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My what big ppg averages you have! Wait...that's not grandma! Eeeeeeeeek!
Yuckatooie.
Long Story Short: In a game where the Blazers did enough things right to win in the larger sense they sabotage themselves with turnovers and jump shots, falling ...
12:30pm – Milwaukie Light Rail, OMSI to PSU segment
We reviewed the plans for this segment of the route and its stations, with discussion around how Light Rail, Streetcar, buses and bikes would interact on both sides of the river.
1:40pm – Portland Plan
Staff overviewed the periodic review process ...
FWD: Station agent gary is telling drivers to show up and vote yes to replace me I walked in on him telling people
Waiting for the bus
checking your watch
Standing in the rain
Umbrellas child
folder in hand
You came aboard
one of many.
Determined
Dedicated
Ready
Prepared
Clean and Pressed
combed and anxious
On Cell phone, making appointments
Interviews, re-interviews
Call to kids,
dinner arranged for
victory to come.
Energy
Eager ...
Featured Teaser:
The Portland International Film Festival, a rundown
Teaser Image:
Sentinel PIFF Coverage: The 33rd Portland International Film Festival
A new proposal by the City of Portland to restore Willamette Cove (located in Cathedral Park, just west of the rail bridge) and turn it into a natural habitat area comes as positive news to residents in the neighborhood. However, there was one question on the minds of many residents ...
I recently bought a new iMac, which immediately mangled strategic imported data from my old computer.
Glitch City.
Among the issues was the failure of the new computer to download my e-mail from Earthlink, my e-mail service provider.
While trying to correct the problem, I came to ...
Unique, thriving SE bike shop with an international reputation for innovation is looking for a seasoned mechanic with high integrity who enjoys working with people as well as machines. Special interests should include utility and “transportation” bikes, complete custom builds, internal gearing, steel, and possible involvement with our design/prototype ...
DON'T ALLOW PERSONAL VENDETTA'S TO RULE POLITICS AT OUR UNION!
VOTE AGAINST THE RECALL OF UNION EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER KHRIS ALEXANDER!
VOTES WILL OCCUR;
FEBRUARY 15TH 7:30PM AT THE SALVATION ARMY 211 NE 18TH PORTLAND
FEBRUARY 16TH 10:00AM AT THE UNION OFFICE 1801 NE COUCH ST ...
Commissioner Saltzman and his chief of staff
Brendan Finn at tonight’s BAC meeting.
(Photo © J. Maus)
Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman made a rare appearance at the City’s Bicycle Advisory Committee meeting tonight in order to present his idea to raise up to $1 million per year to ...
Head in Flames by Lance Olson
Reviewed by John Domini
Rain Taxi
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem the uses of Western Civ! Surely, in the raucous and polyglot new millennium, the husks of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment need "slashes of verve" and "aesthetic savageries." Savagery would seem ...
Sonicsgate Movie Trailer
Description: Sonicsgate is a feature-length documentary film exposing the truth behind the SuperSonics’ tragic exodus after 41 years in the Emerald City.
Like many Blazer fans who watched what happened to the Sonics, I often worry about our Blazers getting Oklahoma City-ed by some Texas, Florida or ...
read more at Portland Music, Art, Events, Entertainment, Sustainability | PDX PIPELINE
this past week was great for weather and it almost feels like spring is toying with us to wear short sleeves and sunglasses. i have had the door to the shop open all day letting the sunshine flow in onto the cold cement floor. i have spent the last couple ...
Version 10 INFRASTRUCTURES AND TERRITORIES
APRIL 22 to MAY 2, 2010
Chicago, USA
Call for Participation
Deadline for submissions: MARCH 1, 2010
Version 2010: now seeking proposals and presentations about tactics and strategies that help sustain our communities, find better uses of our resources, and maintain and expand our networks ...
I can’t predict the future (very well), and I’m not Google, so I can’t say whether Buzz is their answer to XYZ, but it does tie together some interesting pipes, and to me, that’s where its value lies.
Will I start posting status updates to Buzz ...
Steve Banta, the CEO for METRO, will kick-off the panel and present his vision going forward and then will moderate a panel of speakers who discuss their observations and perspectives of how the light rail system has been transforming the community.
“For all the folks that asked, we are going to open on Sunday for Valentine’s Day. We are going to offer our normal, seasonal ala carte menu with some special additions, like the Chocolate Cherry Love Bombe dessert! So, call ahead and make a reservation for you and your ...
When:
02/20/2010 (All day) - 02/28/2010 (All day)
* APPLE * ASIAN PEAR * CHERRY * FIG * PEAR * PERSIMMON * PLUM *
PLANT FRUIT TREES!
* * * * * * * * * *
Winter Fruit Tree Workshops and Sales
Enjoy the beauty and flavor of fruit trees.
Learn how to properly select, plant, prune and care for trees.
Saturday February 20th ...
For Immediate Release:
Plan B is not a contraceptive, it's a super fun Bar & Venue in Inner SE Portland.
A great fun venue to see a show at, it has undergone expansion and a remodel.
With a new staff and a smoking patio that hands down beats any in ...
$20,000,000 IN CUTS TURNS INTO $27,000,000 IN CUTS!
Don't forget to attend the Milwaukie expansion hearings so we can find out how Fred can cut and expand all at once!
I got home from work at about 5:30 on Monday because an issue had come up that I had to deal with and it couldn't wait. I got it taken care of, but I was frustrated that I was at school for over two hours after my last ...
When:
02/10/2010 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Come hear how Urban Renewal has impacted inner North/Northeast neighborhoods and share your o
This week's edition of Trail Blazers Courtside with Mike Barrett, Mike Rice and Brian Wheeler is now available for podcasting. Guests on this week's show include Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan, Bulls.com's Sam Smith and Merlin.
Trail Blazers Courtside (Hour One)
This week's edition of Trail Blazers Courtside with Mike Barrett, Mike Rice and Brian Wheeler is now available for podcasting. Guests on this week's show include Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan, Bulls.com's Sam Smith and Merlin.
Trail Blazers Courtside (Hour One)
In Becoming Animal, Abrams suggests that our disconnection from the natural world is what enables us to damage it. To re-engage our "animal" senses is to make even a walk in the park an exquisite sensory experience, and to fully inhabit our bodies is to become fully human. Inspiring!
Volunteers are responding to a multi-unit apartment fire in the 4500 block of Roethe Road in Milwaukie. 3 families will receive assistance with lodging, food and clothing.
Now, I’ll be the first to admit that Portland? The town seems to like the whole iPhone thing. I mean, we’ve got iPhone users, incredibly popular iPhone app developers, and iPhone infrastructure plays that send out millions of messages. I might dare say that Portland is the de ...
Or have there been more and more system outages for MAX trains as of late? I seem to get an email ping about once every couple of days about a Green / Yellow line disruption or, more recently (as in today), Blue / Red lines being down and needing to have shuttles ...
The Fifth Annual Love Show is this Friday and has over 350 artists. The last large show at Olympic Mills (The Big 100) was a huge party. As you can see from the crowd shot at last year’s event, this one will be as well.
Also, they are taking ...
read more at Portland Music, Art, Events, Entertainment, Sustainability | PDX PIPELINE
… our idea for Angstfest was far from original. In fact, there is a book and live event series dedicated to showcasing the wonder of teenage longing: Mortified. Suddenly, this recent exchange about Angstfest is much more understandable:
“So were you inspired by Mortified?”
“Nah, it’s cool. I’ll be ...
Queer Agenda vodcast #2 is a little late folks but all the more timely, perhaps, as the big blokes get a clothing swap this Thursday, so too, can the plus sized ladies have a store their very own when we visit the girls at Fat Fancy.
We also check ...
read more at qPDX - Queer news, views and events for Portland
Annotation: Configure is a show of new work by Portland-based artist and OCAC grad, Derek Faust. At Alpern Gallery (2552 NW Vaughn), for the month of February, there is an opening reception this Friday, February 12 from 6-9 PM. Information systems made visually manifest, especially in abstract and minimal forms ...
Screenshot from City’s
new iPhone app.
The City of Portland has released a new iPhone app that allows citizens (who own iPhones) to document and submit reports on a number of issues. Dubbed the “Citizen Reporter,” the new app is available free in the iTunes App Store.
In a ...
When did they redesign? I don’t know, but I like Future Death Toll’s website right now. The amber screen and command line interface will make old computer hounds wistful and make those who grew up with the World Wide Web disoriented in what will probably end up being ...
I picked up my new glasses last night, and I’ve been wearing them all day. And I’ll probably be wearing them daily for now.
You see, my insurance coverage allows for either glasses or contacts once a year, and my contacts cost more than the allotted amount, because ...
Yesterday I was riding my bicycle down through NE Portland and noticed Migration Brewing, a soon-to-be-open brewpub at 2828 NE Glisan.
Portland! Your local arts and culture providers have some great events in store for you this month. There's a little something for everyone in the mix so take a look, see what strikes your fancy and treat yourself to a film or two (or three, or four...). Heck, check ...
Freeman: Nicolas Batum to Start Tonight
Joe Freeman writes...
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Batum said he will start at small forward and Martell Webster will slide over to shooting guard, which means Jerryd Bayless — who had been starting in place of the injured Brandon Roy — will move to the second unit.
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Congratulations Nate McMillan ...
Happy Tuesday. All kinds of new stuff up on WKE. Check out a summary of today's new episodes below, then swing by and watch it all in full.
HITS & MISSES
Episode 6: Stylish Men
Episode 6 zooms in on three solo male artists who redefine their respective genres. Bobby ...
Positives outweigh negatives.
(Photo © J. Maus)
Last night, at a community meeting to hear feedback on the Last Thursday on Alberta event (read my analysis here), Commissioner Amanda Fritz and Mayor Sam Adams heard loud and clear that many people love the event just the way it is.
According to ...
It’s no secret that we here in Portland love the camps. Camps here. Camps there. Camp camp campity camp. And you might have also heard, we’ve also got a bit of a soft spot for that whole blogging thing.
So it comes as little surprise that a camp ...
This post continues a look at beer ads through the decades, courtesy of AdLand's collection of Super Bowl commercials. Ads of the seventies were catchy, memorable, and focused on a more adult market. The 80s began in the same vein (it's not a beer ad, but the year ...
As an employee of Oregon's largest university, I am enmeshed in a bureaucratic machine both monstrous and humorous. I interact with administrative assistants in a similar position to mine throughout the university system on a daily basis. For a show called The Incidental Person, currently up at Apex Art ...
You may recall that I was contemplating a messenger bag last September, and asked for feedback on the idea. In the end, I decided that I could only go ahead with one if it made ironic “reference” to my ethnicity and social class. Behold, the ultimate hipster messenger bag:
If ...
Construction zone bike lane on Broadway
west of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
(Photo © J. Maus)
The City of Portland has sent out a “Bicycle Advisory” notice for several bikeway detours and closures in the coming weeks due to streetcar track construction (and related sewer work) on Broadway and Weidler ...
When John Rogers, writer and creator of TNT's Leverage, talked to Portlanders at this weekend's Leverage Boot Camp, one quote stuck out to me. Borrowed from great scientist, Louis Pasteur, he said, "Chance favors the well-prepared." I can't remember whether John was referring to the perspective auditioners ...
DON'T ALLOW PERSONAL VENDETTA'S TO RULE POLITICS AT OUR UNION!
VOTE AGAINST THE RECALL OF UNION EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER KHRIS ALEXANDER!
VOTES WILL OCCUR;
FEBRUARY 15TH 7:30PM AT THE SALVATION ARMY 211 NE 18TH PORTLAND
FEBRUARY 16TH 10:00AM AT THE UNION OFFICE 1801 NE COUCH ST ...
Portland Public Schools invites all high school and middle grade students to share their thoughts on plans for PPS’ High School System Design on Tuesday, Feb. 16, from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Blanchard Education Service Center, 501 N. Dixon St.
Looks like our contact form was not functioning for the past 9 days or so. If you tried to contact us through the form between January 30th and today, your email did not make it through to us (despite an auto-response being sent to you stating we had received it ...
As we written about earlier in the pages of Brewpublic, tonight is the night when beer sommelier and champion of all things related to craft beer, Preston Weesner uncorks and assortment of special Big Bottle beers. Thirty lucky citizens of Beervana will get a rare and limited opportunity to try ...
Hello Dear Readers,
So you didn't get get tickets to the Wilco/Califone show. Sorry, neither did I. But fret not, as there are a couple of other shows happening that feature live local musicians. Speaking of which. Last night I went to see that Parson Red Heads (originally ...
Cell phones and bikes
— like riding blind!
(Photo © J. Maus)
Since Oregon enacted their new cell phone law on January 1st, many people have asked me if it applies to people riding bicycles. My previous opinion was that it doesn’t, but a closer look at the law now has ...
This is what my sources tell me. More to come when I get to a real keyboard.
Shuttle buses are replacing all Blue and Red line MAX trains through downtown due to a power failure at two light rail substations. Shuttle buses are operating between PGE Park and Rose Quarter, stopping at all stations running east/west through downtown. Green and Yellow line trains are not yet ...
Among thrift carnivore types, there's an axiom: "everything but the squeal." This applies to a pig and how much of the body to utilize. Apparently that axiom is one Ron Gansberg applies to beer, too, because he has re-harvested his apricots and included the meat from the pits in ...
I spent a good chunk of yesterday morning listening to Nate McMillan and the Blazer players praising Kevin Durant's offensive abilities. This morning I decided to dig through some data to get a better sense for how superlative KD has been so far this year.
I came up with ...
All downtown MAX service has been restored and trains are back on regular schedules.
All downtown MAX service has been restored and trains are back on regular schedules.
Happy birthday to Marie! She’s having a birthday party over at PermissionToUnwind, and I’m helping her celebrate. Go on over there and wish her a happy birthday! I’m fashionably late. I was up late last night baking for the party. We’re having Butterscotch Shortbread (recipe here ...
The Free Agent Economy | Make it work for you
Thursday, February 25, 2010 from 2–3:30pm
Webinar: http://www.iasecp.com/events/
Setting up your basic Social Media Program and Time Management System
February 25, 2010 2:00 p.m.(PST) – Webinar
The way business is done has changed ...
“Richard Berman is a Washington, D.C.-based hired gun who uses front groups to defend his corporate clients against the public interest. Using his lobbying and consulting firm, Berman and Company, as a revenue vehicle for his activities, Berman runs at least 22 industry-funded projects, such as the Center ...
OSM Lunch & Meetup: Lessons Learned from #cchaiti
Thursday, February 11, 2010 from noon–1pm
This meetup is intended to bring folks up to speed on what has been done for the OpenStreetMap mapping effort for CrisisCampPDX and other cities. We'll also have plenty of time to cover other ...
The Parkrose Heights Association of Neighbors meeting on January 26 featured an energetic conversation with State Representative Jefferson Smith. But before Smith got up to speak:
- Neighborhood police officers gave a brief crime report, including a report on recent graffiti on NE 108th Avenue. Officers said, “We’re not sure ...
Graphic from the Too Po’ Fo’ Alice
event website.
As a reaction to the high price of tickets for the BTA’s Alice Awards & Auction fundraising gala, a group of well-meaning Portland bike activists have announced their own version — the “Too Po’ Fo’ Alice Potluck.”
On the event’s Facebook ...
Dust to Dust: The Guardian's books blog wonders why publishers still use dust jackets. What is the point of dustjackets? The clue can't be in the name: on the shelf, the most dust-prone part of a book is the top, which a jacket doesn't cover....In America ...
I have a long-standing rule: no coffee after 11am.
Unless, of course, it is accompanied by delicious chocolate. Come to think of it, I’m good with chocolate just about any time of the day.
So, it was clear I couldn’t resist heading over to Slow Food Portland’s ...
PublicAlerts: RT @trimet: Blue & Red line MAX service downtown has been restored. Delays likely as trains return to regular schedules. ^MC
PublicAlerts: RT @trimet: Blue and Red line MAX service downtown has been restored. Delays across the system may occur as trains return to regular...
from press release I just received — this sounds good. make it to the screening if you can, if you’re in the Portland area.
– wm
DIRECTOR OF FULL SIGNAL CHALLENGES LEGISLATORS AND THE CELLULAR INDUSTRY TO LOOK AT THE REAL DANGERS OF WIRELESS
Talal Jabari, documentary filmmaker, available for interviews ...
Some food cart specials we’re seeing from around the Internets:
Big A** Sandwiches on SW 3rd and Ash has a special of the week: “Buffalo Hot Hole:” fried chicken breast in Frank’s Red Hot with fries and homemade gorgonzola sauce, served cold. $8. Open for lunch daily and ...
I’m excited to announce my 2nd Annual Spring Break Kids and Teens Cooking Series at In Good Taste. Kids classes will be held March 22, 23 and 24. Foods from Asia, Mexico and Italy will be our themes each day. While teen classes on March 25 and 26 will ...
Episode 225 – Topics include 141th and 151th Streets, mayor vs. mayor, the homeless continue to bug, and 2010 Portland Minivan Makeout Day!
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Quarterly meeting on transportation issues in the Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal Area
Contact: Susan Kuhn, 503-823-3406
Location:
Kaiser Town Hall
3704 N. Interstate Avenue
Rooms C & D on main level
Transit Stop:
MAX Yellow Line - Overlook Station
No doubt, running a startup and being an entrepreneur is all about hard work. Heads down, rolled up sleeves, “eyes on the prize” hard work. It’s why you do what you do.
But I’ve got to tell you, people. Every once in awhile, you need to stop, poke ...
We’re into February, and folks have started to ask me (Aaron Hockley) about WordCamp Portland 2010.
I’m pleased to announce that Morgan Senkal (aka @morganpdx) will be assuming the leadership of this year’s WordCamp Portland event. Morgan brings a great mix of technical and event experience to ...
Nancy Reddin Kienholz and Edward Ralph Kienholz, "Useful Art #5: The Western Motel," installed at PAM
Director and artist Joan Gratz, who pioneered the animation technique known as clay painting, will speak at PAM this week for their artist talk series. She'll address Helen with Apples by George Segal ...
The Portland screening of my first movie “The Waiting List” is a little more than a week away. We’ve got lots planned, like promoting other people’s creative ventures, and doing a raffle after the Q&A. But I realized that some people in town don’t realize this ...
Featured speakers for the 32nd annual International Association of Culinary Professional’s Conference have just been released. Lucky us, the conference is in Portland this year! Noted speakers include Ruth Reichl, Judith Jones, Michael Ruhlman, Madhur Jaffrey and many more. The theme of this year’s conference, April 21 – 24 ...
A Business Week post by Scott Shane with Case Western Reserve University describes his research that shows how angel groups’ deal funnel got tougher from 2007 to 2009. When entrepreneurs apply to a venture group, there’s an initial screening that weeks out many, followed by a pitch, then more ...
Do you let your 8-year old roam the neighborhood unaccompanied? Walk to school without an adult? Lick raw cookie dough off the egg beaters? My answers are no, no and no. Why is that? I did all of these things when I was a kid, and I bet you did ...
Here’s the latest release in my 20art10 series (in which I release a new fine art print each week). This is titled Crossing Skykomish at Index and features an Amtrak train crossing the Skykomish River near Index, Washington in the Cascade Mountains.
The photo is available as a standard ...
Well, we went to the snow and survived! There were no fights.
We rented inner tubes and used those as sleds. I’d never heard of this before Fancyhats told me that was what we were doing. Of course, I’d only ever seen snow twice before I was 20 ...
One of our readers (and Transit Board™ users), e-mailed in this question over the weekend:
I have a question about the GPS real-time transit tracker system for MAX. I've noticed that there has been no real-time information for any MAX stop for many months, at least since the Green ...
Mike Roberts will be speaking about “Competitive Intelligence” 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 ...
The Portland Water Bureau reconfigured its Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2) Web site and is now posting monthly results of the intensive year-long water quality sampling program.
The results from 12 months of sampling will be used to demonstrate whether treatment for Cryptosporidium is necessary to ...
John Foyston, sporting the new "special to the Oregonian" tag on his byline, has a fascinating story about Fort George in today's paper. The ten-cent recap: Chris Nemlowill and Jack Harris bought that cool old (namesake) building that houses Fort George and they have very big plans. Most intriguing ...
This area is a microcosm of many issues that Bark is working on in the National Forest, and we will be discussing them in relation to the proposed Palomar Pipeline. The current route of the Palomar Pipeline will run through Fish Creek, damaging old growth, reopening closed roads, and placing ...
At its regular meeting tonight, the PPS Board will vote on whether to accept Resolution 4214, a $320,000 revenue contract for the StarBase program, an educational program funded by the Department of Defense. Students in Starbase get 25 hours of so-called science, math and technology instruction at local military ...
You wouldn't believe how tough it is to find pictures of famous fashionable fat men...
This month’s video podcast features plus size fashion shop Fat Fancy and the trend is quickly taking hold of the Rose City. But men, dykes, and masculine identified individuals of all sorts are ...
read more at qPDX - Queer news, views and events for Portland
At first, it doesn’t seem that September 3, 1859, was out of the ordinary in the northern United States. The New York Times‘ “News of the Day” lists quotidian happenings: that the “depredations of the Apache Indians” in Arizona Territory have become “almost uncurable” [sic]; that the city’s ...
Gumbo Gifts & Gallery, 1902
What a wonderful old ghost sign on the north wall of Gumbo Gifts & Gallery. I'd sure like to know what it said across the top but the rest is beautifully weathered and readable:
DILLEN ROGERS
JEWELER & OPTICIAN
Eye Glasses A Specialty!
When you're at ...
Thanks to Michael Buchino for another awesome Entertainment for People poster!
Don’t forget to get your early bird Entertainment for People tickets for the best price! They’re $10 until February 15th, then they go up to $12! Get ‘em now!
The Wall Street Journal reports that new houses are shrinking in size to become more efficient and more useful. Check out the video below.
This reminded me of a story that NBC News once aired also in regards to the shrinking house. Except in this case, the small houses were ...
PublicAlerts: Green & Yellow trains now running on Transit Mall downtown. Shuttles still operating btw Rose Quarter & PGE Park for Red & Blue. #trimet
Green and Yellow line service on the Portland Transit Mall has been restored as crews continue working to restore power to MAX service downtown. Shuttle buses are still replacing Blue and Red line MAX service through downtown, transporting riders between PGE Park and Rose Quarter. Buses stop at all MAX ...
Green and Yellow line service on the Portland Transit Mall has been restored as crews continue working to restore power to MAX service downtown. Shuttle buses are still replacing Blue and Red line MAX service through downtown, transporting riders between PGE Park and Rose Quarter. Buses stop at all MAX ...
A Mercy (Vintage International) by Toni Morrison
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 is nigh! And, this year, Review-a-Day will feature a recap of the previous week's ...
Each year the American Horticultural Society (AHS) honors great gardening literature through the AHS Book Award Program. The awards, which are chosen by a distinguished committee of garden writers, began with the announcement of 75 Great American Garden Books as part of AHS' celebration of its 75th anniversary. Awards are ...
The driver of this car escaped injury as his vehicle dangled two stories above the ground from a parking garage.
Meghan McCain disagrees with Sarah Palin as tea parties form a second Republican party.
Sugary drinks are linked to pancreatic cancer.
PublicAlerts: RT @trimet: Shuttle buses are taking riders between PGE Park and Rose Quarter for the MAX Red and Blue line. Expect delays.
PublicAlerts: Major transit disruption resulting from power outages at two TriMet substations. No MAX service downtown btw Rose Quarter & PGE Park.
Finally, there is no other choice.
Yet it’s still taking some measure of agony, apparently, to get that starting lineup changed. Martell Webster to shooting guard, Nic Batum sliding in at small forward, right? What other choice is there with Brandon Roy out?
Yet, here we are again, with ...
Shuttle buses are replacing all Blue and Red line MAX trains through downtown due to a power failure at two light rail substations. Shuttle buses are operating between PGE Park and Rose Quarter, stopping at all stations running east/west through downtown. Green and Yellow line trains are not yet ...
Shuttle buses are replacing all Blue and Red line MAX trains through downtown due to a power failure at two light rail substations. Shuttle buses are operating between PGE Park and Rose Quarter, stopping at all stations running east/west through downtown. Green and Yellow line trains are not yet ...
PDX Weekly Hackathon
Thursday, March 4, 2010 from 6:30–10pm
915 SE Hawthorne Boulevard
Portland , Oregon 97214 (map)
Come do strange things with computers amongst others whilst drinking fine Portland beer. Look for the row of geeks with computers in the back of the main ...
Not to be confused with the conflict of the North and South in the United States, this is a tale of the split in England during the Industrial Revolution. A beautiful gossamer web of social unrest, workers' rights, and bosom-heaving unrequited love. Super-fantastic if you lurve period pieces and costume ...
I would like to create a Photobucket page before I clear my records.
read more at Da Dingo Dizmal Digest, Rantings of a mad Texican Clown
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou
Reviewed by W. C. Bamberger
Rain Taxi
Alain Badiou, often billed as France's leading radical thinker, here collects a group of tributes he has written to philosophers who are no longer with us. Most of these names -- all French-speaking, all ...
Two recent stories (via Planetizen: here and here) make the connection between health and how we design our urban environments and transportation systems:
- Five New York City departments have jointly released a document titled "Active Design Guidelines: A new definition for sustainable cities", covering everything from Urban Design to where ...
Major Clanger/Flickr
Friday Feb. 12
- The Great Backyard Bird Count, all day Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, wherever you are. Volunteers count birds at home or away, for as little as 15 minutes or as long as they want, on one or more days of the count. Then they ...
Posted by Kimberly Gehl
February is now ” brewpub and craft beer month” thanks to the work of local film aficionado Jacques Boyreau, Willamette Week screen editor Aaron Mesh and Beer Northwest Magazine. This beer and movie-loving triad have come together to present Portland’s 1st Annual BAM: Beer & Movie Fest ...
read more at Portland Music, Art, Events, Entertainment, Sustainability | PDX PIPELINE
Portland Python User Group February Meetup
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 from 6:30–8:30pm
851 SW 6th Ave.
Portland , OR 97204
US
(map)
Portland Python User Group
This month: Cool Python Tools
* Chris Pitzer will share two toolsets:
I Hate Passwords: ssh-copy-id, ssh config, and managing multiple keys ...
Back in November, John Gorham, owner of the extremely popular (and readers favorite) Toro Bravo, was poised to open a breakfast place called Tasty & Sons in the Wonder Ballroom restaurant space. At the last minute, plans changed. Instead, the new restaurant will go into the Nutshell/Anju space on N ...