WHAT: PADNUG Meeting - GeekRoadTrip WHEN: Tuesday 07/29/2010

As seems to be the case more and more these days, I was a bit late to the Long Blondes' party. By the time I stumbled upon them, thanks to a Pandora-fueled whim, they had already called it quits, with members moving on to other projects. Regardless, the two LPs they produ

Pipeline is giving away many tickets this weekend. Some of them you can win here on the site and some (Crystal Ballroom, Oregon Zoo), you can win by joining our facebook group and/or email list. Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every month to our Portland Facebook Group for many of [...]

I have taken quite a bit of time thinking about the question of whether or not cutting arts organization budgets is a good way to their improved health.  It’s a complicated question, one that the best minds in the industry can spend time arguing over ad infinitum.  I’ve come to the conclusion that cost-cutting

Thursday is the WWeek’s big Best of Portland party. Many of Pipeline’s partners and friend’s are nominated and involved (hey, that’s our friend SAUCE in the ad there), so it should be a great time. Related info and events from Pipeline: Our Portland Events List Thursday: Johnny Cash Movie On Rooftop

What used to be the Oregon Portland Cement Company, but which i

The southbound 18:15 Cascades hustles through the former industrial district along the waterfront of Eas

Nightlife Of Weeds XLIV. Portland, OR. Photo by Zoe Hoeltzel. …………

Pipeline has partnered with NW Film Center to give away tickets to many of their screeenings including a pair to Thursday night’s Rooftop Cinema. To Win: Comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn Thursday (July 29) at 3PM. Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every [...]

A timely art show at Floating World Comics

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Nothing very eventful today. I made another bike trip to the grocery store this evening. I left after 7:30 p.m., and it was actually dusky enough on the way back that I turned my lights on. The garden is finally bursting forth! The tomatoes are fruiting and outgrowing their cages. The zucchini are finally getting [...]

video: dark mark: 100 days of oil* corexit sprayed by bp tops 1m gallons* bp caught exploiting cheap prison labor to clean up oil spill* bp hires prison labor to clean up spill while coastal residents struggle* bp ceo hayward out; russia job in works* bp plans deep-water drilling off libya* mud, dead fish replace lake

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We did some driving. To give some perspective, the distance from Palm Springs to Malibu is 142 miles. Over 80% of that distance is urban, suburban, commercial or industrial. And I can’t show in the above map that we took the same freeways multiple times for multiple trips. It was probably a 500 mile weekend. [...]

Just weeks after lowering the price of the Kindle e-book reader from $259 to $189, Amazon unveiled a fully revamped Kindle on Wednesday. It’s sleeker, better looking, easier on the eyes — and starts at $139. This new Kindle, Amazon’s third generation, is smaller by 21 percent, and 15 percent lighter too. It ha

Barcelona’s Grey agency created a great viral marketing campaign featuring LEGOS with drawn on “cool” tattoos using Pilot Extra-Fine ball-pens.

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This past weekend, I watched the film Linda Linda Linda -- a wonderful, pretty recent Japanese film about a group of high school girls who decide to start a band, to perform at their school's summer festival. Since their former band is no longer, and they don't have time to write any original material, th

Latest Rassmussen poll: Chris Dudley earning 47% John Kitzhaber’s 44%. Other 5% Undecided 4% Continued good

Today Amazon is introducing two new Kindles. A WiFi-only version costs $139xxx, and a a $189 3G version (utilizing AT&T’s network, just like the last model) is. Amazon will begin taking orders Thursday and the new models will begin shipping Aug. 27 to customers in 140 countries. The units are 21 percent smaller a

Matt LeBlanc is an abstract artist on a mission. When his art began to sell, he decided to take a stand against cancer and founded the Matt LeBlanc Art For Life Campaign. Today we've caught up with Matt to discuss the ins and out of marketing one's art and reaching success.

Yeah, I know that it's been way too long since I've graced your presence, but between visits from family and friends, summer concerts and basking in the sun with my sweetheart, I have had absolutely no time or energy left for posting here. Besides checking out the incredibly talented trio of gypsy-klezmer stylists, Shicky

Rudy Fernandez Trade Talk Cools, At Least For Now Almost as soon as it began, the excitement surrounding a potential Rudy Fernandez trade has apparently c

It's not secret that I - much like our friend, the fish - do not travel well.  In fact, the very first posts to this blog were about the ridiculousness that was Brazil 2007.  I still suffer PTSD flashbacks... mostly of a girl with short hair and dark-rimmed glasses, wearing a JCrew tankini in a sea of&nb

Between the deep recession and Portland's native artisan culture, the DIY ('do it yourself') movement has seen explosive growth here. Mississippi Avenue in North Portland is quickly becoming an epicenter for this growing movement with many local businesses focused on providing resources and tools for Portland

It shows how quickly the blog-based news cycle moves, that I delay a response to something I’ve read and I’m beat to my reply by a fellow violist (or as Robert Levine would put it: Bratsche Blogging Brother) in Minneapolis! David Stabler wrote an article on July 25 in the Oregonian about the cuts made [...]

By Karen Vitt, NEAT editor in chief Here we go… again! Project Runway 8 premieres on Lifetime TV this Thursday, July 29 at 9 p.m., with yet another talented Portland area designer set to compete in a scissors showdown against 16 other fashionable folks from around the country. Last season,... Go to pdxneats

We’ve started packing up A’s things separating those things that he will take with him to his new apartment and those things I’ll lovingly hold onto as reminders of my child. He’s a child no longer. I feel split. I’m sorry to see my child go. Feeling a little bit of hurt that he’s [...]

I finally made it to my old high school yesterday.  Even simply standing in front of it was surreal.  This was where I spent four significant years of my life.  It seemed so small now. I was lucky enough to catch a former teacher, Ms. S. (who’s now the Alumni Director) at the school, and, [...]

Day Thirty-eight: Finally! We have jam. Of course, it would be the last jars that would set up. So, I won’t be  sending any of these as gifts. I’ll just think fondly of all of you as I spread it on my toast in the morning.

The City of Portland recently played its annual check-kiting game with some of the taxes it collects for the scandalously unfunded police and fire retirement system. In the course of borrowing money on a short-term basis to pay this year's benefits, the city disclosed in

Ross Coleman, an international bull rider out of Molalla will participate in the event along with 45 other bull riders from around the world including Flint Rassmussen, a Professional Bull Riders, Inc. barrelman.

Fresh off a big success with August Wilson's "Radio Golf," the Northeast Portland theater announces it will stage the famed playwright's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" next season.

Once again I pu

PSU's Littman Gallery presents the 9th biannual International Women Artists' Exhibition and Conference. Organized locally by the Oregon Women's C

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With the 2010 World Championships in Turkey a little more than a month away, Team USA

There is a great guy named Merlin Mann whose work I have been appreciating for years.  He is pretty much a time and productivity guru, although I am not sure you’d be able to catch him using the word “guru” to describe himself in any way.  He invented the Hipster PDA and Inbox Zero.  Earlier [...]

J.D. Power and Associates announced today that the Prudential Real Estate Network ranked “Highest Overall Satisfaction for Home Sellers among National Full Service Real Estate Firms” in the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Home Buyer/Seller Study. This marks the second time in three years that Prudential ranked highest i

TriMet is allowing you three whole minutes of input during their scheduled Safety & Service Excellence Task Force Meetings, taking place starting tomorrow, July 29 to October. Three minutes. These meetings are open to the public. The July meeting will, again, take place on July 29 at the Portland Building, 2nd floor, 5-

Quite recently, I purchased peanut butter after forgetting it existed for a couple of months.  I was glad I did, because it came to the rescue the other night on an almost too-warm-to-cook, clean-out-the-fridge-for-dinner evening. I was grasping for ideas and near gasping for breath until I remembered that I had just enoug

Our recent vacation was much enhanced by the ability to tether our laptop to the internet via our iPhone. We had done this last summer, using a hack that some young Austrian guy had developed to allow tethering, despite AT&T's official prohibition on the

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Hot damn! After years in the making, and many more in the void, Portland's finally getting a real comedy club. Now, perhaps you're

Mayor Sam Adams and the Portland City Council are challenging citizens to support more environmentally sustainable renewable power. At the July 28th, 2010 city council meeting, Mayor Adams and the City Council unanimously proclaimed the City’s first Green Power Challenge, which will be the nation’s largest chall

Isaiah Mustafa, better known as the shirtless sensation from the Old Spice ads, gets a big-screen gig.

If we told you Tom Jones has a cool new record, would you believe us?

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