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Posted on November 10th, 2009 at 12:42 pm.
Still from Papergirl Portland video.-Watch video below-
I just heard about an interesting project, Papergirl, that combines several of my favorite things: art, the streets and people of Portland, and bicycles.
Papergirl started in Berlin and was brought to Portland by artist Abe Ingle. Over 200 artists donated original, two-dimensional art to a gallery show that [...]
Posted on October 12th, 2009 at 1:10 pm.
The Bike Temple crew (L to R): Josh, Halley, Phil, Kernal, Amos, Ted.(Photos © J. Maus)
Portland's place for bicycling believers, the Bike Temple, celebrated its first physical location with a special grand opening event Friday night.
A large crowd of people from varying religions came together at the Lotus Seed Ashram (formerly the First Presbyterian Church) [...]
Posted on October 12th, 2009 at 11:57 am.
[This story is part of our ongoing coverage of the six-week Oregon Manifest event. See all previous coverage here.]
The fashion world got an eyeful of bicycles when Portland Fashion Week hosted the Ready to Roll show on Saturday.-Slideshow below/Gallery-(Photos © J. Maus)
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Posted on October 2nd, 2009 at 10:51 am.
The Portland Free Store at SE 11th & Clay(Photos © Elly Blue)
There's yet another new bike-based business in town -- the difference is that at this store, everything is free.
The Portland Free Store is, according to its website, "basically a second-hand store, except that everything is free." People can drop off donations at the [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 2009 at 6:31 am.
29 bike-themed posters attracted quite a crowd last night.-Slideshow below-(Photos © J. Maus)
The latest evidence of the intersection between bicycles and Portland's First Thursday art scene (remember the handmade bike show back in August?) was on full display at the debut of the Artcrank Poster Show last night.
29 Portland artists were part of the event [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2009 at 1:30 pm.
Torsten Kjellstrand(Photo © J. Maus)
The seasoned crew of professional photographers that publish the PDXCross blog are back at it again for 2009. Last year, "the improbable group of un-hipsters" established their site as a must-visit destination following the weekend's cross action.
Their photographs are poignant, expressive, exciting, and funny -- and that's just a few [...]
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 am.
A painting by Tiago DeJerk, one of30 local artists who will take part in Artcrank.(Photos © J. Maus)
Artcrank, a bicycle-themed poster art show premiering in Portland next month, has selected the local artists that will take part in the event.
The 31 artists will sell their work for $30 per print, with $5 of each sale [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2009 at 4:15 pm.
Enjoy a cold HUB Bike Beer from the Hopworksfiets this Saturday. (Photo © Elly Blue)
Since we broke the story of Hopworks Urban Brewing's new bicycle pub on Tuesday night, site traffic has been through the roof. Our story about the Flaming Lips' upcoming naked biking video shoot raised that further. Then this morning, a couple [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2009 at 5:31 pm.
The flash of naked riders is an annual sight in Portland(Photo © J. Maus)
The World Naked Bike Ride doesn't roll around again til June, but Portlanders will have a chance next week to ride naked around Mt Tabor as part of an upcoming Flaming Lips music video.
I spoke about the shoot, set for Wednesday, [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2009 at 12:47 pm.
Bikes and beer will be celebrated in true Portland style this weekend at Biketobeerfest, a carfree event being thrown by Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB). The event is Saturday, September 19th, from noon to 10pm. And it's totally free and open to the public.
There's one catch -- the event is carfree. There will be plenty of [...]
Posted on September 15th, 2009 at 8:00 am.
Editor's note: This movie review was written by contributor (and our down-the-street neighbor) Joe Biel. Earlier this year, we covered Biel's forthcoming documentary about Critical Mass. We're actively seeking to publish more book and movie reviews on the site -- if there's something you'd like to review for us, please get in touch.
With the simultaneous [...]
Posted on August 27th, 2009 at 8:25 am.
An event that bills itself as "A poster party for bike people" is set to make its Portland debut on October 1st. Artcrank began in Minneapolis in 2007 and has since expanded to other cities.
The event is an exhibit of bike-inspired poster art from local artists. The posters accepted into each show -- [...]
Posted on August 7th, 2009 at 1:25 pm.
Builders, bikes, and socialites mingled in the Pearl last night.(Photos © J. Maus)
Unlike its more funky offshoot in the Alberta Arts District, First Thursday in the Pearl isn't known as a hotbed of Portland's bike culture. But last night, Pearl District residents and visitors got a healthy dose of two-wheel art and entertainment. [...]
Posted on July 30th, 2009 at 10:12 am.
I've just spent a lovely but overly warm summer morning hunkered down in the cool basement reading the latest edition of Boneshaker.
The small volume's attractive recycled brown cover is reminiscent of an army field manual, but with an attention grabbing color illustration of a bicycle enticing me in to the table of contents. It [...]
Posted on July 29th, 2009 at 3:35 pm.
Reader Tomas Quinones and a friend made this bike rack out of bamboo, rope, and used bike tubes. (Photo by Flickr user TomasCoSauce in the BikePortland Photographers pool)
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Posted on July 21st, 2009 at 3:08 pm.
Brendt Barbur, shown here at the 2007 Bicycle Film Festival in NW Portland, is coming back to Portland.(Photo © J. Maus)
The Bicycle Film Festival is headed to Portland.
The fest, which makes stops in 39 cities in every corner of the globe, will be hosted by what is becoming Portland's official bike movie screening location [...]
Posted on July 17th, 2009 at 9:00 am.
[Editor's note: Please welcome news intern Halley Weaver! Halley comes to BikePortland from a background in blogging. She jumped head first into the Portland bike scene as lead designer for the 2009 Pedalpalooza Kickoff Party. Her first story for us is a feature on a burgeoning new bike organization in town, the Bike Temple.]
Design for [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2009 at 10:35 am.
Shaun Deller's hats are back!
Pedalpalooza culminates this Saturday (6/27) with the infamous, one-of-a-kind Multnomah County Bike Fair. I know, you're sad because that means eleven long months of waiting for next year will commence -- but, you can keep the spirit alive, and remind yourself and the world of your love for bike fun. Come [...]
Posted on June 24th, 2009 at 10:40 am.
Outside the 'Schnitz last night.(Photos © J. Maus)
I am now a David Byrne fan.
I must confess, prior to last night's show, the extent of my experience with David Byrne's music were the handful of top hits the Talking Heads had back in the '80s (or was it the '90s, I don't even remember). [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2009 at 3:10 pm.
Tall bikes, yeah!- Watch video below- (Photo © J. Maus)
Wow. It's been amazing to watch how much publicity The Irondelles have gotten since their big public debut last week.
Since then, they've been on the Willamette Week blog, featured in a live, prime time news segment on KGW-TV (NBC in Portland) and they got an [...]
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