I’m not sure why Willamette Week film editor Aaron Mesh apparently has a Google news alert set up for the keywords “Brendan” and “Fraser,” and I’m not gonna ask him, but via the WW‘s non-blog comes the news that HOLY SHIT HARRISON FORD AND BRENDAN FRASER ARE COMING TO PORTLAND! EEEEEEEEEEE! Pictured, left to right: […]
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MAX Fare Woes Highlighted In Video Featuring Hot Reporter
Back in June, I spent a hot Sunday going to a bunch of MAX stations with transportation activist Bob Richardson, for an In The Shadows column. Richardson happened to bring his video camera along, and has put together the following ten-minute account of our experiences on the day. I should warn you, it’s not only […]
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Fur Protesters Stage Graphic PDX Protest
PETA volunteers Meggan Anderson (left) and Krissy Addington lay on the sidewalk at SW Broadway and Yamhill, outside the Nordstrom store, for an hour this afternoon, with their legs in a steel bear trap, covered in fake blood. “It’s a bit chilly for them,” admitted PETA campaigner Nicole Matthews, “But it’s nothing compared to the […]
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Cross-Cultural Adoption Crusader Continues
Carollynn Smith, the 60-year-old North Portland grandmother fighting the Department for Human Services for custody of her two youngest grandchildren, is leading a meeting to discuss cross-cultural adoption at 126 NE Mallory on Monday, January 12th, at 6:30pm. “We’re calling all grandparents in to hear their stories about how their grandchildren have been taken away […]
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Do Your Part
Weather like we’ve had this week is not only tough on the citizenry of Portland, it can be hell for local restaurants. If there isn’t any foot traffic, and people don’t want to drive, business tends to go right into the shitter. I talked to several restaurant owners last week who told me that the […]
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Warming And Boxing
I went on a tour of the city’s homeless warming centers last night. More in the paper next week, but in the mean time I thought you might enjoy these two pictures. First, this is the family warming center at NE 81st and Clackamas, waiting for its clients to arrive… Second, the building used to […]
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Ork Posters Portland Edish
Ork Posters, whose posters and prints feature graphically interesting neighborhood maps of America’s fav cities, were all the rage with the design set last year. Now Portland has our own jam, and isn’t it lovely – though I admit, I’ve never seen a map of Portland where the Willamette River and Burnside weren’t big and […]
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SNOWSTORM APOCALYPSE! ARCTIC BLAST SPECIAL EDITION SURVIVAL GUIDE! (PART II!)
God, I’m an idiot! I totally forgot that if you’re trying to stay alive in these deadly, unheard-of conditions—and if you can’t slice open the corpse of a tauntaun—then you can drink hot chocolate! Hot chocolate was an exotic warm chocolate milk drink. It had many aficionados, some of the most famous being Lando Calrissian […]
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SNOWSTORM APOCALYPSE! ARCTIC BLAST SPECIAL EDITION SURVIVAL GUIDE!
Step one: Find a tauntaun. Huh. Okay. Well, um, actually, I guess there’s only one step, really. So if you can’t find a tauntaun, you’re pretty much fucked. Good luck.
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Damn You, Winter!
The last two days have been cold as hell and absolutely gorgeous. But just when you think the ice and snow is going to slowly disappear and bother us no more, the National Weather Service (NOAA) gives us this delightful warning (note that the all caps are a product of the Weather Service web page, […]
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Holed Up in “Fang House”
Like many Portlanders, I have been stuck for the last 36 hours wherever I happened to be late Saturday night. Bizarrely, this means I have taken up temporary residence in “Fang House” — the Southeast flop of local underage punk band White Fang. I had never met anyone in White Fang before Saturday night but […]
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ARCTIC BLAST! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!
If you were to just look out the window right now, you might think, “Hmm, there are two or three inches of snow on the ground.” Well, you, as usual, would be 100 PERCENT WRONG. If you’re watching the local news, on the other hand—as everyone should be doing, because it is hilarious—you would realize […]