How a Les Schwab pinball game made it way from Portland to Gresham to Olympia to Astoria:

Here's your reminder to go eat in Chinatown this week:

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My husband asked who Keke Palmer was (I want watch The Burbs) so I just stared at him and said "ROSE," but sadly, this did not help.

Grab yer tissues before watching the video 🥹 This Portland couple, ages 80 and 75, have been ice skating together at Lloyd Center since 1967.

TRAIN NEWS

Solid piece of Sellwood cat journalism. I'm on Team Batman. But the real heads know about Bella and Nacho.

If you, too, are obsessed with skater Ilia Malinin, he's coming to Portland in May:

Astoria is for lovers 🫶

Hooboy, @billoram.bsky.social making me care about sports. 😬 (Yes, I had to Google "Clay Bennett.")

There are four Oregonians representing Team USA in this year's Olympics:

Like millions of Americans, I’m excited for Super Bowl LX because my husband will be gone for 4 hours watching the game with friends and I can finally finish Heated Rivalry. 🙏

Little is known about the orchardist in Oregon who forever changed the international fruit market in 1875 by cultivating the popular Bing cherry. But two artists used their keen imagination to grow the few seeds of Ah Bing’s biography into a poignant children’s book

A U.S. citizen suffered a concussion, a torn rotator cuff and bruised ribs after immigration officers stopped her on a Salem street, broke her car window, pulled her out and then left abruptly after discovering her passport in her purse, advocates said.

Here's the concept for the new Lloyd Center. We also now know the main mall will shut down at some point this year, and yes, the whole thing is slated for demolition, including the ice rink:

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

It is bonkers that they have 79% of the signatures needed to put this on the ballot, and they have until July to get there.

This is how you launder a bribe publicly:

In Forest Grove schools: "As a community, I suspect we will be feeling it for a generation. I don't think this is going to end soon. I think we're in it for the long haul, and the long term effects of what staff and students are feeling, we won't know the full effect of that for many years."

If you'd like a brief intermission from the tragedies, take a minute to read about some lovely carpet.

It’s happening for me.

The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?

If you're into hyperfixation, have you tried ... journalism? I just spent an hour looking up photos of carpets from U.S. state capitols. For work.

There are too many inside jokes on Bluesky tonight for me to possibly explain to anyone not on this app.

I get that snakes are not a *popular* animal but I'm still surprised by the number of people who heard about this and said "absolutely not!" Come on folks, snakes are cool!

Grease. The state is likely named for grease. I love it.

A storm tore open the roof of this massive Oregon landmark. Will anyone save it? @editorswindler.bsky.social w/ @mark-w-graves.bsky.social photos www.oregonlive.com/pacific-nort...

Mad? Stressed? Down about the state of the world? What you need is TICKETS TO A SKA SHOW.

Seems like if I take the dog in for lab work and they can't collect urine so they ask me to do it at home, I should get a discount. 😑

A wild ride of a story:

If any drone operators are going to be at Bing in the New Year in Milwaukie, I’d be very interested in any aerial photos of the event! I will even pay you for them! (But not, like, *a ton* because I’m a journalist and this is for charity.)

Rewatching "Stranger Things" and we're at the season where they're protesting the mall because it's hurting Main Street. Today, Portland folks are protesting to save the mall that was killed by (lots of things but mainly) online shopping. Man, times have changed. savelloyd.com

Over four hours on Tuesday night — through a combination of lap dances, live music, comic skits and auctions — Portland’s strippers and burlesque performers raised more than $60,000 for patients at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital.

Successful lighting test today for the big Bing cherry! Don’t miss the cherry drop on New Years Eve in downtown Milwaukie, birthplace of the Bing cherry! Binginthenewyear.com 🍒

it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind

Love this city. 🫡

Don’t miss OREGON’S ONLY GIANT CHERRY DROP, happening 6-9pm on New Year’s Eve in beautiful downtown Milwaukie! 🍒

On Thursday, The Oregonian will mark its 175th anniversary. The milestone makes it older than the state of Oregon, older than Portland’s city government, and the longest continuously published newspaper west of Salt Lake City. 🎂

Happy Giving Tuesday to actual charities and not this one.

Prayers for everyone dealing with their weird uncles on this day 🙏

“Christmas” officially starts at 4pm today when a timer will flip on the White Stag’s red nose on the Portland, Oregon sign for the first time this season.

The new Can Can Portland theater looks amazing! Can't wait to check this place out.

This could be the last holiday shopping season for Lloyd Center:

Breaking news: People remain fundamentally good.

Am I bad at delegating? Or is everyone else bad at DOING??

Whenever we watch Marvel movies, my husband (at my request) will pause them to explain all these obscure character backstories. Last night we watched Wicked, and it was my turn: Ariana/Ethan drama, who is Jonathan Bailey and his slutty glasses, "holding space," etc. Magical time. 10/10

This is so cool. Love this for the kids and the building.

This lil' event I help organize in Milwaukie on New Year's Eve is looking for vendors. Are you interested? Reach out! There's a vendor application on the website: binginthenewyear.com