Dave Knows: Portland

On Sunday, both the Daily News and The Times featured interviews with the king of the disaffected-youth-in-Portland movie: Gus Van Sant. His most recent contribution to the genre is Paranoid Park.
Gus Van Sant on filmmaking and ‘Paranoid Park’
Van Sant discusses his take on the Hollywood system, and how a low-budget helps him retain artistic […]

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City Limits: Walking Portland’s Boundary by David Oates
Writer and Professor David Oates set out to walk, and kayak where necessary, Portland’s Urban Grown Boundary.
The result is personal and informative essays. Oates deftly describes the terrain he traverses while sharing his robust opinions and philosophies about Portland, the UGB, and our Oregon culture. At times […]

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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.

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The Los Angeles Times asks that question today in an article entitled Powell’s turns the page.
Michael Powell is passing the operations of Portland’s iconic and beloved bookstore on to his daughter, Emily, over the next few years. After college and several years living and working in San Francisco, she has returned to Portland, where […]

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Jonesing for Ward Churchill’s latest?
The one-day PDX IWW-Glaberman Library Book Fair is taking place today at the Liberty Hall (311 N Ivy) from 11am-5pm.
Vendors include Laughing Horse Books, Eberhardt Press, Red Letter Press, Great NW Books, St. Johns Booksellers, Glaberman Library, Black Rose Collective, Charles H. Kerr, and others.

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Transit Maps of the World, due to be released next Tuesday, is already available and stashed at the Quimby warehouse according to Powells (no sign of it yet at the library).
Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth.
If it’s comprehensive, […]

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The first day of the Blazer’s Edge Summer Book Club is upon us. A book discussion on The Blazers Edge: A Site by and for Blazer Fans? Makes perfect sense since the book is Red Hot and Rollin’: A Retrospection of the Portland Trail Blazers’ 1976-77 Championship Season (Library | Powell’s), edited by […]

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Can I be the only one not obsessed with all things Harry Potter? For those of you who got your fill of children’s books when you were children, here are a couple Portland-related books I recommend you read while all your friends enjoy making J. K. Rowling even richer.
(If you *must* read fantasy, at […]

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The Hour is a current affairs show on Canadian television which features long (by American TV standards) interviews with actors, politicians, journalists, etc. One recent interview was with the writer Chuck Palahniuk. I doubt he still lives in Portland, so I’m not sure if he can be classified as a “Portland writer”, but […]

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I bought a copy of this book as a birthday present, and I should have got a copy for myself too. It’s beautiful. Seriously.
Shots of Portland will journey you through the most well-respected drinking establishments in the city with 118 pages of photographs, anecdotes, history, and short stories. From the city’s oldest […]

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