digging all the public comment on street vending www.portland.gov/council/docu...

A building permit has been issued for the McMenamins Taft Hotel, adjacent to the Crystal Ballroom. Work includes renovations for accessibility on the upper floors. www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permi... The former Taft Home was bought by McMenamins last year. www.wweek.com/news/2024/08...

A building permit was issued last week for the Live Nation venue on SE Water Ave: www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permi... That's now two music venues under construction, with capacities for 3,500 (Live Nation) and 4,250 (AEG) people.

At Carlton Winemakers Studio, where one can find wines from CJ McCollum and Nicholas Kristof

Lotería de bebé

When the socialists tell you to read the theory, it’s _usually_ not Adam Smith…

I always wanted to go to Chef Naoko, but foolishly never made it. I’m glad that new restaurant Madrina has kept a lot of the Kengo Kuma designed interior. Food is great too.

Rebuilding Portland Mercado for a Summer 2026 Reopening In January 2024, a fire destroyed Barrio Bar and damaged the surrounding Portland Mercado building at 7238 SE Foster Road. Since then, Portland residents have eagerly awaited the dining destination's restoration and worried as the once…

Portland has an incredible food cart scene, mostly by doing nothing more than allowing carts. Sidewalk vending, by contrast, is regulated to an extent that it's pretty rare. By removing some anti-competitive language from code and a requirement to go through design review (!) we change that.

If you’re in Portland and pissed off about the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, here’s a good guide as to what you can do. Our local Sinclair station is KATU, and the post includes a list of last night’s advertisers. www.bojack2.com/2025/09/acti...

Prima Pizza did not wind up opening in the former Mod Pizza space, but there's now a liquor license application for Edan Pizza www.portland.gov/ppd/liquor/d...

A proposal for a food cart pod on SW Salmon between 2nd and 3rd has been approved. www.portland.gov/ppd/zoning-l... The site was formerly home to the Lotus Cardroom & Cafe, which was demolished for a high rise hotel that never broke ground.

It looks like service to PDX from Amsterdam on KLM will be returning to daily for summer 2026 (starting end of March). When Delta flew the route (and Northwest before the merger) it operate daily, but frequencies were reduced to 5x weekly after joint venture partner KLM took it over.

In May the former Jaciva's bakery sold to a LLC connected to Pho Le Nguyen on NE Sandy. There's now a building permit under review to convert the space into a restaurant www.portlandmaps.com/reports/inde...

Oh I wonder what team he bought? www.chron.com/sports/artic...

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

🇲🇽 ¡Viva México! 🇲🇽

Well this is interesting poll

Unlocking new levels of understanding of Mexican gay culture, after watching a drag performance of ‘Mentiras’, a jukebox musical based on songs from the ‘80s popular in the gay community

The gays should know that this isn’t true

At no point last night in this Mexican nightclub did I know what to expect next.

Wait the sauce that I buy at Costco is also a restaurant?

They say Bluesky is an echo chamber, and yet I see conservatives being every bit as mean to local elected officials as they were on Twitter so 🤷‍♂️

Somehow I'm on the mailing list for Tacticon Armament, and if you would've thought they'd have waited at least a couple days before launching a "Charlie Kirk was murdered" sale, you'd have been wrong.

Sometimes you don’t have to find a local angle

Sleater-Kinney at Revolution Hall

At Revolution Hall, where Sleater-Kinney are playing tonight. Trying to decide whether it’s a very funny joke that “Rock Star” by Hole is currently playing in Show Bar.

At this morning's Arts and Economy Committee meeting, Dan Ryan referenced "sports ball" at least twice

I'm so confused by why the Multnomah County Commission wants the story about the stabbing outside the library to be in the news for multiple weeks. Even if they disagree with the Metro Chamber's framing, all they're doing is making sure more people know about it.

I lived across the street from this Thai restaurant on Belmont for a couple years before realizing there was a restaurant there

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

A lot of supply coming online right at the time Portland’s population started shrinking kept rents flat. Big question is whether we’re going to see population growth pick up again at a time when next to no supply will be coming online.

After six years, something—with a very 2010s name—is finally going into the former Henry’s Tavern space in the Brewery Blocks bridgetownbites.com/2025/09/08/h...

Someone on the MAX keeps listening to audio of Trump speeches without headphones, and I can’t work out who it is in order to glare at them

Too soon

Someone told me that her brother was in Korea for some soul searching, and if you think i let that opportunity for a pun go by, I certainly did not

This used to be outdoor dining, alas

A building permit was issued yesterday for the new AEG/Monqui venue at the Lloyd Center www.portlandmaps.com/detail/permi... Demolition of the former Nordstrom has been underway for the past couple months katu.com/news/local/d...

First Thursday

Balloon gay installation in progress

A four block development with a mix of affordable and market rate housing is planned at the eastern edge of the Lloyd District, on land owned by the Holy Rosary Parish. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

The notion that anyone who disagrees with a tactic is therefore against a cause is one of the more toxic beliefs on the left

This is kind of pathetic… but also true? Operation Warp Speed is one of the few (only?) things Trump did right in his first term, and we’re all worse off for the fact that he doesn’t take credit for it.

Some early renderings of the designs for the shared used path between Portland and Vancouver WA, proposed as part of the Interstate Bridge Replacement Project. Taken from an Aug 27th meeting interstatebridge.org/get-involved... Descriptions in alt text. 1/2

EXCELLENT thread by Iain The Step Down policy isn’t the sole reason Portland has a housing crisis, but it’s not NOT the reason, either *slaps the hood* Oh yeah. You could EASILY fit another 10,000 people into this bad boy

what’s your favorite insane downtown height limit squiggle? this one is mine

Canadian apparel brand Duer is opening on NW 23rd Ave. It will be their fourth store in the US, after opening in Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...

Found it. djcoregon.com/news/2016/08...

Portland has a reputation for urban planning. Today I was asked what I think we’ve gotten right, and what we’ve gotten wrong. I had many answers for the former. For the latter I had one: the 1970s era “Step Down to the River” policy, which resulted in development like the World Trade Center. 1/8