Gossip Should Have No Friends

[October 15th, 2008]

WORK IT: Origami paper ballroom dresses, urban fireman couture and neck tattoos all found their way inside the unfinished warehouse space of 14 Square’s front lobby at day one (out of five) of Portland Fashion Week 2008 last Wednesday, Oct. 8. Filling in for her husband, Portland Mayor Tom Potter, who was home sick, Karin Hansen was spotted in the crowd mingling with friends and Voodoo Doughnut owner Tres Shannon. “This is my first Portland Fashion Week show,” Shannon said. “I think it’s amusing and amazing that Portland has a fashion week. People should look pretty. It’s a pretty city.”

LAUNCH PAD? The Chesterfield is no longer. According to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, the West Burnside bar owned by Leo Rivera of Bishops Barbershops has sold to Craig Readman. Word on the street is that the Chesterfield, whose windows are now covered up in butcher paper, might reopen under a new, hard-to-figure-out-why-it’s-called-that name: The Report. That is, until you consider its upstairs neighbor, Leather Storrs’ Rocket. The detritus that falls off a rocket when it blasts off the launch pad is called “The Report.” Speakin’ of Rocket, Storrs’ just told Scoop that he’s planning to embrace some “change” himself this political season. “We are expanding our smaller plate offerings, ” he says. “We understand that money is tight. ”

TUNE IN: AM-azing radio icon Rick Emerson has taken over the early-morning TV-hosting duties of Outlook Portland. Newly elected City Commish Nick Fish launched Outlook Portland in March 2005. Now the politics-and-culture-centric show airs on “Portland’s the CW,” KRCW-32, at 6:30 am Sundays. Metro Prez David Bragdon has hosted Outlook Portland since February ‘08.

TWILIGHT REDUX: The buzz around Twilight, is that (good or awful) the vampire flick’s gonna be huge thanks to obsessed fans like the TwilightMoms. Now Scoop’s heard that Hollywood is already talking “sequel” even though the film doesn’t hit theaters until Friday, Nov. 21. Reps from Summit Entertainment, Twilight’s production company, reps say that “no decisions have been made yet.” Whatever—during the filming of Twilight here in Oregon this spring Summit producer Wyck Godfrey, said they fully expected to come back to the Beaver State to film further installments. Let’s just hope they hire more security next time.