One of the first presentations on Wednesday at ETech 09. Luebkeman, from Arup, talking about “Urban Futures”. It was an interesting presentation, and he was a great talker but… I still don’t know what the point of the presentation was. It all felt like an introduction to some...

And, as it turns out, we can't do much of ANYTHING about it either. According to a new study (via Sightline), congestion correlates directly with population regardless of whether a city is sprawling or dense. Sightline's Clark Williams-Derry writes: Demagogues would have you believe that there's som...

In an unusually personal letter, Benedict XVI admits mistakes in the handling of a Holocaust-denying bishop....

That was fast! The ink is barely dry on yesterday's post and the Tribeca Film Festival has already announced the rest of their feature film lineup for this year's edition, which runs from April 22-May 3. A few quick picks: Blank City . Celine Danhier's doc examines "the DIY independent film movement...

It could be worse We think we have it bad here in Portland, but many cities have it much worse. According to this BLS report, Portland clocks in at 269/369 in employment rates - ahead of struggling cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Not to mention economically crippled cities Detroit and Flint. ...

newVideoPlayer("/RH_RamonaLuann_gawker.flv", undefined, NaN,""); Once more unto the beach, dear friends. Well, sorta. There was some actual New York City adventure on RHoNYC last night, but some people were still mired in the Hamptons. As always, disasters struck. Jill met with her gay life coach/ho...

Stalker email, five minutes ago: "In case anyone cares...Whitney Port is at Tenjune right now." Is she drunk? Ha ha. Hard to tell. She is bumbling around, staring blankly into space, and looks as if it is taking all of her brain power to not fall over. But heck she looks like that when she is sober....

Eli has a made a cute joke this morning. In case you missed the context, at the end of the day yesterday, the City announced that it was suing six contractors it found to have kept insufficient records of a little more than $200,000.00 paid to them through NOAH. (If you need more NOAH context at thi...

Yesterday, the Washington State Department of Licensing issued a ruling on the status of the Seattle Semi-Pro (SSP) wrestling league, requiring the group to cease and desist all performances until the league is officially licensed and insured as an athletic event. It appears the state's ruling has t...

Yep, no heat....again.  We had no hot water one day last week and again last night, but German, our not so super, came early this morning to turn the hot water on.   You see, after the boiler repairmen came and replaced or fixed the hot water boiler's pump last week, we started getti...