This is just awful. I don’t want to live here anymore. KGW’s lovely Abbey Gibb files an informative news feature on just how Portland’s awful history of human trafficking is revealed in a network of underground tunnels downtown: http://www.kgw.com/entertainment/Sha-138610174.html Thanks to Ben Easher for this 1999 article from Anodyne Magazine Online which includes such tidbits …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrpBTIAWDBM Stone in Love, the West Coast’s foremost Journey tribute band is based right here in Portland. They will perform at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle on February 11 at 8pm and the Star Theater in Portland on May 19 at 6pm. Just watch the videos here or listen to the sound clips on their …
Video: Finding Oregon Time-Lapse
Summer is just around the corner and it is time to start making vacation plans. Will you be traveling to Portland? If not, why not? Portland has many things to entice tourists including proximity to Oregon scenery such as Crater Lake. Robert has compiled for you below some excellent photos of one of his trips …
Jonathan Toubin is a New York DJ who was on a tour stop in Portland and sleeping in his downtown motel room Dec. 8 when a cabbie had a medical episode and crashed his cab into Toubin’s room, injuring Toubin severely. He’s still in ICU and Gail Worley writes here about the upcoming fundraiser for …
10:33pm Christmas Night – Fear not, Portland, I’m back. It’s late on Xmas day and the Bard of Black Friday, the poet of post-Christmas discount shopping, is back in the snippy, brisk Walmart parking lot coming to you live and bringing you all the latest news of crowds, shopper’s riots, pepper spraying for bargains and …
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Peacock Lane, the Grotto and the Zoo Lights are all overrated. The best Christmas lights in the Portland area (and perhaps the world) are the free Starkwood neighborhood display. You may drive or walk through. Just about every house in the neighborhood is lit up and they’re beautiful together. To get there, just head north …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEsEIJd7mp8 At this time last year, KGW’s Abbey Gibb was shivering in Spokane’s cold and laboring at that market’s woebegone NBC affiliate, KREM. She was just a recent San Diego State, Magna Cum Laude, Valedictorian, journo grad with a dream to anchor in the big leagues and a Society of Professional Journalists award for excellence …
“… for as long as the world still spins and still hums, wherever you are, and no matter what comes — the best part of Christmas will always be… you beneath my Christmas tree.” — The Spirit of Christmas, 2009 The best children’s book is one that always prompts a kid’s heart to soar – …
I am no stranger to lefse, having eaten the delicious, Norwegian, tortilla-like potato pancake/flatbread in such vaunted centers of Scan-American culture as Chicago, Mineapolis and Seattle. I can say with certainty that the 21st Century Lefse served at VIKING SOUL FOOD (VSF), Portland’s only Norwegian inspired soul food fusion cart, is the best I’ve ever …
There was a notorious crash here in Portland in the early morning hours of December 3, 2011 wherein Ndamukang Suh, a professional football player, was driving. One passenger was hurt. Seattle musician, Davin Michael Stedman, a member of Staxx Brothers saw the accident and says in this article that Suh, the driver, watched too much …
When this blog recruited me to introduce a YouTube clip of Dead Moon playing “It’s O.K.” in Hannover, Germany, two thoughts came to mind. First, the history of the band. The long version can be found on their archived website and in the documentary film Unknown Passage. The short version: Longtime Portland musical couple Fred …
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Full story is on C/Net here and Oregonlive here.
When people ask why I left Seattle in 2005, I never tell them real reason which was, “Because I stopped drinking the coffee.” Seattle is only fun while you’re drinking coffee. Once you stop drinking their delicious coffee it becomes obvious that you have to leave. I was about 30 when I moved to Seattle …
10PM – Black Friday started early this year, around 6 pm on Thanksgiving Day when my lovely wife and I headed to Portland MOR American cuisine stalwart The Village Inn near 102nd and Stark NE for their Turkey Day bird or ham plus fixins and pie for $13.75 special. We needed lots of solid food …
Music historians rarely mention the Rats except when listing bands that Portland singer/songwriter/guitarist Fred Cole played in before Dead Moon. In fact, the Rose City’s alternative music scene of the early 1980s is mostly regarded as a footnote to the hype generated in Seattle a decade later. When former Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis invited …
On Thursday, 11/17/2011, Portland’s supercool, cassette-only, indie label, Apes Tapes, will celebrate one full year in business and the release of a sensational new mix tape (Mixed Ape) of local artists with a celebratory show at Holocene featuring ONUINU, ADVENTURES! WITH MIGHT, (a reunion performance of) VANIMAL, XDS and PEGASUS DREAM with special mini sets …
They’ve been around since 2003, but I just discovered Portland Radio Authority. Here’s how they explain themselves on their website: The PRA is a non-commercial, listener supported, online radio station. As a free form community media source, we are committed to bringing independent artistry and marginalized viewpoints into regional and international view. We aim to …
I began my journey, nine-years-old, walking up SE Powell St towards my grandmother’s house. My cousin and I had our allowance of five dollars each and could have used the money to get on the bus instead of walking the 100 blocks to her house but it was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, …
At Intermittent Signals, Steve Stav has some fantastic material on Northwest singer-songwriter, Danny O’Keefe: One of country’s great singer-songwriters has lived in the Pacific Northwest most of his life, but a relative few northwesterners recognize Danny O’Keefe’s name. More will recognize at least two of his songs, however. Jackson Browne covered O’Keefe’s “The Road” for …
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Stray Boots Scavenger Hunts, a mobile tech company, will soon be launching Portland: The Game, an interactive scavenger hunt/city tour which shows players the best of their town by using cell phones as tour guides. Customers receive challenges by text message, explore the area to find the answers, and learn fun facts about the neighborhood …
Bike Ride On The Water Front Portland from Anthony, Anthony on Vimeo.
CYP2 Spring Retrospective from IHEARTCOMIX Records on Vimeo. The legendary LA based bi-weekly party, Check Yo Ponytail 2, is coming to Portland 10/26 at Branx, Seattle 10/27 at Neumos and Chicago 10/28 at The Mid!. Organized by Franki Chan (IHEARTCOMIX), Danny Johnson (Media Contender) and Zane Landreth, the CYP2 tour features an eclectic mix of …
“Last September, Carrie Brownstein wrote, “I have no desire to play music unless I need music.” During her post-Sleater-Kinney forays into music blogging and sketch comedy, she explained, “I started to need music again, and so I called on my friends and we joined as a band.” Hence: Wild Flag, a new group she’d formed …
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