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 Member of Alt-Right Group That Tried to Make Trouble In SF Three Years Ago Fatally Shot In Portland A man wearing a hat saying Patriot Prayer — the alt-right group that attempted to stir the pot in the Bay Area in the summer of 2017 — was fatally shot in the streets of downtown Portland Saturday night.
SF News CA Couple Moved To Portland, Vandals Respond With "Go Back To CA" Graffiti Jessica Faraday and Preston "I work for Adidas" Page did not receive a warm welcome from some new neighbors. KRON 4 reports (via Portland's KOIN) that the California-based pair moved to Portland, Oregon
SF News Like Berkeley, Portland Struggles To Keep Peace As Pro-Trump And Anti-Fascist Contingents Collide One man taken in to custody. He came in to Terry Schrunk, exchanging words with Trump supporters, pushing one #KOIN6News pic.twitter.com/GL156Lyxom— Cole Miller (@ColeKOIN) June 4, 2017 A planned rally
SF News Portland Train Suspect Appears In Court, Calls Stabbings 'Patriotism' The suspect in the fatal stabbings aboard a Portland commuter train on Friday made his first court appearance Tuesday, and he shows no signs of remorse for an act that is being widely
SF News Two Killed On Portland Commuter Train Allegedly By Man Spewing Hate Speech Update: @MikeBennerKGW reports 2 people have died following stabbing at Hollywood Transit Center in NE Portland https://t.co/mijfevEBwi pic.twitter.com/7AGupoNSPD— KGW News (@KGWNews) May 27, 2017 A man who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Portland's Salt & Straw Ice Cream Arrives In SF For Pop-Ups Next Week, Opening Two SF Shops In 2017 Recent transplants from Portland and ice cream fiends who've traveled there in the last few years are likely familiar with Salt & Straw, the Pok Pok-adjacent ice creamery that consistently draws long lines
Arts & Entertainment Real-Life Feminist Bookstore From 'Portlandia' Cuts Ties With Show, Says It's Anti-Feminist, Transphobic Depicted as humorless on the IFC show Portlandia, Portland's real-life feminist bookstore In Other Words the basis of the show's Women and Women First, and also its shooting location has lost its sense
SF News 'After School Satan Club' Comes To Portland Elementary School Good news for fans of the goat-headed Baphomet! The children of at least one Portland, Oregon elementary school will now have a few more options in their after-school programming choices with The Oregonian
SF News Oh Great: Earthquake Swarm Beneath Mount Saint Helens Indicates Volcano Is 'Recharging' To our north, in Washington State, we're getting news that a swarm of 130 small earthquakes has been occurring between 1 and 5 miles beneath Mount Saint Helens, the volcano that last erupted
SF News SF Ranks 2nd In Highest Per Capita Campaign Contributions To Bernie Sanders Cities on the left-leaning left coast are donating in droves to Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator and candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination about whom all your (most vocal and enfranchised) friends are
SF News Portland Python Thief Shoves Snake Down His Pants As the northwesternmost -ist site, it falls upon us to report on news coming from our friends in Oregon — for example, the armed ranchers who took over a federal building, or the firearms
SF News Video: Insanely Racist Road Rage Incident In Portland A Portland area plumber, apparently angry at a woman driving near him who he thought was Hispanic, began yelling racial slurs at her over and over again out his truck window, and she
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Portland's 'Hipster Santa' Yes, Virginia, in Portlandia, even Santa has a man bun. Portland, Oregon's KOIN dubbed the guy the Hipster Santa when they put him on TV last week, and this particular unidentified Kris Kringle
SF News Chicken Daycare 'Qoopy' Is The Startup Parody That Could Finally Wake Us Up It looks like a startup: You've seen the minimalist, mobile-friendly design before. It squawks like a startup: Twitter account? Check. But Qoopy, which purports to be a "waitlist only" doggy daycare for your
SF News People In Portland Are Putting 'No Californians' Stickers On Houses For Sale You think Oaklanders are pissed about San Franciscans moving there and driving up housing costs? Observe Portland, where a certain symbol sticker, showing the state of California with a line through it, has
Arts & Entertainment Somebody Is Hanging Dildos All Around Portland Who is hanging dildos all around Portland? Why, the Sex Toy Fairy of course! According to VICE, the alleged Sex Toy Fairy is a recent college graduate in her 20s who works in
SF News More Frightening Talk About The Devastating Earthquake Likely Coming To The Pacific Northwest Those who live in Seattle and Portland may have heard inklings of this for many years, but increasingly the geological and seismic science community are sounding alarm bells about a potentially massive and
Arts & Entertainment Matt Groening's Mother Dies, Leaves Behind Simpsons-esque Obit When Simpsons creator Matt Groening's mother, Margaret (or Marge, as her friends knew her), died last month at the age of 94, a wonderful obituary was printed in a Portland, Oregon newspaper, which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Mission: Brooklyn Meets Facebook, With Good Burritos A former Portlander who's spent four years in San Francisco pens a Mission restaurant roundup for Oregon Live that's mostly focused on the new and hip spots that have opened in the last
misc Portland and Seattle = The New SF Suburbs? Picture this: You've hit like thirty and you've reached that point in your boring, staid bourgeois existence when it's time to settle down, poop out the 2.5, and buy the home of
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 Size Does Matter: Transbay Terminal Is So Big The Library Tower (AKA the U.S. Bank Tower) in Los Angeles could soon be the second tallest building west of the Mississippi thanks to San Francisco's proposed Transbay Terminal. While the Library
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Girls Rock Camp Opens This Summer Boys, it looks like you'll have to start your own rock camp. Or wait until you're 50. But then again, your garage/basement is much more accessible. Additionally, for those of us ladies
Arts & Entertainment <i>Girls Rock! The Movie</i> Premieres Tonight at Embarcadero The film also opens at Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley today, with a grand opening event tomorrow morning at 10:30 a.m., featuring performances by campers As Ifs and Shattuck Cinemas' band Kitties,
