Portland band No One of Consequence has launched a debut album that critic Ray Gill, Jr.

A huge fire ripped through the beloved Hawthorne building that houses Lounge Lizard, Really Good Stuff, and Riyadh’s Lebanese Restaurant yesterday, injuring two Portland firefighters.ĬAUGHT ON CAMERA: Check out this video from of the explosion that sent two firefighters to the hospital.Fans of the Portland Thorns and Timbers soccer teams are rightfully PISSED by the way the Thorns management and owner Merritt Paulson handled sexual coercion charges leveled against former coach Paul Riley, and have declared a boycott of the teams' concessions and merchandise.(Seriously, send this article to all of your nay-saying out-of-town relatives.) Related: If you're tired of the constant barrage of 'Portland is Dead' media coverage from no-nothing rich people, out-of-town pundits, and certain local editorial boards, this article by Zoë Carpenter in The Nation is a refreshing blast of truth that correctly points out that those who are rushing to clean up Portland's tarnished reputation are the ones that caused it, while also ignoring the calls for reform that was previously pushing the city in a more just direction.

The 'Recall Wheeler' campaign is apparently not going to collect enough signatures to meet the necessary deadline needed to get on the November ballot-but they're not giving up yet, and are suing the city for refusing to extend the deadline.

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