January 25th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Recession/Economics
We don’t write about politics much – because we don’t care! – but this little item caught our eye: Oregon State Rep. Dennis Richardson has an idea about what to do with undocumented immigrants in Oregon, and he told everybody about it in his latest newsletter. Does he want to send them back to the [...]
January 21st, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Sporting Life
Do you see this moron in the photo above? That, in some places, is how you signal a right turn while riding a bicycle. But not in Portland! So why do you assholes insist on doing it? Every goddamn day in Portland, I end up behind a cyclist (either in my car or on my [...]
January 20th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
The Mercury, which we love very much and would maybe try to mate with if we were also a newspaper, wrote a little review of Portlandia this week. And they nailed exactly what Your Editor hasn’t been able to put his finger on about the show: It’s a total bitchfest! From the Merc: “Let’s put [...]
January 18th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Features
Hi everyone. Your Editor watched a house fall into the river this weekend. Um. Anything new with you? The photo above is of the general area where a house, a half-dozen full-grown fir trees and about 30 additional feet of Earth stood along the banks of the Zigzag River for, oh, who knows, 50 years? [...]
January 12th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Massive Nights
For those of you who think of Portland as a world-class drinking town, here’s a wake up call: According to a story in internet concern The Daily Beast, Portland is only the 32nd hardest-drinking city, in America! What the fuck, people? GET DRINKING ALREADY. The Daily Beast used Center for Disease Control statistics to show [...]
January 5th, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Massive Nights
Let’s just say this: No one got hurt. Which is more than I can say about last year, when your editor fell on his ass at some point and woke up with some kind of awful shin injury and without the cap to my favorite hunting flask. But, aside from that slight silver lining, it [...]
January 3rd, 2011 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Music/Bands/Clubs
Who is this band, the “Supervisor”? They are actually very good, if you like Americana-type jams and such. And they wrote a little ditty about Portland’s summer-long bike porn orgy, Sunday Parkways. They are so very local! The song, creatively entitled “Sunday Parkways”, is actually very sweet and makes your editor crave some warmth, for [...]
December 8th, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Art/Culture, Features
In many ways, Portland is mild when compared to other major cities. Crime is relatively low – especially violent crime. People are often polite and boring to the point of meekness. No one really says what’s on their minds, if anything at all is in fact on their minds. But the people on the Number Four [...]
December 3rd, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Massive Nights
Hey drunks! Do you like Santa? Or fucking HATE SANTA? Great, then you should show up in your finest Santa costume bright and early to the all day booze-fest that is the North Portland Anticon, and prepare to shuffle off to Blackoutville along with dozens of other day drinkers and potential criminals. BECAUSE IT IS [...]
December 2nd, 2010 | by Your Editor | published in Features, Food/Drink
We warned you all that something like this was coming down the pike, but, for the record, the foodcartapocalypse has finally started. And – surprise surprise – it started with Haterade-enthusiast Randy Leonard. Leonard, Portland’s own arch-villan, says he has a problem with carts that have built stand-alone patios and awnings so patrons can eat [...]