Cute local contest alert! Sock It To Me, a small local business the started six years ago at the Saturday Market and has grown into a nationally distributed company, is holding its fourth annual design-a-sock contest. There are prizes for first, second, and third pla

Poetry gangs in Portland. I’m intrigued.

From the MSNBC photoblog:

Fidel Castro has claimed responsibility for the persecution of gays in Cuba during the 1960s but says that the distraction of foreign affairs, rather than homophobia, is to blame, according to The Globe and Mail. While the former Cuban president was, as he told Mexican newspaper La Jornada, “immersed, principally, in

I have written often about the wonderful Oregon Legislative Liaisons, but sadly they are no more.Instead, you need to visit the Legislature’s Support and Contact Information website, where you will find lots of conta

After two days of hard work, I’ve managed to massage Animal Intelligence into shape, I think. If you visit the site (as opposed to reading via e-mail or RSS), you’ll see that Animal Intelligence sports a new layout and a few new features in the sidebar. What you see here is just the start, and [...]

So fresh and so smooth. A portion of the Springwater near SE Luther Street this morning.(Photos by reader Jonathan Ragsdale) Adding finishing touches. A $1.8 million, federally funded project to repave eight miles of the popular Springwater Corridor Trail is almost complete. The project was supposed to be done by now,

Or maybe it's what their music tastes like? I'm not sure I understand it, but H50 has got the Pink Martini sushi roll ready for your consumption until September 30th:

Hello Dear Readers,Oh no. I didn't make it out to any shows last night. I hope that you guys did. Did I miss anything that is going to go down in Portland Music Scene History? Well, I am gonna go out tonight for sure. But to what show? Hmmmm...how about one of these?

With one month to go, the City of Portland's Green Power Challenge is close to reaching its goal of signing up 1,000 new green power customers by the end of September.

Portland police officer Ronald Frashour, who killed Aaron Campbell last winter, has been placed on leave, and a review board has recommende

Tonight the president of the United States will address the American people and announce - as he promised during the 2008 campaign - that he has ended combat operations in Iraq. Over 90,000 U.S. troops have returned home. Another 50,000...

SILICON FOREST BLOG: The site was online yesterday, but offline today.

Once again, farmed out to the Wall Street Journal, after all nothing much is happening in Portland to make a specific graph worthwhile - we have pretty much been holding steady since the beginning of 2009.  The

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Most comments in response to a story about arts funding positions by the two candidates for governor have been vehemently negative -- about arts funding.

I get invited to a number of events, most of which are staged in the plausible hope that good press will result. Less often, someone stages an event purely for fun and I get invited, too. Yesterday, Full Sail's John Harris took a group of mostly publicans out to the hop fields to see from whence our favorite spice comes--

When I first set off on this little rollicking adventure, my objective was modest. As I wrote in the introductory post, this brief series "will have 10 parts beyond this introduction and will span no more than 3 days." Ho

By Marianne Schnell, NEAT contributor Chances are if you’re a Portland gal you own more than your fair share of cold weather boots. But living in the Northwest, where cool temps and rain rule, there’s always a good reason for yet another booty call. Meet your new BFF: The clog boot. It’s a... Go to pdxn

Robert Gibbs refuses to answer a direct question and instead, spins Obama's flip-flop on the Iraq aurge. H/T HotAir

New York’s the Budos Band plays a super-tight, super-fly mix of afro-beat infused soul and funk that sounds a little something like this. The band is bringing those same funky sounds to Dante’s this Friday night in support of its new album, The Budos Band III (the music is more creative than the album title, we

A Vancouver activist writes in about the change in City Managers at America's Vancouver: Yogi Berra (baseball great) said, “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.” Not too long ago, we had the City of Vancouver Economic Development Manager Steve Burdick, who, in my opinion, worked very closely on deals with Killiam P

Last night I had a strange and funny dream. I was working at a family-style restaurant (something I’ve never done in real life), and I’ve been told to hang up some flyers in the foyer by the door.  I started to hang them, when a grubby farmer walked into the restaurant, looking as if he [...]

Two great shows happening in our lobby on Thursday evening. The 1 Millimeter Project by Chris Hornbecker 1. Shoot a new photo every day. 2. Each day increase the focal length one millimeter. 3. Retouch and post this new image before going to sleep. 4. No cheating. What’s your favorite...

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Benjamin Starshine looks and sounds like a man who just stumbled out of a time machine. Hell! He was at the top of Mt. Tabor doing some yoga when we conducted this interview (think less Sting, more George Harrison). His bubble-gum psych-pop is nostalgic and refreshing with clean hooks and atmospheric freak-outs you can get

Go on over to Blogtown and

Danny Treacy, "Them #17" Bluesky is turning 35! To inaugurate their 35th-anniversary celebration, they're exhibiting Wisconsin Tavern League by Carl Corey and Them by 20

Go carfree on the day that corresponds to your car color (mine would be Tuesday). Here's a interesting new campaign that would feel right at home in Portland. This Saturday, the City of Boulder Colorado will launch Driven to Drive Less, a new program to get people to go one day a week without their [...]

Give a listen to (and download) the track "Good Deeds" from the new Brothers Young EP "Good People."

Mmmm, Heinrich's Inauthentic Thai Food . . .

This post is from GRS staff writer April Dykman. A couple of weeks ago, J.D. highlighted research that showed that rewards cards cost the poor (in higher prices overall) and benefit the rich (who are more likely to use the cards). But what if retailers offered you a discount if you paid in cash? It might not be so far-fetch

A Texas court of appeals has ruled that gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriages are banned, reports AP. The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a Dallas judge did not have jurisdiction to grant a divorce to two Dallas men who wed in Massachusetts. The [..

Archos just released five new gadgets ranging from small phone-size devices with 2.8- and 3.4-inch screens to higher-end 4.3-, 7- and 10.1-inch tablets (pdf). All will ship with Android 2.2 “Froyo” and will include accelerometers, while only some have capactive touchscreens, front-facing cameras and 1GHz process

When my wife and kids talk it is kind of light-weight banter, give and take, back and forth, and usually of little or no interest to me. I was at lunch the other day and Steve commented that I talk like I write my blog posts. He gave a brief impression that made me sound heavy and pedantic. My son John imitates me sometimes

Huge emerald pulled from North Carolina farm | NWCN.com | NWCN - News: "The emerald compares in size and quality to one surrounded by diamonds in a brooch once owned by Catherine the Great, who was empress in the 18th century, that Christie's auction house in New York sold in April for $1.65 million, said C.R. 'Cap' Be

Just wanted to make a quick note that the war that Dino Rossi supports (Afghanistan). And the billion$ of dollars he would waste to continue to fight it is not going swimmingly. The US commander of...

Reading the almost daily news from Detroit (news that seems to become more like a daytime television serial each day), it has struck me that the role of oversight and who does the overseeing is perhaps one of the most critical parts of the running of an arts organization.  This is well-known in the for-profit [...]

The Bar Pilot Patty Melt!

[Unofficial graphic, not created by TriMet.] Graphic showing location of vehicles just prior to collision.(Graphic: BikePortland) There has been a lot of speculation and confusion about the crash involving a TriMet bus and a bicycle on SW 6th and Morrison back on August 12th. The bus operator turned left prior to the

This year there will be no time to rest after your Portland Labor Day fun, because MusicFest NW starts two days later. We have two general admission wristbands ($65 each!) to give away (wristband info). With the wristband, you can apparently get into several of the sold out shows according to info below and on [...]

The Blazers are streaming their live National Anthem tryouts right now. Watch and ridicule the singe

Openly gay tennis star Martina Navratilova was honored Monday at the U.S. Open for her ability to inspire others, The Advocate reports. Navratilova credited a positive attitude and love of tennis with helping her handle life’s “nasty curveballs,” such as coming out and battling breast cancer. The 53-year-

On Saturday I posted about sushi restaurant Sinju and Guido Rahr who was banned from the restaurant after; objecting to the endangered Blue Fin that was on Sinju's menu. Go ahead and click that link, I'll wait for you to catch up - if you aren't already. This comes from the Atlantic, and was posted yesterday.Though it seems

After a painfully slow start (why are gardeners so darned impatient to be eating from the garden?) the garden is in full swing -

Why didn’t she play it for us, goshdarnit? No matter. During a tour stop in St. Paul, Minn. last night, Lady Gaga debuted a new song, “the stripped-down, road-weary piano ballad ‘Living on the Radio,’” per an E! Online post. The story continues, If chosen for her as yet untitled new album—whi