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Top: Google Maps / Bottom: Jason Desomer Earlier this week, the Mercury and other media outlets reported that the AMF Pro 300 bowling alley on SE Powell would be closing later this year. Today, Bowlmor AMF, the owner of the AMF Pro 300 business, released the following statement, which contradicts the landlord’s assertion that the […]
Courtesy YouTube Earlier this month, 40 teenage girls died in a fire set ablaze at Guatemalan shelter, Hogar Seguro Virgen de la Asución, following a riot in response to the institute’s ongoing abuse allegations and poor living conditions. Located on the outskirts of Guatemala City, the uprisings began on the evening of March 7 and […]
UPDATE Sat March 25: Bowlmor AMF, owner of AMF Pro 300 Lanes, released a statement pledging to stay open in spite of MAJ Development’s plans for the property. That full story is here. Soon to be a 24 Hour Fitness, or Panera Bread, or Gentle Dental, or something similarly bland and horrible! Google Maps Nooooooooooooooooooo….. […]
The Portland Anarchist road crew, who went rogue and started filling potholes in the city’s absence, are still fairly mysterious, even after granting an email interview to The Oregonian, being written up by VICE, and getting a stern talking to from the Stranger‘s Charles Mudede. From Portland Anarchist Road Care Facebook Want to know more […]
Fucking Nextdoor. A hub for every person in Portland with too much time on their hands, something super lame to get rid of, or a suspicion that every person that walks in their neighborhood is scoping their house. Here are just a few maddening emails I’ve received this week: This one took longer to type […]
“Beep boop beep! Time for publicly owned fiber optic internet!” Three years ago, Denis C. Theriault and I cowrote a story for the Mercury about Google Fiber. At the time, Google had just announced Portland as one of a handful of cities that might get its ultra-high speed internet. Despite Portland having already suffered a […]
RE: “A Note to Our Readers On A Day Without a Woman (Or, Why There Are No Men in This Issue)” [Letters, March 8], Senior Editor Megan Burbank’s introduction to our March 8 issue, which contained stories, art, and photographs exclusively by women and nonbinary contributors. I moved to Portland in 2004—back when Division Street […]
Friends on Bikes Though Portland has one of the largest bicycling scenes in the US, there’s something to be said for its lack of diversity, especially when it comes to women of color. While some might attribute our city’s overwhelmingly white and male cycling scene to cultural barriers, cost, or safety concerns, there’s a new […]
Not all heroes wear capes, some wear face masks. A new Facebook page has appeared touting the handiwork of Portland Anarchist Road Care, an organization who claims to be taking “the state of the roads of PDX into the hands of the people.” From Portland Anarchist Road Care Facebook After this year’s rash of winter […]
This story needs no introduction. From the Sellwood Nextdoor site: Hello everyone. In the last two months we’ve had two dolls show up in our yard. They’re a little disconcerting, as you can see in the photos. The first was found back in January, and was placed outside our bathroom window in the backyard. The […]
NATALIE BEHRING I don’t like flying. To me, flying is the hurdle you jump to get somewhere fun. I’ve never had an attraction to planes. Airplanes are inconvenient sky buses accessed only through soul-crushing security lines we have to share with tacky people and business dicks. Airplanes are the journey; I’m more of a destination […]
The end is in sight for the Ash Street Saloon. The downtown bar/venue—which hosts live music almost every night of the week, often featuring emerging local bands—will reach the end of its lease at the beginning of 2018. Commercial real estate agents have already begun showing the property to potential new tenants, and it’s possible […]
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