Portland Saturday Market reopens for spring and summer season on Saturday, March 5, 2011. http://www.portlandsaturdaymarket.com/ Market hours: SATURDAYS 10 – 5pm SUNDAYS 11 – 4:30pm
Foggy Cannon Beach Timelapse from Valorie Unruh on Vimeo.
This is trending big in Portland today:
Yes, the hilarious Carrie Brownstein-Fred Armisen tv comedy, Portlandia, will be back next year. This is very good news. Full story is here.
For perhaps the first time in Grammy Award history, the winner of the Best New Artist Grammy is actually an artist. East Portland’s hot, young and talented jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding surprised everyone by beating out Youtube sensation and all around nice guy, Justin Bieber. Immediately after her victory, outraged Bieber fans hacked Esperanza’s Wikipedia …
This won’t be for everyone, but it’s definitely art. Gotta love the Rickenbacher fuzz bass:
Full story is here: Man dies after wait for ambulance in hospital lot
They love the Beatles and the British Invasion, or at least sound as if they do. Their album, Madeline, will drop on 2/15/2011. Here’s a nifty live clip from the Crystal Ballroom: Here’s a tender love song from Paul, er Derby: . Band Website = Derbyrock.com .
STOLEN FOOD CART BENEFIT CONCERT On Saturday, February 5, 2011, A La Carts Food Pavilion (4926 SE Division St with an entrance on SE 50th Ave) will hold a Portland foodie community event to benefit the owners of Azul Tequila Mexican Taqueria, the food cart stolen from the A La Carts food pod on January …
Go here – “Canzano: Where the football meets the fish and chips.”
The New York Times has decided to have some fun at Portland’s expense in an article titled, “Can a City This Self-Serious Take a Joke?” which contains such big city literary observations as the following: “For years, many residents here have reacted with practiced apathy and amusement toward the national fascination with Portland. Outsiders and …
You’ve got to be good to make art out of a muddy river, but that’s what these folks did. Here’s how the creators describe their vid on Youtube, “We drove around Zig Zag, Welches, and Brightwood to see all the flooding and finally arrived at Lolo Pass just as the road was about to wash …
Corin Tucker, once the siren of Sleater-Kinney, has a new band, the Corin Tucker Band, a new album, “1000 Years,” and, most importantly, a new hat. (Click here for Ken Tucker’s review): Meanwhile, ex-bandmate Carrie Brownstein has a new TV show with SNL’s Fred Armisen.
Portlanders take their food cart dining very seriously. Thus, when one of East Portland’s food carts was reported stolen yesterday, there was a hue and cry that crime and criminals had gone too far this time and taken the tacos right from our gaping mouths. That was yesterday. Today we’re happy to announce that the …
East Portland’s Lloyd Center Mall is a dimly lit, uncomfortably shaped and poorly designed mall. For that reason, this flash mob never finds the right place to strut their stuff while being heard and seen, but you have to give them an E for East Portland and for Effort. Still, the quarrelsome flamenco flash in …
“Weren’t Young Fresh Fellows more important in the grand scheme of things than Nirvana? And wasn’t Popllama more significant than SubPop? – East Portland Blog Critic’s Roundtable, Part 1 (This conversation has four parts.) Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 Through the 1980s a couple of different strains ran through …
Thanks to Randy Rendfeld for this: The NPR interview with Colin Meloy of Portland band, the Decemberists, and their new album, The King is Dead (available as of 1/18/2011) may be heard here at the NPR website. And here’s Calamity Song, a nifty homage to Reckoning-era REM on the new album:
In the greater Portland area there are 160 music venues, give or take a few, that will feature live music on any given night, many featuring music everyday of the week. It really is a music lover’s paradise. Reggae, punk, indie, alt, rock, you name it, Portland has got it. Having lived in or around …
It’s the holidays, and that means it’s time for Pink Martini. Randy Rendfeld sent me several excellent links to Pink Martini material, past and present: The Pinksters performed on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Monday, 12/20/2010. Just two days earlier (12/18/2010), Thomas (Lauderdale), China (Forbes) and the gang brought their rollicking genre-bending orchestra to …
The Dream of the 90s is alive in Portland! This new cable TV series, called Portlandia, starts January 10 and promises either quirky greatness or an epic meta hipster fail. Starring, along with SNL’s Fred Armisen, one-time Portlander Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, author of “Call the Doctor,” one of the great tunes of the 90s, …
I must admit, I had assumed Portland would be the last place on earth for a Christmas-related terror attempt: . Somali-born teen arrested in car bomb plot Feds supplied dud in sting at downtown Portland, Ore., Christmas tree lighting ceremony PORTLAND, Ore. — A Somali-born teenager plotted to carry out a car bomb attack at …
. It’s 2AM and I’m in the middle of a modern day Currier and Ives print. The parking lot is enervated, electric. A dazed polyglot of satisfied Walmart shoppers recess the aluminum store with armloads of discounted clothing. Cut rate electronics drop at sunup. Cellular reception bars are firm and plenteous, the inky skies are …
. . Portland has a new television Station and it’s number 36. Better Life Broadcasting Network, a 3ABN affiliate, has begun broadcasting free over the air on KEVE, digital channel 36-1. Viewing KEVE may require redoing the channel scan feature on your digital television or converter box. Programming is free and an antenna is all …
Vandals deface Mormons’ new meeting house in West Linn “From the nature of the graffiti, I’d have to say it wasn’t a terribly well thought-out attack on the church. You’d think if they really had something against Mormons, they’d at least know how to spell it” -Sgt. Neil Hennelly on anti “Morman” graffiti sprayed on …