Dave Knows: Portland

If you can believe it, Powell’s is expanding
Burnside Bridge repairs are complete!
POVA is now Travel Portland
Registration is open for the 2008 Towards Carfree Cities Conference, to be held in Portland this summer.
And I’d like to wish a happy birthday to Greg Oden, 20 years old!

*Read the inaugural post for a rosebud explanation.
Oregon Reddit//

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Arguably Portland’s best buffalo wings restaurant, Fire on the Mountain (4225 N Interstate) is profiled in BusinessWeek’s Success Stories feature.
The gist of the article is that restaurants don’t fail as often as one would think because of lack of capital, or poor location, but that restaurant success is largely influenced by the strength of the [...]

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The 2008 Timbers schedule has been officially released. Some highlights (emphasis mine):
HOME DATES BY DAY OF THE WEEK:
Monday (1), Thursday (9), Friday (1), Saturday (4)
ROAD DATES BY DAY OF THE WEEK:
Wednesday (1), Friday (5), Saturday (7), Sunday (2)
HOME DATES BY MONTH:
April (3), May (3), June (2), July (2), August (3), September (2)
ROAD [...]

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As announced yesterday, PGE Park (affectionately known as The Piggie, and even more affectionately, Civic Stadium), is getting a new surface. The shabby NeXturf had been in place since the 2001 renovations.
Yesterday workers began tearing up the old neXturf. Intrepid Timbers fan and blogger, Steeplechase3k, stopped by the park with his camera [...]

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The Timbers season is still a few months away, but the anticipation continues to build as new bits of information trickle out.

The big news, though it’s still not official, is that the ancient carpet in PGE Park is being replaced with FieldTurf. The old stuff might be torn out as early as today. [Update: [...]

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For the second edition of the Rosebuds* I present to you an eclectic mix of Rose City related items.

Join the Plaid and Proud Jax Saturday night at the Rose Garden
Tribune says Timbers are hungrier in 08
Timbers Keeper Josh Wicks presents his favorite 07 highlights
BikePortland.org runs down the Year in Bikes, 2007 edition
Non-Vegan item: The 2008 [...]

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Portland historian Tom Robinson’s vintage 16mm films will be shown at Mississippi Pizza through February, starting tonight at 9pm (right after the spelling bee).
Tonight’s subject:

January 7, 2008
Beer Commercials a Go-Go!
Tom’s been busy buying even more of those retro liquor ads. See some of the classics you already love, plus reels of never shown ads, certain [...]

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Sometimes I find things I would like to share, but they don’t warrant their own blog post, or I don’t have the time at the moment to flesh one out. Lately I’ve been dealing with this by not posting, but I think I’ve stumbled upon a better solution. I’m a fan of Shawn [...]

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