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Get Temporarily Insane for Only 10 Bucks at Back Fence PDX

There are only a few local events that I am willing to blatantly pimp (I mean, extol the virtues of) as I do for Back Fence PDX. It’s not just because my beautiful raven-haired friend novelist Melissa Lion and her flaxen-haired comedienne business partner produce it, or because it’s a chance to gain 3 inches [...]

Danes Love Dwarfs (and you can too)

by mediaChick

Tomorrow evening, July 30th from 7-9pm at my beloved (air-conditioned) Ladybug Coffeehouse in my cherished St. Johns neighborhood, I’ve invited a lice-infested, boil-covered Danish Dwarf and her life of squalor in early 18th Century Russia and Denmark to visit. They’ll be coming there in the form of a novel called The Tsar’s Dwarf, which blossomed [...]

07.29.2009 See the rest →

Reasons to Celebrate: a Mystery Solved and a Farmer’s Market in St. Johns

by mediaChick

I proudly bought my first house in the St. Johns neighborhood six years ago, and I still think it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. My ‘hood is still one of the cheapest places in the Portland Metro area to buy property and is currently enjoying attention of Portland Development Commission funds, [...]

07.08.2009 See the rest → 5 comments

Top 5 Pathetic Reasons I Haven’t Blogged Here In, Like, Forever

by mediaChick

It’s been 113 days since I last posted here on OurPDX. Since then there have been three OurPDX Author meetups (and had the balls to attend one of them), a major site migration, blog design update, and a Flickr group account started (which at this moment has more than 360 gorgeous images). Oh, and hundreds [...]

06.21.2009 See the rest → 4 comments

Love coffee and photos? You’ll love Encrusted!

by mediaChick

Tomorrow is a big day for my friend Angel O’Brien. She owns Ladybug Organic Coffee Company, one of my favorite coffeehouses in the St. Johns neighborhood of North Portland. It’s a very special place.
At Ladybug, all the coffee, tea and deliciously original food (which is made from scratch and on-site) is organic. The napkins, disposable [...]

02.28.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

Make a difference this summer: leave home

by mediaChick

Do you like to hang from trees and swing from ropes? Have a hankering to teach kids how to play music on the bank of a river? If you’re 18 years or older and are willing to travel to NYC this summer (small travel allowance for those traveling more than 300 miles), the non-profit Fresh [...]

02.05.2009 See the rest → 4 comments

TONIGHT! St. Johns Pub Crawl

by mediaChick

Join me and my fellow ourpdx.net author @dieselboi tonight in St. Johns as we visit some neighborhood bars. These bars range from dive-y to trendy, so you’re sure to get the full picture of available libation purveyors in the area, and the whole route is less than a mile. It’s pretty fast-paced but I planned [...]

01.25.2009 See the rest →

Only YOU can stop Joblessness

by mediaChick

For the past year, on most Fridays, a group of bloggers calling themselves Beer and Blog have been faithfully helping bloggers over beers. Usually at the Green Dragon for the magic happy hour, this online social group has built an increasingly popular offline meetup that centers around All Things Blogs.This runs the gamut of bloggy [...]

01.22.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

Nostalgia is the punchline

by mediaChick

The Shane Co. is seeking Chapter 11 protection. You know the place. It’s at the corner of 217 and Scholls Ferry Road. Sound familiar? The Colorado-based national jewelry chain is reorganizing in the hopes of staying afloat. I’m betting it’s the beginning of the end to Tom Shane’s folksy radio commercials, those homey narratives that [...]

01.16.2009 See the rest → 13 comments

Pre-Turkey Tweet Meet at Leisure Pub House TONIGHT

by mediaChick

It’s the St. Johns pre-turkey twitter tweet meet at Leisure! We’ll be making turkey paper puppets, which well may end up in the Portland Code Trips vLog series. (You’ve been forewarned.) This series is the baby of @podcasthotel (aka Alex H. Williams), who is a proud St. Johns neighborhood resident. So am I. I expect [...]

11.24.2008 See the rest → 6 comments

Back Fence PDX: These ain’t your Grandpa’s stories

by mediaChick

Every couple of months the Back Fence PDX babes Melissa Lion and Frayn Masters throw a hell of a party. Their events are so hawt, in fact, that I encourage you to get your tickets right now. Here, I have thoughtfully provided you a link: Purchase Advanced Tickets Here
You need more info before you plunk [...]

10.22.2008 See the rest → 1 comment