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The Daily Environmentalist

Several years ago I was turned on to a book that made a big impact on my life — an impact that helped to nourish the roots that eventually formed the foundation for many of my decisions, which then became fodder for my website. Oddly enough, I was skeptical of the book due to its [...]

10.10.2009 See the rest →

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 →

SLL: Talking the Globe with Liz Grover

by CamiKaos

Friday night we were joined in studio by guest Liz Grover to talk about her upcoming book and world travels. Join us to find out how her Ignite Portland 3 presentation gave her a unique opportunity to write a book about her experiences. In afterhours we had fun with our #notatsxsw-ness before delving [...]

03.15.2009 See the rest →

SteamPotVille Today or Bust

by Aaron

Local author/illustrator Steve Ouch is on a one-day mission: sell 200 copies of his book SteamPotVille and generate a bunch of buzz on Twitter. The payoff? If he sells 200 copies today and generates enough buzz, the bank will finance a book tour.
SteamPotVille seems pretty cool, the website (linked above) shows that he [...]

03.06.2009 See the rest → 1 comment

A reader’s blog – An Embarrassment of Riches

by Dieselboi

Did you know Multnomah County Library has a blog? You probably did and I’m late to the game. I honestly don’t use my local library as much as I should. When Neighborhood Notes hooked me up to An Embarrassment of Riches, I was overjoyed, especially since the first post I read turned me on to [...]

01.25.2009 See the rest → 2 comments

What are words for?

by A. L. Venable

Curling up with a good book on a rainy day sounds perfect, right? But you’re thinking, “I don’t know what I want to read!!”
Enter Wordstock, Portland’s annual festival of books, writers, and storytelling. Now in its fourth year, the festival starts tonight with a poetry slam at the Bagdad Theatre in SE Portland as [...]

11.06.2008 See the rest → 2 comments

Friends of the Library Sale in St. Johns this Weekend

by mediaChick

Stock your shelves with books for the winter and help your local library at the Annual Friends of the Library Book Sale.
October 11-13, in the beautiful St. Johns neighborhood, the Friends of the Library is holding it’s legendary bottom-dollar sale. So many books, CDs, DVDs, and tape will be up for grabs that it fills [...]

10.10.2008 See the rest →

Calling Nerds who Like Books: Neal Stephenson in PDX

by Lyza Danger Gardner

For those of you who like your novels witty, visionary and geekoriffic, you might want to know that cyperpunk maestro Neal Stephenson will be at the Bagdad Theater on Sept. 16. The author of the seminal and comic sui generis Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle series will be talking about (and signing copies of) [...]

09.03.2008 See the rest → 3 comments

Friends of Library needs Space for Fall Book Sale

by Lyza Danger Gardner

The Friends of the Multnomah County Library’s amazing Fall book sale needs a home. From an email today:
We need your help for the fall sale. We are seeking a warehouse-type site of
around 15,000 square feet in Multnomah County for about 10 days in October.
Our preferred dates are Sunday, Oct. 5, through Tuesday, Oct. 14.
We prefer [...]

07.30.2008 See the rest → 1 comment

PORN

by Dieselboi

Have you ever been on MAX reading the WWeek or The Portland Mercury and get to the back pages and quickly close the paper so it doesn’t appear you are looking at PORN? The pages in question are those advertising dating and escort services with bright color pictures displaying everything but the kitchen sink. Heck, [...]

06.26.2008 See the rest → 7 comments

Time Travel in Pulp Form

by Cosmic Charlie

What a gorgeous day! I am off work, and it just officially turned summer. (4:59 PM to be exact.) It’s time to say goodbye to spring until next year.
Restless, I took a bus downtown. Early afternoon was the perfect time for girl- watching getting out and enjoying the sunshine, sights, sounds and smells of downtown. [...]

06.20.2008 See the rest → 1 comment