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RECORD STORE LIVE:
We’re still a few weeks out from Record Store Day on Saturday, April
21, and the exclusive releases are stacking up. The Flaming Lips’
four-sided, tie-dyed double albums m
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HAM BUMMER: Hamburger Mary’s
was worried its grim garage door was an eyesore on a street that
already has problems with drugs, loitering and petty crime. So on March
16, managers got 10 graffi
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DERBY DAYS: The final events of Portland Meadows’
horse-racing season are Wednesday, March 14 (with a prime rib buffet!),
but local railbirds won’t have to wait long for more ponies. The
rac
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SKINNY KENNY: Because Chef Ken Gordon of Kenny & Zuke’s is now writing a column for The Oregonian
about his life as a chef with diabetes, the downtown deli—known for its
gut-busting double
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D.C. BE HATIN’: Last week, Washington Post writer Dan Zak slammed the Portlandia stage show in what turned out to be but a warning shot in the brewing D.C.-PDX rivalry. America’s Ottawa then dispa
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SCOOPALL-STARRING ROLE: Before his appearance Sunday at the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando, Trail Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge is set for an appearance on Portlandia.
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AGESANDOBAMAS: President Obama is an AgesandAges
fan. The Portland band’s catchy, choral folk-pop tune “No Nostalgia”
showed up on a Spotify playlist posted to the president’s re-election
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R.I.P.:
Former longtime KNRK radio programmer and Portland music advocate Jaime
Cooley died of what her family termed “a tragic accidental drowning”
Saturday, Feb. 4. She was 33. Cooley bega
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BOILED DOWN: Bagel-shaped-object-maker Einstein Bros
has announced plans for re-branding the Kettleman Bagel Company stores
the company acquired in November. Real bagels are boiled; Einstein Bros
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HELLA COOL: TrackersPDX, which runs camps on skills like wilderness survival and wildlife tracking, is collaborating with Dark Horse Comics...
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