GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! My love, do you ever dream of candy coated raindrops? You’re the same, my candy rain. LET’S GO TO PRESS. A wet and joyous celebration yesterday for our returning heroes, the Portland Timbers who led a packed parade and rally at Providence Park. Read all about the fun with a recap from […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
STORIES—The gang from the historical storytelling series Stumptown Stories is gathering in a cozy basement bar to regale you with stories of Portland’s past, of murder and chaos, Christmas mysteries and Hanukkah paradises. They promise thrilling holiday tales, plus a jam-packed raffle and a mythical beast called Sober Santa. You don’t have to be sober, […]
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It’s Happening Tonight!
MUSIC—In a season piled high with saccharine and facile gratitude, let’s be truly thankful for easy choices. When Alabama Shakes brings its soaring, soulful strains to West Burnside this evening, you will either be in attendance or you will have consigned yourself to a tuneless and coal-dusted holiday purgatory. Can’t get tickets? Listen from the […]
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Ten Songs to Listen to as We Drown in the Flood
No, I’m not including “When the Levee Breaks” and get the hell outta here with “Riders on the Storm.”
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Good Morning, News: TIMBERS WIN, TIMBERS WIN, TIMBERS WIN… and other news, too, I guess.
GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Bury me at sea, where no murdered ghost can haunt me. If I rock upon the waves, then no corpse can lie upon me. LET’S GO TO PRESS. Let’s start with the good news! The Portland Timbers beat the Columbus Crew 2-1 to bring the MLS cup to our hometown. Read our […]
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Good Morning, News!: Hazelnut Grove Can Stay, Women Can Go to War, and Bud Weisser Gets Arrested at Budweiser
Hazelnut Grove residents Good morning, Blogtown! Let’s have some news: The Overlook Neighborhood Association wrote a letter to Mayor Charlie Hales requesting the city move Hazelnut Grove, an ever-growning homeless camp on Greeley Ave. The mayor’s office says the camp can stay. Hales is currently in Paris representing the city in a mayor’s summit on […]
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It’s Happening This Weekend!
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 IMPROV—The perma-hilarious Shelley McLendon’s brand-new Siren Theater’s been a game-changer for Portland comedy, and tonight’s installment of the new improv show Leviathan is too, pairing words from guest monologist Stephanie Schneiderman with off-the-cuff merriment from a goddamn dream team of improvisers. If you’re allergic to college-basement improv, McLendon & Co. will restore […]
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The Nice Guys Trailer: Don’t Worry, You Can Make It to 2016, Because There’s a New Shane Black Movie
Via People As if knowing the deepest depths of holiday malaise are currently feasting upon our souls, draining us dry of joy and pleasure, today the movie gods have given us a gift—a gift to remind us that, after this shitty month full of shitty news and shitty obligations, and after that next shitty stretch […]
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Good Morning, News: R2DToo Might Be Evicted, ISIS Connections in California Shooting, and C-bus Is Afraid of a Log!
Michael Wright, who still owns the Old Town corner lot where homeless camp Right 2 Dream Too sits, says he needs the money promised to him once he sells the plot to the City of Portland—$1.2 million. Now, with plans to move R2DToo across the river going slowly, Wright says he might evict the camp […]
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It’s on TV: The Wiz Live! (Uh-oh.)
NBC loooooooves their live theatrical productions (as in their terrible version of The Sound of Music, and the not-exactly-terrible version of Peter Pan) because they are always ratings winners—which probably has a lot to do with hate-watching? WHATEVER. Tonight they’re doing it again with a live theatrical remake of The Wiz (8 pm, NBC) starring […]
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ICYMI: San Bernardino Shooting Recap
Yesterday Morning, a Holiday Party in Southern California Turns Deadly: A man who worked as an environmental inspector for the county health department in San Bernardino left a holiday party held at the Inland Regional Center, which provides services for people with developmental disabilities, in anger after a dispute. He Returned with His Wife, Assault […]
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Good Morning, News!: San Bernardino Update, Extended Maternity Leave, and Bob Ross
It’s a rainy, wet Thursday, Blogtown! Let’s have some news. Authorities have identified the two shooters in yesterday’s rampage in San Bernardino, and more details are coming in. We heard a lot yesterday about how there have been more mass shootings in 2015 than there have been days, including a second one yesterday that didn’t […]