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 […]
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Worn Path to Open This Weekend
A while back I mentioned the forthcoming N Mississippi shop Worn Path, a man-centric destination for “Small ’70s referential cruiser skateboards and supplies, Murdey Surfboards, Poler Camping Stuff, Juniper Ridge teas and household items, Tim Adam bags, books on Northwest plants identification as well as mushrooms and handmade houses, planters made by John Sardari (Goby […]
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Props to Local Lady Baristas
Can we get a what what for these Northwest ladies that currently grace the cover of Barista Magazine? Yeah. Pick up a copy. It presents a new angle of the community aspect of the coffee industry, (ignoring the one where where baristas roll their eyes at decaf mocha orders) focusing on the position of women […]
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Quick Update on the Clinton Street Theater
Lani Jo Leigh, one of the Clinton Street Theater’s new owners, swung by the Mercury offices yesterday afternoon to drop off a review copy of A Drummer’s Dream, which will be opening at the Clinton next Friday. She was also kind enough to tolerate me while I pestered her with some questions about what’s next […]
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No Longer the Hipster-iest City in America
We’re number two! We’re number two! And guess who made the top spot in Travel + Leisure‘s “America’s Best Cities of Hipsters” list? IT’S NOT US. Think about it for a second, and hit the jump for the answer! ••• No. 1 Seattle These northwesterners prove that a key to hipsterness is being ahead of […]
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Clinton Street Theater: SOLD
Well, that was quick. About a month after putting it on the market, Seth Sonstein has sold the Clinton Street Theater. “For the last eight-and-a-half years I have had the opportunity to run the coolest movie theater, in the coolest neighborhood, in the coolest city in America,” Sonstein said in an email he sent out […]
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The Pothole Hotline: Actually Works
I had never used Portland’s Pothole Hotline (503-823-BUMP) before Tuesday. There are so many potholes on the streets that I cynically assumed it was an act of bureaucratic futility. After all, if a pothole bothered me, surely many before me had already made the call and the repair order was simply languishing at the end […]
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Setting Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis’ Wildwood to Film
This is a very pretty short video about Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis’ YA book Wildwood. It was produced—for fun, not profit—by Dave Weich and Kami Gray and a whole host of artsy types over at Sheepscot Creative, where they captured the fog-enshrouded Ghost Bridge of St. Johns, and built a set to look like […]
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Portland Dubbed “Greenest City” by Travel Mag
Travel + Leisure Magazine labeled Portland “where every day feels like Earth Day”, OR “America’s Greenest City” in its most recent issue. What that means, it’s hard to tell. Apparently the “grooviness” of the locals is a significant factor. All I know is that any article that highlights Mill Ends Park is a success.
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The 52 Dresses Project
Ashley Riewer, who spends most of her time as a hairstylist, decided to make 2012 a year of creative challenges. A longtime home sewer, she took things up a notch when she started taking classes at Portland Sewing, then a step even further with the self-appointed 52 Dresses Project, in which she, in true blog […]
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Listen Up City Hall: “I Support the Portland Safety Net”
Photos courtesy of Israel Bayer Housing Commissioner Nick Fish Thanks to a vortex of budget pain—including dropping redevelopment tax revenue, vanishing federal funds, and citywide cutbacks—the Portland Housing Bureau will find itself in a tough spot this year: Absent a miraculous infusion of city council support, it’s going to have do less with less, at […]