After spending a day digging around in the Oregonian archives, I found reference to what may be the first soccer game ever played at Multnomah Field, which eventually became Multnomah Stadium, then Civic Stadium, and is now known as PGE Park.

The Central Library is throwing a block party!

Sale items include over 20,000 kids books, recent bestsellers, musical scores, audiobooks, DVDs, and more. Hardback novels start at $2, and a lot of items start at a measly two bits!

Nice views on top of the Central Library.

Fill a paper grocery bag with books from the store for only $10, until they run out of books!

I think this whole Keep Portland Weird thing is trite and unoriginal. Never the less, the Keep Portland Weird Festival 2009 this upcoming Saturday, November 14 looks like it will be a fine time.

The Wordstock Book Fair takes place this weekend at the Oregon Convention Center (777 NE MLK Jr) from 10am-6pm Saturday and Sunday, October 10-11. Other festival readings and workshops are ongoing, but good luck finding the information you need from the website, which just like last year, is thoroughly irritating (flash, awful navigation but at [...]

It’s not just soccer festivities this weekend; there are a lot other things to do: Friday through Sunday the Bite of Oregon celebrates the food and wine of Oregon at Waterfront Park. An impressive lineup of restaurants from all over the state will be preparing all manner of food, and of course craft beer and [...]

I’m an avid Netflixer and I don’t at present have a TV, so I rely on my Mac for all my video watching needs. Naturally I was delighted to read this morning that Multnomah County Library offers movies for free via the Internet. My enthusiasm waned a little after I perused the meager list of [...]