This is a map. And a bandana. And it will cost you $40. Sunday Parkways has turned from an experiment to a much-loved festival in Portland, but now it’s facing a serious budget crunch along with the rest of the city. The event, first hosted in Portland three summer ago, shuts down a five mile […]
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Check Out Our Southeast Neighborhood Guide!
If you picked up this week’s paper, you may have been lucky enough to get a copy that includes our new Southeast Neighborhood Guide that’s contained inside. (The papers distributed in Southeast Portland should have one in there, plus a couple bonus areas have ’em too.) We humbly believe this guide is zillions better than […]
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East Portland: Still Neglected?
Oh snap. I love it when charismatic progressive Portland politicians disagree with one another. Mayor Sam Adams and East Portland Representative Jefferson Smith just got into a little fight here at city council. The council was slogging through rounds of positive testimony from East Portland residents on the implementation of the East Portland Action Plan, […]
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A High-Rise Vision for the Pearl
Yesterday the Daily Journal of Commerce featured a proposal from PSU graduate architecture students to build some high-rise structures as a “Pearl District Gateway.” PSU The complex would go in between Burnside and Davis, and 13th and 14th Avenues. The designers are suggesting some national chains, like Best Buy and Apple, as anchor tenants. Quoth […]
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The Sign Shall Remain
Commissioner Randy Leonard, lover of all things neon, has a new blog post up announcing a deal to save the iconic “Made in Oregon” sign atop the White Stag building. The sign, which most recently advertised the Made in Oregon retail outfit, has taken on many guises over the years: In 2009, the University of […]
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What’s That Buzzing Sound?
Now that Clear is rapidly pursuing its dream to bring plodding, intermittent wireless internet into thousands of Portland homes, its transmission equipment is popping up across the city. Not everyone’s happy about the idea. Or, “NIMBY” for short. Neighbors in Beaumont-Wilshire passed a resolution at their meeting in January “by overwhelming vote” to tell Clear […]
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Laurelhurst Strip Club Plans Roll Forward
The controversial strip club planned for NE 33rd and Sandy is rolling forward after the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) approved its license with some restrictions yesterday in a 4-1 vote. Neighbors and the Portland Police, you may recall, were hoping the OLCC would reject the application to establish Mynt Gentleman’s Club on the edge […]
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Clowns, Crowds, Cash and Chaos: Alberta Neighbors Sound Off on Future of Last Thursday
It’s not often that the line to enter a public meeting looks like the line outside an exclusive bar. But as over 400 people squeezed into the Acadian ballroom last night for a public meeting about the future of Last Thursday, the crowd spilled out the door and stretched up NE Alberta. A girl in […]
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BREAKING: Last Days for Last Thursday?
At the beginning of the week the nonprofit group Art on Alberta posted an event invitation on Facebook that signaled, to many, the potential demise of Last Thursday as we know it. Illustration by Jonathan Sperry The event is billed simply as a “community meeting about Last Thursday on Alberta,” and will be hosted by […]
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Muddy Waters Cafe Needs $10,000 to Stay Open
Muddy Waters Eleven months after it went “anti-profit”, Muddy Waters coffeeshop on SE Belmont says it will have to close its doors unless it can raise $10,000 by the end of the week. Four co-owners/baristas took over the shop last February (more on that here), aiming to turn the sofa-laden cafe into a community center […]
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Lents Park Snags $100,000 for Master Plan
Protestor at a Beavers in Lents meeting last spring. Remember the heady times of last spring, when the city and Merritt Paulson proposed <a href="building the new Beaver’s stadium with urban renewal money in Lents Park? The deal fell through in part because keeping the 38-acre park as open space had a lot of support […]
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Laurelhurst Strip Club Moves Toward OK
The Portland Police recommended against approving a liquor license for the planned Mynt Gentleman’s Club on NE 33rd and Sandy. The neighborhood association recommended against approving the liquor license. And yet, the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) staff report released today recommends approving the license for the controversial site. The owners of Mynt originally planned […]