Full story is on C/Net here and Oregonlive here.
When people ask why I left Seattle in 2005, I never tell them real reason which was, “Because I stopped drinking the coffee.” Seattle is only fun while you’re drinking coffee. Once you stop drinking their delicious coffee it becomes obvious that you have to leave. I was about 30 when I moved to Seattle …
10PM – Black Friday started early this year, around 6 pm on Thanksgiving Day when my lovely wife and I headed to Portland MOR American cuisine stalwart The Village Inn near 102nd and Stark NE for their Turkey Day bird or ham plus fixins and pie for $13.75 special. We needed lots of solid food …
Music historians rarely mention the Rats except when listing bands that Portland singer/songwriter/guitarist Fred Cole played in before Dead Moon. In fact, the Rose City’s alternative music scene of the early 1980s is mostly regarded as a footnote to the hype generated in Seattle a decade later. When former Dead Moon drummer Andrew Loomis invited …
On Thursday, 11/17/2011, Portland’s supercool, cassette-only, indie label, Apes Tapes, will celebrate one full year in business and the release of a sensational new mix tape (Mixed Ape) of local artists with a celebratory show at Holocene featuring ONUINU, ADVENTURES! WITH MIGHT, (a reunion performance of) VANIMAL, XDS and PEGASUS DREAM with special mini sets …
They’ve been around since 2003, but I just discovered Portland Radio Authority. Here’s how they explain themselves on their website: The PRA is a non-commercial, listener supported, online radio station. As a free form community media source, we are committed to bringing independent artistry and marginalized viewpoints into regional and international view. We aim to …
I began my journey, nine-years-old, walking up SE Powell St towards my grandmother’s house. My cousin and I had our allowance of five dollars each and could have used the money to get on the bus instead of walking the 100 blocks to her house but it was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, …
At Intermittent Signals, Steve Stav has some fantastic material on Northwest singer-songwriter, Danny O’Keefe: One of country’s great singer-songwriters has lived in the Pacific Northwest most of his life, but a relative few northwesterners recognize Danny O’Keefe’s name. More will recognize at least two of his songs, however. Jackson Browne covered O’Keefe’s “The Road” for …
Thanks to John Markuson:
Stray Boots Scavenger Hunts, a mobile tech company, will soon be launching Portland: The Game, an interactive scavenger hunt/city tour which shows players the best of their town by using cell phones as tour guides. Customers receive challenges by text message, explore the area to find the answers, and learn fun facts about the neighborhood …
Bike Ride On The Water Front Portland from Anthony, Anthony on Vimeo.
CYP2 Spring Retrospective from IHEARTCOMIX Records on Vimeo. The legendary LA based bi-weekly party, Check Yo Ponytail 2, is coming to Portland 10/26 at Branx, Seattle 10/27 at Neumos and Chicago 10/28 at The Mid!. Organized by Franki Chan (IHEARTCOMIX), Danny Johnson (Media Contender) and Zane Landreth, the CYP2 tour features an eclectic mix of …
“Last September, Carrie Brownstein wrote, “I have no desire to play music unless I need music.” During her post-Sleater-Kinney forays into music blogging and sketch comedy, she explained, “I started to need music again, and so I called on my friends and we joined as a band.” Hence: Wild Flag, a new group she’d formed …
Full story is here. Thanks to Robert for the link.
From the Metro website: “Visitors to Cooper Mountain Nature Park enjoy the 3.5 miles of trails that wind through the natural area, but one little gal calling the park home this summer prefers the pond.” It’s a snake. See the video below or click here.
http://youtu.be/Y2hkp12fwb0 The early years of Lollapalooza were a stentorian, sensual, bacchanalian, coming out party for Pacific Northwest music and zeitgeist. Isolated by geography and a lack of relevance to the LA-New York pop culture axis, Portland and Seattle developed extreme expressions of solidarity with the burgeoning alternative movement: Grunge music, outrageously eccentric sexual personae, slackerdom …
For the official video with great footage of Portland and Oregon, go here.
According to the Seattle Times: “The FBI is investigating a “credible” lead in the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case, nearly 40 years after a tall, dark-complexioned man hijacked a Seattle-bound Boeing 727 on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 and parachuted into history from the rear of the plane with $200,000 in cash.” “We do have a promising lead,” …
Dead Memories Portland is an open Facebook group dedicated to sharing memories of great things in Portland and the Pacific Northwest which are now gone. You’ll find it here. Thanks to Joel Patrick for the heads up.
Full story is here.
Get more of the story here. More on the story from Willamette Week.
. The riverside Siren seems to have attracted more brilliant minds in recent years than the Manhattan Project. While nothing explosive will likely come of it, the rush of settlers to Portland has certainly resulted in a remarkable array of talent. A prime example is Dominic Castillo, frontman of Ravishers, whose eponymous, full-length debut album …
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Pitter patter snare drumming, swirling guitar, ethereal vocals and spinning counter clockwise video move you forward visually thru this dreamy tune. There is an edge, a lilting howl that moves breezily and dreamlike as faces appear and fade like so many leaves passing in the wind. Sullenly we are asked to cover our trail lest …
Portland’s Michael Dean Damron began exorcising his demons about 12 years ago, and lucky for us, it’s still a work in progress. Both as a solo artist and with an assembled band of crazy local hotshots dubbed I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House, Damron continually succeeds, however, in enveloping his inner turmoils and …
In John Canzano’s Oregonian column today, he’s convinced Greg Oden is going to be an even bigger disappointment to Trailblazers fans than in the next year or so than he’s been already. He may leave the Blazers as early as summer 2012. Canzano’s column is here.
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