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How healthy are these two guys? How much, if any, can they play? The game may hang in the balance.
Game Time: 7:00 p.m. TV: KGW
The L*kers come into this game with a 38-13 record, best in the ...
When I got home from work yesterday, we had a message from a reporter at the Medill news service based out of Northwestern University in Chicago. The reporter, who covers the food and agriculture beat, had spent her day touring public schools in Chicago to see what menu changes were ...
The Macbook Air is back, but since I'm not using it right now (I need to move ~orc back over to it first) I'm letting Dust Mite play with it.
The picture above was taken September 17, 2007 when my son, Jonathan, was 3 months old. It's hard to believe that the face above is the same face as that of my smiling, chubby, 2 and a half year old. Many people don't believe me when I show ...
My friend Lisa Marie is bringing you an afternoon of elegance and fashion.
Cascadia Bridal Fashion Show
February 6th, 2010
4:00 PM
The Lotus Seed Center
4635 NE 9th Avenue
$5 cash only, please
Introducing a bridal fashion show for those of us who want to see unique ensembles ...
This dark, smart satire appears at a perfect, uncertain moment for our culture. Will books still exist as we know them? And how will love fare in an electronic world? Shteyngart enables us to laugh our fears away — at least, for the duration of this wonderful novel.
The Original Chicken Bar is now open and ready to deliver through Delivered Dish. The Original Chicken Bar serves tender chicken grilled to perfection. If you are looking for a healthy option for delivery, The Original Chicken Bar is your place. For the complete Original Chicken Bar menu click here ...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 9am through Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 4:30pm
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Portland , OR 97232
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The eMarketing Summit is the region's most comprehensive internet marketing event. It is back with even more ...
Thursday, May 6, 2010 from 8am–4:30pm
777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Portland , OR 97232
US
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InnoTech is the region's largest business to business technology conference and expo happening May 6. Over 1500 business and technology professionals ...
Friday, February 5, 2010 from 9–10pm
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Cody McFadyen's fourth novel pushes FBI agent Smokey Barrett and her team into the dark game of a perverse serial killer who kidnaps and keeps his victims for years before disposing of them. McFadyen's characters are complex and his plot is sinister and driven. Barrett is not the ...
When: 2-11-10
11am
yeah for tea parties! come and chit chat about Etsy and meet Judi's new dog Koko... check out the PDXEtsy forum for her address and more details:
http://pdxetsy.usersboard.com/tea-time-f11/etsy-tea-time-2-11-2010-t841.htm#5594
Describe your latest book/project/work. Invisible Boy is my third crime novel chronicling the adventures of Madeline Dare, a foul-mouthed cynic with a dark and twisty worldview who still secretly yearns to be Batman when she grows up. She's now escaped both rust-belt Syracuse and the clutches of ...
Happy Fortune is now open for delivery if you live in parts of Lake Oswego, Tualatin, Tigard, Beaverton and Portland. Happy Fortune is know for their good prices and large portions and now Delivered Dish can bring it straight to your door in 60 minutes or less. For the complete ...
Ryan Pierce, "Paradise"
Ryan Pierce is exhibiting To Those Who Do Not Know The Way at his alma mater OCAC in conjunction with his brand-new book of the same title. The show features 13 new paintings and one "disco-ball-esque" sculpture. Go see the exhibition and celebrate the book release with ...
Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) Americans Won't Do by Gabriel Thompson
Reviewed by Gerry Donaghy
Powells.com
Like most people, throughout the course of my life, I've worked at some pretty lousy jobs. In junior high, I lied about my age and ...
...for a wet brained rock band... the cast of Lord of the flies... and a legion of home bum jerks that nobody can be proud of.
Under the circumstances I cant really appreciate my amazing record at Muddy Waters coffee house.
For the last two years the nights that I ...
read more at Da Dingo Dizmal Digest, Rantings of a mad Texican Clown
American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Reviewed by Matthew Jakubowski
Rain Taxi
These fourteen grim, finely tuned short stories, which earned Bonnie Jo Campbell a 2009 National Book Award nomination for fiction, are set in rural southwestern Michigan and focus on poor white folk. It's a beautifully written collection ...
When:
02/05/2010 - 5:17pm
“City’s Confronts Its Historic Racism“
February 5, 2010
TRAFFIC ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NW 23rd Ave temporarily closes from NW Everett to NW Glisan on Monday
(PORTLAND, Ore.) - NW 23rd Avenue will be closed to vehicles between NW Everett and NW Glisan streets from 7a.m. Monday, February 8, until Friday, February 26. The closure ...
The easiest restaurant you will ever take your kids too . . . 5:30-7 in The Roost.
Jason is making his cooking debut (one week before he kicks of Kungfu for adults in our gym).
He’s doing the real work for all of us . . . hand making tamales (pork or pumpkin) and ...
How 'bout this sweet lil' booger !!! I have been trying to come up with new ideas lately,like the Trykipedes. I built 2 experimental models ( one of which was a tall trykipede ) that were total DISASTERS !!!!!!!!!!! Oh well,ya can't learn much of anything unless you at least TRY ...
When I wrote about going shampoo-free a few weeks ago, I had no idea it would inspire such great discussion, action, and several more ways to release myself from the bonds of "product" I've been struggling against since adolescence. Joanna left a comment that once more set me free ...
For a special anniversary I got the chance to go to The Melting Pot for the first time. Recommended to me by a friend as an absolutely amazing social experience. The entrance is located on 6th and Main and it is a unique spiraling staircase down into the restaurant. There ...
I love American Football (mostly of the Canadian variety), but I just can’t get into the most American of celebrations that is Superbowl Sunday. For one thing, it’s no longer an American secular holiday, which was one of its selling points for me. I say let the Fundamentalist ...
Describe your new book. Willow is the story of a young woman, a seventeen year old girl, who loses her parents in a car accident, an accident for which she was responsible. She is so overcome with guilt, so isolated and alone, that she feels she has no other way ...
10:30am Men's Cycling Holladay Park, NE 11th Ave and Holladay St (middle) A weekly ride for men. We ride easy and chat as we go. Beginners welcome. [weekly details tba] 12:45pm Museums: Food Voodoo Doughnuts Too, 1501 NE Davis St (Right off Sandy Blvd at Davis) Foody ...
A chance to meet and get to know others in the community over good food in a relaxed atmosphere!
We are trying to make this convenient for families by choosing Old Wives Tales as a meeting place: The restaurant has a children ...
Comic actor and Emmy Award-winning writer Wyatt Cenac will be lecturing at Reed College on Wednesday, February 17. If you watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, you’ve likely already seen Cenac, a correspondent and contributing writer there for the past few years. Check out some recent videos from ...
School’s Out/SCRAP’s In
Kids 5-12 On President’s Day, February 15th
10:00 am – Noon - Collage!
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Reuse Project TBD
Cost: $10 per workshop
Register at 503.294.0769 x1 or contact Jon.
read more at SCRAP! The School and Community Reuse Action Project
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 from 6–9pm
1122 NW Davis
Portland , Oregon 97209
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On Wednesday February 24th, from 6 to 9pm, The Portland Area Game Developers Interest Group (PAGDIG) is proud to host ...
One of the questions that keeps showing up in my mailbox is whether the Blazers could, should, or would have any interest in trading for Amare Stoudemire. Short answer: No. Or at least I hope not.
LaMarcus Aldridge may not be the power forward of everyone's dreams but he ...
The Parkrose Board of Education of School District No. 3, Multnomah County, Oregon, will convene in a Special Session on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, in the District Office Boardroom at the hour of 5:00 p.m. The Board will have a discussion about the 2010-11 Budget Priorities. The agenda ...
The Parkrose Board of Education of School District No. 3, Multnomah County, Oregon, will convene in a Work Session on Monday, February 8, 2010, in the District Office Boardroom at the hour of 5:00 p.m. The Board will hear information on Bonds by Carol Samuels of Seattle NW ...
Confirming a rumor first published by the Portland Mecury on Wednesday, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance has announced that Advocacy Manager Michelle Poyourow is leaving the organization.
In a blog post published today, the BTA wrote:
“BTA Advocacy Manager Michelle Poyourow confirmed she is leaving her position with the organization in ...
Via BoJack.org, “Restaurant promotes sex in its bathrooms”
The Liberty Village restaurant proposes its modern bathrooms become one of the “101 places to have sex before you die.”
Mildred’s has always elicited a certain response. One customer, who didn’t want to be named, remembers going to a ...
On February 4th, 2010 at approximately 3:35 P.M., Portland Police Officers responded to the the Key Bank at 1205 NE 102nd Avenue on a robbery call. Officers arrived in the area and located a suspect near the Gateway Transit Center. The suspect was taken into custody.
The suspect ...
BTA Advocacy Manager Michelle Poyourow confirmed she is leaving her position with the organization in mid-February. Since 2006 Michelle has worked in several positions at the BTA, and has led the advocacy department for the past two years. She has made a major contribution to bicycle advocacy and to the ...
Startups need milestones. They need goals. And indicators of progress. And sometimes, they need to take a moment to stop and revel in some ridiculously huge numbers that remind them that what they’re doing might—just maybe—have hit upon that idea that will change the world.
For Portland-based ...
Though I'll admit, I use Facebook for most of my personal networking needs anymore, I still check my Myspace page because that's where I'm more likely to hear from new bands. In my personal experience, Myspace still makes it easier for bands to create pages and connect ...
2010: THE STATE OF THE CITY
Mayor Sam Adams
Feb. 5, 2010
Good afternoon Portlanders, City Club of Portland, members of the Portland City Council, honored guests, and the radio listeners and TV viewers on Oregon Public Broadcasting and community access media.
As mayor I interact with Portlanders of every ...
"Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans." Every brush with disaster that New Orleans endures reminds me of the great value of this fantastic city. The people, the music, and, oh my goodness, the food. Tom Fitzmorris has great heart for gulf cuisine home-cooking, which means that ...
Hamstring injuries are often the most difficult to treat. There’s no surgery that can be performed or brace that can be slapped on to make the pain go away. You can massage, ice, heat and apparently inject platelets into the general area to help speed up the healing process ...
“Think about the cost of any given trip made on bicycle versus the automobile. There is no such thing as a pothole caused by bike.”
— Mayor Sam Adams in his State of the City address today
Portland Mayor Sam Adams delivered his State of the City speech to the City ...
Hello all,
Sorry we have been quiet of late. We have been busy planning, and gearing up for our 2010 programs. A few quick items of news:
Now that WORK | PROGRESS is over, the Dill Pickle Club will be moving out of the Eyeful Gallery. We are exploring a number ...
It’s Friday. And that means it’s time for another installment of Strange Love Live tonight at 10 PM. But maybe you can’t wait that long. Maybe you’re a little antsy. I mean, seriously. When you know that Nate “@xolotl” Angell is going to be on, it ...
Sunday, February 7, 2010 from noon–3pm
Portland Classical Chinese Garden
239 NW Everett Street
Portland , Oregon 97209
United States
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The first Sunday of every month, the Portland Go Club hosts a casual workshop for this ancient, pan-Asian board game. This ...
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Funding decision to be made Feb. 17
Just saw this over at BikePortland: A $38 million project proposed by Metro that would buld an extensive bikeway system in N/NE Portland will learn its funding fate later this month.
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood just ...
At Blazers practice today, Brandon Roy participated in drills and 3 on 3 play. Afterwards, he said he still felt some discomfort in his hamstring, enough that he wouldn't play if there was a game tonight. "It's better," Roy noted "there's a chance I'll play [tomorrow ...
The Board of Directors briefing will be Wednesday, February 10 at 9 a.m. More
Alright folks… I have been sitting on this news and sitting on this news… and I’m not going to sit on it any more. Mary and Martin are going to have a baby!! They have been trying for a little while now, since before the wedding, and found out ...
Decisions will soon be made about Urban Renewal plans and money to be invested in inner North/Northeast neighborhoods.
Come voice your community needs.
Urban Renewal Area Town Hall 1: Community Truth-Telling
Wednesday, February 10th, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Place: Billy Webb Elks Lodge, 6 N Tillamook St. Snacks and ...
Today in Scatterville we’re taken with Dwight Garner’s review in the New York Times of Tony Hoagland’s new book of poetry, Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty.
For one thing, that’s just a terrific title, even better than the review’s zinger of a headline ...
Back in September, I started wearing glasses occasionally for computing. Since then, I have been getting used to the idea of wearing glasses while reading and working at the computer. The main problem I have faced has been keeping them clean. I think this would not be as big ...
Siri Assistant is a new iPhone app/service that has a lot of people talking. I first heard Scoble get all excited about it a couple of weeks ago, and Adam Duvander was telling me about it last night. By the time I got home from the Ignite Portland 8 ...
My commitment to a life free of toxic chemicals is never more tested than when presented with a plumbing problem. Yesterday's test came by way of a stopped up sink in the kid's bathroom. I've lamented in the past that whole tubes of toothpaste have gone down ...
On February 8, Eugene City Council will consider the Sustainability Commission's policy recommendation that more flexible funding be allocated to bicycle and pedestrian improvements, rather than to pavement preservation projects.
Call or email your City Council representative now and ask them to support this recommendation.
As mandated by City ...
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced that funding decisions for their stimulus minded Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program will be made no later than February 17th.
To refresh your memory, last fall Metro submitted a TIGER grant request for $98 million in active transportation ...
Most of the time, this blog doesn’t get overly rabbinic. I may talk about what I do as a rabbi, or talk about Jewish things, but rarely do I get overtly religious. This is fair warning: I’m about to talk about prayer, the soul, and how I understand ...
Lisa and Brian Wood from Big Ass Sandwiches join us to start up the 2010 PDX.FM/Big Ass Sandwich Challenge with Emily Gibson representing PDX.FM… WARNING: Do not listen to this while eating.
Thanks to Lisa and Brian for opening one of the best goddamn food carts in ...
I’ve been more or less obsessed with Mass Effect 2 since it dropped, forsaking all other games (except for a bit of Borderlands) to advance the storyline. It’s a gorgeous game, with terrific voice-work, fascinating characters, and a bunch of great intertwined storylines. The word “epic” gets tossed ...
On February 5th, 2010, at approximately 7:50 P.M., Portland Police Officers responded to a stabbing in the area of S.E. 82nd Avenue and S.E. Crystal Springs Boulevard. Officers arrived and located the victim who had suffered non-life-threatening stab wounds. The victim, identified as Karen Mosbrucker, a ...
Let's admit it right at the top: I am a crappy champion. In other hands, the Honest Pint Project would now have far more certified purveyors and perhaps had a greater effect nationally. I have just had enough going on in life that I haven't devoted the time ...
Detail of new route. Start planning now!
Adventure Cycling, a 44,000 member non profit that promotes bike touring, has announced their latest route and it goes right through some of Oregon’s best riding areas. The 2,392 mile Sierra Cascades Bicycle Route runs from Sumas, Washington to Tecate ...
There was lots of great energy in the lobby last night. Thanks everyone for getting the word out. The Studio's effort and big hearts shined once again. For those of you who could not attend, or are miles away, you can still help out Haiti by purchasing a poster ...
There are those who advocate a cup of java before a run to help improve overall performance. And there are those who don’t. Some appreciate the stimulating effect; some fear that it may lead to negative results.
In fact, ShotBloks by Cliff bar offers both caffeinated and decaffeinated versions ...
On February 28, the Rockwood/E 188th Ave Transit Center will close due to road construction. Bus lines 25, 27, 82 and 87 are affected. Schedule adjustments are also being made on routes 10, 32 and 50. More
On February 28, the Rockwood/E 188th Ave Transit Center will close due to road construction. Bus lines 25, 27, 82 and 87 are affected. Schedule adjustments are also being made on routes 10, 32 and 50. More
Here is this week’s summary of links to my posts appearing on other blogs:
GigaOM’s WebWorkerDaily*
Intel Software Network*
While listening to recordings of DJ sets is great, nothing beats hearing a DJ spinning a set live. But for many of us, getting out to the spots where that’s occurring—where the DJs are doing their thing—can be challenging at best. What’s not quite as challenging ...
Saturday, buses will serve South Waterfront to and from Riverplace from 7 a.m. until about 7:30 p.m. due to crane removal.
Cross posted from the Build It blog.
After a huge rally and three hours of public testimony Portland City Council decided to delay the vote to adopt the plan until next week. Before groaning, consider a) Sam's words and b) their reasoning.
a) Sam's words.
"Don't worry ...
Saturday, buses will serve South Waterfront to and from Riverplace from 7 a.m. until about 7:30 p.m. due to crane removal.
Saturday, buses will serve South Waterfront to and from Riverplace from 7 a.m. until about 7:30 p.m. due to crane removal.
The staff of The Sentinel, Neighborhood News Forum will be printing the last issue for March 2010, and daily updates to the website will cease at the end of March.
From the Publishers’s Page:
Last year was trying for most North Portland businesses. But for the past two years ...
Last Thursday on Alberta: A tough crowd.
(Photos © J. Maus)
A community meeting this Monday (2/8) being hosted by Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz and Mayor Sam Adams could have a major impact on the future of the Last Thursday on Alberta event. The meeting’s event page states ...
I am most pleased to announce the newest addition to our official list of Certified Purveyors of Honest Pints: the Widmer Gasthaus. The brothers have completely changed their glassware and now use an imperial pint with an etched line indicating the 16-ounce level. It's really cool to see breweries ...
Last night I started watching the BBC miniseries, Cranford. It’s based on three books by Elizabeth Gaskell. OMG it is so funny and lovely and wonderful. I’m really enjoying it. And the best part about Cranford is when they say Cranford, I replace Cranford with Portland. They say ...
A million people live there and it’s the second-largest city in Great Britain. I lived there briefly in 2000-2001 for an ill-advised tilt at graduate school at the University of Birmingham. The poor city: it’s mostly reviled by the British and ignored by the rest of the world ...
“I support Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s request to transcribe and once-completed publicly release the grand jury proceedings of the Portland Police fatal shooting incident on January 29, 2010.″
My support for recording and publishing after-the-fact grand jury proceedings regarding law enforcement use of lethal force dates back to 2007 ...
As regular readers know, here at Art Scatter World Headquarters we’re contemplating a visual overhaul.
A facelift, if you will. A little cosmetic plastic surgery to bring the fresh bloom of youth back to our chubby literary cheeks.
After an online lifetime of presenting ourselves in the guise of ...
Emily Dickinson has haunted my life — her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in whiteEver since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that ...
My pal Joel Millman has a nice piece in the Wall Street Journal about Laura Silsby, the American charged with child abduction for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti, first on the grounds they were orphans, then with the claims that their parents consented, hoping the children would ...
Ride poster. Very nice.
This year’s Cycle Oregon ride (which will be the 23rd annual), will take place from September 11-18 and it will have a “Round-Up” theme highlighted by a layover in Pendleton during the 100th Anniversary Pendleton Round-Up rodeo.
As per usual, the announcement came during a ...
Aaron Gray will be speaking about “Web Analytics” at SearchFest 2010, which will take place on March 9th at the Governor Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Tickets are available now. To purchase, please click the following link.
1) Please give me your background and tell us what you do for a ...
Seven Virtues Coffee / Portland, OR.
You feel off. You say,
What’s been missing from my life?
PODF, yo.
Well. I tried starting a new blog, but that didn’t work out. And even if it had, I never intended to abandon poor old PODF. So with some gentle prompting ...
Get Stumped: This weekend the quiet city of Portland, Oregon, will tremble with an eruption of comic-nerdiness so dense that flights will have to be cancelled over the western United States. I speak, of course, about the Stumptown Comics Fest, which runs this weekend at the Doubletree Inn at the ...
In 2009, 92 percent of all homes sold for less than $500,000 in Portland metro. Click on the link above to learn market percentages by price ranges.
Roughly 84 percent of all homes sold for less than $400,000. Homes priced less than $300,000 made up 67 percent ...
"Would you nail a robot?"
"Psh, Yea!"
long pause.....
"As long as you could clean it"
- Submitted by Josh, who writes: "My friends are messed up."
Katie comments on her gene pool responsible for she and her siblings great legs, plus more pics and a video with Harper’s Bazaare.
It’s time to trade in that Toyota Prius with its dangerous brakes for a dependable American gas guzzling SUV.
Loved the Trail Blazer defense most of the game. They did a nice job stopping what the Spurs do best, ganged up nicely on Tim Duncan (who, by the way, isn’t moving a lot like Tim Duncan used to move) and after a slow start, held their own on ...
Solar by Ian Mcewan
Reviewed by Hephzibah Anderson
Bloomberg.com
To take global warming seriously would mean thinking about it all the time, says a character in Ian McEwan's new novel. And that's impossible, she adds: "Daily life would not allow it."
Happily for skeptics and believers alike ...
My alibi for having gone missing--last Saturday I got to take photos for the Special Olympics Polar Plunge on the Columbia River. And I got to take them while standing on a Multnomah County Sheriff's Office River Patrol Boat! Thank you so much! Naturally I took loads and loads ...
Hello Dear Readers,
Last night I was sooo tired and also I had to be work at 6 am. So I skipped all shows. Also It is really early and I did brief brief write up thingys:
Friday, February 5th
Mississippi Studios is having a show with Y La ...
Tune into PDX.FM Friday at 8am (or wait for the podcast later in the day) for the most compelling radio the City of Portland has ever seen heard: The Big Ass Sandwich Challenge:
Join the PDX.FM Morning Show crews of Portland Sucks, The Meat Show, and Unibash Radio ...
Van Dyke Parks – Wednesday @ Mississippi Studios If you’re a music geek, the name Van Dyke Parks is music to your ears, considering the man’s pop pedigree. He has contributed lyrics to many great Beach Boys songs (”Heroes & Villains”, “Surf’s Up”), performed with The Byrds, produced albums by ...
The big news this week? The Portland MLS Foosball Table, of course, which you can play now at Kells, The Gypsy, and The Thirsty Lion?!
Oh wait, that’s not the big news.
The BIG news? The vote is in! And the verdict? . . .
More photos » Don Ryan - AP
Viva Martello.
Shortly before his fifth and final three pointer -- the one that gave the Portland Trail Blazers a 91-87 lead over the San Antonio Spurs with 22 seconds left -- Martell Webster hit his fourth three pointer. The fifth three pointer, from ...
Part Two is below.
I watch Lost and this season as one of the Delta Park Project’s research interns I figured it would be helpful to liveblog my thoughts. First of all, the episode description from Lostpedia: The aftermath from the detonation of the hydrogen bomb is revealed.
* I ...
I’m starting with Part One. I’ll do Part Two in a separate post I think.
I watch Lost and this season as one of the Delta Park Project’s research interns I figured it would be helpful to liveblog my thoughts. First of all, the episode description from ...
I am blogging this because I thought this one might be fun, you know, given what we know now and stuff. So here goes! AGAIN, all the good stuff is behind the jump because I do know a couple of people who still haven’t caught up yet. You know ...
Shuttle buses are replacing Yellow and Green MAX service on the Transit Mall on 5th and 6th avenues. There is an issue with signals in the north Mall. Yellow Line trains will operate between Expo Center and Rose Quarter and then travel east as a Green Line train to Clackamas ...
More photos » Don Ryan - AP
This is not classic form for a hook shot. But the guy scored 28 and led us to victory so who cares?
Long Story Short: After a fairly even first half the Blazers pretend like they're going to lose the game ...
From the Architecture Foundation of Oregon:
PDXplore: Design in Progress
February 4 - 26, 2010
Come experience a growing collage of maps, drawings, ideas and questions about the Columbia River Crossing. This dynamic exhibition will evolve throughout the month as members of PDXplore engage in numerous discussions, add information, and accumulate ...