SF News Massive Evacuation Orders Come As Oregon Wildfire Nears Portland Suburb Approximately half the residents of Oregon's Clackamas County — the edge of which abuts the southern city limits of Portland — have been ordered to evacuate their homes as one of five wildfires currently burning in the state is threatening several towns and suburbs.
SF News Purple Sea Urchins Continue To Decimate West Coast’s Kelp Forests Hundreds of millions of eggplant-colored sea urchins are devouring our state’s pristine, undulating kelp forests by the literal mile. Now, their insatiable stampede seems to be ascending northern California's coastline, reaching as far as Oregon.
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Slumber Party With Sloths At the Zoological Wildlife Conservation Center and the Sloth Captive Husbandry Center in Rainier, Oregon, "sleepovers" are being offered for animal lovers who want to hang out with adorable sloths for a night
SF News A Truck Full Of 'Slime Eels' Flipped On An Oregon Freeway And OMG The Pictures I don't think you're ready for this jelly. A truck full of live eels being shipped to Korea "for consumption" flipped on Highway 101 in Oregon, spilling eels all over everything everywhere. According
SF News Ammon Bundy And Followers Acquitted In Armed Takeover Of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Ammon Bundy and six of his followers have been acquitted of conspiracy charges by a federal court jury. Reuters reports that Bundy and the others, who are all members of a group that
SF News Oregon Police Seize Porta-Potty Filled With Weed Porta-potties always present a surprise of some kind, usually disgusting and terrible ones. But weirdly, in Rogue River, Oregon, the surprise was a shitton of pot plants. The AP reports that local police
SF News Armed 'Militiamen' Take Over Oregon Wildlife Refuge Anti-government protestors armed with guns have taken over a federal building in an Oregon wildlife refuge, because they say federal officials have unfairly punished ranchers. The Oregonian reports an estimated 300 people marched
SF News Gun-Toting Gun Enthusiasts Greet Obama As He Arrives In Oregon To Meet Shooting Victims' Families More Roseburg protestors showing off their right to carry guns well ahead of the President's arrival pic.twitter.com/QHBH2Y0sYh— Nina Mehlhaf (@NinaMehlhaf) October 9, 2015 Arguing that President Obama rushed to politicize
Arts & Entertainment Another Year Of Drought, Another Year of Teeny-Tiny Pumpkins We know that California's drought is doing all sorts of horrible things to our state, drying us to a Mad Max-like crisp and burning us to ash. And for the second year in
SF News Oregon Gunman Killed Himself As Officers Arrived To The Scene, Officials Say The gunman who killed nine in a mass shooting at an Oregon community college killed himself as officers arrived, according to officials. "The medical examiner has determined the cause of death of the
SF News Oregon Gunman Described As Shy, Unfriendly, Empathized With Virginia Shooter Vester Flanagan The deceased gunman in yesterday's devastating mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon has been identified as 26-year-old Chris Harper-Mercer, and already reporters have been swarming around his two most recent residences
SF News [Updates] Nine Killed And Seven Wounded In Mass Shooting At Oregon Community College, Shooter Dead As Well There are reports in the last hour of a mass shooting with multiple possibility fatalities at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. A single gunman was reported as "down" as of 11 a.
SF News Brittany Maynard, 29-Year-Old Planning Assisted Suicide, Makes It To The Grand Canyon The terrible story of Brittany Maynard, the 29-year-old woman with stage 4, inoperable brain cancer who relocated to Oregon this year in order take advantage of the state's assisted suicide law, got her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yeasty Brewmaster's Beard Used To Brew Oregon Beer A brewery in Oregon is brewing a beer using wild yeast harvested from the brewmaster's beard. What a dude thing to do, beer world. Gross. Or is it? The facial hair beer comes
SF News Oregon Criminalizes Unspeakable Act Sad news, nonconsensual bukkake aficionados. In one of the shortest debates to occur in the Oregon House, a specific type of gang initiation was called into question this week. A proposed new law
misc West-Coast Puppet APB Issued The theft happened in Oregon, but there's no Portlandist so we're just going to have to post it here and try to get the word out. Tell your friends to be on the
misc Killer Whales Hungry for Salmon Does anyone else cry at the end of the movie when Jesse bids farewell to Willy? Gets us every time. Every time!
misc Family <Strike>Missing</strike> Found! In The Sierras Can you believe it's been a year since James Kim died in the Oregon mountains? We're very sorry to pass along the news that another Northern California family is missing in what we're
Arts & Entertainment Eat it, Portland! San Francisco Most "Walkable" City Everybody get and Fancy Free: A Field Survey of Walkable Urban Places in the Top 30 U.S. Metropolitan Areas here in .pdf. But why are we talking about Portland? And what about
Arts & Entertainment Karen Has a Broken Leg! All proceeds from the record will go to the Sweet Home New Orleans Organization (SHNO). From SHNO's website, "Sweet Home New Orleans Organization is a non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing the music and
Arts & Entertainment Mini-View with Charlie M. from the Happy Hollows Do you have any Bay Area ties? Yes, our singer Sarah is from here. And she went to SF State. Actually, none of us are from LA. Chris and I are from DC.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alfred Peet, 1920-2007 Mr. Peet, born in Holland, opened the first Peet's at Walnut and Vine in Berkeley in 1966, and watched it spread nationwide (there's Peet's in New England now?). And the rumors you've heard
Arts & Entertainment This Crow's Gotta Fly -- A Plan For Burning Man Hannah Watson's really into crows. In June 2000, surrounded by family, her mother passed away. Hannah tells us that right outside, just after her mom died, "the crows cawed, hollered at one another,
SF News Day Around The Bay --A guy jumped onto the field to say hi to Barry Bonds yesterday. Arrested, drunk. [The Chron photo pool, the Snitch.] --They're looking on the Oregon coast now for the missing Alameda County
SF News Day Around The Bay --Hey! Did you ever do coke with Gavin? [Fog City Journal.] --Chris Daly explains himself. [SFGov.org.] --What's fun doing for Pride Weekend? [SFPartyParty, Bay Area Reporter, SF Weekly's All Shook Down.] --They
