There's a place in downtown Hillsboro called "Pedestrian and Safety Products". I wanted to pimp them here quickly because we happened by this weekend and it was a cool little shop, and the owner was really nice. One of those little businesses that gives a crap about what they do and should stay in business. They have a TON of reflective stuff for bikes, runners, and dogs. Blinking lights and signs and jackets and you name it. If someone wants to buy me a birthday present I'd like a high-visibility hoodie. But anyway. There they are!

They're at 131 SW 3rd Avenue (that's Hillsboro, not Portland, people - but right off the MAX line). Go and worship the bright yellow reflecty goodness.

hello! i meant to post about this the other day but i forgot.

if you live in the brooklyn/lower hawthorne area and you're looking for a nice cafe, we stopped by this place the other day and it was really great: http://www.cellardoorcoffee.com/

they roast their own coffee in their basement, they're very friendly, the space is light and cozy, the coffee was good. not that i don't LOVE stumptown, but it's always nice to see some new coffee roasters, especially small family operations. anyone who has worked in food or cafe service knows how hard new cafes struggle, and i'd like to see these guys make it, since they seemed so nice. so, if you're around 11th & harrison you should stop in.

edit! d'oh! i just checked their blog and it seems they're closed today, for president's day. so, you know- stop in tomorrow, haha.

Hello fellow Portlandians! I am on a quest, a quest for good coffee and fun places to drink it. I have been hanging around the Sellwood/Westmoreland neigborhood and would like to venture out into the surrounding neighborhoods (woodstock, Brooklyn, Belmont, Hawthorne ect)and find more places to have great coffee, so if you know a good place or small shop please let me know! I really like the Ugly Mug and want to find more fun neighbrohood shops similar to it. Iam not looking for Starbucks (my roommate works at the one in Multnomah Village and brings me beans every week)


I have been to almost every coffeshop in Eugene (and can give you some good reccos), now it is Portland's turn! I will visit every one! It is my destiny.

copied from The Skanner:

The Restorative Gentrification Listening Project will hold a discussion on the theme 'From Harm to Hope', 7:00 - 9:00 pm, February 18, at First AME Zion Church (4304 N Vancouver). The project is based on the principles of Restorative Justice, which says that only when those most affected by a wrong are heard and acknowledged, and after efforts have been made to repair the harm, can the whole community be made whole again. For more info, contact 503-823-4112 or judith.mowry@ci.portland.or.us.

i have mixed feelings about this sort of thing. i don't expect these "listening sessions" to solve much of anything, but if they can lead to some small level of healing and justice, then awesome.

x-posted to pdx_activist.

I want to send out a big thank you to all of you who recommended Syun Sushi. I will forever love you. It was incredible. Definitely the best sushi I have had in years.

I need your help again. My mom is coming to visit in April. She has never been here before and her only food request is an amazing seafood restaurant (no sushi).

What is the most amazing seafood restaurant in Portland/metro area? Anything but McCormick's. We have one of those back in Denver.

Having just moved here in December I would like to get your opinions on the best. All the recommendations I have gotten here have been spot on.

Thanks!

hello cowboys! I am looking to buy a plane ticket to Somewhere In Europe, middle-Europe to northern, with my final possible destination being Amsterdam. friends of mine are backpacking through Europe and then later Morocco for two months this summer, and they're going to be in RembrandtLand for a little while, & I want to meet up with them, facilitated obviously by the to-come bush economy-destroyer tax break.

I need help finding relatively inexpensive international plane tickets. I've heard that if you're a little flexible, you can do some kind of slightly cheaper standby flights, or something? I figure I'll take about a week and a half off of work, get my passport now (ugh I think it is like $100 to do that, gross, that is a dumb amount of money for just a stupid passport), but the cheapest I've found PDX to Amsterdam (direct - wow) is $900. can I do better? is there some kind of alert that I can set up on different airlines' sites to email me when it goes below a certain level? does anything like that exist?

thanks nerds. you guys are the BEST!

also let's do a homemade macro competition later in the day. cool? cool.

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Those three little words that DamnPortlanders love to hear:

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We're moving to Salem, and need to get rid of stuff PRONTO cos we don't feel like hauling stuff up three flights of stairs. We've got a brown microsuede futon that smells faintly of cat pee from when my cats decided that I needed a golden shower at 3 a.m., a very comfy brown plush velour rocking chair, a round kitchen table with two chairs, a vacuum, a small wheeled table, a wheeled nightstand, a corner computer desk, a large 4-drawer dresser, chrome over-the-toilet bathroom shelves, and an incredibly cute 2-year-old ferret who comes with food, litter, a cage, and other accessories!

Donations are welcome but not expected by any means, just get this stuff out of here!

We're at the Rachel Anne Apartments, 16300 E. Burnside St. #306, 97233.