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As reported a couple weeks ago (Mayor Tom Potter gets to drink on the job—how sweet!), an important function of a Portland Mayor is to drink beer. It looks like he's doing it again tomorrow.
From his calender:
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
LEAD/WALK:
Oregon Brewers Festival Parade
loc: (Rogue Brewery to Waterfront)
Wow, I really have to go hang with da mayor and his crew.
Whoa! Big money for someone to design a courtyard! Anyone want to join my team? I take a lot of pics of courtyards :)
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The City of Portland, Oregon is sponsoring a competition to revive courtyard housing in the city.
AWARDS: $20,000 in prizes to selected designs
SUBMITTALS DUE: October 24, 2007
SPONSOR: City of Portland, Oregon
ELIGIBILITY: Architects, landscape architects, builders, developers, students and others interested in the competition. Multidisciplinary teams are encouraged.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The City of Portland invites you to share your ideas on the design possibilities of housing oriented to shared courtyards. Portland is promoting courtyard housing…READ MORE
I just saw this over at the Portland Tribune. It looks like we will now die from the heat for sure.
If you like to cool off on hot days in the Ira Keller Civic Theatre Forecourt Fountain in downtown Portland, you won't be able to for the next few days.
Someone put a lot of soapsuds in the water and spray-painted graffiti tags on the outside of it earlier this week.
The Portland Water Bureau will have to drain the fountain, replace its 13,000 gallons of water and use solvent to remove the graffiti. The bureau hopes to have the fountain reopened by Friday, but it might not be ready until Monday….READ MORE
Overkill is still going on over at Jace Gace, so I stopped by to see the work without the madness. I had the grilled cheese waffle and was rather pleased with the waffle, beer, and my photo taking ability ;)
Pics from Jace Gace Overkill Show
Waffle Overkill by Simon Goetz
New arrival to PDX, Brian Brewcaster, sent this story over about the IKEA-nsanityâ¬Å¾¢ that has gripped Portland.
Let me get this out of the way first:
My wife and I had to be at the PDX Airport at 6:00am today. We happened to notice that Ikea was opening the store today. Traffic did not look bad at all, so we decided to at least do a “drive-by”. We ended up staying to witness the ceremonies.
We had to circle Ikea once to find the “parking lot” they were using. To avoid traffic insanity, they had the actual Ikea parking lot blocked off. They had patrons parking in a huge field designed for light off-road occasions.
As we approached on foot, we were greeted by hundreds of people lined up in a queue the likes of Space Mountain.
Things I saw:
- Trampoline team doing stunts,
- guy on stilts juggling,
- dood dressed as a moose,
- workers dressed in Swedish(not the hot kind) outfits giving out Ikea shwag
- they raised the American flag and sung the national anthem
- they also raised the Swedish flag and had someone sing their national anthem.
- A current or former mayor sawed a log to open the store I believe–I couldn't see.
I think the first 250 people entering the store got a surprise gift card, with up to $250 in it. Ours had buy one get one free food items from the food station thing.
People were camped out. I heard some people saying things, like “oh we got here about 2am! What for??”
The weirdness continued as we entered the store and were greeted by at least 100 employees lining the entrance screaming, clapping, banging those inflatable tubes you see at basketball games together, slapping people high five as they entered the store and got on an escalator. I was not greeted with this much praise for graduating college.
My wife and I got the swivel TV stand for our new TV we were looking to buy, and a cheap rug which we also planned on buying, and we got out of there. It was definitely one of the weirdest “events” I have been to.
Free stuff received while waiting in line:
Frisbees(for the dogs to chew on)
water bottle(for the dogs to chew on)
a little battery powered fan
a little magnetic toy, you know the one where the wheel goes up and down, never mind.
a measuring tape key chain.
fake tattoos
we had to start declining the offers from there.
You can see more/larger photos here and my website: www.brewcaster.com
If you don't want to go to city hall for PDX POP NOW! or the Zoo for Los Lobos or see Drug Movies at the Clinton Theater, then you can drive your hummer to this…
Goodfoot Lap Love
Tonight at the Goodfoot, DJs B. Hill and Pretty Please drop delicious diamond cuts for your ass to get crass under. From rap to raunchy soul, bollywood to bangers, these DJs toss the cake, the wake, and everything asunder. Come out and stun out!
Where: Goodfoot (downstairs)
When: 9:30pm-2:30am
I saw this at Livejournal…I'm assuming these all start at dusk.
Casablanca @Esther Short Park
Grease @ Pioneer Square
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire @ Sellwood Park
Jurassic Park 3 @ Westmoreland Park
I know it is no Ikea opening and all, but this new annual PDX POP NOW! tradition is a great thing.
PDX Pop Now! and Portland City Hall Present:
Old Time Relijun | The Watery Graves
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Outdoors in front of Portland City Hall
1221 SW Fourth Ave.
5:30 p.m. — 8:30 p.m.
FREE — ALL AGES
Amy is posing an interesting question over at the Peal Insider on whether the Pearl is a community or not.
We'd argue that the Pearl District is a community. Perhaps we don't share a common neighborhood “need” as Row mentions, but we certainly share many similar interests.
Looking down (I guess up) from my inner SE area of Laurelhurst/Sunnyside/Buckman , it would seem that if the Pearl is a community, it is in some lower stage of one–not quite as evolved.
To be fair, the current district does not have nearly the history of neighborhood organization that this area has.
Amy (and others) are definitely working on creating a vibrant community; so if it isn't there–it's on its way. And nothing says community like Cherry Garcia :)
So, weigh in with your thoughts/opinions.
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