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Local to Know: Trevor Solomon

Let’s get into an interview with a local who is bringing a long roster of lively performances to Portland stages! Today we’re talking to Trevor Solomon, the talent buyer at True West, a concert promoter and event producer in the PNW. If you’ve been to a show at the Aladdin or Roseland Theater or a concert […]

/ July 28, 2022

Locals to Know: Byron Binkley

Today, we’re talking to Byron Binkley, the founder of Sella, a locally-based org that wants to help you buy and sell your used stuff. Binkley founded the org after seeing the same recurring issues when trying to buy and sell stuff on online marketplaces such as Craigslist and eBay, like price haggling, sharing personal info, and […]

/ May 4, 2022

Trivia

Can You Answer This Question? What were the two biggest markets Portland merchants supplied people with during the California Gold Rush? Answer Wheat and lumber. During its first three decades, Portland depended on trade by water. Its first substantial growth came when the California Gold Rush created a huge market for Oregon wheat and lumber, […]

/ February 24, 2022

Trivia

This week we are allowing all our Bridgeliner readers to have a glance into the trivia fun our members normally get. There’s a lot of Portland/Oregon trivia out there, but we try to go in really deep to see if You Can Answer This Question! In 1961, the Washington Park and Zoo Railway became one of […]

/ February 21, 2022

Trivia

This week we are allowing all our Bridgeliner readers to have a glance into the trivia fun our members normally get. There’s a lot of Portland/Oregon trivia out there, but we try to go in really deep to see if You Can Answer This Question! What was Portland’s  Operation Green Light and how did it influence […]

/ February 21, 2022

Trivia

This week we are allowing all our Bridgeliner readers to have a glance into the trivia fun our members normally get. There’s a lot of Portland/Oregon trivia out there, but we try to go in really deep to see if You Can Answer This Question! Which one of these was not a Portland Beatnik coffeehouse? […]

/ February 21, 2022

What do Young Thug 🎤 and Spiderman 🦸 have to do with Portland?

Portland rapper Aminé (Adam Amine Daniel) was born and raised in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Northeast Portland. He graduated from Benson Polytechnic High School, attended Portland State University, before he dropped out to make the music that has earned him the BET Hip Hop Awards – Best New Hip Hop Artist (2017), the Grammy Awards – […]

/ January 31, 2022

Portland’s Lost Alaskans 😢, the white plague 🤒 and a state sponsored rock festival that included some 😜 naughty stuff! Check out these videos

We’re living through a pandemic, we’ve seen the wildfires, and we are known for our protests. But before all of this, there were other, fascinating, scary, conflicting, sad stories that happened here. Luckily for us, they’ve been documented on videos. 9 Videos Documenting Important Times in Our History The only state-sponsored rock festival. Nudity. Check. […]

/ January 26, 2022

Call for 🎨 Artists, Call to 🗣️ Take Action, a Beloved ☕ Café Reopens, Be At One with 🌱 Nature

Happy Friday, friends, and a shout-out to all our Portland shops, museums, nature organizations, creatives, scientists, researchers – all you good people who make Portland the amazing city it is. Today we have an important read for you regarding parking lots and heat islands, a couple of Calls for Creatives, a sweet reopen, some plant […]

/ January 20, 2022

Run the “I Have a Dream” 🏅 Virtual Race, See The Blackonteurs Comedy Troupe 🎭, Restore Terwilliger Blvd Forest 🌲 and more on MLK Day

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is this coming Monday, and the civil rights icon was no stranger to Portland. In 1961, he delivered a speech entitled: “The Future of Integration,” at Portland State College. A quote from that speech is as important today as it was then: ““We have come a long way toward making […]

/ January 12, 2022

Portland Artist Eric Wert – a scientific illustrator and still life painter

Eric Wert lives and works in Portland, Oregon. His background as a scientific illustrator is apparent in his incredible attention to detail. But the difference between sheer illustration and fine art is inspiration. Merely to depict something in great detail certainly takes skill but to transcend technical virtuosity one needs to have something to say […]

/ December 16, 2021

Merry Christmas from Elvis the “Not Here in Portland!” Pelvis!

Why did Portland, Oregon ban the playing of Elvis Presley’s version of White Christmas? In what Time magazine would call a crime against Christmas, Elvis Presley released Elvis’ Christmas Album on October 15, 1957. It went to the top ten overnight. It remains the world’s best-selling Christmas album and one of the best-selling albums of […]

/ December 10, 2021

Portland Country Alt: Rose Gerber & Sweet Relief – The Fall (with lyrics)

Portland Country Alt: Rose Gerber & Sweet Relief – The Fall Gerber sounds the way we think we sound when we’re belting it out in the shower, sure as day we should go on the road. For Portlanders who love a good, solid, amazing female voice that’ll bring you to your knees (think Linda Ronstadt, […]

/ November 12, 2021

🕳️ Wander with us into the Old Portland Underground

We’re going wandering through a section of tunnels that snake underneath the City of Roses where we’ll take a look at our city’s dark past.

/ October 20, 2021

🦌 A timeline of what happened to Portland’s Elk statue

Today, we’re examining the journey of Portland’s Elk statue during last year’s protests, its various iterations, and what’s next.

/ October 13, 2021

⛪ A weird look at The Grotto Sanctuary

Today, we’re taking a stroll through a very serene garden and finding a sense of inner peace — we’re talking about The Grotto and its history.

/ October 6, 2021

🚴 Steering through the history of Portland’s very naked bike ride

We grabbed our helmets (and nothing else), hopped on our bikes, and took a deep dive into the history behind Portland’s World Naked Bike Ride.

/ September 29, 2021

🍩 The Simpsons and Stumptown: A love story

Today we’re diving into the overwhelming number of coincidences and references “The Simpsons” make to Stumptown throughout the show.

/ September 22, 2021

🐦 The swooping history of the Chapman Swifts

Every fall in Northwest Portland, a spiraling swirl of Vaux’s Swifts surrounds the chimney stack of the Chapman Elementary School during their migration.

/ September 15, 2021

🎺 Remembering “Workin’” Kirk Reeves

Today, we’re remembering one of Portland’s music legends and strongest advocates for making commuters smile going over the Hawthorne Bridge: Kirk Reeves.

/ August 11, 2021