PortlandtownUSA by Pancake Breakfast Our city’s most festive collective, Pancake Breakfast, has a new single for this young, new year, and hey! It’s about the city where you live! “PortlandtownUSA” (my spellcheck does not recognize “PortlandtownUSA” as a word—however, my spellcheck also does not recognize the word “spellcheck”) is a one-off from Mike Midlo and […]
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More Retail Shakeups for the West End
More retailers are flocking to fill in the remaining empty retail spaces in downtown Portland’s happening “West End” neighborhood. First, Pinkham Millinery is giving up its longtime spot in Morgan’s Alley and moving in across the street from Frances May, with a projected opening date of January 4. Shortly thereafter, Pearl District shop Parallel will […]
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“Overnight Sleeping” Plan Advances—Amid Spirited Defense of Old Town Tent Refuge
Denis C. Theriault As promised by Commissioner Nick Fish’s office last week, a pilot project allowing “overnight sleeping” in vehicles parked on religious organizations’ and nonprofits’ parking lots sailed through Portland City Council this morning. But praise for the small-scale plan—merely one attempt to offer relief for the city’s ever-increasing homeless population—was quickly overwhelmed by […]
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How to Deal With a Hideous Barbed Wire Fence
Green Dragon Brewery in Southeast Portland used to face an ugly surface parking lot ringed by a barbed wire fence. No more! Now it faces a jail.
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Trailer for Laika’s ParaNorman
I am super, super sick, which means I am in bed attempting/failing to watch Community through a NyQuil haze/in between disgusting bouts of gut-churning nausea. So I do not have anything clever or original or smart to say about this trailer for ParaNorman, which is the latest from local, Nike-funded stop-motion studio Laika, and their […]
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Join The Dill Pickle Club: Peripheries
Most likely, you are familiar with Portland’s Dill Pickle Club, which is dedicated to “broadening knowledge of Portland’s past, present and future.” If you’ve always wanted to get involved, now may be your chance: Through this Friday (Dec 10) they’re soliciting ideas for their winter series of thematic tours, titled “Peripheries.” If enjoy vague, open-ended […]
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Santagate: Macy’s is on Portland Santa’s Naughty List
Portland’s Santa Phil: Displaced, displeased. The Santas who have run the Santaland at Portland’s Meier and Frank, then Macy’s, for nearly three decades are adding a big name to their naughty list: Macy’s. The Portland Santa company has been contracted to do the whole elf, snow, wish list rigamarole at Portland’s downtown department store for […]
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Re: Umbrellas
In the comments to my whiny rain post this morning, commenter Super Chundy mentioned a Susan Orlean New Yorker article about umbrella design: Hollinger’s umbrella project [….] was set in motion in november of 2004, on a particularly lousy, wet day in Boston. Hollinger was walking through downtown on his way to the Chase Gallery […]
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Portland Is the Worst.
I want to start an Oregonians-with-umbrellas meme, who’s with me? (Also, if anyone has any tips on sturdy umbrella brands, I could use ’em—this happened on the Burnside Bridge this morning and for 20 minutes it was like I was the protagonist in a movie about a high school nerd who eventually gets the girl […]
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City Baby
On Friday night I was lucky enough to wind up with a golden ticket into a very small, private preview of a local film coming through the chutes, City Baby. The purpose of the screening was to get feedback, and while first-time director David Morgan kept insisting that the sound had a lot of work […]
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Multnomah’s Comings and Goings
At least once a week, I meet a Portlander from a different state. Granted, I fall within that category, but it’s always wild how many folks come from so far away to be a part of the Portland experience. How many, you ask? Lucky for us, Forbes has made a fun interactive map showing how […]