Portland

Today at the Convention Center, Svend Auken—the First Vice President of the Danish Parliament—kicked off the Portland Plan with an hour long keynote speech. It was one of the best hour long speeches I’ve ever sat through. Detailing life in Copenhagen, Auken told great stories about biking, building walkable cities, universal health care (“when you […]

New Seasons has just signed a lease on upper Hawthorne—where the Daily Grind used to be. From an email sent out to staffers: We still have lots of details to work out but here’s what we know so far– The actual address is 4026 SE Hawthorne. It’s on the south side of Hawthorne and takes […]

The Famous Mysterious Actor is back! The indescribable talk show phenomenon takes the stage tonight at Berbati’s for his talk-show-slash-spoof-of-talk-shows. If you’ve never seen Famous, he’s kind of hard to describe without sounding like utter nonsense. He wears a ski parka and a Mexican wresting mask, talks in a high-pitched squeak, and guzzles pixie stix […]