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Portland Shopping Mall Santas – A Comparative Study

by Radio Gretchen

I did not believe in Santa when I was a little girl. For some inexplicable reason, my parents told my brothers and me that there was no such thing as Santa Claus. We did not hang our stockings by the chimney with care. We did not write letters to or leave cookies [...]

12.07.2009 See the rest →

So Bazaar

by Jeremy Towsey-French

Whether you’re a secular humanist or a devout southern baptist, the winter holiday has always been a fascinating time. It also provides a platform for events that you certainly won’t find any other time of the year (Tuba Christmas anyone?). If you were somehow able to stumble upon one of these holiday shindigs in [...]

12.04.2009 See the rest →

We’ve Got Talent, Yes We Do! But Not Quite Enough.

by CamiKaos

On December 18th and 19th (that’s in just 17 days) Rick Turoczy of the Silicon Florist and I, Cami Kaos, will be presenting 30 hours of live streaming awesomeness for your viewing pleasure, and it’s all for a good cause.  30 Hour Day is a livestreaming telethon the likes of which the world has never [...]

12.01.2009 See the rest → 4 comments

A Christmas Carol at Portland Center Stage

by Amye

Holiday play season’s back, and Portland Center Stage puts on a particularly well done ‘A Christmas Carol’ this year. It balances really nicely between the lighthearted whimsy (which of course Dickens is well known for) and the depressing ‘ghosts of Christmas past’. It’s a great Holiday play in a great venue. Scrooge is belovedly cranky, [...]

11.25.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

When Storytellers Go Wild

by Betsy Richter

subtitled ‘The Ignite vs. BackFence PDX Epic Clash This Thursday Night’…

Once upon a time, we used to huddle around fires at night to keep warm. In order to fool ourselves into thinking we were safe from the wilding hordes, we told stories. Lots and lots of stories.
Some people grew into master storytellers. [...]

11.18.2009 See the rest → 5 comments

SLL: Duo Chronicles

by CamiKaos

Friday night’s episode was different than any we’ve done before, but we felt like it was the best possible way to get you in touch with what John Nastos and Clay Giberson are doing with the Duo Chronicles. Check out the episode and then go to the Duo Chronicles site to see what the [...]

11.16.2009 See the rest →

Chickens Lost and Found

by djtv

As I was leaving Mt. Tabor Middle School yesterday, I happened upon this sign stapled to a telephone pole in the neighborhood:

I guess here is where I admit that I’m a visual person, so I started thinking about what the scenarios looked like to get to the point where you type up a sign in [...]

10.28.2009 See the rest → 4 comments

Splendor on a Gloomy Monday

by Radio Gretchen

Portland is such a beautiful city during the sunny summer months, but the transition into the darkness of winter is not a pretty one. My Monday morning Twitter stream was full of tweets about heavy rains and self-diagnosis of various diseases. It was as if I could actually hear bottles of Zoloft being [...]

10.27.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

Articles That Could Write Themselves: Vancouver Seeks Branding

by Aaron

It seems that Vancouver (yes, the Couve) has a bit of a branding issue. Going beyond the problem of being the other Vancouver, located in the other Clark County, located inside the other Washington, Portland’s largest suburb is beginning a seven month effort to find a new brand.
As a lifelong resident of the area, [...]

10.26.2009 See the rest → 12 comments

Riding Bulls in the Rose Quarter on a Saturday Night

by Abraham Hyatt

It’s the smell of manure in the hallways of the Rose Quarter. It’s the dark brown dirt — several feet deep — that covers the basketball court. It’s the chatter in the women’s bathroom about which bull rider is cutest. It’s the real cowboys dressed up for a night out with the family. It’s the [...]

10.06.2009 See the rest →

SLL: Art Night with Mark Colman

by CamiKaos

Sometimes we like to branch out a little bit and give you tech types a bit of culture. A little something to think about. Gaze at. Feel.
That’s just we we did with last week’s episode of Strange Love Live. We invited photographer and artist Mark Colman on to give us a [...]

10.05.2009 See the rest →
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