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Here’s the description at Kickstarter: We are writing and designing a pocket-sized guide book for bicycling in Portland, Oregon. The book is a companion to our soon-to-be-launched web guide to bicycling in Portland. It’s a travel guidebook, but with a twist. You know all the good stuff at the front of most guide books about …
Here’s another Portland Project on Kickstarter.com, only 48 hours left to donate: Here’s the description: The Portland Eastbank Esplanade Project (PEEP) will temporarily transform the 1.5-mile long Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade into an open-air exhibition space for public art, music, and performance, showcasing new and existing work by regional creatives. This is part of the …
Meanwhile, in Chicago, no one knows or cares that the city has a soccer team: . . .
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Kickstarter.com is featuring a Portland Project right now. Here’s the description, “On July 23rd, 2011 , Hawthorne will have its first annual Local Apparel Design Fashion Show. The Fashion Show is about sustainability through local production. It is no secret that Portland has amazing apparel designers, but it is still an on-going effort to bring …
This one was posted late last night and had only five views thus far. It’s a perfect representation of Portland. Give it a try:
This is way better than the title, and it’s not Oregon-specific:
The Portland Mercury describes Nasalrod in this way: “Witnessing a Nasalrod show is like watching the guy at the freak show hammer nails into his nose. It’s a fascinating and perplexing display of talent and pure lunacy. Chairman, the band’s crazy-eyed hyperactive front man, flails around the room with complete disregard for his own personal …
This vid was posted to Youtube in November of 2008, but could just as easily be true today or ten years earlier, in 1998, or in 1988, 1978 or 1968: . Here are some bands mentioned in the above video: . . . .