Everyone’s talking burgers. New York Magazine recently published its list of the city’s best burgers. Saveur’s “burger bible” issue just reached my mailbox. And our local, Portland Monthly has a new round up of the best PDX burgers as well as an online feature challenging three of Portland’s most well-respected chefs to a burger throwdown. [...]
The New York Times’ coverage of Portland’s food scene continues. This time, it’s glazed doughnut burgers.
Photo: The Original
I can’t imagine what it was like when it was first opened in 1961.
Our friend Scott Ponik helped organize this show at PNCA. By organize, we mean he helped produce the graphics, design all of the communication and act as the gracious host for visitors who walked into the gallery. Curated by Joseph del Pasco, the Black Market Type & Print Shop features 30 fonts composed of the [...]
Mercer, that is. Saw him twice in 2 weeks, which possibly means we’re obsessed, but actually means that we couldn’t resist hearing him play an acoustic set at The Cleaners. The best song of the night was The Beach Boys cover Girl Don’t Tell Me.
James Mercer at the microphone in front of a crowd of [...]
Found this image of Michael Graves’ original proposed design for the Portland Public Service Building in a 1985 issue of Architectural Design. Interesting to note the original plan called for much more dramatic decorative garlands along the sides of the building and a collection of public arcades and shops on the rooftop. Both elements were [...]
Nominees for the 2009 James Beard Awards were announced today. Happy to see Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune on the list, as well as a couple of nods to Portland: Cathy Whims of Nostrana and Gabriel Rucker of Le Pigeon. And Totonno’s gets a well-deserved, post-fire shout for the America’s Classics award.
May sound like a local dairy, but I’m referring to the organic architecture that Robert Harvey Oshatz has been designing in the Portland area since the 1970s. I don’t know what to make of some of his projects, so I’ll let his website do the talking:
“While most architects today are specialists who associate with other [...]
Fortuitous events allowed us to catch up with Matt Keegan while he was in Portland last month to give a lecture at PNCA. If I were in NY this month, I’d head to D’Amelio Terras to catch his recently-opened solo exhibition.
Matt Keegan, Untitled (Light Leak), 2005/2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
The fates handed us tickets to last night’s Portland International Film Festival screening of Sugar, a film by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck about the economic and emotional weight felt by aspiring Dominican baseball players. Recommended viewing. (Thanks Ricky!)