Via John Foyston, The Economist reports on China becoming the world's biggest beer market and it i

Here are a few articles worth digging into: Bakke lays out the case for rethinking hatchery programs in the Northwest Oregonian: Fish management agencies are continuing to contribute to the decline and extinction of wild salmon and steelhead, and that contribution is even more serious than that of land and water management

Today Samsung unveiled its new 7″ tablet, called the Galaxy Tab. It will be available in Europe in October, and later this year it will go on sale in the U.S. Currently it uses the GSM standard (used by AT&T and T-Mobile in the United States). No word yet on how much it’ll cost. You [...]

According to a statement on their website, Paste magazine has suspended its print edition after eight years of publication. Its online edition will continue. The award-winning monthly was best known for its music coverage of Americana and indie rock, but also featured writing on film, TV, books, and videogames. The announce

Looking for some "High-Dollar"($45,000) Persian Rugs? Priceless Asian Antiques? A Lesson In How To Blow $100,000,000 In Investors Money? A Lesson In How To Leave Creditors High And Dry?Well,Here You Go, Check The Auction List And Submit Your Bid! See If You Know Any Of These Creditors.

Get your pets general colors and pattern printed on a wallpaper or textile. This way you can have a chair, wall or couch that the animal will virtually be unseen in. Instead of having to buy pets to match your home, you can simply redecorate to match your pets. Also since pets like to feel [...]

Summer weather returns just in time for an epic Thursday night in Portland: a Chinatown icon (re)unveiled, fireworks on the waterfront (with music!), Chapman Swifts Watch 2010 begins, and the USL Timbers' final PGE Park match!

Yesterday a seemingly deranged man burst into the headquarters of The Discovery Channel and took three hostages. The situation came to a sudden end when the man was killed by a police sniper.While I stro

...according to the CDC Car crashes are the number one cause of death for children and happen at an even higher rate for teens.

Nice combination of typography, graphic design and thought-provoking data in this poster from designer Ervin Esen. (via Under Consideration)

It’s that magical time of the year when Television Networks attempt to cram the premieres of 23 new and 83 returning shows into a mere 25 days. You can print out a helpful calendar HERE.

This "HUGO KERN FURNITURE REFINISHING" and the "CUSTOM UPHOLSTERY" sign above it have been on this west-facing wall of the shop on the corner of SE 39th and Gladstone for decades. The top sign even has a couple of generations of signs painted over. A nice bit of old signage, even though it is marred by some more recent elec

Pune FC of the I-League, India’s top-flight, have signed Mandjou Keita as their fourth foreign player. Indian sides are allowed what’s locally known as the Foreign Four, though only three are allowed on the pitch at any one time. Keita of course flamed out at Portland Timbers this season, having been reduced to

For those of you who like stats, here are the total number of home sales so far in 2010. They are listed from highest to lowest:No. = Area1594 = Southeast Portland1254 = West Portland1235 = Northeast Portland1082 = Beaverton, Aloha953 = Tigard, Tualatin, Sher

Another week, another Mercury music section to read while you send grandma's ashes off to be

Another week, another Mercury music section to read while you send grandma's ashes off to be

David Neevel, OMFG! Look how great he looks. Can you believe he has lost 400lbs, just sweating to the oldies.

Under pressure from stockholders, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA — the third and fourth largest U.S. mobile phone carriers, respectively — are reported to be discussing the possibility of T-Mobile investing in Sprint’s Clearwire operation, reports the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal says Sprin

At the hot air balloon liftoff site this past weekend there was a wonderful sky. I only wished at the time that they were already up and flying. Mouse over to see the out of camera original. (Tutorial at right.)

Son #2 Harper leaving our onsite daycare to go to Kindergarten...

Beads, Cones, Eyes, now welcome Fish Skulls to the fly tying arsenal. Fish Skulls are a new way to create heads on bait fish patterns. Fish Skulls give the fly a realistic, perfectly formed head with eyes. Add epoxy or not to develop the head of the fly further. In this video Barrett demonstrates how [...]

Hello Dear Readers,Did you guys make it out. Apparently I did not. Someone please help me out here. It seems like I will never make it out to shows at this rate. Though I think that maybe my body is just resting up for next week when I will most assuredly be showed out by that weeks end (MFNW i

A nice review of THE NATIVE STAR from Sherwood Smith, who I admire immensely. Thank you, Ma'am! http://bit.ly/acm0E1 #TheNativeStar #

I'm a little late to this story, but given how this has the potential to essentially end Kevin Mannix in Oregon politics, it's a pretty big deal. Mannix's sugar daddy, Loren Parks (who has a, shall we say, colorful...background

Last night the HiP Chicks were honored to be apart of I Heart Art: Portland's Mixer Match event at Design Within Reach. This was a speed 'dating' event where 60 local handmade, wholesale ready, artists had 2 minutes to meet...

A few weeks ago I was telling a friend about Menomena’s song “TAOS.” Much like the rest of the band’s latest record, Mines (Barsuk), it’s vicious, sprawling, confusing, beautiful, spastic, loud and waggish. I was blown away by the song (which made it on to the TDoL Summer Mix). Yet, for the man

On this day: September 2 North Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945) U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it...

In a cuisine often marked by clear lines and sharp patterns, Yakuza blurs the lines and redraws the patterns.

Guest photographer Terri Jo Adams sent two more nifty field burning photos, to go with the one I posted two days ago (I’ll post the other photo tomorrow). Her description: This was out on Doerfler Rd Sunday the 29th of August. There were so many field fires that day, all of a sudden, that it

A hospital can be a place of immense joy or a place of immense pain. God is our refuge in sickness and in health. Christ is the same compassionate physician now that He was during His earthly ministry.

One of the fascinating things about my boyhood haunts in northern New Jersey was how homeowners would paint some of the concrete around their properties green. From an airplane, it looked like grass -- and maybe it kept the house a tiny bit cooler in the blasting heat of the summer. Here in Oregon, we haven't quite reache

The Islanders are the guests at the USL Portland Timbers final match at PGE Park. Bring a sunflower! This game will sell out - don't miss it!

My co-host in the mornings on 95.5 The Game, Chad Doing — the legendary CIP — asked this question the other day on the air and it’s a good one: Which bet would you most likely make, Oregon State getting 12.5 points in Dallas Saturday against TCU, or the Ducks at home giving 35 to [...]

What's playing at the area's independent movie houses this week.

Centuries ago in internets

Treat the family to free musical performances at the Lake Oswego Public Library.

Rise in Hours Portends Job Gains by David Cooke Oregon Employment Dept. Oregon average weekly hours data indicate that in some respects businesses are poised for economic recovery. For the state as a whole, the average workweek for manufacturing production workers is back to normal. In June, this average was 39.2 hours per

We left pit road and walked to the Dodge Drifting track outside Talladega Superspeedway

Oregon football video: What to expect from New Mexico• Ken Goe and John Hunt preview the season opener. This video was shot on Tuesday and comes courtesy of

By Andrew Palau, Luis Palau Ministries No matter how many stories you hear, you never dream you will be the one in a plane crash. For me and my family, the worst came true last Christmas (2009). We barely escaped with our lives. You may remember hearing about American Airlines Flight 331 that crash-landed in Jamaica. The p

No Reason to Fear Our Food Supply By Mark, National Corn Growers Association This week we are supposed to be afraid of eating eggs. Apparently we have about a 1 in 20,000 chance of getting salmonella from eating eggs. The odds are slightly higher that you will die in a fall this year. I will take those odds [...]

By Evergreen, They say this idea will revolutionize school security in wake of the missing Oregon boy Kyron Horman. The school now has a security camera. Am I not the only one to say “What didn’t anyone else think of that earlier?”. I think the hidden reason why such a camera is useful [...]

You have to love it when people are paid to study the obvious and come to the obvious conclusions. Or not.

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The design of the new Sellwood Bridge has been chosen, and it's not a showstopper. by Sarah Mirk FOR $330 MILLION, the Sellwood Bridge is not getting any more lanes. Instead, it will be getting a terribly needed rebuild to keep it from collapsing into the W

THURSDAY 9/2 EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, LULACRUZA (Wonder Ballroom, 128 NE Russell) See My, What a Busy Week! GULFSONGS GULF COAST BENEFIT: CHRIS ROBLEY AND THE FEAR OF HEIGHTS, BUOY LARUE, RACHEL TAYLOR BROWN, LEONARD MYNX (Mississippi Studios, 3939 N Mississippi) Between economic woes, faulty levees, the bl

Going the Distance gets the romcom grubby. by Marjorie Skinner CHRISTINA APPLEGATE'S dining room table gets a lot of action. As Corinne, a germaphobic, caustic housewife, she nearly calls in a hazmat team after her younger sister Erin's (Drew Barrymo