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Portland’s Music Millennium has many great free shows, but tomorrow night’s might be the best of the year so far. It’s going to be packed for sure, but I’ve heard that if you buy the Menomena album beforehand you have a guaranteed seat. Related from Pampelmoose & Pipeline danny from menomena drop

The BeerMongers 1125 SE Division St Portland 503-234-6012 6-8pm

Gauntlet Press will publish the definitive collection of Stephen King’s classic short story, Battleground in 2011. The story was adapted for television by Richard Christian Matheson. The publisher will start with King’s short story and then move to R.C. Matheson’s script for the opening episode of “Nightmares and Dr

Warner Bros. has released this video of Green Lantern highlights at the San Diego Comic-Con. You can watch Ryan Reynolds recite the Green Lantern oath and hear more about the eagerly anticipated film.

In today's video clip, it's interesting to see how Jean Pederson adds depth and contrast to her watercolor portrait by simply dropping in some complementary colors. After many more layers of paint, the final result is stunning. Take a look

 More later. Just got back into town and found out. Here.  Just one of many Callahan cartoons that made me gasp and laugh out loud over how bawdy (and naughty) it was. Callahan drew at least two cartoons (and maybe more) based on my talk shows. We disagreed on the Iraq war; he was deeply embittered. It was hard to talk to

Srsly guys, give me like 20 minutes here.

Alfredo Casella (1883-1946)Maureen Forrester (1930)andElias Canetti (1905-1994)

The Oregonian reports that Oregon Symphony and the other major arts organizations in Portland have managed to stay in the black in this tough year, largely due to belt-tightening in their budgets. For the first time in five years, the Oregon Symphony balanced its budget, although the exact numbers won’t be known until

Brewpublic presents an exclusive interview with the founders of Prodigal Son Brewing. The Pendleton brewery is the first of its kind in this cowboy town of Eastern Oregon.

Silas at the

A bakfiets, all dressed up for a Pirate Part

Nightlife Of Spiders. Portland, OR. Photo by Zoe Hoeltzel. …………

In 11 days I’ll be 32. So far the 30’s are not turning out at all like I imagined they would. Then again, I was reasonably certain I’d be dead by 25 so I never really planned this far ahead. I simply assumed I’d have made one fatal error in judgment that sounded like a [...]

PORTLAND! What city is more smug than ours? If you said Seattle as recently as 3-to-4 years ago, you’d still be right. But these days, Portland is King of the Hill as far as smugness goes. Granted, I’ve never been to, say, Brooklyn — and I’m sure it’s smug there too — but it can’t [

please donate to zero point radio & ground zero media! from clyde lewis: I always shake my head and wonder why people don’t see the fraud for what it is. I was once told that we didn’t land on the moon and I said that was just a lie and that we did go. My heart wants to believe in these romanticized fantasies cooke

Ellen is one of my best friends. She is shy about me talking about her, but she probably can't complain that I want you to know that she is a thoughtful, generous person who has committed her working life to helping women have safe and wonderful pregnancies and births. (She certainly did that for me.) Ellen has

Ellen is one of my best friends. She is shy about me talking about her, but she probably can't complain that I want you to know that she is a thoughtful, generous person who has committed her working life to helping women have safe and wonderful pregnancies and births. (She certainly did that for me.) Ellen has

Some well-meaning Portlanders — presumably bored and under-employed, because everyone is up there — are trying to raise $60,000 so that they can donate it to recovery after the BP oil disaster come to the Gulf Coast to “write” a “graphic” “novel.” They want to bring “teachers, s

Although I consider myself to be extremely responsible and savvy with the money in my wallet, that doesn’t mean I know diddly-squat about stocks, bonds, mutual funds or Roth IRA’s. But that’s okay. You don’t have to be an expert before dipping your toe into the icy cold water of money management. (Do

One of our back-burner projects has been keeping track of the salaries paid to public officials and officers of nonprofits in the Portland area. Here's

Cuts in salaries and other expenses kept the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Portland Center Stage and Oregon Ballet Theatre out of trouble in the wake of the recession.

WOTTON LEADER KNOT (SMALL & TIGHT) “Fly Fishing Is The Most Fun You Can Have With Your Clothes On” Flugfiskeklubben Rättviksflugan Filed under: Beginning Fly fishing, Brown Trout, Catch Trout, Czech nymphing, euro nymphing, fishing, flyfishing, how to fly fish Tagged: Davy Wotton, летят, Fliegenfischen

I had a phase eons ago when I was drawn to bands that consciously tried for humor, like The Dead Milkmen (e.g.) and King Missile (e.g.), but that phase didn't last long. Music is well-suited to talky folk parody

A pusher helps shove a Yellow Menace freight up the hill from Brooklyn Yard to Milwaukie.

Day Thirty-four: Starting over on the deck  garden.

Day Thirty-five: Starting over on the deck  garden.

Yesterday, I got to see my 4000-mile trip’s raison d’etre.  ”Nanay,” which is how most of my family members refer to the clan matriarch, was still quite lucid when we saw her, but her short-term memory is failing a bit. We had an enjoyable visit.  Her caretakers were on-hand to make sure that she m

There is new, innovative, and engagaing theater happening in Portland Oregon. And a lot of it happened this weekend at Portland Center Stage’s annual JAW (Just Add Water) Playwrights Festival. The festival matches local theater talent with some of the most prominen

Wine Pong, the game on [adultswim.com]: thoseareturkeys: iambal:

Sprint has not announced when its second WiMAX smartphone, the Samsung Epic 4G,will hit the shelves but the official Samsung Mobile USA Twitter feed says, “The Sprint Epic 4G is arriving in a few weeks.”. Samsung’s Galaxy S has variants offered on all major US carriers, but only Sprint offers WiMAX on the

Day two… We didn’t get more than four hours of sleep. A bummer. The adjustment and all of coming back into the hospital I think. Otherwise though it’s been a pretty good day. The push was a little bit of an event. Nothing big really, just mostly my anxiety because the site was tender and [...]

Today I had the privilege of seeing "Trek in the Park", a wonderful live-action re-enactment of the Star Trek Original Series episode Space Seed - the episode off which

 Henry freakin' out beca

Well, it is Sunday, after all! We simply didn’t go anywhere today. We decided that Trek in the Park was likely to be miserable on a hot day, during the hottest part of the day. And we didn’t need to go anywhere else. I did, however, get up early and work in the garden, so [...]

Bowling balls. Sledgehammers. Steel rebar wickets that can be pounded into hardened Park Blocks turf. Beverages you're not supposed to talk about. Viking helmets, men in skirts, the very embodiment of keeping Portland weird: Mondo Croquet.

Warner Music Entertainment said Monday that British actor Hugh Laurie has signed a deal to record an album of New Orleans-inspired blues.

Welcome to my short overview of Online Auction Profit System. I’m going to be tackling the primary questions which prospective purchasers of this product ask. They are - What is Online Auction Profit System all about? - Could it be a rip-off? - Is it seriously worth buying? - Can I obtain a bonus for buying this produ

Living in New Orleans and having just thrown away several empty bottles of O’Douls reminds me of one of my favorite “Stuff White People Like” posts: If you are in a situation where a white person produces an empty bottle, watch their actions. They will first say “where’s the recycling?” If you say �

Big news today. The whistleblower website WikiLeaks has released around 92,000 classified reports from Afghanistan that detail hundreds of civilian deaths, every logged IED (improvised explosive device) incident over five years, and growing suspicions among NATO for

John was a big flirt and a funny, wicked talented artist. RIP, Big Guy. Share This

$100 Milagros Gift Certificate Raffle! Come in anytime between now and Friday, August 6 and enter your name in our drawing for a $100 Milagros Gift Certificate! We’ll pick a winner during the  Big Latch On! event at Milagros. The fine print? None. Entries are FREE, no purchase is necessary, you may enter once a day, an

The weekend's other new wide release, 20th Century Fox's family comedy "Ramona and Beezus," took in $8 million to finish at No. 6.