The Our Portland Story project is essentially a yearbook for Portland creative types (officially it’s a “community story project”). For each edition, since its founding in 2008, the organizers have put a call out to anyone who wants to suggest themselves as a writer or designer to share a “Portland story” of some sort—the second […]
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Good News for Portland
It was completed in 1982 and is considered a masterpiece of a movement in architecture that is best forgotten… Is it worth saving? Michael Graves’ postmodern Portland Building faces demolition http://t.co/TWtzDCPcuh via @Dezeen pic.twitter.com/TUKEgeRrLD— Jenna M. McKnight (@JennaMMcknight) January 15, 2014 The building does have this virtue: Its substance and appearance are one. Meaning, Graves’ […]
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Garnish to Close NE Alberta Location
“2 shops + 2 kids = too much crazy!” So read the headline of an announcement Garnish owner Erica Lurie sent out yesterday announcing the impending closure of the boutique and locally produced clothing line’s longtime NE Alberta location. That line sums it up, but head over to MOD to read the full statement and […]
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Intisar Abioto Crowdsources “The Blackest Night”
Intisar Abioto Pictured: Drummer Mashud Neindow Last spring, I wrote about artist Intisar Abioto and her project The Black Portlanders, a photo series of African American Portlanders. Other local media outlets have since taken note: The Oregonian‘s Casey Parks (one of the post-purge bylines I still look for over there) wrote a great piece about […]
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Know Your City’s Latest Push for Its Kiosk Fund
As we’ve mentioned, Know Your City (née the Dill Pickle Club) is currently raising funds to pay for a mobile kiosk, which they will mostly use in the Ankeny Alley tourist triangle and attempt to convince passersby that the city was actually founded prior to Voodoo Donuts. They have seven days to go to reach […]
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Downtown Holiday Retail: No Pop-Ups, But…
I spent a chunk of the day on Friday on the city’s annual media tour of what’s new in downtown retail. In concert with a variety of institutions (Portland Development Commission, Portland Business Alliance, etc), there has been a big effort over the past five or so years to strengthen downtown’s shopping corridors, and one […]
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New Voicebox Location Opens Next Week; Portland Prepares to Sing Guts Out
As you may have heard, I am known as one of Portland’s greatest karaoke performers… that is, until someone better walks into the room. But my point is, I LOVE IT, and the more I sing, the happier I feel. That’s why I’ve always been a big fan of the Voicebox private karaoke rooms over […]
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Sous Chef Update: Martin Speaks
Yesterday, Funemployment Radio talked to Martin Connolly, he of “sous chefs are stealing my weeds” fame. Hosts Sarah X Dylan and Greg Nibler explain the Great Sous Chef Heist of 2013 at the beginning of the episode, and then there’s a statement from Martin himself, and an interview, about 15 minutes from the end. You’ll […]
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Oh No They Didn’t: Real Estate Survey Ranks Portland Only #7 in Top 10 Oregon Cities
Bad news, guys, a real estate brokerage based in San Mateo, CA (hey, that’s where I went to elementary school!) has ranked the top 10 cities in Oregon, and Portland is only #7. Look, I know they’re baiting us, but still: Movoto Where exactly is Bend and why is it sitting atop our list? What […]
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Know Your City Kickstarts Mobile Kiosk
Our friends at Know Your City (né the Dill Pickle Club) have just announced a campaign to open a mobile kiosk based in Ankeny Alley, where they’ll sell publications and tickets to their tours, and provide information about the city and local businesses. From a tourism standpoint, it couldn’t be a more sensible place for […]
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Inside the New and Improved Bagdad Theater
BAGDAD THEATER One of Portland’s last remaining movie palaces gets restored. The Bagdad Theater on SE Hawthorne is currently closed to the public—for the first time since McMenamins took over the property in 1991. The place is getting a full renovation, and when it reopens in November, it’ll be a first-run theater complete with a […]
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This Sunday, Help the Academy Theater Stay in Business
The Academy Theater needs to update to digital projection in order to stay in business. This costs a lot of money. Their Indiegogo campaign didn’t make its goal, which is a bad thing: While upgrading to digital isn’t a big problem corporate chains like Regal, coming up with that amount of money can be a […]