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Downtown Portland at SW Third and Washington (image courtesy Cafe Unknown) There may not be many buildings going up during the Great Recession, but transit is, well, moving along. Anna Griffin's Saturday Oregonian column looked at streetcar investment in Portland...

Today our travels take us to a park built on a landfill.

Photo: Heather Zinger What may at first glance seem like a dangerous endeavor is fast becoming a popular hobby for many urban farming enthusiasts, and a small-scale, part-time business for a...

Pipeline has partnered with Helium Comedy Club to give away tickets to their opening weekend with Portland-native Auggie Smith. To Win: Comment on this post why you would like to attend. Please include which night you would like to attend (Friday, Saturday). Winners drawn and emailed Friday morning, July 30th. Reminder: We

Allison Halter, still from "Please Please Please" Grand Detour presents Allison Halter: Apparently I Am An Experimental Filmmaker Now, a selection of Halter's film

By the way, the cost of the Iraq II/Afghanistan war is now the second costliest in US history, after only World War II. Over a trillion dollars has been spent so far.

Jack White's band opens with "Portland, Oregon," a song he sang with Loretta Lynn, and rips through a lively 90-minute set.

I applaud the courage of Wikileaks and Julian Assange (and whoever leaked the documents) for the release of the Afghanistan war documents, but unfortunately I think he's wrong to suggest this will be like the Pent

The New Jersey Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a marriage equality case, saying that the six same-sex couples seeking the right to marry must start with the state’s lower courts, the AP reports. The couple sought to challenges New Jersey’s civil union law on the grounds it does not provide the full equalit

Unveiled at Comic-Con, these are the Tron: Legacy sneakers that will be produced by Adidas. Sooooo… what do you

A new Streetfilm (watch it below) taken during the recent Velo-City Global conference in Copenhagen is like a refuge in a storm. Here in Portland (and across the country), we still struggle with resentment over bike lanes, a local media that's happy to stir it up, people wanting to ban bikes completely because they're simp

Vulcan CEO Leiweke resigns Promoted to front page. Vulcan CEO Tod Leiweke resigns his post to become CEO and part owner of the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning. Thanks to Sean for the

Thanks for all the advice about my kit

When Seth Aaron returned triumphant from winning the last season of Project Runway, he answered with no hesitation when I asked if he was moving to New York that he had no plans to leave Portland (er... Vancouver). And leave us he has not. In fact he's slated to

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The folks over at Towleroad have posted a video interview with Judy Shepard – mother of Matthew Shepard, who was brutally murdered in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998, sparking recently signed-into-law hate crimes legislation. Shepard’s new memoir, The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Tr

from ap: Some 90,000 leaked U.S. military records posted online Sunday amount to a blow-by-blow account of six years of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures. The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks posted the documents on its websit

Long-legged myotis, another bat recorded at Craters of the Moon National Monument.

I don't know why Glee is at Comic-Con but they are and co-creator Ryan Murphy is being dropping spoilers like they're hot about season two.

"Give an infinite number of monkeys typewriters and they'll produce the works of Shakespeare. Unfortunately, I feel like I'm reading all the books where they didn't."-- Anonymous at internetisshit.org, as quoted in

While everyone else was at OSCON, I worked. And tried not to melt (I still have no hot weather tolerance, surprising no one). At work we’re wrapping up an intense 2-week sprint, and about to launch into the next one. Head down, work work work feels pretty good right now. I’m behind on email again [...]

Living in the city, when we're in our garden we can hear kids playing, car stereos, laughter, and sometimes many different languages of the people walking by. Early this morning I heard nearby chickens squawking at each other. But when a breeze comes through the backyard, there's a new sound we're hearing.

Fans say goodbye in their own ways.

Four areas around Portland have homes selling quicker than the metro average, currently 121 days, according to the RMLS. As usual, North, Northeast, and Southeast Portland are selling quickest.Here are the average days on market to sell, listed from shortest time to longest:DOM = Area

Kevin Mannix's effort (Initiative Petition 50) for a measure to let a panel of retired judges draw legislative boundaries has fallen short of the required amount of signatures. As we reported last week, Mannix

"Who is Don Draper?" is the loaded question that began the fourth season of Mad Men. In the middle of an interview, meant to promote his new age

Sure, somebody got stabbed in the eye at Comic-Con. But you know what cancels out the ickiness of nerd-on-nerd violence? Green Lantern star Ryan Reynolds reciting the Green Lantern oath to a

When Seth Aaron returned triumphant from winning the last season of Project Runway, he answered with no hesitation when I asked if he was moving to New York that he had no plans to leave Portland (er... Vancouver). And leave us he has not. In fact he's slated to

...and all our reporters had two legs, thankyouverymuch!

I had a brilliant birthday. I did exactly what I wanted – very little. David and I went to my favorite restaurant. I tested out my new lenses for my camera (I am a picture-taker, not a photographer…. just sayin’) and we found a charming little wine bar called Alu on MLK, which means it [...]

Drink reporting can be hazardous

But it's an opposite cheat—you know, like an "opposite marriage" but adulterous—so it's not as sinful/delicious as it could be. But however they fall, it's always nice to see

Just past the intersection at Southeast 82nd and Division going east, you arrive in New Chinatown in the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood. Pull into the parking lot where you see the Chang Fa...

In 2008, the FCC attempted to auction off a block of 700 MHz to the wireless industry, with a requirement that the winning bidder help build out a sturdy communications network that would be shared with first responders in an emergency. But those conditions proved too onerous, and the $1.5 Billion minimum bid failed to [...

I started to read “Capitalism 4.0″ by Anatole Kaletsky and I’m done with it and I’ve only begun. In the Introduction Kaletsky looks back at the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and writes that Capitalism didn’t die, but pre-crisis faith in the wisdom of financial markets and efficiency of free ent

Looking east on SE Hawthorne Blvd, just before Grand Avenue. Not exactly a place you'd want your kids or your mom to ride through is it?(Photo © J. Maus) The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is into their second week of a three week project to grind down and repave SE Hawthorne Boulevard [...]

You love Green Noise... they love you. And to show just how much they love their customers Green Noise Records

Soon you will be able to buy a cheap used car and get smoked out by some kindhearted volunteers, all in the same couple blocks of SE 82nd Avenue. The original Cannabis Café opened in November 2009 at 700 NE Dekum Street. It allowed medical marijuana cardholders a place to light up for free i

Local quadriplegic cartoonist Callahan passed away this weekend at age 59. Hope he gets to roll right up to the front of the line at the pearly gates. American military leaders strongly suspect

Short sales, foreclosures and bank owned properties may be the buzz words of today’s real estate market but an RMLS blog post shows us that short sales and bank owned properties make up less than 20% of the properties listed for sale. In Portland, there are 5604 active residential listings.  Three hundred fifty three

@_@ FREE MOVIES! We all know that free movies rock the friggin’ Casbah. And luckily for us Portlanders there are plenty to choose from. The folks at pdxpipeline have a sweet list of free movies going on in and around Portlandia. Check it HERE. Portland’s living room hosts Flicks on the Bricks on Friday nights [.

London is the latest big city to get a public bike-share system, and it comes with these cool illustrations. Here's the news that caught our eye this week: - The outcome of this year's particularly dramatic Tour de France was decided by a mere 39 seconds. Meanwhile, Bend Oregon's very own Chris Horner had a stellar ride, [

Arts journalism is turning into a vocational sideline.

'Street sprints' hit the Pearl DistrictBikePortland.org (blog)Portland's Pearl District played host to a rare form of bike racing on Saturday evening when local Ironclad Pe

You can’t get away with hiding anything in an online community; community members will notice even the smallest things. While this is true in communities of every size, it is especially noticeable in large communities with many members. People are often under the mistaken impression that they can post something in a w

A Sonoma gay man will receive a $600,000 settlement from Sonoma County’s Public Guardian program after being prevented from seeing his dying partner in the hospital by social workers, The Advocate reports. Clay Greene, 78, filed suit last year, claiming he was denied hospital visitation rights because of his sexual or

As a post-OBF palate-cleanser, I turn to the weekend's news that BrewDog has released The End of History, the newest highest-alcohol beer in the world. BrewDog has been competing with Germany's Schorschbräu for the "strongest beer" title, and every

Update #2: Portland Fire & Rescue investigators state that the fire was caused by smoker's carelessness. Portland Fire & Rescue reminds smokers to please use caution when disposing of smoking materials. Update: #1 Reports indicate that there were four occupants...

Posted: July 24th, 2010 8:19 PM Regional responders have been busy today responding to calls for help on local water ways. Portland Fire & Rescue reminds everyone to use caution near the water. 1. Use life jackets when near water....