Biketown Jerk
by Anonymous To the D-Bag I caught putting pro-Biketown signs in a neighborhood he doesn't even live in- If you think it's OK for PBOT to ignore public voice on a project that significantly alters...
View ArticleWhere Do We Go From Here
by Anonymous My body aches so much from the nonsense of the world. Where do we go from here? The clamoring charade of shit is deafening. Yells of accusations being thrown all over torment my...
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Good Morning, News: Trump Peddles Fear, Clinton Mulls Kaine, and Biketown...
by Dirk VanderHart Donald Trump went with good-old fear mongering in his super long nomination acceptance speech, essentially saying this country is currently a piece of trash only he can spiff up....
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Things To Do This Weekend!
Things to do for Jul 22-24. by Bobby Roberts This weekend, the city orbits a three-day explosion of free local music known as PDX Pop Now!, and while the white-hot genius of our music scene will no...
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Everything's Terrible! (Except Microbe and Gasoline)
by Marjorie Skinner It's grim out there. With the world seeming like it’s thiiiis close to imploding into chaos, it’s worth considering what art should do: add insight to, or distract from, humanity’s...
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Listen: Sydney Brownstone Talks to OPB about Our Week with Republicans and...
by Heidi Groover Most of the protests here in Cleveland have been characterized by more cops than marchers.Sydney BrownstoneOur weeklong immersion in Trump's America is coming to an end today. Thank...
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Review: As Star Trek Movies Go, Beyond Is Just About Perfect
by Erik Henriksen Paramount didn't screen Star Trek Beyond for Portland press—which, yeah, gave me an opportunity to write more generally about why Star Trek matters, but also meant that last night, a...
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Jon Stewart Returns, Courtesy of Stephen Colbert, To Help Reasonable Humans...
by Sean Nelson It's nice to see you again, Mr. Stewart. The echo chamber has been lonely in your absence.Of the many, many horrible things we learned last night during the speech that refused to end,...
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Woods' New Record Is Sinister Grooviness
by Ciara Dolan WOODS You can call them Al. All of them.Matt RubinCITY SUN EATERin the River of Light is Woods’Graceland. This is the prolific band’s ninth album, but their first to explore East...
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Trouble Boys Cuts Through the Mystique of the Replacements
by Robert Ham Packing six years of research and over 200 interviews into 500 pages, Mehr reveals a group of young men driven to escape desperate circumstances through music.Kevin ScanlonIf you were a...
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A Fancy Pinot Noir Dinner (with Less Pinot)
by MJ Skegg You could be having dinner here.The International Pinot Noir Celebration is now in its 30th year and has established itself as the event for lovers of Pinot. It’s spendy for sure, but then...
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Your Guide to This Year's PDX Pop Now! Festival
by Emma Burke GLENN ALLEN HENRICKSONPDX POP NOW!'S 2016lineup gives us all a lot of reasons to be stoked. As usual, Portland’s premier all-ages festival is treating the audience to a handful of...
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Timbers v. LA Galaxy Match Preview
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersJust six days removed from their biggest win of the season against the Seattle Sounders, the Portland Timbers are back in action with another marquee...
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Most Of City Council Now Supports A Massive Homeless Shelter at NW Portland's...
by Dirk VanderHart The Bureau of Environmental Services put its 14.5-acre Terminal 1 property up for sale nearly a month ago. And due to the strictures of the city's surplus property process, it'll...
View ArticleThe First-Ever Commercial for a Cannabis Edible Was Made in Portland
by Ned Lannamann This new commercial for Mirth Provisions' brand of cannabis beverages—which slyly bear the name "Legal"—is being touted as the world's first-ever TV commercial for a weed edible. Is...
View ArticleGalore of Dumbshits
by Anonymous I'd say you got a whooping cough because you're touching the bottom of your shoe then with the same hand wiping the saliva off your mouth dumbshit. Yes I'm carrying a pizza box. When you...
View ArticleLet me finish Dumbshit
by Anonymous It sure takes a special dumbshit to sit at the front of the bus on the sideway seats and then constantly look at the back of the bus at the other dumbshits. What do you see dumbshit? Has...
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Tonight at the Hollywood: Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk, and Fight Club 2
by Ned Lannamann Fight Club 2 Written by Chuck Palahniuk, art by Cameron StewartFight Club was never a movie you wanted to grow old with. Not that it hasn’t aged well since it came out in 1999—David...
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Homeless Advocates Will Set Up an "Economic Refugee Camp" For People...
by Dirk VanderHart Ree Kaarhus, executive director of Boots on the Ground PDXDirk VanderHartOrganizations advocating for homeless people on the Springwater Corridor say they'll establish an "economic...
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Borchers Injured, Timbers Lose 2-1 to LA
by Abe Asher Craig Mitchelldyer/Portland TimbersUpon arrival at Providence Park before the Timbers' marquee meeting with the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday afternoon, Nat Borchers' delivered a...
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