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Indie & arthouse films showing this week.

Let's take a look at another backstory from one of our favorite hymns.

Sealy is the bedding industry’s largest global manufacturer with sales of $1.23 billion in fiscal 2011. The Company manufactures and markets a broad range of mattresses and foundations under the Sealy®, Sealy Posturepedic®, including SpringFree™, PurEmbrace™ and TrueForm®; Stearns & Foster®, and Bassett® bran

Analysis references, bibliographies along with indexes must be done concisely along with logically to ensure a one flick of an finger is plenty to accomplish references that will readers are seeking. You may miss out a a few references while that’s only human but when you find yourself using a new term cardstock model

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Enough with the PDX already! PDX is the airport, not the city! Somehow calling Portland PDX got started about 10 years ago and now everything is PD fucking X. Referring to Portland as PDX is the equivalent of calling San Francisco "Frisco"! It is not cool, or hip or cutting edge, it is stupid, lame and annoying. I will

The local Catholic Archbishop has issued a throw down to the Obama Administration over a rule in ObamaCare which he claims is tantamount to blowing up the Constitutional right to religious freedom. The ObamaCare rule forces all entitities--including religious ones--to cover under their health insurance policies abortion p

As a minister in the United Church of Christ, I have supported the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation and urged others to do the same. But with their 100% political - political, not medical - decision to defund Planned Parenthood because the GOP House is conducting a McCarthy-era like witch hunt of the organization, I

The five movies playing in Portland-area theaters that I'd soonest see again.

Music distribution has yet again become a hot topic, thanks to the recent shutting down of Megaupload and this week's D: Dive Into Media conference (in which Grandpa Granola Neil Young said fantastic, point-on things like

This is it! The biggest roundup of Portland restaurant Valentine’s Day events! So big it gave me a backache! It will be updated daily, so check back if you are still looking for an event. Additions? Corrections? Use the form and I will add/correct your event asap. Thanks to everyone who sent in photos, but I am una

<updated 2/3 2x> This is it! The biggest roundup of Portland restaurant Valentine’s Day events! So big it gave me a backache! It will be updated daily, so check back if you are still looking for an event. Additions? Corrections? Use the form and I will add/correct your event asap. Thanks to everyone who sen

With 2012 already under way, there is already talk of explosive predictions. This includes what we should expect to see in web design. With new coding developments, more use of technology, and techniques, it is already starting to look like a Michael Bay-esque kind of a year in design. So let’s take a look at [...]

I loved being pregnant, but unlike most pregnant women who anticipate ultrasounds with joy (and post photos on Facebook nowadays!), I dreaded them. When I was pregnant with Chris, I had multiple ultrasounds because they were trying to detect why I was bleeding so much. After that, I had many ultrasounds with unfeeling

I’ve mentioned before that I digitally “clip” portions of books I read on Kindle because I find certain excerpts interesting, funny or insightful and worth sharing at a later date. Here are a few of my most recent clippings. From Pascal Bruckner’s The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism: “Let us bewa

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode101 - Drones for Peace, Scary Charts, Morality Pills

BadAzz MoFo celebrates Black History Month with 29 Days of Black Cinema—a look at the films, filmmakers, and actors that have contributed to the black diaspora in film. Despite the number of books, documentaries, and websites dedicated to film, the history of cinema is poorly recorded at best. This is especially true of b

As Washington State flounders in this ongoing “Great Recession,” with a $1.5 Billion budget gap, failing schools, court decisions demanding more school funding, double digit unemployment in several counties for 3 straight years, all has been put on the back burner as the top priority for the Washington State Legislature

To the fugly bitch that lives across Vancouver near PCC Cascade: A few hours ago I was halfway through a hellish day and digging in my car to find the expensive and oh-so-lost calculator that was lent to me, about to start my period any moment, full of FUCKING RAGE, when you decided to come out of your house and confron

Castigating scientists for made-up preconceived notions has been done before...."Most controversial is the evolutionary question. I have done a great deal of work on Darwin and can say with some assurance that Darwin did not derive his theory from nature but rather superimposed a certain philosophical

It's Graham Nash's 70th birthday.

As the number after the name suggests, this is the 24th year Winterfolk has supported Sisters of the Road's work to find solutions to homelessness and poverty.

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On December 14, 2011, the Oregon Court of Appeals decided Loomis and Loomis. In this case, the wife owned a 60% interest in a piece of property prior to the marriage, and acquired the other 40% interest during the marriage. …

An agreement among Gov. John Kitzhaber, legislators and the big social network company over taxes could lead to other companies locating data storage centers in the state, a lawmaker says.

The magical sights and sounds of Disneyland Resort can now be discovered with “Disneyland Explorer,” the official Disney Parks app for iPad, available as a free download from the App Store. When you can’t get to the theme parks, the hotels or the Downtown Disney District, you can tap the photo-realistic carousel of th

Oregon officials are poised to make 2012 a year of statewide earthquake preparedness, although the latest legislative directive does not account for funding.

The NBA announced its 2012 NBA All-Star starting lineups and released the final vote tallies of its fan voting process on Thursday. Portland Trail Blazers

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This Auntie business is serious fun. Really. Can’t help myself. I went into Freddy’s for a  birthday card (which I did manage to remember) and found myself in the baby department. I immediately spied this adorable play set that said, “My Auntie thinks I’m Awesome.” Perfection. Except it had ru

Developers, architects, Con-way officials and others are ironing out details for the Con-way development site in Northwest Portland. At play is the fate of proposed parks, housing diversity and building heights, among other issues.

This is the best thing I've seen all day. I bet Nancy Reagan couldn't do 5 push-ups on the best day of her life:

2030 Challenge targets (image courtesy Architecture 2030) BY BRIAN LIBBY As many now know, buildings are the primary source of energy demand and the main user of materials that produce by-product greenhouse gases. But since its creation in 2002, led...

An ordinary man's plight turns grave by subtle degrees in a gripping tale of subtle missteps.

Going to watch the Superbowl? If so, where? Note: Admission is free for the following events, but you might be charged for activities or food and drink. Events are sorted by start time. If I missed anything, please leave a comment. All weekend Cascade Festival of African Films runs from February 3 through March 3. [...]

Tickets for the April concert will go on sale Feb. 3.

I always like to garden at 3:30 a.m. Apparently, that line didn't go over for a local firefighter, who was found "soaking wet and covered in mud" when Portland police caught up to him at his home. At about 2:30...

A small kitchen fire forced Biwa restaurant to close tonight, February 2nd. According to the guy who answered the phone, if all goes well, they plan to reopen tomorrow. Glad it was a small fire. Biwa’s ramen still calls to me on rainy nights.This original post is by

A small kitchen fire forced Biwa restaurant to close tonight, February 2nd. According to the guy who answered the phone, if all goes well, they plan to reopen tomorrow. Glad it was a small fire. Biwa’s ramen still calls to me on rainy nights.This original post is by

Lots of people participate in this, so I thought it was big enough news for the front page. Date and Venue Set for Taste of the Nation Portland 2012 JELD-WEN Field named as venue for 25th Anniversary PORTLAND, OR, February 2, 2012– In an effort to fight childhood hunger. Portland’s best chefs, restaurants, an

Lots of people participate in this, so I thought it was big enough news for the front page. Date and Venue Set for Taste of the Nation Portland 2012 JELD-WEN Field named as venue for 25th Anniversary PORTLAND, OR, February 2, 2012– In an effort to fight childhood hunger. Portland’s best chefs, restaurants, an

Apparently there's been some sort of fatwa declared on the ladies of the Portland Mercury, because we've received two sub

In Part 1 of this post, I was taking you along on my first exploration of Graham Oaks Nature Park. Let's pick up where we left off - on the Legacy Creek Trail as it emerges from the conifer forest, to

The Decemberists announced they're shifting money raised from Team Jenny T-shirts and buttons from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to Planned Parenthood.