-business start-ups. The latest addition to the rotating schedule (third Sundays at Union/Pine, second Sundays at […]
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Tonight: XRAY.fm and 24 Hour Party People
Appropriately enough for a community radio station that broadcasts ’round the clock, XRAY.fm is the beneficiary of a screening of 24 Hour Party People happening tonight at the Academy Theater: Haha, 2002’s coolest British movie, indeed! Good times. Anyway, as an added bonus feature, XRAY is hosting an after-party following the film’s screening, with DJs […]
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Sherman Alexie and Colbert on Amazon vs. Hachette: “You Root for the Authors.”
The battle between Amazon and Hachette heated up even more yesterday, when two great things happened: Paul Constant published a strong piece in our sister paper The Stranger, “It’s Time to Turn Your Back on Amazon,” that not only summed up the Amazon/Hachette fight but laid out, in pretty fucking stark terms, “why the online […]
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Kickstarter Allows Projects to Bypass the Approval Process. Next Stop, Scamville?
Adrianne Jeffries at The Verge wrote about some changes to Kickstarter’s rules of service. You know how a project needed approval from the Kickstarter staff before it went live? That’s no longer the case: That’s partly why the company is announcing two major changes today aimed at presenting a “simpler, friendlier Kickstarter,” in the words […]
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This Week’s Style Events
The first week of every month is always a doozy. Don’t forget to keep an eye on MOD for daily updates and calendar additions. Plus in this week’s Sold Out column, we take a look at a pop-up that features Portland’s first shot at the Ouur line of apparel from Kinfolk and the latest activation […]
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This Week’s Style Events
If you take a serious interest in the potential for the Pacific Northwest to play an influential role in the spreading of a culture change from fast to slow fashion (much as it has for food, and for very similar reasons), I highly recommend signing up for tomorrow’s “Prototyping Fashion’s Futures” symposium tomorrow at the […]
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Men’s Style Clothing for Women Could/Should Be the Next Big Market for Apparel
You can call it “tomboy” or “gender-bending” or “men’s style clothing for women,” but I’m just surprised it’s taken this long to show signs of proliferation. When Portland-based Wildfang opened just over a year ago, its hook was that it literally poached its inventory from male-designated designs, albeit while selecting cuts that worked best on […]
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Novick Makes One Last Play to Cut Cops’ Drugs Unit: “I Would Rather Preserve Firefighter Jobs”
In the midst of this morning’s vote to approve Portland’s next operating budget, due to take effect July 1, City Commissioner Steve Novick revived his controversial push to cut the Portland Police Bureau’s Drugs and Vice Division—issuing an 11th-hour amendment asking his colleagues to phase out the unit starting in summer of 2015. Novick’s motion—written […]