The guard sets the tone early with his pushy defense and push-the-pace play.

As a wise person once said, “A rolling PIE gathers no moss.” Wait what? No one ever said that. I don’t think. Maybe they did. But I’ve no idea why. Well anyway, right on the heels of launching eight new startups into the Portland startup scene, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) has announced that t

Look at the other Ogburns I found on Google Images! HawkBurn NerdBurns CopBurns CoolGlassesInsideBurn SpandexBurn LibrarianBurn Doc Ogburns HorseBurn Old Timey Burn Sociologist Burn Con-Burns

Postgame quotes from the Blazers and Bobcats.

Postgame quotes from the Blazers and Bobcats.

Which is, of course, what introverts love! Ha!I loved all the comments and responses to my post from yesterday about introversion. What I didn't mention yesterday, but which the comments reminded me of, is that it is a continuum, not a strict division of personality types. This, I think, explains the comments ab

The same procedures apply to the second door. There are openings on the track sides to which the door should be aligned if the procedure described doesn’t work. Screws on loose brackets are more accessible on an emancipated door. Bigger screw holes need bigger screws. If you want more garage doors resources visit Gara

Joe Thurston's Nothing Leading Anywhere Any More Except to Nothing (photo Jeff Jahn) Joe Thurston unveils a completely new body of work, Nothing Leading Anywhere Any More Except to

“My younger siblings and I loved this creamy peanut butter pie growing up. Until one day when I was six or seven, when I was told she wouldn’t be making it anymore. Why? Mother Humble told me, and I quote “because it will kill you.” That was it.  No more peanut butter pies for twenty years.”

This video compilation of thought leaders at Digital Book World has some interesting takes on eBooks and publishing. The model that the big six publisher, Random House, Hachette (Time Warner Books), Macmillan, Penguin, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster is seen by many as “time limited.” Mike Shatzkin says,

Here's a new atrocity from Sam Rand City Hall. A reader writes: I recently discovered an interesting and unusual Portland parking law today after I was issued a ticket. I parked in the NE industrial area near Widmer brewery (zone J 2 hour zone) in the morning (9am) and returned again briefly in the afternoo

In probably one of the most relaxed, fun games you'll ever see, the Portland Trail Blazers ran ro

We were so excited to buy our copy of Oddfellow's Orphanage , by our very own Miss Emily Martin last week! The girls were entranced. It's so lovely. The artwork is interspersed between the text in soft pencil. The book...

Hey there February how ya doing? Word up? We had a fun day today. The boys and I went and hung out in Beavercreek today while K was at work. We visited grandpa Gerald and Grandma Valarie. Now I’m sleepy. A whole bunch of stuff I had on hold at the library came in. I [...]

Gulasch, mixed baby green salad, and r

with Alena's 2nd grade class. We

The Susan G. Komen For The Cure Foundation (I think that's its current legal name) took a beating today in the court of public opinion after it told its local affiliates that it would prohibit its local affiliates from issuing...

Here’s the scoop for the weekend. For more ideas on what to do this weekend, check PDX Kids Calendar and the urbanMamas calendar page. Head to Green Bean Books and join teacher, Kara, from Portland Early Learning Project, as she...

"Urban renewal" is now officially dead in the bankrupt Golden State. It will take a long time, but eventually

Kristi Turnquist and Ryan White offer perspective on the venerable Fox show's visit to Portland. Join them for the 8 p.m. Wednesday show.

A private equity firm has agreed to purchase Lake Oswego-based compliance software maker EthicsPoint Inc. and merge it with two other companies in the governance, risk and compliance industry.

Unfortunately, a little thing called work delayed this entry a tad.

Not surprised. As Reverend Chuck Currie so eloquently writes in The Huffington Post, Mitt Romney should be. The poor and the working poor are just barely hanging on, and the Republicans in congres

Liv Warfield is not to be trifled with.

For your reading pleasure, here's what I read in January. It was a month of great reading, and now I realize that most of it was nonfiction. Both of the novels I finished had infant deaths (I believe in warning people about this). Read the full reviews by clicking on the linked title--they will take you to the review on

Oregonian reporter Joseph Rose puts Apple’s Siri to the test when he takes his iPhone out for a drive to try hands-free texting. An iPhone ad on the Apple website shows a driver receiving and flawlessly sending a handsfree text with Siri. Rose was not so lucky. He also mentions a new Canadian study showing [...]

PORTLAND, Ore.- Backyard Blam race promoter, Amanda Sundvor, steps us through the cyclocross mash-up course to be held at the Lumberyard Saturday. The Lumberyard is an indoor/outdoor mountain bike and BMX park located at 2700 NE 82nd Ave. Cross Up will be a hybrid of racing styles pitting two riders against each o

As suspected and discussed in a previous post, Ron Paul is a racist. The jig is up. A group of "hactivists," Anonymous, has accidentally uncovered documentation of Paul's connections and affiliations with ra

Umpqua Energy from Medford is one of 14 startup companies competing in the U.S. Department of Energy’s “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator Challenge.” All of the companies are using technology from the DOE’s national laboratories to develop new products.

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. Few things in life can me feel both incredibly young and incredibly old at the same time the way hip-hop does. Although it would be easy to [...]

Classics such as "King Lear" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" anchor a typically wide-ranging slate of plays next year in Ashland.

Funny thing -- finally, the City of Portland admits that shooting an unarmed man in the back is wrong. "In the Campbell case, the city hired multiple outside attorneys to represent Frashour and Lewton and two other officer

The chances of an extreme storm system rolling through western Oregon before 2014 are less than 4 percent. But those odds were threatening enough to trigger significant changes to construction plans for the replacement of two aging Interstate-84 bridges near Troutdale.

Portland Real Estate update as of 02-01-2012 5:30 pm. There are 14 new homes for sale. Data sourced from the following pages: Ash Creek Real Estate, 

A Lewis and Clark student wins a competitive call to make a Super Bowl commercial.

The Federal Communications Commission today voted to approve a comprehensive overhaul of Lifeline service, which helps tens of millions of low-income Americans afford basic phone service. The FCC also voted to improve data collection and a database to make it easier to verify a consumer’s eligibility and ensure one home d

The life of a writer is hardly glamorous. I spend the majority of my time home and mostly alone, wrapped in sweatpants and down vests. Which is kind of silly, considering what a chatterbox and clotheshorse I can be. But, despite my gregarious nature and a sincere love for garments of all varieties, I most [...]

Pornland is back in the news: At least they modified the canard about Pornland strip joints to note that the city has more per capita than Las Vegas - usually they claim that Pornland has more than anyplace in the...

Catch a $5 dinner and free concert Saturday at the Estacada Community Center.

Pumping gas and fishing. Blue collars and farmer tans. Moon pies and Dolly Parton. And, of course, romance.

Pipeline is giving away a pair of tickets to see Mother Hips with The True Spokes on Friday, February 3, 2012 at Mt. Tabor Theater. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed Friday, February 3. FREE PORTLAND MUSIC: We give out 100s of $$$ in [...]