Starting your holiday weekend early? Here’s your guide to the first day of the Waterfront Blues Festival.
Inclusionary zoning isn’t coming to Oregon this legislative session, which is crummy news for pretty much everyone who can’t afford skyrocketing rent.
Parking is so bad, that apparently no one notices when it gets even worse. The Portland Bureau of Transportation has sold more than 1,000 more parking permits for Northwest Portland than it has spaces for, but at least one resident hasn’t noticed the already bad situation getting worse.
Gentrification is so bad, that apparently the City of Portland is adding a bunch of new words to the updated comprehensive land-use plan in an attempt to keep it from getting worse.
Whoops! The alarm that shut down a Washington DC shipyard was a false alarm.
Four children between ages 10 and 12 are being charged in the blaze that destroyed Eugene’s 73-year-old Civic Stadium.
Deepwater Horizon owners BP, the company responsible for the 2010 oil spill on the Gulf Coast, have really deep pockets: the government has ordered them to pay $18.7 billion.
A robot in Germany grabbed a 22-year-old man and crushed him to death. Let’s all just go back to bed now.
Metaphorically speaking, the Internet is doing the same to our brains.
The TransAsia pilot responsible for a dramatic crash that killed 43 people a little more than a year ago pulled the wrong throttle, cutting power to the plane’s only working engine.
Debbie Harry is 70 today. These pictures of the music icon will make you happy. Or at least they made me happy.
Stephen Colbert makes me happy too:
MS. HARRY’S BIRTHDAY WAS YESTERDAY, SHELBY. SHOW A LITTLE RESPECT.
HAVING A WARM THOUGHT FOR DEBBIE HARRY IS TIMELESS COMMA AND BESIDES DON’T NOBODY REMEMBER MY BIRTHDAY NEITHER.
I’ll be 79 on the 24th of this month.