Tuesday, September 15, 2009
PDXppl is a series of profiles of Portlanders and area residents and what they do.
In any city, flashy marketing tends to take off more than in other localities. Take the “I ♥ NY” shirt or any sports team products as prime examples. Here in Oregon, we’ve come across one such example of a product as [...]
Also filed in Controversy, Northeast, Politics, Uncategorized
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Tagged Chris, Chris Stevens, Made in Oregon, Merchandise, Oregon Stag, Portland, Shirt, Stevens, University of Oregon
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This past weekend I took a trip up to Portland from Eugene with my bike. I really appreciate the fact that I can bring my bike on the train, as it gives me the choice to do whatever I like when I arrive at Union Station. Upon arrival, one can bike to the nearest bus line to [...]
Also filed in Bikes, Community, Downtown, Government, Northwest, Pacific Northwest, Transportation
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Tagged Amtrak, Bike, Bikes, Downtown, Eugene, ODOT, Oregon Department of Transportation, Portland, Seattle, Train, Union Station, Vancouver B.C., Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDT
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In an attempt to quantify the unquantifiable, I will begin to quantify my PDX soujourns, or “PDXjourns,” if you please. Here is one such PDXjourn from this past weekend, sarcasm included! Be sure to check out my other PDXjourns on the new PDXjourns page. You will ask: why is the difference between this and the [...]
Also filed in Bikes, Community, Current Events, Downtown, Northwest, Site, Southeast, Southwest
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Tagged Aida, Bike, Downtown, Hawthorne, Leanne, Made in Oregon, Made in Oregon Sign, Maggie, Mom, Northwest, Ottavia, Otti, Pearl, Quincey, Weekend
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This week has seen quite the heat wave in the Portland area, causing a surge in power usage as well as a surge in poetic creativity! A friend of mine, Amélie Rousseau, responds to the rising temperatures.
Portland in Heat by Amelié Rousseau
Portland in heat:
A blushing rose, propped up in its ornate vase: wilting.
Rectangular fans silhouette [...]
I read a lot of Portland news. Each day I try to keep up with the latest happenings of the “Rose City” while reading the online weeklies, including the Portland Tribune, Willamette Week and the Portland Mercury. The Oregonian, the state’s flagship newspaper, (with the most dreadful-looking website of any major publication I know) has [...]
Also filed in Bikes, Community
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Tagged Bike, Bike Portland, Bikes, Earl Blumenauer, Hillsdale, Hillsdale Neighborhood Association, HNA, Oregonian, Portland Mercury, Portland Transport, Portland Tribune, The Oregonian, Willamette Week
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When home in Portland, I go to cafés. And to the local ones I go. My favorites include the previously mentioned Broadway Café and the “Downtown” location of Stumptown Roasters. The World Cup in Powell’s is not that bad, nor is the one on NW Glisan and Floyd’s Coffee Shop in Old Town is a good place [...]
Also filed in Community, Downtown, Northwest, Southwest
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Tagged Broadway Café, Broadway Coffee, Coffee, Downtown, Eugene, Floyd's, Floyd's Coffee Shop, Full City, Full City Café, Poesy, Poetry, Stumptown, Stumptown Roasters
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PDXppl is a series of profiles of Portlanders and what they do. Be sure to take a look at the PDXppl page on the right-hand sidebar of this page where you can keep up on the urban gens of Portland!
Over the past couple of weeks I have been a harsh critic of the University of Oregon’s (UO) [...]
Also filed in Community, Controversy, Current Events, Downtown, Government, Northwest, Politics
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Tagged Chinatown, City Council, Downtown, Made in Oregon, Made in Oregon Sign, Nancy Stovall, Old Town, Old Town Chinatown, Portland, Portland City Council, University of Oregon, UO
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When I started the PDXpoesy of PDXme, I didn’t how I would approach posting other people’s poetry. How would I introduce it? What would be its subject matter? I would think Portland. But no less, a good friend of mine here at the University of Oregon, and a graduate of Lincoln High School, Marshall McFarland, [...]
Pioneer Courthouse Square is my favorite place to meet someone. It’s also the best place to attend a public event, as we saw last Thursday. It’s got a long name, no doubt, but I find I have taken to shortening its name to “the Square” more than once. The space is often marketed as “Portland’s [...]
Also filed in Community, Downtown, Government, Politics, Southwest
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Tagged 6th Avenue, Block 169, Downtown, Hotel Portland, Jackson Tower, Jewel Lansing, MAX, PDXHistory, Pioneer Courthouse, Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW 6th Avenue, Transit Mall
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1937 intersection at SE Powell Blvd. & 39th Avenue looking north, one of the many street scenes in the Archives’ collections. Photo courtesy of Portland City Archives A2005-001.517
PDXppl is a series of profiles of Portlanders and what they do. Be sure to take a look at the PDXppl page on the right-hand sidebar of this [...]
Also filed in Downtown, Government, North, Southwest, Transportation
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Tagged Banning, Betcher, City Archives, City of Portland, City of Portland Archives and Records Center, Diana, Diana Banning, Diane, Diane Betcher, Leonard, MAX, Portland City Archives, Portland State University, PSU, Randy Leonard, Transit Mall, Trimet
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