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Really, you can crowdfund anything here…
…like the world’s greatest video store (Movie Madness, $315,346)…
…and the world’s greatest maker of hazy IPAs (Great Notion Brewing, $22,063)…
…and the nation’s only film festival devoted to an angry gothic god (H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, $42,035)…
…and a new home for the world’s largest zine library (Independent Publishing Resource Center, $21,882)…
…and a handmade papermaking studio in St. Johns (Pulp & Deckle, $13,032)…
…and a T-shirt showing a map of Portland’s bridges (Nick Martinelli, $4,556)…
…and an independent radio station (X-RAY.FM, $103,762)…
…and the city’s best $4 tacos (Taqueria Nueve, $31,413)…
…and an ayurvedic herb farm (Portland Ashwagandha Farm, $31,413)…
…and an art studio for kids (Portland Child Art Studio, $15,325)…
…and a Portland-themed tarot deck with strippers and bridges ($2,845)…
…and a touring project to fight homophobia at the Warped tour (The Equalizers, $2,540)…
…and a lending library for outdoor gear (The Portland Wilderness Gear Library, $3,515)…
…and a replacement car for a cat rapper whose whip got stolen (Moshow, $17,705)…
…and wiping out the school lunch debt of every kid in the Portland Public Schools (Sean Brendan Sexton, $28,235)…
…and a historic theater on Northeast Alberta Street (Alberta Rose Theatre, $125,250)…
…and soon, saving the city’s oldest folk venue (Laurelthirst Public House, $33,813 and counting).
2. TriMet Could Soon Stop Charging Life-Ruining Fines
3. You Can Now Smoke Weed While Listening to Live Classical Music
4. Oregon's Unemployment Rate is Incredibly Low
5. Your Favorite Sports Team is Only a Short Walk Away
6. The Blazers Star in Some Weird-Ass Commercials
7. We Now Have a Mountain Bike Park in the City
9. Portland is the Playground of Japanese Architect Kengo Kuma
10. You Can Soon Stream Local Music at the Library
11. Oregon Just Became the First State to Defelonize Hard Drugs
12. East Portland is Getting an Aerial Tree Walk
13. We're the World Capital of Canned Wine
14. Portland is a Hotbed of Small Bookstores
15. Unlike any Other City, We Have Multiple Niche Comedy Festivals
16. Our Developers Are Privatizing Socialism
17. The Nation's Best Airport Keeps Getting Even Better
18. We're Home to the World's First Sneaker Design School
19. Portland Scored the World's First Dog Tap Room
20. Weed Prices are Falling From Cheap to Damn Near Free, and We Haven't Yet Found the Bottom
21. Our Local Mini-Mart Chain Makes Snickers Give You Free Candy Bars
22. The View From the MAX Orange Line is One of the Most Striking and Beautiful Paintings in the City
23. We Are Still No. 1 in Semifactual Superlatives
24. We Make Biking So Accessible
25. You Can Crowdfund Anything Here
26. We Find So Many Ways to be Anti-Trump
27. Our Malls Are Becoming Cultural Embassies
28. Our Humane Society Rescues Pets From All Over the Country