Last night was the first in a series of lectures hosted by the City Club called The Why Behind the Weird, which is meant to address “Portland’s economic landscape, specifically in relation to the city’s population of educated young people.” Crispin Argento of PINO is a relatively new face in the local fashion industry, but […]
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Gandalf Blowing a Bagpipe and Riding a Unicycle: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?
This video gets to the heart of everything that’s right and wrong with Portland. SO! It’s time for you to make a choice. Watch this video and decide: Do you condemn Portland… or will you allow it? via
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The Best Holiday Window Display in Portland
From the John Fluevog store on SW 12th and Stark: Spotted by veganidiot!
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The City Had Someone Look Inside Your Food Scrap Carts
This Wednesday, Portland City Council is due to hear a report examining at how well the city’s year-plus—and pointlessly and irrationally controversial—food-scrap composting experiment has fared. It’s about what you’d expect from a document mostly meant to give city commissioners and city planners a chance to wax poetically about trash: A lot less of it […]
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Black Friday The Right Way
Black Friday sounds to me like hell on earth, and I’ve never done it, but I think most would agree that the big-box stores are the real danger zones. If you are recovered enough from your food coma that you can bring yourself to pull on some boots and get out there, though, we’ve rounded […]
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Ah! So THIS is What an Atheist Looks Like.
I’m an atheist… but I don’t make a big deal about it. I don’t go door-to-door handing out fliers inviting people to not worship with me or attend our semi-annual atheist potluck single-mingles. And while I don’t think it’s necessary to promote atheism as a “thing” (I actually think Christianity should join us in the […]
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Friends Say Beloved Hawthorne Bridge Musician “Working” Kirk Reeves Has Died
Twitter Kirk Reeves Several friends of beloved Portlander Kirk Reeves tell the Mercury that he has died. Many Portlanders know Reeves, 56, as “that guy who plays trumpet on the Hawthorne Bridge”, but Workin’ Kirk played gigs around town and had a public access channel TV show after moving here from Boston in the early […]
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Hollywood Theatre Launches Marquee Kickstarter
HOLLYWOOD THEATRE Above: the old-school (and possibly new-school) marquee. If you couldn’t tell by how we team up with them for certain Hecklevision events, and how we recommend their events on our My, What a Busy Week! page just about every week, we’re fans of the Hollywood Theatre. It’s one of Portland’s landmarks—built in 1926, […]
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The 2012 PDX Pop-Up Shops
It’s become tradition: After a 2009 Downtown Retail Strategy Task Force report made the many vacant storefronts in downtown Portland a priority, a number of cooperative efforts made by a concert of organizations (Portland Business Alliance, Portland Development Commission, the Downtown Marketing Initiative, City of Portland, etc.), the PDX Pop-Up shop project was launched. Each […]
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Deweywood
I don’t usually like to stereotype (kidding), but this is as “Portland” a thing I have ever seen: Deweywood is a two-man (Trent Waneka and Evan Parker) small, local company making environmentally conscious plywood wall displays for your vinyl records. I’m counting at least three types of nerding going in that concept. Click over to […]
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Seen in Westmoreland
Courtney Ferguson Seen by Kay’s bar, a roller derby girl haunt, on SE Milwaukie. Coincidence?
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Whaaaaat Portland Has an Eastside?!
I love it when the New York Times uncovers things. Like Portland’s eastside! The “unapologetically industrial” central eastside has an “honest-to-goodness grittiness” that has enticed plenty of “bicycle-riding Portland tastemakers.” Just FYI.