Hello, Portland.
I have some thoughts for you today that are more personal in nature than my usual musings on basketball or pet peeves. I have some confessions to make. Hold on to your wetness wicking socks…
I, Radio Gretchen, have never had a manicure, pedicure, massage or [...]
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for November 19th:
Why We Care About 30HourDay, And Why You Need To | The Iterasi BlogSerial technology entrepreneur (and Iterasi CEO) Pete Grillo is anything but a Grinch this holiday [...]
subtitled ‘The Ignite vs. BackFence PDX Epic Clash This Thursday Night’…
Once upon a time, we used to huddle around fires at night to keep warm. In order to fool ourselves into thinking we were safe from the wilding hordes, we told stories. Lots and lots [...]
I’ve been doing a slow burn about this for months now — but the match hit the haystack Saturday afternoon.
See, over the last few months, I’ve been trying to reduce my driving trips downtown. Between the challenges finding on-street parking, the non-functioning new smart readers, [...]
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for November 16th:
Oregon’s unemployment levels off, but workers are leaving the state’s labor force | Econ International BlogFor the policy wonks in the house, a blog that’s new to me [...]
Friday night’s episode was different than any we’ve done before, but we felt like it was the best possible way to get you in touch with what John Nastos and Clay Giberson are doing with the Duo Chronicles. Check out [...]
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) from November, oh, 5th, no 10th, no…screw it, let’s just call it a November-ish roundup, shall we? I’m starting with the most timely first, more contemplative posts closer near the end…
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I suppose at some point it’s every kid’s fantasy to have their school burn down. (”But Maaaawmm, I don’t wanna go to school!”) Sometimes what sounds good in theory sucks in real life, as roughly 500 people found out this week. Marysville School in Southeast Portland [...]
Unless you’ve been purposefully avoiding downtown, you should have noticed that the Christmas…er…”holiday” lights have been up for a while already. Just recently some little conifers in wooden planters appeared along the sidewalks, each one' [...]
It’s been Blast-From-The-Past time at local radio stations.
In light of recent changes to the radio station I usually listen to, I’ve been surfing the dial. While my preference of music-style at work tends to be harder-edged, the only real requirement is that I like what I’m [...]
We knew NBC had been in town in late August to follow Dieselboi around on a typical food cart odyssey. We knew that they’d been at the food carts at SE Hawthorne & 11th late on a Friday evening to observe the scene for themselves. And [...]
Friday night we were joined in studio by Scott McCarty and the entire Locket2You team. While we chatted with Scott on the couch Miranda and MeaganKate [...]
The Freakpop Warlords of The Nothwest….WIZARD BOOTS, bring you a truly unique live show for a very special Friday the 13th at The Twilight Cafe with our friends MODA and Fun Yeti. That’s this Friday down at 1420 SE Powell….it’s only 3 bucks [...]
For most Portlanders Dundee, Oregon is just the slow spot on Highway 99. But if you were to pause on your way to the casino, take a deep breath and look around, you might find that Dundee possesses a variety of charms. The surrounding countryside features [...]
Hello, Blazer Fans.
A few weeks ago, I was so excited because Blazer season was starting back up and that meant it was time for me to put my sports writer hat back on. I really enjoyed writing my Blazer posts last year, especially considering that I [...]
Tired of the dreary weather already? Need an excuse for a cheap date? Step right up, have I got a deal for you!
It’s the first Friday of the month, which means it’s time for Cort and Fatboy’s Midnight Movie. November’s selection? The Coen Brothers’ Raising Arizona.
This [...]
The faithful started gathering shortly after six, standing in the cold rain outside the studio in Pioneer Courthouse Square. As the downpour increased in intensity, some moved down the steps under the shelter of the overhang. A crowd standing around outside a television studio is nothing [...]
Social media has come a long way in the last couple of years. Remember when it was socially incorrect to handle invitations, break-ups etc… by e-mail, and we were supposed to send a letter or, heaven forbid, pick up a phone and actually call someone? I [...]
I know what you did last night…
Well, I know what some of you did last night. For the first time since 1998, Halloween fell on a Saturday night. Portlanders seemed to treat it accordingly.
I skipped dressing up this year. I had no real inspiration, no event [...]
(T)he(y) had a lot to say;
(T)he(y) had a lot of nothing to say,
We’ll miss them.
We’re gonna miss them…
As fans of Portland’s rowdiest rock station know, major shakeups have been happening. KUFO has gutted its on-air staff and brought in “talent” from around the [...]
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for October 28th:
If Criticism is Dead, Nobody Mourned « Steven WallingCan you take a moment from mourning the lost art of print newspapering to spare some sympathy for the critic? [...]
As I was leaving Mt. Tabor Middle School yesterday, I happened upon this sign stapled to a telephone pole in the neighborhood:
I guess here is where I admit that I’m a visual person, so I started thinking about what the scenarios looked [...]
Portland is such a beautiful city during the sunny summer months, but the transition into the darkness of winter is not a pretty one. My Monday morning Twitter stream was full of tweets about heavy rains and self-diagnosis of various diseases. It was as if I [...]
at Pioneer Courthouse Square. That’s a bold fashion statement.
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Cort and Fatboy in first full interview since KUFO massacre | Oregon Media CentralFrom the interview…
OMC: What's the most realistic, concrete way that Portland radio could be made [...]
It seems that Vancouver (yes, the Couve) has a bit of a branding issue. Going beyond the problem of being the other Vancouver, located in the other Clark County, located inside the other Washington, Portland’s largest suburb is beginning [...]
Friday night we were joined in studio by Curtis Chen, better known to you twitter types as sparCKL. The two episodes can be easily broken down so I think I’ll do just that:
In the Tech episode we talk to Curtis [...]
…so what does PDX have when the weather just calls out for hot, slurpy soup? A quick & dirty Twitter poll from the @ourpdx account netted the following:
@taradublinrocks: Matzoh ball soup from @mothersbistro @photobyamber: For when we are sick, homemade chicken noodle all the [...]I’m going to try to refrain from using foul language, but no promises. I’m writing this in a fit of barely contained rage.
Alpha Broadcasting has recently purchased several local radio stations, including KUFO. KUFO has never been the pinnacle of highbrow music, but it feeds the [...]
Portlanders, welcome to the dark ages. That’s what I was told by a bus driver after moving to Portland back in 1997. The driver told me to enjoy the summer, because Portland typically gets six to seven months of gray days and long nights, which he [...]
I can’t recall a show in recent history where there was more talking than this episode. Will Radik and Bobby “Fatboy” Roberts can talk. I mean really, I know this is a talk show but the mouthiness of the [...]
Those of us of a certain age grew up watching The Addams Family and The Munsters on TV. In those days neighborhoods had more of a manicured, cookie cutter image. The thought of a haunted house on your street was just that: a thought. Nowadays, we [...]
I went to a concert Wednesday night. It featured music and video projection and was a nostalgia trip for many, while providing an introduction to fans that weren’t even born when the music was written and first performed.
At first glance, one might suspect that Weird Al [...]
I’m becoming downright fond of the new Green Line. By hopping on a MAX at lunchtime, I can visit entirely new food carts, carts previously unattainable given the state of my ancient and creaking knees and the temporal limits of my lunch hour.
I was on such [...]
Deep in our secret subterranean podcasting lair we nestled into our seats with dark sunglasses to talk to Robert Wagner, a man better known to most of you as Pdxsucks… Yeah, that Robert Wagner.
Join us for the Tech Edition [...]
I’ve never been bitten by the gambling bug. I learned early on in life that I should never bet anything I’m not willing to lose. Ten bucks? I can afford to lose that once in a while.
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for October 9th:
EAT.DRINK.THINK.: It’s not your mother’s CastagnaEveryone is invited to share Portland photography with the OurPDX community by participating in the OurPDX Flickr group.
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“Well, ain’t you Tim the freakin’ Tool Man Taylor!”
So exclaimed one of my bosses, when I told him how I became plumber for a day.
Day before yesterday began as usual. Got up, coffee, puttered around online before work, etc… Took the morning shower. I cannot [...]
I’m sitting here, drinking a beer, ruminating on all the enjoyment I have had blogging for the likes of OurPDX and previously with some of these fine bloggers at Portland Metblogs. Both venues have allowed me to tell Portland about my experiences and my [...]
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Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for October 6th:
Dwight Jaynes | No Comcast? You may be able to see Trail Blazer games this season after allCan it be so? Dwight says this unconfirmed rumor just might [...]
With the signature campaign to recall Portland Mayor Sam Adams failing to meet the basic requirements, Portland residents in favor of the recall are not giving up. In a surprising turn, “Recallers” are now focusing their efforts on a different issue: The lingering question of the [...]
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It’s the smell of manure in the hallways of the Rose Quarter. It’s the dark brown dirt — several feet deep — that covers the basketball court. It’s the chatter in the women’s bathroom about which bull rider is cutest. It’s the real cowboys dressed up [...]
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for October 5th:
Art Scatter » Oregon Ballet Theatre: Can this marriage be saved?Former Oregonian arts writer Bob Hicks weighs in on the ongoing OBT drama (which I'd totally missed until [...]
Sometimes we like to branch out a little bit and give you tech types a bit of culture. A little something to think about. Gaze at. Feel.
That’s just we we did with last week’s episode of Strange Love Live. We invited photographer and artist [...]
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While walking around the inner city core, I spend a lot of time looking down. What with broken glass, gobs of spit, doggie leftovers, the omnipresent pierced-headed panhandlers and other wonderful things in my path, every step holds the potential for messy disaster. I keep my [...]
Last Friday I came home to what looked like — at first, anyway — some wind-blown containers scattered around my yard. But when I went to pick them up, I discovered some burn marks in my lawn and a circle of flammable material underneath the bedroom [...]
As we sat in the studio with Steven Walling of AboutUs Friday night I was amazed at the number of zingers he was able to throw in. I’m not going to quote any of them… but I can tell you [...]
TriMet’s MAX Green Line has been fully operational for two weeks now. I posted a few observations after the opening weekend, mostly critical. (Older folk are like that, with these confounded new-fangled gizmos…) I knew then that opening weekend would not be a true example of [...]
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Amazingly, no.
It’s not because the performances weren’t magnificent – Rodolfo and Mimi were both heart-breaking, while Musette and Marcello adroitly played tempestuous, fiery lovers. And Sandra Bernhard’s stage direction was masterful, especially Cafe Momus in Act 2.
The music? Superb. Lighting, sets, props? Perfection — [...]
For starters, I should have spent more time reading over the Portland Opera website, especially this section: Etiquette? Who needs any stinkin’ etiquette!. (To my credit, I knew already to silence my cell phone, thanks to the 11-year-old movie-goer.)
I would have spent some time reading [...]
I’ve answered all kinds of questions, whether from my fellow-seat mates “Oh! Are you one of the bloggers?” or from the hordes of people queuing up to go to the restroom during the first intermission who wonder just what we’re doing, how we got this killer [...]
Here’s who I’m sitting alongside, boy-girl, boy-girl style:
The Gospel According to Marc (Acito)
Floyd Sklaver
On Portland
Studio Artist Daryl Freedman
And now? Down to my seat for Act One…
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Sadly, I have a handful of blurry iPhone photos (save for one or two) – but I learned a lot during our whirlwind backstage tour at Keller Auditorium. Let’s see what I can rattle off before they call me to my seat:
The last time La Boheme [...]So I’m here at Keller Auditorium, settling in for my marathon live-blogging session at the Portland Opera. The last (and only) time I got some operatic culture? Last century, in fact — as an elementary-school student on a field trip with my Spanish teacher seeing Carmen [...]
That’s what the Oregonian calls them, “aggressive advocates for environmental or humanitarian groups.” They’re one reason the city is trying to craft a new law to replace “sit/lie”, one that would “protect people’s rights to assemble while setting enforceable rules for sidewalk use.”
Here at [...]
There are only a few local events that I am willing to blatantly pimp (I mean, extol the virtues of) as I do for Back Fence PDX. It’s not just because my beautiful raven-haired friend novelist Melissa Lion and her flaxen-haired comedienne business partner [...]
I got a postcard in the mail today, people. It had some sort of strange mathematical message on it. Perhaps you can help me make heads or tails of the meaning? Dig out the secrets buried within the symbols? I have every confidence that together, we [...]
Yes, looks like this young man is going to make it to the big 4-0 after all. Surely the best entertainment value on a Monday night….NO COVER…AN OVER THE TOP SENSORY OVERLOAD OF LIGHT & SOUND …. DRINK SPECIALS… FABULOUS PRIZES …IMPROPER BEHAVIOUR [...]
In the midst of a bustling (and fantastic) WordCamp Portland put on by Aaron Hockley and a fantastic host of volunteers we took the opportunity to talk with Matt Mullenweg, and since I never resist the [...]
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Mickey Mouse is everywhere these days.
Disney just bought Marvel Comics. They’ve been cornering the market on all things youthful for decades, but it seems they are branching out into the adult world.
Walt Disney allowed use of Donald Duck and Goofy for U of O and OSU [...]
Last weekend, 1500 bicyclists all donned doggy ears, noses and tails and biked from one Lucky Lab to another, shared doggy stories and even pulled their canine buddies around in the 2nd annual Tour de Lab. I snapped a couple pics to give you a feel [...]
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Sometimes you happen upon something that gives you a little bit of a shiver down your spine, on Friday night we had the chance to talk to someone who is working on a project that does just that. We were joined in studio [...]
“It was you, all right? I learned it by watching YOU!”
Kids say and do the darndest things. If we don’t lead by example, our stupidity and laziness gets passed along to future generations. I saw something yesterday that pissed me off and cracked me up at [...]
Flickr member F18E777 captured this photo today of the final Portland-to-Frankfurt Lufthansa flight. As announced in July, Lufthansa is canceling its Portland service due to declining travel numbers. This leaves Northwest’s flight to Amsterdam as Portland’s only direct European [...]
Today was opening day for the new MAX Green Line. Since I had things to do and places to go, and just happened to be downtown near PSU, I decided to take the Green Line home. Allow me to share a bit of the adventure.
I wandered [...]
If you’ve been reading Portland blogs for a while now, you’re probably already familiar with Jack Bogdanski’s ongoing coverage of David, the con man from Welches, Oregon.
Jack started off believing David’s tale back in July of 2007:
Today I’m downtown waiting for the [...]
I like things that entertain me, especially when they exist for the sole purpose of entertaining me. So something called Entertainment for People? Really sounds right up my alley. Who doesn’t like to be entertained right?
Before I go any further here are the [...]
I didn’t get cake and sodomy, but I did get to chill with the beautiful people.
As I get older, the numbers go up but the youthful spirit maintains. While I’m not ready for bucket lists, there are a few things I want to do before I [...]
Friday night we were joined in studio by Josh Bancroft and Jerry Makare to talk about Intel Software Network TV. It was a a good little chat and a great deal of fun [...]
As regular readers know, I spend a lot of time downtown. Just when I think I’ve seen it all, something new comes along. I love the ‘Keep Portland Weird” campaign, but some of you newbies don’t get it. While I’m not the be-all/end-all authority on Weird, [...]
On this week’s Strange Love Live Tech Edition we take a little stretch out of the hard and fast tech world and peek into the creative industry side of things talking with Steve Gehlen and Tad Lukasik about [...]
You would think they had never seen a train before.
I deboarded the bus on Main Street yesterday, and caught my first glimpse of the Yellow Line rolling down SW 6th. I stopped and took in the sight, a momentous occasion. It seemed like a ‘What’s wrong [...]
Soon, you can go there by train.
Where does the time go? Seems only years ago the MAX Green Line started tearing up the I-205 Freeway, remodeling the landscape, keeping traffic interesting. All that fun is coming to fruition. In just sixteen days the Green Line will [...]
“jeff, meet angel
angel, meet jeff
talk amongst yourselves.”
That was how my friend, Jen, had introduced me to tattoo artist Jeff Johnson over e-mail. It was 2006 and I had recently relocated to Portland. At the time, I didn’t know Jeff from Joe Q. Tattoodude except that Jen [...]
TriMet’s new light rail vehicles (purchased to build up the fleet for the upcoming Green Line service) have been described as “sleek” and “sexy.” As I started watching [...]
I learned a very important lesson on our most recent episode of SLL… I’m not cut out to do a food podcast. It isn’t that I don’t like the topic it’s that all that talk of food and eateries makes me so hungry I want to [...]
Every so often you hear about someone in need. It may be a sick child or someone down on their luck or something seriously tragic. Usually, it hits the local news and then drifts of into obscurity. Yeah, people close to the issue keep it alive, [...]
I wish to use this public forum to apologize to my fellow bus riders. I’m sorry. I really stunk up the bus today.
Regular riders of TriMet are familiar with the usual smells. A lack of bathing or laundry, the after-effects of last night’s lasagna or enchiladas, [...]
Hey You!
Do you love your city? Want to help make sure it’s got the right kind of leaders for years to come? Do you worry about the influence of money in politics, or that your City Council is out of touch? Maybe that the wrong people [...]
Some of you are asking yourselves “What the hell is a Puzzle Hunt?”
Good question. A puzzle hunt is an exercise in team puzzle-solving, a contest, and a race. Teams compete against each other in finding and solving puzzles that are hidden in different locations.
The Portland [...]
Every once in a while little things happen that make me smile. Generally it’s the odd little things that make me smile, but they still do the trick.
This is the third time I’ve seen this.
Trade!
Ok well, not these exact shoes, obviously… but for [...]
Well I’m back from my search for the answer to life, the universe and everything.
Tommy Wiseau's The Room
Yes, the answer is still 42, and that’s all I’m saying about that. I mean, hey, go for your own journey to get [...]
With blogs such as this one, or our friends over at Neighborhood Notes, or even the sites managed by Willamette Week and Portland Mercury, will Portland readers be interested in giving another Portland-centric blog some love?
Seattle-based [...]
Last Monday night we had a chance to sit down and catch up with Scott Kveton of Urban Airship and Jason Glaspey at PIE. We recorded our 30 minute chat just for [...]
When I started following people on Twitter, one of the more charming folk I discovered was film director David Lynch, Eagle Scout. For a while he was posting his own daily weather report for the Los Angeles area. Well, [...]
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for August 16th:
The Final Sunday Parkway of 2009 and the Hawthorne Street Fair
I am saddened by the passing of Les Paul — guitar making innovator and player extraordinaire. He was 94 years old. Nothing matches the feeling of plugging his namesake electric guitar into a cranked half stack and crushing out power chords. It feels good in your [...]
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