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Also no sales taxxxx! No self-service gas (if only I'd known this I could have avoided a quite embarassing scene).

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

That weird coffee place where people drink coffee....through straws!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

...what? Was it iced coffee?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Rust! Steel!

xp no it's called Dutch Boy or something? I don't have the name right.

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/358549167_362808b345.jpg
Our room at Kennedy school!

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

The corridor! creepy!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/358549180_5fabd06eeb.jpg

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Rust! Steel! Asphalt! Rain!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/358549170_f54446e526.jpg

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Portland

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Dutch BROTHERS
http://www.dutchbros.com/

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Another great record shop is EXILED, on Hawthorne: sweet selection of experimental/ drone/ folk/ outsider LPs in there (used and new) plus they've got the best Middle Eastern psychedelic selection I've seen anywhere (on disc and LP) -- it's even better than Amoeba or Aquarius.

But Douglas is right -- MISSISSIPPI is the best shop in town, also a great record label doing vinyl only releases that are pretty hard to find esp. now that Damon Albarn's shop in the UK, Honest Jon's, buys up half of whatever they make as soon as they're out. The Thai Orchestra one they just did is super great, kind of like gamelan meets 'Ethiopiques' with a bit of drumcore thrown in. Mississippi is sold out of that LP but Exiled has copies still, I think; it doesn't have a name or any text written in English, so just ask for the Thai Orchestra record. If you don't like it, I'll buy it back from you. (Full disclosure: I'm working with them on some projects that'll be out later this year OK).

More record shops: If you have some time on your hands, there's a big antique mall styled shop on Hawthorne across the street from Big Daddy's BBQ that I always forget the name of -- dozens of dealers all under one roof, really good for '60s rock and the occasional OJL blues LP. ANTHEM is a pretty good shop for new-ish alt-drone-metal stuff, I always find something at the weirdo punk-folk-country shop Q IS FOR CHOIR, if you like metal chek out 2ND AVe. RECORDS, and yeah the EVERYDAY MUSIC on Burnside is so big that they invariably get some good stuff. I myself am satisfied with just going to Exiled and Miss. (I've never liked JACKPOT, but that's just me.)

For my $$, this town also has a lot of great places to eat fresh/ local/ organic/ sort-of-gourmet type food for very little $$: VALENTINES, PROPER EATS, THE FARM, L'ASTRA, etc. There's also some really good Ethiopian food (DALOS being the cheapest and also the only one I know of with both brown rice and delicious shakes offered) and Japanese as well (SABUROS is amazing --large, fresh sushi cuts, very inexpensive-- and well worth the hour-long wait).

Coffee is kind of a big deal here. Thanks largely to the fact that Duane from STUMPTOWN has trained so many people and done so much to work directly with growers and pay them well above "fair trade," this town's crawling with awesome coffee plaes and baristas. You'll get a great shot at any of these places, ranked rougly in descending order: ALBINA PRESS, STUMPTOWN, FRESH POT, CREMA, TINYS, that new place in St Johns, and SOHBET. The Stumptown bean shop on Belmont has fresh cups made with a ridiculously expensive machine that are pretty out of this world, too.

And MAGIC GARDENS, for me, is the best strip club I've ever been to, even though a lot of my favorite people are no longer working there. It's usually got a decent male to female patron ratio (more a bar vibe than a gross/ sleazy one), there's no pole or anything, only two girls work per shift, the woman who runs the plae is super sweet and in her 60s at least, there is no cheesey dude announccing people and reminding you to tip, some of the dancers are actually my favorite DJs in town, and the best dumplings in town are right across the street at the GOLDEN HORSE, old shool Chinese place that's open until 11 or so. Yay.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

hmm

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

how many pdx ilxors do we have now, anyway?

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I keep wanting to visit my bros over there. Damn you, poverty!

― Andi Mags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Portland is in walking distance. (Note: I did not say "easy walking distance".)

― Aimless, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time (and large water bodies aren't involved).

― Andi Mags, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/paramount_pictures/forrest_gump/tom_hanks/gump1.jpg

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

What is summer like in Portland?

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

More record shops: If you have some time on your hands, there's a big antique mall styled shop on Hawthorne across the street from Big Daddy's BBQ that I always forget the name of -- dozens of dealers all under one roof, really good for '60s rock and the occasional OJL blues LP.

that's crossroads. i've found some pretty good stuff for super-cheap there over the years.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks of horrid heat, made worse by the fact that nobody except movie theaters, powells, and only so many bars have A/C.

Everytime else is just great/perfect. Green trees, sunlight til 9-10pm, attractive people and other drunks out & about, riding bicycles, openly copulating on the riverfront park, etc.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Please just reassure me that Hung Far Low is still there.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

copulating? sounds rude.

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

A/C is bad for you

― RJG, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Hung Far Low building still stand. Hung Far Low restaurant packed it in two years ago ago.

http://www.portlandtribune.com/features/story.php?story_id=30735

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Hung Far Low is now on 82nd and Division.

― righteousmaelstrom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Hung Far Low? sounds rude.

― admrl, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi Portland! I am here too!

― Clay, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://laurabush.info/website/lookie/pics/45b15b.jpg

For the uninitiated.

― Clay, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

That's not the canonical sign.

Former ILXor Martin M. is also in PDX these days. (And in my band, for that matter.)

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Also wtf why is it so damn hot today?

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

i believe the old sign just got replaced with basically the same sign (minus the graffiti on it) as it's now the hung far low building.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

80 in the daytime, 44 in the nighttime

― kingfish, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

BTW hi Mike I've been to your house a bunch on account of tight friending with your roomates.

― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Went to the "Digital Democracy" panel thing at Acme tonight. David Sirota was in town, hosting it, and it was a pretty good time with some interesting ideas.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Bear: Huh? You sure you mean me? Here a bunch? Ummm, when?

I have three roommates, one's my girl and the other two don't hang out that I know of -- in fact one of them's been away for a few months now, on tour.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah Mike. Christie lives there right? I came through on tour about a year ago, stayed in the attic that night and didn't leave town for months afterwards. Pretty sure that was your place. Could be totally off on that.
But seriously thread, I miss that city something fierce.

― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Ohhh, that place?! I never really lived there for long -- it got sold right as I was in the process of moving in, which really was not so nice. Anyway, yeah, Kristy's rad and that awas a cool house! Close-in and cheap!

(Now I'm in northern NoPo, and we don't have too many visitors so I was just confused.) You're the Castanets guy, then? How's it going?

― Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike, Douglas, thanks for the tips! Exiled sounds like exactly what I want. I've already been told to go to Saburos. I'm going to sneak out of my conference early one evening to check it out.

― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't forget to hit Ground Kontrol.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Kingfish try Yoga Shala on N Williams, I busted my yoga cherry there. Everyone's nice and the beginner classes are relaxed and unintimidating. Also easy to pop in and out of so you can find a class and instructor who work well for you.

― goth casual, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, Ground Kontrol looks great and Strategy is DJing tomorrow night. I wish there was a place like this in Chicago. No, wait, it would be overrun by Big 10 frat guys and completely suck.

― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah, Big 10 frat guys don't have much use for Discs of Tron.

― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

(which Ground Kontrol finally got, meaning that my bugging their on-duty guys for it paid off)

― kingfish, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike - good to see another North Portland person here. Are you in St. Johns then? I live just a few blocks off lombard, right up the street from the movie theater. Also great to see someone repping for the local businesses (James John Cafe and Proper Eats)... St. Johns also has one of the finest tacquarias in town in the back of the Santa Cruz panaderia.

― ianinpdx, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

That would've been the place Mike and that would be me. Might be taking Yoni's studio this summer or back into Nick's (Kristy's boy, Shaky Hands) place in the NE. Maybe in two weeks or so. Stoked.

― bear, bear, bear, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey Ian -- I'm actually a few blocks from King Burrito, in-between Kenton and University Park. We're off Lombard too, just ten minutes drive or so from St Johns. Really like it up here a lot -- I've been in PDX three years and have only lived in NoPo, though. People who've lived here all their lives consider this area really far away.

It took me a few months living here to figure out that old school PDX-ers not only cling to ideas for what rent should be based on like what they were in 1989 (which makes sense -- I do the same thing for Bklyn, which is the main reason I no longer live there), but they basically think like a drunk when it comes to distance. Everything has to be within stumbling distance: work, friends, bar, etc. I moved here from Seattle though, where I got super used to being 20 minutes from downtown/ Cap Hill)...

Bear-- is Yoni going away again? I always just run into him when he's about to go on tour. great kid. Send me a note when you get into town please. And if yr here for Labor Day would you play the Halleluwah Fest pt 2???

― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 17 May 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://lh6.google.com/image/kerdunc/RkvDH4G7U7I/AAAAAAAAAV8/dSzl3MxXDLQ/s800/DSC05164.JPG

Took this yesterday as I was riding by.

― Kerm, Thursday, 17 May 2007 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

That, in the background, is the canonical sign.

― Casuistry, Thursday, 17 May 2007 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link

right -- and it doesn't say cocktails with the tails crossed out anymore!
nice picture.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I almost started a Portland thread two days ago to ask about galleries but it looked like most aren't open during the week so I just rode around the city taking pictures instead.

― Kerm, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Is anybody else going to the Dino Jr show tomorrow?

― kingfish, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

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https://www.wweek.com/news/environment/2024/07/06/bill-mckibben-talks-climate-action-as-heat-wave-arrives-in-portland/

As Portland entered a five-day heat wave, McKibben, the celebrated climate activist and author, arrived Friday evening at the First Unitarian Church in downtown Portland—a building, like many in this city, that lacks air conditioning.
“It’s not our job to stop global warming. It’s too late for that,” McKibben said to the sweating crowd. “It’s our job to stop it getting to the point where it cuts civilization off at the knees.”

― the possibility of relaxing (Eazy), Monday, 8 July 2024 18:27 (four months ago) link

Just a plug for local folks that I'm playing songs Sunday night with other good acts at Turn! Turn! Turn!, starting at 8. (Sets on the shorter side, so it won't go too late.) Info and links to all our music is on this page.

― the possibility of relaxing (Eazy), Thursday, 11 July 2024 18:12 (four months ago) link

I'll try to make it! Things have been stressful lately but I'm hoping to start getting out again :)

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 11 July 2024 18:47 (four months ago) link

That would be great! And if you can't make it, hope we can catch up another time soon.

― the possibility of relaxing (Eazy), Thursday, 11 July 2024 18:48 (four months ago) link

Yeah, it's been too long!

― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 11 July 2024 18:57 (four months ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/oregon-lottery-billboard-issue-08152024/

VIDEO: Oregon Lottery billboards taken over by possible furry hack

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 16 August 2024 18:12 (three months ago) link

was it Raygun

― if this site were a food it would have NO nutritional value!!!!!!! (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 August 2024 22:15 (three months ago) link

(#onethread)

― if this site were a food it would have NO nutritional value!!!!!!! (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 August 2024 22:15 (three months ago) link

In local news, we might get 50-70 mph winds and heavy rain around 6 p.m. tomorrow.

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Saturday, 17 August 2024 00:30 (three months ago) link

yep it's looking pretty crazy

― pink-haired Marxist (sleeve), Saturday, 17 August 2024 01:33 (three months ago) link

Criminy! the National Weather Service forecast for my Portland suburb tomorrow reads:

A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming north northwest around 6 mph in the afternoon. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 17 August 2024 03:56 (three months ago) link

I think it's one of those situations where if it makes it here, it's bad, but it might not:

Chances for thunderstorms on Saturday continues to increase (20-60%) across NW OR and SW WA. The SPC has upgraded the risk of severe weather along & east of the I-5 corridor to the Cascades. See the graphic for potential impacts from these storms Sat afternoon through Sun evening pic.twitter.com/CvxzppgsZY
— NWS Portland (@NWSPortland) August 16, 2024

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Saturday, 17 August 2024 05:06 (three months ago) link

Here is what Portland NWS is saying about the flash flood potential.
"Heavy rainfall is expected over the 2024 burn areas associated with active wildfires. Hourly rainfall rates up to 0.75 inches per hour will be possible. Rogueweather added - in looking at the forecast models, I am seeing potential of up to an inch per hour.
Residents near these areas should prepare for potential flooding impacts. Be sure to stay up to date with information from local authorities. Heavy rainfall could trigger flash flooding of low-lying areas, and debris flows in and near recent wildfire burn scars."

― pink-haired Marxist (sleeve), Saturday, 17 August 2024 16:18 (three months ago) link

And now a severe thunderstorm watch until 9 tonight, although from the comments it looks like Washington County has a slightly lower risk:

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of California, Oregon and Washington until 9 PM PDT pic.twitter.com/XaFuLo6E0k
— NWS Portland (@NWSPortland) August 17, 2024

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Saturday, 17 August 2024 21:04 (three months ago) link

thunder and rain so far, but no gusts or hail

― pink-haired Marxist (sleeve), Saturday, 17 August 2024 22:29 (three months ago) link

lightning too

― pink-haired Marxist (sleeve), Saturday, 17 August 2024 22:43 (three months ago) link

my cat is extremely unhappy rn

― Clay, Saturday, 17 August 2024 23:53 (three months ago) link

Yeah, same as sleeve here in Southeast. Enjoying it!

― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Sunday, 18 August 2024 00:37 (three months ago) link

One of the dumbass cats didn’t come in till after it had stopped thundering, and the other stayed out until it had alll blown over

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 18 August 2024 16:26 (three months ago) link

I'll be looking carefully to see if yesterday's lightning started any new fires in the vicinity of the 5 day backpack I'm planning on this week. The fire danger nearly everywhere except the oceanside has been rated at "extreme" for a month now, so any ground strikes are likely to have found dry fuel. The smoke from all the wildfires sucks, but getting trapped in the wilderness by a wildfire sucks far worse.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 18 August 2024 16:42 (three months ago) link

two months pass...

Downtown storefronts getting boarded up today.

― good luck usa (Kim Kimberly), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 00:06 (one week ago) link

Yeah, I noticed that yesterday morning too. Some in Old Town, which is an area I didn’t think any sort of March or protest would congregate

― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 November 2024 03:17 (one week ago) link

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