All Things Portland

[THE HCP]

This is my doppelganger and very good friend DJ Rev. Shines (the white guy) working on a project with Slim from the Pharcyde. One of the best DJs in the PDX!

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[THE HCP]

Will mix anything from Hendrix to Jazz, doesn't matter. Here is what they are throwing together......

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[THE HCP]

My boys the LifeSavas...... Nik you might recognize the R&R Market sign from Fremont!

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[THE HCP]

Off their first CD.......[video=youtube;dNDbQojX3q4]

 

[THE HCP]

Latest single....If you are a fan of real hiphop, not this commercial bullshit, you should feel this!

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[THE HCP]

Best part, if you check out the liner notes of their first CD, the HispanicCausin'Panic get a shoutout.........FAMS!

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I'm a fan of mash-up's!

Btw, Dave Attell is in town!

 

[BrianFromWA]

The Miley Cyrus/Biggie "Party (and Bullshit) in the USA" is pretty good.

 

[Denny Crane]

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A couple from northwestern Oregon who are Internet newbies have found themselves the unwitting subjects of an instant viral video, thanks to a little help from a grandkid.

Bruce Huffman, 86, and his wife, Esther, 79, of the Hillside Retirement Community in McMinnville, recently purchased their first laptop computer –- an aqua colored beauty with a built-in webcam.

Late last month, the couple sat down together and tried to figure out how to make a video with the webcam, something a granddaughter had painstakingly attempted to teach Esther a few days beforehand.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

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Portland’s City Council barely approved moving forward with planning on the Oregon Sustainability Center on Wednesday, voting by a 3-2 to enter into an ownership agreement with the Oregon University System on the so-called Living Building to be constructed on the edge of the Portland State University campus.

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The construction timeline is still being figured out. Kind of up in the air with that.​

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I dig this layout (no surface parking lot):

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Barbur Blvd. - Portland​

 

[barfo]

Man, that is some bad-ass driving in that Safeway video. Guy runs a yellow light, almost hits pedestrians, goes the wrong way in the parking structure, drives up the escalator, and gets completely sideways on the road at the end. I am impressed.

barfo

 

[Natebishop3]

I dig this layout (no surface parking lot):

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Barbur Blvd. - Portland​

You have no idea how excited I am about that new Safeway. I've grown up next to the current Safeway located on Barbur and it's the shittiest Safeway in existence. The new one looks amazing.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

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[jlprk]

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It's best to watch it stoned. He drives sideways and then his car flies up into the air. There should be surrealistic music.

The stoned architect who made that video was the one who designed the Twin Towers to withstand an airplane collision.

 

[BrianFromWA]

If I still lived in Seattle, I just might've driven down for that.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

 

[julius]

Thousands will gather...what, are the Decembrists playing?

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Nice^

Btw, here's a first look at the OHSU building to go up on their SoWa campus:

Phase-ll of this building will add an additional 7-floors to the north tower.​

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

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Crystal Ballroom 2008​

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The Portland City Council has voted to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to move into a new facility in the city's South Waterfront.

A lengthy permitting process drew opponents from the South Waterfront neighborhood.

But ultimately, city commissioners said they were satisfied the facility would pose no more risk than its predecessor. ICE conducts operations in a downtown building on Broadway.

-KGW​

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

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^Final rendering^​

PSU and its partner universities, Oregon Health & Science University and Oregon State University, break ground Oct. 13 on the $295 million building, which features a 500-seat lecture hall, classrooms and an entire floor of state-of-the-art teaching labs.

-PSU

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

The Portland Historic Landmarks Commission on October 10 unanimously approved plans by Target and the Bill Naito Company, the building owner, to make changes to the 101-year old, full-block former retail emporium that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Yet the benefits of the Target plan were clear. It would add a major retail magnet to the west end of the downtown retail core, and it would allow for full rental of the Galleria building after more than a decade of partial occupancy.

-Portlandarchitecture.com

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Preliminary plans from Mr. Weston; much needed Convention Center Hotel could be on the horizon:

Prominent developer Joseph Weston wants to build a $72 million, 312-room hotel one block east of the Oregon Convention Center.

But no ground-breaking is scheduled anytime soon.

Weston, principal of Weston Holding Co. and one of Portland’s most successful real estate investors, wants to build the Cosmopolitan, a 31-story tower with 312 hotel rooms, 13 condominiums on the top three floors, retail space, underground parking and 10,650 square feet of event space at 1020 N.E. Grand Ave.

The city owns the vacant lot.

The Portland Development Commission signed a development agreement with Weston to build a condominium project on the property. The project was cancelled when the condo market dried up, but the agreement remains in effect.

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[Fez Hammersticks]

Today's groundbreaking:

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-PSU​

 

[barfo]

This current architectural fad of randomly placed little windows? Ugly. These buildings are not going to age well.

barfo

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

OHSU also released this today:

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[Natebishop3]

All the new buildings seem to have the same kind of architecture.

 

[julius]

This current architectural fad of randomly placed little windows? Ugly. These buildings are not going to age well.

barfo

whats with the cruise ship being parked next to that building?