Dave Knows: Portland

Heather at Mile73.com filmed this footage of the barge launch yesterday:
Barge Launch Portland, OR from Mile73 on Vimeo.
Read Heather’s first hand account of the event in her blog post: Barge!
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Zidell Marine Corporation is launching its newest barge Thursday at 11:30am.  From Southwaterfront.com:
Zidell has been working hard - night and day - preparing their most recent barge for launch.  And we have just learned when they will be launching this barge….
When: Thursday October 30th - 11:30am - 12:30pm
Where: Zidell Marine Corp - South Waterfront
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7:30pm at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the Portland Trailblazers begin the 2008-2009 season against last year’s Western Conference Champions, the Los Angeles Lakers.
With the expectations heaped onto this young Trailblazer team, it’s no surprise to see fans jumping back (or for the first time) onto the bandwagon. To keep up with [...]

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Portland’s culinary scene is lauded in the November issue of Gourmet magazine.
Some of the chefs and restaurateurs interviewed for the article include Ten-01’s Jack Yoss, Daniel Mondok of Sel Gris, Gabriel Rucker of Le Pigeon, and Beast’s Naomi Pomeroy.
Most hail from elsewhere, coming to Portland for its communal spirit — and its ingredients, [...]

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Vodka is not my spirit of choice. I’m a beer drinker primarily, though I enjoy wine and the occasional port or brandy.
But I am a die hard Portland evangelist and fan of our local producers of world class beer, wine, food, and booze.
Artisan Spirits is Portland’s newest distillery, producing hand crafted liquors in a [...]

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An article this morning in the Vancouver Sun, Portland draws line, looks at Portland’s approach to dealing with sprawl.
The Urban Growth Boundary worked. Metro Portland’s population (1.58 million) has grown by 50 per cent since 1973, its land area has only grown by 2 per cent. Portland occupies about one-third the area and its population [...]

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Via re:PDX
The former neighbor of the dearly departed Rosefriends Apartment building, will be slowly and laboriously moved from its temporary storage place up the street back to Columbia and Broadway.
Starting early in the morning of October 25, Settle Construction, the move contractors, will gently raise the Carriage House off its temporary supports using the hydraulic [...]

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According to the LA Times, players around the league are paying bounties to teammates who “posterize” the Portland Trailblazers’ Greg Oden.
Pregame chatter landed, briefly, on the Sacramento Kings’ Kevin Martin, who collected $1,000 from teammate Mikki Moore for a two-handed dunk over 7-footer Greg Oden of the Trail Blazers on Monday in Sacramento.
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No Portland restaurants made it onto Esquire’s Best New Restaurants, 2008, but Beast (5425 NE 30th Ave) did garner one of the Other Awards:
MOST TOLERABLE EXAMPLE OF THE COMMUNAL-TABLE TREND.
In the regional seasonal utopia that is Portland, Oregon, the community table is exactly that: a way of gathering people for the purpose of sharing [...]

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The king of retro, Charles Phoenix, comes to Portland Thursday for a performance at the Clinton Street Theater (2522 SE Clinton St).
He will be presenting a live comedy slide show performance celebrating 50s and 60s, theme parks, space age style, car culture, roadside attractions and more!  For this Portland show he’ll be including vintage slides [...]

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