Some more thoughts on arts funding issues for local cultural nonprofits

On The Wing trailer Video/Film by Dan Viens Description: On The Wing is a documentary film that tells the story of Portland’s Chapman Swifts. This trailer gives you a peek at the phenomenon and its cult following. More information at swiftsmovie.com This film is playing Sunday at Whitsell Auditorium (Portland Art Muse

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Gift cards have become the de facto “not sure what to get you” gift for many folks. And when it comes to rewarding employees for a job well done, companies are no different. But sometimes, managing to deliver a piece of plastic to a bunch of employees is not only impractical, it’s downright expensive and

With fewer than two months remaining until the Great American Beer Festival (Sept. 16-18 in Denver, Colo.) tickets are already 66 percent sold, with the Saturday afternoon Members-Only session 94 percent sold out...

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A three-week camp for young performers culminates in public shows.

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Sports Illustrated Magazine has compiled a list of the most hated teams in sports history and Portland won a place on the list. Coming it at #21, the Portland Trail Blazers from the 2000-2001 NBA season. From Sports Illustrated: With their incessant bickering and boorish behavior, the Trail Blazers, long cherished in Portla

Ali and Evan in 2007.(Photo © J. Maus) [Via Eater.com] The owners of a beloved north Portland eatery, Little Red Bike Cafe, might have shut their doors, but they've opened up a book deal. According to a post on their blog on Monday, owners of the cafe Ali and Evan Jepson-Dohrmann are working with a literary [...]

We had a slight hiccup in getting these passes out into the hands of our faithful Blog Out readership during our week-long vacation, but no matter: we’ve got the hook-up for you and a friend to check out the new Peter Blatt film – starring his brother Benjamin Bratt – La Mission, playing at Living [...]

It’s Feedback time. This week we sent cartoonist extraordinaire John Isaacson on assignment to see (Here Comes a) Big Black Cloud’s release show at Valentine’s to witness the glory of the band’s album release show. That album, Dark Age, is available now via Stankhouse Records, as is Dragging an Ox th

Personal Info For 100 Million Facebook Users Harvested Into One File “Do you share your

plaidagenda: UM I’m sorry, did CNN get this wrong or did Tara Reid get a new face and not tell anyone?

From Church World Service: NEW YORK CITY, July 28, 2010--Church World Service welcomed U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton's temporary injunction against the implementation of parts of Arizona's controversial new immigration law SB 1070, scheduled to take effect Thursday (July...

Here's a convenient list of the issues we'll be voting on statewide here in Oregon in the fall. It seems like half of it has to do with drugs and gambling. The rest is from our sterling legislators, who want to get together and act important every year as opposed to ev

On Tuesday, July 27th at 7:30pm, Preciosa Galorio was crossing TV Hwy at 11th Ave when she was struck by a vehicle traveling west bound. The vehicle that hit her did not stop and Mrs. Galorio was life flighted to Emanuel Hospital, where she had past away at approximately 10:00pm. Witnesses describe the suspect vehicle as [.

I had never heard of this before today, but the thirteenthers are an amazing new addition to anti-Obama crazies, following in the footsteps of the birthers. Iowa Republicans are trying to ratify the

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The Metro regional government today released the findings of its forecast of the population and employment growth that would result from building a proposed $3.6 billion Columbia River Crossing project, if tolls are used to finance and manage the facility and light rail is part of it. The agency finds that the proposal woul

It’s definitely outside drinking season in Portland and our friends at BarFly have their fifth annual bus tour next weekend of great PDX patios. We are giving away a pair of tickets to it as well. To Win: Comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn Friday (July 30) at [...]

Let me take a closer look…Oh no WTF: (via altidude) Ick! It’s real, and I am officially grossed out.

Today I did my ride with the most climbing to date. My legs are definitely coming into shape now, just have to keep up the riding while I start doing more time on the axe as well…

Involvement in same-sex romantic relationship has “protective effects” for teens, according to a new University of Michigan study that sought to evaluate the impact of same-sex and opposite-sex relationships on self-esteem, internalized homophobia, depression and anxiety in youngsters. According to HealthCanal,

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton didn't toss the fed's challenge to Arizona law; she allows the law to go into effect but with significant restrictions, and all sides agree that it's not over yet. On the positive side, illegals have...

Medical marijuana users are angry about a recent Oregonian editorial that claimed to get to the root of the pot-dispensary measure by saying it's just a cloaked step in a quest toward legalization. Clearly they di

Our 2nd annual Activistas/urbanMamas community garage sale fundraiser (what a mouthful) is right around the corner, so mark your calendars for Friday August 13th and Saturday August 14th from 9 to 4 PM. What makes this work so beautifully is...

inothernews: I hope this isn’t a sign, Met

Microsoft’s Street Slide is a new 360 immersive viewer similar to Google’s Street View and Microsoft’s Streetside. But Microsoft’s Street Slide enable users to navigate between immersive 360° panoramas, or “bubbles”. You can move from bubble to bubble with a coherent visual sense of the

While they work on a new record and spend time in their Skeletron and Fake Drugs sideprojects, the gentleman of S

While they work on a new record and spend time in their Skeletron and Fake Drugs sideprojects, the gentleman of S

The Young Fresh Fellows hit Music on Main Street and then Mississippi Studios. Three sets for the price of one (because two of them are free).

Note: I'm away from my computer for a while, so I'm re-posting some of my favorite items from the past years. Enjoy--A thought experiment. Imagine that you sat down at a pub to try the new, say, Ninkasi Hopposaurus and were stunned by the aroma--a piquant blend of passion fruit, bl

Related info and events on PDX Pipeline: Win Tickets To Crystal Ballroom Shows: Wolf Parade, Big Head Todd & More Hey Marseilles Free Performance @ Music Millennium (canceled due to time constraints) From our partners at Crystal Ballroom: Toad the Wet Sprocket Hey Marseilles Crystal Ballroom Wednesday, July 28 7 p.m. d

Thea and I went to the Portland Children's Museum today for Dance Together, a chaotic scarf-waving toddler class, the last of four sessions which we paid for months ago and were never able to attend until today... haha they have a cancellation/refund policy that I didn't bother to look at until just now... um, anyway, Thea

(via shitdisco) I had this game. You’d put any kind of CD into the Playstation, and it would generate a monster from it. Then you’d raise it on your ranch and train it to fight. You c

Here I am, here we are, back at home.  Good to be here.  Got up, after having slept really well, had my usual Cheerios with ATRA and some tea, took a shower to wash off the poison that’s now, once again, leaching out of me, watched some TV, Karen went to the store between her [...]

We wanted to talk about Menomena, but you wanted to talk about Leon Russell, which is cool by us.

The Hillsboro company's rapid growth has cooled a bit, but profit margins should stay high.

Today's morning city council session was a study in contrasts, a back-to-back showcase of Portland's strengths and weaknesses. First, the passing of a resolution aimed at eliminating plastic shopping bags statewide—introduced with all the self-congratulatory cooing that you'd expect from a city gov

Cut! Don''t cut! Are arts groups shortsighted when they cut expenses?

Why, oh why, do I keep reading Warren Ellis? A paralysed Austrian man was eaten to death by maggots in his bed while his partner slept beside him, police said Wednesday.

Revenue in ESI's fiscal first quarter, which ended July 3, totaled $58.5 million -- up 160 percent from the same quarter a year ago.

Last month you planted the seeds and starts. Like Mother Nature, maybe you were a bit behind kicking off the sunny season, but all those extra showers will soon (if not already) yield plenty of...

File this under: "Awwwwww... Yay!!!!!" After ten years of business on Hawthorne, Taste of Europe, the spec

Tom Hardy is making some gay men’s dreams come true. The 32-year-old Inception star told Britain’s Daily Mail that he’s enjoyed the embrace of another man – and that, deep down, he feels “intrinsically feminine.” UK’s Daily Mail has the details: Asked if he’d ever had any sexu

ShanRock is hosting another Twin Peaks trivia night. Two years ago (almost exactly to the day), you might recall that our humble li'l TP gang took second and earne

Singing the theme song.  And no, she is not being beamed away in the process – just an ill placed light pole. Two great minds that go great together (like Reese’s!). Spock and Uhura Khan! Those compression chambers get me every time. A preview of next season… Awesome Portlanders! Dang it, Portland,