From the Metro website: “Visitors to Cooper Mountain Nature Park enjoy the 3.5 miles of trails that wind through the natural area, but one little gal calling the park home this summer prefers the pond.” It’s a snake. See the video below or click here.
http://youtu.be/Y2hkp12fwb0 The early years of Lollapalooza were a stentorian, sensual, bacchanalian, coming out party for Pacific Northwest music and zeitgeist. Isolated by geography and a lack of relevance to the LA-New York pop culture axis, Portland and Seattle developed extreme expressions of solidarity with the burgeoning alternative movement: Grunge music, outrageously eccentric sexual personae, slackerdom …
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According to the Seattle Times: “The FBI is investigating a “credible” lead in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case, nearly 40 years after a tall, dark-complexioned man hijacked a Seattle-bound Boeing 727 on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 and parachuted into history from the rear of the plane with $200,000 in cash.” “We do have a promising lead,” …
Dead Memories Portland is an open Facebook group dedicated to sharing memories of great things in Portland and the Pacific Northwest which are now gone. You’ll find it here. Thanks to Joel Patrick for the heads up.
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. The riverside Siren seems to have attracted more brilliant minds in recent years than the Manhattan Project. While nothing explosive will likely come of it, the rush of settlers to Portland has certainly resulted in a remarkable array of talent. A prime example is Dominic Castillo, frontman of Ravishers, whose eponymous, full-length debut album …
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Pitter patter snare drumming, swirling guitar, ethereal vocals and spinning counter clockwise video move you forward visually thru this dreamy tune. There is an edge, a lilting howl that moves breezily and dreamlike as faces appear and fade like so many leaves passing in the wind. Sullenly we are asked to cover our trail lest …
Portland’s Michael Dean Damron began exorcising his demons about 12 years ago, and lucky for us, it’s still a work in progress. Both as a solo artist and with an assembled band of crazy local hotshots dubbed I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House, Damron continually succeeds, however, in enveloping his inner turmoils and …
In John Canzano’s Oregonian column today, he’s convinced Greg Oden is going to be an even bigger disappointment to Trailblazers fans than in the next year or so than he’s been already. He may leave the Blazers as early as summer 2012. Canzano’s column is here.
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This site purports to offer live stream of Game 5 of the Trailblazers vs. Mavericks on 4/25/11 at 8:30 PM: http://livesportsheaven.com/
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A Calfornia Woman made this video documenting her trip to Portland/
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The Oregonian is in the middle of an excellent, in-depth examination of the history of Rajneeshpuram in Antelope, Oregon. The paper describes the need for revisiting the story, saying “Twenty-five years later, long-secret government files and now-talkative participants make it clear that things were far worse at Rancho Rajneesh than many realized.” Home page for …
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