Over the last few years the New York Times has flattered the Rose City with gushing articles about our bikes and breweries, the Ace hotel and the restaurant scene, travel highlights, and Todd Haynes (and that’s just a sampling). Now the Canadians are on to us. Or at least the Canadians at the Globe and [...]

Update: The game will be on Comcast channel 37 at 2:30pm Sunday, but not in High Definition: CFL Football LIVE Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers 037 CSNNW 2007 | 240 mins | [Closed Captioned] Sun, Nov 25, 2:30p – 6:30p The 95th Grey Cup Championship, from Rogers Centre in Toronto. Now if [...]

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 I do [...]