PDX Retro 1908 Rose Festival Parade in downtown Portland With the Rose Festival on Portland’s doorstep (the event kicks off tomorrow), downtown braces for a slew of eager tourists, cotton-candy-fueled families, drunken Ferris Wheel riders, and other wildness associated with the lovely festival. But! Let’s not forget the real heart behind the 105-year-old event. To […]
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CNN Pits Seattle Against Portland
CNN This is odd: CNN is running a series called “city smackdown,” where two allegedly rival cities are pitted against each other through opinion pieces and the readers decided which one takes the cake. So, of course, Seattle and Portland step into the ring. On Tuesday, CNN released its pro-Seattle piece, written by a Seattle […]
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Handy Farmer’s Market Map
Looking for some greens on a Thursday afternoon? Wanting to grub on free samples in Troutdale? Hankering for some strawberries in Boring? Have I got the map for you. The Oregonian‘s MIX magazine made this extremely handy interactive map of the local plethora of farmer’s markets—including when they run and what they offer. Being the […]
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Garnish Expands to the West Side (And They’re Hiring)
Northeast Alberta boutique Garnish, primarily featuring the design work of proprietress Erica Lurie, is expanding its empire into the Pearl District as soon as early June at 404 NW 12th. (between Flanders and Glisan). Clearly the shop—which specialize in easy-wearing dresses and separates that lend themselves to personalization rather than making their own loud statements—has […]
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Awesome PDX Launch Party
Medium-sized novelty check. Last night I dropped by the launch party for Awesome Portland, a microfunding organization that doles out $1,000 “minigrants” to deserving projects—no strings attached. The organization, which has branches worldwide but just launched locally, asks its trustees to contribute $100 every other month; they then choose five finalists from a pool of […]
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The New AIGA Portland
The Portland chapter of AIGA—the professional association for designers—just completely revamped their web site, adding new featured content as well as a cosmetic refresh. Portland’s long been known as a hotspot for graphic design (and interactive and experiential design, etc), and AIGA offers a lot of great opportunities for its members, from career tools and […]
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Reed College Students: Good at Huffing Bongs… Not So Good at Spelling
As Pat Sajak, host of Wheel of Fortune, aptly notes, “It’s a weird game, and you just never know.” Translated: “You are a dope-huffing pot head stoner Reed student and you’ve just embarrassed your entire college and town on national TV.” In his defense… okay, there’s no defense.
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Your Mercury-Approved Voting Cheat Sheet
I don’t always follow the Mercury‘s endorsements—this year, in at least one big race, I split from our guide (writing in “Robb Stark, King in the North” for mayor actually makes a lot of sense if you just think about it for a minute). That said, I generally find our picks to be pretty dead-on—our […]
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Portland’s Most Inspiring Makers
Man, has it already been a year? It has. For the second time, Hand-Eye Supply is sending a float to the Starlight Parade in honor of Portland people who make things: artists, builders, designers, etc. Public voting has closed, but tonight the shop is throwing a party at which the honorees will be announced, so […]
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Mayor Adams Now Responsible for Reminding You to Put Your Garbage Out
This dingaling twitters: Mayor Adams responds: Dingaling responds back: Can you seriously blame him for not wanting to run again? Portland isn’t a daycare, dingalings!
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Re-Scoring “Finding Oregon”
According to Oregonlive, this time-lapse video of Portland received a “two-minute ovation” at TEDx recently. Which is fine, because it’s pretty and impressive, but the way it’s scored makes me feel like Portland is moments from being eradicated in a Cylon attack—like everything in these pictures is gone. (Which I guess it is, in a […]
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Portland Parks & Rec Announces $5 “Fun Run” Series
I’ve only done one “fun run.” It was not, in fact, “fun,” and I may have almost punched a child dressed as a strawberry who abruptly ran out in front of me. THAT BEING SAID, Portland Parks and Rec just announced a “$5 5k” series, which is cheap enough that I’d give the whole thing […]