I had everything I needed to load up on the bicycle last night, so that I could just hop out the door this morning and ride the UGB 200k without fuss, muss, or bother.
Well, everything except one thing — I forgot to eat breakfast, and this had the undesirable side ...
I went to Jessica Morrell’s Narrative Nonfiction workshop today. I think I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been attending Jessica’s workshops for about ten years. Obviously, they are so rich and powerfully inspirational that I keep coming back again and again.
Jessica has always seemed to me ...
More photos » Rick Bowmer - AP
My Kung-Fu is stronger than your rebounding! Oh wait. No it isn't.
Long Story Short: In a game which featured neither Kobe Bryant nor Brandon Roy the supporting cast of the L*kers outhustled and out-executed the supporting cast for the ...
He had no idea about the demise of the venue. Jake is the singer for Ether Circus!
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Reviewed by Tournament of Books
The Morning News
Powell's Books and The Morning News present the 2010 Tournament of Books
The annual NCAA-style battle between literary titans rages on! There are some serious contenders this year, including The Lacuna, Wolf Hall ...
When I was riding up to the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge this morning so I could ride another loop of the UGB 200, my trip north on Milwaukie/12th was rudely interrupted when this train came rolling across the 11th/12th/Clinton crossings just as I got there ...
Brandon Roy discusses the decision to sit out the remaining games until the All-Star break, as well as the All-Star game itself.
KHRIS ALEXANDER VOTE....2 DAYS!
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Try as he might, Mr. Scatter can’t figure out a good way to let you look at the three redesign possibilities we’re considering for Art Scatter.
Regulars Brett and Charles have both asked for such a thing, and it’s not just a reasonable request, it’s a ...
Ok, so this isn't Saturday Morning, but it still is Saturday and this is a video. This one was shot two weeks ago, at the opening night of the Beaterville Cafe's new bar at 2201 N. Killingsworth St. The new space is directly next door to the cafe ...
There are few days so closely associated with beer as the Super Bowl--though most of America will be tippling tinny "lite" from a can. Here in Oregon, we eschew such indecency. Since allowing our TV to go dead with the transition to digital, Sally an I now end up in ...
My friend Ashley introduced me to Foster & Dobbs today. I know, what took me so long? Their hot-melty smoked gouda, bresaola and fig jam sandwich hit the spot after a steep hike in the Gorge. The shop’s giant case of cheese and meat, hand picked selection of fine wines ...
(Click here for the first post.) I wrote the first Square Foot Gardening book for people that were afraid to start a garden or thought they didn't have time to tend a garden. Now I've written this cookook for people that don't realize how good things taste ...
I was in California this week and stumbled upon this van sitting near a vacuum repair shop. I fancy myself well-schooled in various conspiracy theories but I had no idea that Stephen King had anything to do with the CIA. This disturbing realization was mitigated by my trip to the ...
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The Portland Trail Blazers have announced to the media via text message that guard Brandon Roy will be held out of the next three games (tonight versus Los Angeles, Tuesday versus "Oklahoma City" and Wednesday at San Antonio) and will therefore miss ...
Hey, let’s get our bikes, we can go over to the Sandy River. There is a lifeguard there today and it's supposed to be a hot one. We can even take the MAX back with our bikes!”
Like many other states, Oregon has a new handsfree law. This means we are now disallowed to drive while holding up a mobile phone to our ear. The new law, effective 1 January 2010, requires all drivers, except for a few exceptions, to drive with a Bluetooth or other headset ...
2:00pm Bike Polo Alberta Park, NE 20th Ave and Killingsworth St (polo court) Great for spectators this bike polo is rated PG-13 for profanity, violence, sexuality and gratuitous fun. 6:00pm Wheel building Citybikes Annex, SE 8th Ave and Ankeny St Course is two parts, 2/7 and 2 ...
We had our first volunteer sprint of 2010 at the Daily Cafe in the Pearl today.
We had about 13 people show up over about four hours, and got off to a great start with the many small and large tasks required as we build up to our call for ...
Chatting with a friend in the lobby of Keller Auditorium during halftime of Portland Opera’s Cosi fan Tutte on Friday night, Mr. Scatter became aware of a controversy he hadn’t realized existed.
“Audiences tend to love this production,” my friend, an exceptionally knowledgeable follower of the opera world ...
It feels like I haven’t been knitting much lately. I’ve been impatiently waiting for some yarn I ordered, and kind of at loose ends while waiting. I guess I must have done some knitting, though, because I have two FO’s to show you. This sweet little cowl ...
Posted by Mike Harper
The calm croon of Annie Clark’s voice can be a smiling trap to capture you in a cascading lull as her gut-pulling guitar will tear at your ears with the lovely contrasting blows of string-bending and wall-of-sound instrumentation. Seeing her is like ...
read more at Portland Music, Art, Events, Entertainment, Sustainability | PDX PIPELINE
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Posted by Jeff Guay
True Stories is a surreal sociological musical – or a magical-realist anthropological music video – in which David Byrne floats about a fictional town called Virgil, Texas, wearing a cowboy hat and bolo tie. Byrne, who wrote and ...
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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 ...
Lisa Morrison, aka the Beer Goddess, is hosting one of her popular women-only beer classes at Fort George Brewery & Public House on Feb. 20. It's called Hoppy Housewives. You don't have to be a housewife to attend, but you do have to be a woman! The two-hour afternoon ...
The Overlook Livability Team is a group of residents that meet once a month to clean up their neighborhood. Their main targets are graffiti and garbage, documenting and reporting the graffiti to the city then either removing or painting over it. Feb 7th the group will be meeting up at ...
Many of man's most lasting cultural achievements have been devoted to the engagement and or self conscious positioning between viewer and the observed.
The sacred rock at Machu Picchu was carved to mimic the profile in alignment to the distant peak.
Velasquez's Las Meninas revealed the intrigues of ...
Secular Humanists of East Portland movie/documentary night.
For details on this month's movie, to RSVP, and to get directions, check the CFI's SE Outreach's calendar .
For more information, please email portland@centerforinquiry.net .
Tease Time: A Modern Burlesque Show
Our first show at Holocene 1/22/10
Gorgeousness!
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All Photos by Chuck Saxe
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Below... Lucky Lucy O'Rebel (the star of our ...
Woah. Check out the new sammies that are gonna be kicking off next week at SweetPea! Very excited.
Check it here: Sweetpea Baking Company » This Sandwich is a life raft.
From PSU Student Animal Liberation Coalition:
“HISTORY OF ANIMAL RIGHTS IN THE PACIFIC NW
Portland State University
Smith Building Cascade Room 236
There is a long and rich history of animal activism in the Pacific
Northwest. Long-time activists will be sharing stories about the history
and their personal experiences of ...
When I was in high school, I used to love staying at my friend Saylor’s house. I’d often show up on a Thursday, not to return home until Monday. Saylor lived in a big modern home on a golf course. Her father, who traveled for weeks on end ...
From Portland ADL:
“Sunday, February 7th, 8p
Red & Black Cafe
SE 12th & Oak
You are invited to the Portland Animal Defense League monthly public meeting where we will be talking about past and future actions and campaigns and ways for you to help out animals. Please join us!
* Learn about ...
Chris Thomasson of NBA Fanhouse reports that Team USA is set to announce this week a list of 25-28 players who will compete for roster spots during the 2010 Worlds and 2012 Olympics.
LaMarcus Aldridge is expected to make this ...
Call us vain, but here at Art Scatter World Headquarters we’re still obsessing over the way we look.
Does this typeface go with our headline style? Should we go Friday casual, sober-suited, country corduroy or maybe uptown funk? Do we want to look reliable, or available, or maybe flirtatious ...
My Dailyshoot contribution for Friday, February 5, 2010 (#ds82): More fun on a Friday: Make a photo that goes with the title of a movie you've seen, interpreted any way you like! This is my take on Hitchcock's classic Rear Window.
My heart hurts, and my stomach: a few minutes ago, I yelled at Everett. He's seven-and-a-half, and as his dad has been away for the past two weeks doing Army duty -- he'll be away again later this month, and then, in May, he'll be mobilized to serve ...
Mothergarden, Nurture's weekly drop-in group for parents & children, invites you to join us for a free discussion on Monday, February 8 at 11am with Krista Arias of Mama Muse. Krista will share about Mama Myth Mending: "Mamas: you can be the heroine of your birth and ...
"One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings; it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand." —Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt I've been thinking about the great reading experiences I've enjoyed in the last ...
Have you checked out Green Bean Books yet? Well maybe you should. Jennifer’s delightful space is full of wonderful titles for kids of all ages – as well as some best selling titles for big people.
Here is what is on tap at Green Bean Books this month:
Last night, Trisha and I hosted our friends B. and J., who were passing through Portland with their son, Cameron, a little boy whose off-the-charts cuteness puts him squarely in Lipnicki territory. Earlier in the day they had just purchased for Cameron an age-appropriate Star Wars book from Powell's ...
On January 6th, 2010 at approximately 3:00 A.M., Portland Police Officers responded to a shooting in the area of S.W. 4th Avenue and S.W. Ankeny Street. Police Officers arrived and began checking the area for the victim. They located the victim who was transported to a ...
Video by punkrawker from Portland transit blog punkrawker blogs on.
Check out punkrawker’s YouTube channel, My Travels, for a lot more transit nerd goodness!
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Covered bike parking? Free
bike bells? Thumbs waaay up!
The Portland Trail Blazers will pass out 6,500 custom-branded Blazer bike bells at tonight’s home game against the Los Angeles Lakers. Bike-riding fans will also enjoy a new roof over their head at the arena’s main bike parking ...
This is an exciting year. We have 4 Super Bowl Spots. 2 Coke, 1 EA and 1 Dodge Spot. News Channel 8 interviews Jason Bagley and Eric Balwin, creative directors on EA.
- Illustration by Mark Young/Portland Storyboard
- Concept by Jonathan Maus
- See past cartoons here.
Portland Police Officers are searching the area of N.E. 42nd Avenue and N.E. Killingsworth Street for Lillian Jackson, a nine-year-old female African-American. Lillian is described as about 4 feet tall, thin with straight black hair to her shoulder and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing blue jeans ...
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays by Zadie Smith
Reviewed by Morten Hoi Jensen
Identity Theory
Zadie Smith, the prodigiously gifted English novelist, seems to have been caught in the tangle of literary debate from the beginning. White Teeth, her first novel, became doubly famous for being the subject of James ...
Goblet of Smoke: Not surprisingly, J. K. Rowling insists she created Harry Potter and that the latest lawsuit against her is ridiculous. She was alleged to have copied parts of one of Adrian Jacobs's books about Willy the Wizard. But Ms Rowling, 44, of Edinburgh, said she had never ...
Portland Area Humanism Meetup
Open Discussion: Views on the News has returned after a brief hiatus! Join PAHM for another monthly Humanist Discussion with members of the Humanists of Greater Portland. For a humanist take on current events and issues affecting freethinkers, you can follow the conversation and share your ...
Catastrophes are, by definition, infrequent events, and can seem unique and unprecedented, but for veterans of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the outlines of the unfolding BP tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico are sickeningly familiarfor veterans of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the outlines of the unfolding BP tragedy ...
What Are Intellectuals Good For by George Scialabba
Reviewed by Philip Christman
Identity Theory
"I find conscientious qualification much sexier than resonant exaggeration," writes George Scialabba, and he's not kidding. This book, culled from nearly thirty years' worth of reviews for magazines like the Boston Review and Agni, is ...
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