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.)

It's Christmas Eve at our house and the dog has never had worse diarrhea.

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

You have a few more days to check out the new Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts for free during its soft opening:

When I fill out your contact us form and I don't get an email receipt and don't hear from you immediately, I get a level of anxiety that I could probably talk to a therapist about. Please send "thank you for contacting us" receipts 🙏

I cannot say enough nice things about the ROTC cadets at Oregon State who helped me find a 99-year-old "Rosie the Riveter" at the Linn County Veterans Day Parade.

oh.

Another year, another Halloween where I was not invited to the kind of party where the adults were hypnotized in Hocus Pocus. 😔

If you were raised pretty white trash and never saw one before, and then one day when you’re 44 a pomegranate shows up in your farm box, buddy that is a wild ride.

This story highlights some of best home haunts in the greater Portland area (Newberg is a bit out there but ... just go with it):

This video is hard to watch

I know it says it's for teens but I love Five Below!

Judges Bade and Nelson found that the federal government is likely to succeed in its argument that there was a “threat of rebellion” outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland:

What we know about which federal agents are at ICE and what weapons they're using:

“When you have people in inflatables bouncing around ... it’s going to be very difficult to say this was a war zone, this was a riot. It de-escalates with ICE, it de-escalates with protesters, it de-escalates with counter-protesters — and, ironically enough, the pepper balls bounce right off.”

Portland's largest mausoleum has traditionally only be open to the public over Memorial Day weekend, but there are now offering a few select tours throughout the year. A must see for any history fan, and a few tickets are still available for Sept. 26:

I visited Oregon's five smallest cities. Here's part 1!

Facebook is where the worst people I know share the worst political opinions, but I remain because I got some sweet free cabinets on Marketplace yesterday 🫠

I'm the lloyd center reporter now:

Friday is the deadline for nonprofits to apply for The Oregonian's Season of Sharing campaign! All nonprofits that serve Oregon/SW Washington are encouraged to apply, but we are particularly focused this year on those facing financial uncertainty because of government funding cuts.

When my husband told me there’s a Netflix show on President Garfield’s assassination coming out, I said “wow, timely” bc that whole thing led to the end of the “spoils system” of federal jobs being political and created civil service reform. 🫠

Wow, 20 years ago. That was a sad, strange time.

It's Halloween now. I don't make the rules.

Does it mean something that none of the Spirit Halloween stores this year appear to be inside Portland city limits? Is this anything? 😅

The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.

We found some positive masculinity at Oregon's pro wrestling training school:

I hate that we are like this as a society. It's not trespassing to knock on a front door. A little "no thank you" won't kill you.

Knife Town, baby. 🔪

The "Big Beautiful Bill" requires federal agencies to ramp up logging, "but it also includes a provision requiring 'all monies' from those new timber sales go into federal coffers. That could mean nothing from new logging contracts will be shared with the counties that house those forests."

Wanna go walk in the woods naked in the moonlight in support of the 'roadless rule' protecting forests?

I, a huge dork, am excited about this!

Is this good? It seems maybe good?

“You are about to see the most redneck thing you’ve ever seen in your life." And it was true: