... was not last night at the 82nd annual Academy Awards, but rather in 1988, when Cameron directed a music video for his buddy Bill Paxton's terrible, terrible band, Martini Ranch. Director James Cameron created the cowboy-themed video for "Reach." The production includes cameos from his soon-to-be-wi

Supra Lockbox Activity -- Week Ending 2/28/10 NOTE:  The Supra Lockbox is the magic access key that allows

Here's 3 Spectacular craft beer events for March.

Here's your disturbing news story to kick off the week, pulled together from information the police released over the weekend.

Freaky.

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7," — that was Sasha counting out in the front yard; I was out there, too, but not watching her; I was looking for buds on the lilac, to no avail — "7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.""Fourteen what, Sasha?""Crocuses!"

Last night the Portland Blazers lost a big game on national television to a clearly superior Denver Nuggets team, and... wait, what? Andre Miller dunked the ball? Without a trampoline? Woah. Where did that come from? Miller hasn't dunked in about three years, so this highlight is about as

Do you love that rock and roll type of music? Do your kids? Well they should and taking in a You Who show is a great way to get them hooked on some great, local indie rock. Here is what’s planned for the rest of the You Who show season: March 28th – Blitzen Trapper, [...]

More than 120 artists contributed work to Buckman Elementary School's 20th annual Art Show an

I couldn't have written it better myself: A deleveraging cycle is much like a secular bear market in that the market experiences a great deal of volatility, but tends to establish a sequence of troughs, each at lower levels of valuation (even if not at lower absolute prices). In that environment, the

Raised in Lake Oswego, Ben Kim plays a demanding program in front of a hometown crowd.

By Jack Lorts of Fossil, Oregon. Jack is the mayor of Fossil, the chair of the Democratic Party in Wheeler County, and is the former chair of the DPO's Rural Caucus. As the deadline for filing approaches for candidates running for Oregon legislative seats, we are learning of more and more exciting candidates. Here in the al

I disagree.

Sailing on an ancient junk boat in Vietnam, riding a rickshaw in Japan or seeing the pyramids on camels – there are thousands of odd and intriguing forms of transportation around the world. Here are some of the strangest: 1. Bamboo Train, Cambodia Between Battambang and Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, you’ll find this

Please see below information I have received about a research study being conducted in California. The researchers are looking for individuals between the ages of 5 - 89 as well as parents whose children are between the ages of 5 - 17. We have chosen to participate in this study. Please contact the researches directly wit

Sex is an issue which divides generations, gender, education, class and just about everything else, despite being a simple fact of life for 100% of the human race. Especially in a culture where sex is everywhere but at the same time forbidden and sordid, open honest and truthful information about the subject is a positive c

A quick download of the day’s events and outcomes, a taste for what the experience of being at Angel Oregon is like from a blend of perspectives, a status update on Portland's startup scene

Scotland’s We Were Promised Jetpacks fuses indie, punk, and pop melodies throughout each of their songs, creating an album perfect for any Monday morning pick-me-up. Throughout the band’s newest album, The Last Place You’ll Look (hitting the U.S. on March 9th), soft guitar tones and chimes offset the meat

Posted by Dan Wheeler FILMUSIK, Portland’s premiere live soundtrack ensemble, are back at the Hollywood Theater from March 10-12. They’ve stripped the original score from the 1952 noir classic Kansas City Confidential and written a new one to be performed live while you watch the film. FILMUISK’s greatest

The starting recognition that how I experience things is shaped by my attitude has this pernicious sprouting of a harsher personal philosophy. If my internal conditions shape experience, and I am responsible for all of those internal conditions, then I am entirely responsible for my own happiness. It doesn’t matter w

As of today, I am officially a fulltime Automattic employee! I’ve been contracting with Automattic for a few months now but didn’t want to talk about it for fear of cursing it. It really is a dream job for me as I’m working with some of the best people in the business and the WordPress

Thank you, thank you, thank you Everything is Terrible (I think) for digging up this amazingly bad/hilarious/offensive evangelical tribute to Star Trek in which the Enterprise crew combat those Satan-lovin' Klingons with a little bit of our lord and savi

from latimes: The American Al Qaeda operative arrested in Karachi over the weekend was not the Southern California native wanted by the U.S. on treason charges for his involvement in the terror network, Pakistani intelligence officials said Monday. Pakistani security officials initially asserted that the American Islamic e

Last week, to follow on from the discussion of atemporality, I started sort of an essay/rant about the future being a fictional construct, the non-linear nature of “progress”, and how making and remixing intersect. I haven’t felt inspired to shape it into something actually readable, so instead, how about

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

"Tax increment financing" is the basic premise on which all of Portland's "urban renewal" gyrations rest. Wonderful developments like SoWhat and the Pearl are supposed to cause property tax collections to rise, and after the mega-bonds that the city uses to pay for these projects are paid off, the rest of us taxpayers are

Map detail from Beaverton’s Transportation System Plan showing Lombard as a “designated bikeway.” Bikes advocates in Beaverton were shocked when a meeting of that city’s Transportation Commission on Thursday night ended in a 5-1 vote against putting bike lanes on SW Lombard Avenue. On the agenda w

Hysterically funny, if only this weren't true! New Hampshire state Rep. Nancy Elliott, at a recent state Judiciary Committee meeting on a proposal to repeal the state's same-sex marriage bill, descr

Finally in the area with good weather and time.

from Verse One Hundred SixtyHow could the world have permanently fixed laws? Deal with the age appropriately, find out reasonable patterns of humanity, accord with heaven and earth, and understand ghosts and spirits; then it is possible to govern correctly.~

In the current issue of Just Out, home décor celebs Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams (pictured left to right) discuss how comfort is more critical now than ever before. The designers, busy promoting their latest how-to book, The Comfortable Home: How to Invest in Your Nest and Live Well For Less, were recently in Portland to

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1. Make a late-night run to the convenience store for Ben & Jerry's. My roommate and I did this all the time in college. She stayed skinny. I did not. Other parts of our college food staples--microwaved Easy Mac and the Taco Ball drivethrough--I have pretty much given up, because of the unfortunate things

People who want the NCAA Tournament expanded? This week is for you. Today begins the seven day stretch of "Championship Week", when every team in the nation has a shot at going dancing by winning their Conference Tournament. Over the next seven days, BTD will have a preview for each day of action. We will focus on around

These branches form interesting abstract patterns against the sky. photo: Branches, hand colored black and white, 2010

Our friends at Saraveza wanted you to know about the Killingsworth Street St. Patty's Day Crawl.

And if you think you're weirded out by the fact in the subject line, imagine how such Oscar-free actresses as Juliann

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Good morning to you, and here's just a quick little moment of Zen via BuzzFeed. He must have a really long commute!

KPAM (860) is launching a new schedule today, and the station is eager to play up a local "radio war" between KXL (750)'s Lars Larson and their own Victoria Taft. KPAM is also adding the syndicated Michael S

Quite a while ago now, a 'friend-of-the-blog' in the restaurant industry e-mailed to ask about what I thought of the relatively high minimum wage in Oregon and the additional aspect of Oregon's minimum wage that it cannot be reduced for those that earn tips.  California and Washington also have high minimum wages and d

David Shaner, "Garden Slab," 1964 The Museum of Contemporary Craft presents Land Art: David Shaner. The exhibition explores the relationship between craft and the Land Art movement o

Here's a wild one. Mercedes Benz dragged its feet on a "lemon law" claim in Wisconsin, and a judge has whomped the car maker upside the head with a $482,000 damage award to the unhappy customer.