Rose Festival Parade Camp-Out 2008 has officially begun! That’s the corner of SW Broadway and Alder, if you want to stop by for the festivities. We’re in front of Portland Coffee House, about a block north of Pioneer Square. (Bonus: Portland Coffee House was very kind to us last year on the clean-up patrol, and […]
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Welcome To Portland, 555 Bike Club!
I just interviewed seven members of the 555 bike club, who got into Portland today, after having ridden from Knoxville with the following rules: 1.Bikes need to be pre-1975, 2.Bikes need to be under 500ccs, 3.Bikes need to cost less than $500. Also, it all had to be on back roads. No freeways. The idea […]
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“That is Quality of Life”
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 […]
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New Seasons to Open Hawthorne Location
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 […]
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The Famous Mysterious Actor Returns
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 […]