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Free Events in Portland: Mar 12–14
Hi, we’re back! Admission is free for all events below. Have a great weekend! All weekend Imago Theatre’s “Tick Tack Type”: “Five men and four women are dropped from a chute into a stark empty room to discover themselves as participants in a strange typing academy.” March 12 and 13 at 8:00 pm;...
We’re taking a break this week due to illness. We’ll be back next week! To find free and low-cost events, visit Portland on the Cheap. For free concerts, see Concert Co-op. Other articles from Around the Sun: February 25, 2010 — Free Events in Portland: Feb 26–28 February 4, 2010 — Free Events in Portland:...
Free Events in Portland: Feb 26–28
Savor the last weekend in February at these free events. All weekend Portland Jazz Festival: Several free jazz shows each day. New Seasons 10-year anniversary celebration: Live music on Friday. Kids activities on Saturday. Free cake and ice cream on Saturday and Sunday. Friday, February 26 Portland Art Museum free night: Admission is free from...
Free Events in Portland: Feb 19–21
Admission is free for all events below. Have a great weekend! Friday, February 19 Cascade Festival of African Films: The festival runs on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through March 6. All films are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Dance Off Depression: Learn 1930s-era dances (like the Charleston,...
Free Events in Portland: Feb 12–14
Admission is free for all events below. Have a great weekend! Friday, February 12 Winter celebration at the Square: Enjoy a free showing of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, live music, warm drinks, interviews with Oregon Olympians, and a hockey goal-scoring challenge. Pioneer Courthouse Square, 5:00 pm to midnight. Cascade Festival of...
Free Events in Portland: Feb 5–7
Admission is free for all events below. Have a great weekend! Friday, February 5 Free night at the Children’s Museum: Admission is free from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. First Friday Art Walk: Go gallery hopping on the East side. Camas Art Walk: This month’s theme is A Chocolate Affair to Remember. Free writing workshop at...
Portland Metblogs
Who exactly was Benjamin Franklin? Was he the randy old guy who jet set to Europe, flew kites and signed the declaration of Independence? Or was he an egotistical grump who feuded with his son and ultimately let him rot in jail? In his show now playing at Portland...
Portland Musicians Launch “Fair Trade Music” Campaign
PORTLAND MUSICIANS LAUNCH “FAIR TRADE MUSIC” CAMPAIGN Project Seeks to Establish Minimum Pay Guarantees for All Working Musicians Portland, OR – September 8, 2009 – A coalition of Portland musicians has launched the “Fair Trade Music” campaign, which is seeking to establish minimum pay guarantees for all performing musicians in the Portland area....
You’ve no doubt by now noticed that the sites got a bit of a re-design and some things got changed around last week. We wanted to highlight two changes to make sure everyone knows what changed. The first and biggest is COMMENTS! Registration is no longer required to post a comment...
Burgerville Announces Latest Sustainability Innovation: Makes its Drive-Thru Open to Bicyclists
Burgerville, the Pacific Northwest’s environmentally-conscious quick serve restaurant company, today announced it will allow bicyclists to order and pick up food through its 39 drive-thru lanes, making it the company’s latest sustainability innovation. The company will announce a formal bicycle drive-thru program within the next two weeks. Burgerville is creating...
Oregon Cultural Trust Announces $1.45 Million in Grants
Nice to see the Oregon Cultural Trust Back in Action: Oregon Cultural Trust Announces $1.45 Million in Grants Cultural Grants Benefit 48 Heritage, Arts & Humanities Nonprofits, 39 County and Tribal Coalitions and Five Statewide Partners Day of Culture 2009, a Statewide Celebration, Confirmed for Thursday, October 8, 2009 July 27, 2009. Salem, ORE...
Help Preserve Oregon Arts, Culture, and Humanities Funding
***ACTION ALERT from The Regional Arts & Culture Council *** Help Preserve Oregon Arts, Culture, and Humanities Funding If you read the newspaper and listen to broadcast media, you know that Oregon is facing one of the most significant budget shortfalls in its history. The State issued its revenue forecast on...
OurPDX
Look what I found chained up in downtown — it’s the Tripod, a three-wheeled velomobile made by Columbia Cycle Works, LLC. And it’s a mighty pretty thing, in my humble opinion. If you want to go truly green with your commute, you should walk or ride a bike. Unfortunately, for a...
OurPDX Shared Links for March 7th
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for March 7th (yes, it’s the “you want WHAT, Tom Hurley?” “You want to GIVE it to him, Randy?” righteous indignation edition): Dan Saltzman pushes for City Council vote to challenge $100,000 disability award to former...
From Hot Tubs To Cool Jazz For A Good Cause
Last Thursday, I was part of the pdx.fm gang that caught a sneak preview of “Hot Tub Time Machine” at the Lloyd Center Cinemas. I hadn’t been to that theater since my radio/media days and it brought back all kinds of memories — most of which weren’t actually very fond....
Sounds like a children’s book, doesn’t it? Well, it’s not. OK raise your hands if you’ve seen/ are a fan of Facebook’s “Portland was built on an ancient unicorn burial ground” ? Mmm-hmm. That’s what I thought. The claim is: “It is common knowledge, that Portland Oregon was built on an ancient unicorn burial...
“I Thought Of That While Riding My Bike”*
The past week’s glorious weather has permitted me to actually look up and around as I’ve pedaled my bike throughout town. The veil of drizzle was lifted and the sun illuminated some things I hadn’t been paying attention to. Such as: Yard signs. This may be too much to ask in...
2010 marks an auspicious moment in my life–I have officially been a Portlander for 30 years. Learning about Portland is somewhat of an obsession for me, and has hit a new height recently, when I was hired as a Travel Advisor for Travel Oregon. I work at the Oregon Welcome...
Portland Architecture
Images courtesy Skylab Architecture and Method Homes Skylab Architecture has established itself as one of Portland’s most admired design firms with projects like Doug Fir, the 12th + Alder mixed use project (winner of the top local AIA design award......
Webmaster of Mt. Tabor: visiting the Wilson House
Photo by Tim LaBarge If you’re walking along the east edge of Mt. Tabor Park, as I was last weekend, you can see the house Webster Wilson designed and occupies nestled into the hillside just beyond the park’s picnic tables.......
Stadler sees design DNA in two PAM paintings
Whiting Tennis, "Bitter Lake Compound", courtesy Greg Kucera Gallery/Portland Art Museum This Thursday (March 11) the Portland Art Museum will host the latest in its ongoing series of artist talks, in which artists and other creatives select pieces in the......
Photo by Brian Libby Two weeks ago I attended an open house at the Audubon Society of Portland, a chance to meet and see up close the organization's educational birds, those injured or otherwise unable to survive in the wild......
"8xPDX: Photographs of Portland Architecture" at AIA Center for Architecture
"Ziba Street" by Jeff Jahn Beginning with an opening party this Thursday evening and continuing throughout March, the AIA/Portland's Center for Architecture is exhibiting "8xPDX: Photographs of Portland Architecture". I curated the show, which includes (as the name indicates) the......
Image courtesy Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability Portland is a planning Mecca and it's time to update our Koran: The Portland Plan, a broad, strategic plan with objectives and policy directions. Currently the city is going through what’s called......
Front Porch
It's a great time to buy a home -- or is it?
FRONT PORCH BLOG: When home prices peaked in 2005, David Lereah, former chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, published a book that year titled “Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom?"...
82% of Oregon loan modifications still in trial period (Update 1)
FRONT PORCH BLOG: The number of permanent loan modifications in Oregon more than doubled between December and February....
Federal mortgage relief helps just one in six struggling borrowers
FRONT PORCH BLOG: The Obama administration's mortgage relief plan has helped only about 16 percent of borrowers who signed up since its launch last year, while hundreds of thousands of homeowners remain in limbo....
Foreclosure prevention help coming to Bend on March 27
FRONT PORCH BLOG: Struggling homeowners can learn about their rights under Oregon laws and how to avoid foreclosure rescue scams....
Portland Development Commission now seeking formal proposals for new HQ
FRONT PORCH BLOG: The urban renewal agency is seeking offers for a potential new home when its current lease expires in August 2011....
Top 5: Portland condo prices down 30% in February from original list prices
FRONT PORCH BLOG: Regulators order Portland’s Albina Community Bank to improve loans, raise capital / Federal program would pay homeowners, banks to encourage short sales / Jumbo share of mortgage market slipped to 5% in 2009 / Commercial and multifamily mortgage delinquencies rise in Q4...
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Ducks' off-season legal woes shape 2010 season
Just 10 weeks ago the future could not have looked brighter for Oregon football....
Remember to 'spring forward' at 2 a.m.
At 2 a.m., it's time to put the clocks forward to 3 a.m. for Daylight Saving Time. Here's how to also reset your body clock to keep yourself and your family in good spirits....
Police: Cookie money stolen from Girl Scout
Someone swiped $465 in Girl Scout cookie money from a Seattle girl outside a Tacoma grocery store, and now police are on the lookout for what some are calling a brazen thief....
Missing hiker found dead at base of cliff
It has been more than nine days since Kate Huether went missing after going on a late-afternoon hike. On Saturday, her body was found at the base of an 800-foot cliff....
Memorial held for Ore. state treasurer
Hundreds gather at Oregon's capital building Saturday as mourners say their final goodbyes to Ben Westlund....
PSU's women's team makes history
It's a magical day for Portland State University as its women's Vikings basketball team makes history, taking down more than just a win over the Montana State Bobcats. ...
Reading Local: Portland
Today 3-14: Lisa Schroeder at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
Today’s Featured Book Event: It’s Raining Cupcakes (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @2:00pm): Lisa Schroeder, the popular author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me, delivers a sweet treat for tweens in It’s Raining Cupcakes (Aladdin), a novel that’s baked to perfection. Other Book Events Today: NW Author...
Read to Rebuild Interview: Tom Spanbauer
Please join us Tuesday, March 16 at The Writers’ Dojo for Read to Rebuild: A Haiti Reading Benefit, featuring six outstanding Portland writers. This is the fourth in a special series of interviews with each of these readers. Look for more Read to Rebuild interviews in the next few days. Tom...
Short Stories: Portland Lit Around the Web
Every Saturday we will bring you links to articles from around the web featuring members of Portland’s lit community. Please feel free to pass along any you come across as well, by emailing us at portland@readinglocal.com, and we will include them in next week’s edition of...
Today 3-13: Tangent presents Jake Buffy, Brandon Downing, and Reg Johanson at Clinton Corner Cafe
Today’s Featured Book Event: Tangent presents: Jake Buffy, Brandon Downing, & Reg Johanson (Clinton Corner Cafe, @7:00pm): Tangent is pleased to host three exciting poets: Portland native Jake Buffy will be making his full-length reading debut; New York-based artist Brandon Downing...
Read to Rebuild – The Sponsors
We are so close to the event now and you know how excited we are, so I won’t go into it all again today. But we’ve got a really exciting sponsor announcement for our Read to Rebuild prize raffle. Dark Horse Comics – The wonderful and whimsical and always generous...
Reading Local Interview: Elva Maxine Beach
Elva Maxine Beach was born in Missouri to a family of preachers, teachers, and storytellers. She studied writing with Andrei Codrescu and others at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, then lived in Austin for more than a decade. In 2008, New Belleville Press published Neurotica, a fictionalized account of...
Jack Bog's Blog
Take off your cheaters and sit right down
European tax law can be fascinating at times. Now that we know that a Pringle is indeed a potato chip, we can ponder whether a coin-operated porno booth is an "automated recreation device" or a "cubicle cinema." The tax in......
Something for Portland to look forward to
"Major league" soccer scoring celebrations.......
Daylight Savings Time has begun in North America this morning, but not in the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. Iran jumps in next weekend.......
Here's a scary report from a Washington, D.C. think tank. Congress is spending so much money that it doesn't have, that to eliminate the deficit, you'd have to raise the top federal income tax rate to 84.9%! And the report......
Commuting home last evening at rush hour, we were amazed at how little traffic there was on the freeway. At least the anemia affecting the economy is good for something, we thought. Then we opened an e-mail message from a......
Does this look legit to you? Here's another one from the same phone number. And here's the Google search for that number.......
KATU - Sports - Local Sports
Ducks' off-season legal woes shape 2010 season
Just 10 weeks ago the future could not have looked brighter for Oregon football....
PSU's women's team makes history
It's a magical day for Portland State University as its women's Vikings basketball team makes history, taking down more than just a win over the Montana State Bobcats. ...
Friday’s high school basketball roundup
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James case: Court docs detail what happened
College students LaMichael James and Heidi Siebenlist had been boyfriend-girlfriend for a long time. But when Siebenlist learned James had a female house guest, she went to James' home to talk to the guest....
Prep girls playoff video roundup with Katy and Craig
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Jesuit holds off Franklin at state tournament
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Tim Oakley and Sigfried Seeliger Part Deux
Last week’s installment of Outlook Portland was -to put it mildly- unconventional. It featured, amon...
Wow, it’s been exactly 7 months & 3 days from my last post! There were so many things that...
Wen Jiabao: America Offends China with Dalai Lama and Arms Sales to Taiwan
Today Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao gave a short interview to AFP in the Great Hall of the People, focu...
Every year around this time, Kari and I somehow create our own pub crawl. Little did we know when we...
Post Rock Radio Vol. 2, Episode 4
Is keeping one eye on college basketball scores and two ears on the Thermals a good way to spend a S...
Question: What are the different types of train cars on MAX? Part 1 This is basic stuff for people...
Blazers Blog
Blazers lunch links: Running man
Greg Oden running, Jerryd Bayless opens up, season expectations, playoff push, Brandon Roy reflects and more links....
Blazers podcast with Jason Quick: March madness
Reviewing the 4-1 road trip, Nic Batum's ceiling and Martell Webster's funk, what Travis Diener means to Dante Cunningham, the month of March, standings, Sunday's game at Denver and much more....
Game reaction: Blazers 102, Pacers 79
The Trail Blazers' win over the Indiana Pacers put Portland (37-27) at 10 games over .500 for the first time all season....
Hats off to Andre Miller, road warrior
Miller dished out 39 assists while committing just six turnovers on the Blazers' recent road trip....
Game reaction: Blazers 103, Grizzlies 93
The Blazers averaged 105 points per game on the five-game road trip (4-1)....
Already a fan and team favorite, Batum's breakout game Saturday night was months in the making....
Big News Network.com Custom Stories
Doda water crisis, a cause of worry for locals
The acute water crisis in the Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir has added to the worries of local residents, who have been forced to face numerous problems due to it....
Hamilton rubbishes claims that Pussycat Doll girlfriend ordered him to sack dad
British Formula One star Lewis Hamilton has dismissed reports that his Pussycat Doll girlfriend ordered him to sack his dad Anthony as manager....
Malaysian Indian businesses in dire need of 100,000 foreign workers
Malaysian Association Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MAICCI) President K.K. Eswaran has said the Malaysian Indian business community is facing an acute foreign workers' shortage because of the government's restrictive policies....
Lord Swaraj Paul repays 38,000-pound 'admission-of-guilt' expenses
In order to clear his name from a House of Lords investigation into an MPs expenses scam, Indian-born Lord Swaraj Paul has voluntarily repaid the controversial amount of 38,000 pounds that was at the centre of the probe....
Another Take That star, Howard Donald, exposed as a 'love rat'
After Mark Owen, it is now the turn of his fellow Take That member Howard Donald to be exposed as a love rat following reports he bedded a married Dutch beauty while dating his girlfriend....
Brits 'among the least likely to suffer from food sensitivity reactions'
Britons are some of the least likely people to have problems with foods such as apples, peaches, shrimp and wheat, says a study....
Dave Knows: Portland
An extraordinarily inclusive holiday. Related posts:December 5: Season’s Eatings at New Deal Distillery Happy Australia Day! Rose City Heresy: Stumptown ...
Lucky Bastards is the theme of the show. Related posts:February 25: Back Fence PDX is Entertainment for People March 5, 6: Barleywine and Big Beer Tastival November 19-21: Ignite Portland 7, Back Fence PDX, Gems and Giants, and the FEASTival ...
Portland Timbers Roundup (03/11/10)
News and other information about the Portland Timbers from the past week (or so). Related posts:Portland Timbers news roundup (mid-October 2009) Portland Timbers news roundup (11/12/09) Portland Timbers Roundup (03/05/2010) ...
March 12-14: Ecoroof 2010 and Zombotica
It's a nice weekend for zombies, robots, and rooftop gardens. Related posts:March 12, 13: Ecoroof Portland 2010 March 13: Zombotica: Zombies vs. Robots March 6, 7: Portland Saturday Market 2010 ...
March 11: Mt. Tabor Brewing Release Party
Tiny Mt Tabor Brewing throws a party. Related posts:March 21st: Dog-free Farmers Market and a Firkin Fest May 16-17: Mount Tabor Art Walk August 22-23: Adult Soap Box Derby, Montavilla Brewfest, and the Timbers ...
Timbers Army Establishes 107 Independent Supporters’ Trust
It's kind of like an alumni boosters club. Related posts:February 4: Timbers Army First Thursday A Portland Timbers Primer Portland Timbers Roundup, Festivus Edition (12/23/09) ...
Trail Post - A Portland Trail Blazers Blog
The Ringside Sucks Anyway, Marcus
No one’s going to blame you about leaving your steak behind when you stormed out in anger about the impending trade. Here’s a secret, though: we would have traded Outlaw and Blake for that steak you left behind. The value that Camby brings the Blazers over the combined efforts of...
Greg Oden’s Penis: The PR Move of the Decade
Greg Oden, after his last injury, has been called by many (pretty much all of whom are clueless) a bust. It’s easy to understand their logic, with all of his missed games due to freak injuries. This has to weigh on the psyche of someone such as Greg....
The Salsa Verde Story You’ve Been Dying to Hear
If you read Basketbawful, or regularly cruise ESPN.com for AP wire pics from the game, you may have been surprised by the first photo from the game. Rather than tell, let’s just show: PORTLAND, OR - JANUARY 13: Cameron Browne #00 of the Portland Trail Blazers sits down to eat...
You know who had to feel like crap last night? Steve Blake. Here he is, coming back after a week having fluid filling up his lungs and losing eight pounds to perform in a professional basketball game, and not only playing, but excelling, nailing shot after shot and creating a...
Post-Game: Blazers vs. Cavaliers
That was amazing and awful, in the way seeing Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, or Neil Patrick Harris would be. LeBron is that rare person where you read tens of thousands of words about the guy, have expectations loaded up beyond any possible reasonable level, and then just watch them...
Sorry for the lack of updates over the winter break, folks. Things have been hectic and well-covered all over the internet. We’re screwed with injuries but keep on winning due to the character and fortitude of our players and the MVP-level performances of Brandon Roy. Yeah, obvious...
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Missing hiker's body found at base of Columbia Gorge cliff
A father and son searching on an ATV found the body of Kate Huether at the base of a cliff off Table Mountain and recovery efforts are underway....
U.S.26 traffic stop yields guns, machete, rum, clown mask
Police also found marijuana,a machete and a stun gun when they pulled over a car near Sandy on U.S. 26....
"Open carry" of guns legal in Oregon though few put on holster
Gun organizations in Oregon would rather avoid the controversy that has hit Washington state and elsewhere on openly carrying firearms....
Police statewide collect outdated drugs for disposal
The drugs collected included over-the-counter and prescriptions doses, the intent being child safety and crime prevention....
Did you turn your clock ahead 1 hour?
Daylight Savings Time began at 2 a.m. Sunday....
Portland Transport
The annual Rail~Volution conference, founded in Portland, is coming back home this year from October 18-21. Would you like to contribute to a conference presentation? The call for proposals is out: Rail~Volution is a conference for passionate practitioners - people from all perspectives who believe in the role of land use and...
Keep the Pressure on: CRC Project Sponsors Meeting Today
Coalition for a Livable Future would like you to show up: Show your opposition to the CRC at the Project Sponsors Council Meeting - Friday, March 12th from Stop the CRC! and Coalition for a Livable Future Grassroots coalition Stop the CRC! is (again!) organizing activism at the next CRC Project...
CRC Battle Lines Firming Up: Local Leaders and Enviros vs. Govs and DOTs
A group of local environmental organizations issued a letter today critical of the response from Governors Kulongoski and Gregoire to the request of local leaders to have more control of the Columbia River Crossing project: March 10, 2010 Dear Governors Gregoire and Kulongoski, We are writing on behalf of our organizations, which together...
On multiple fronts: Multnomah County is finally ready to open the new bike path on the Morrison Bridge Google Maps has added bicycle directions - try it! Actually, my first attempt with Google was a little rocky. I asked it to route me from my home down to the Bureau of Planning and...
Updated: Portland Streetcar Awarded $23M in TIGER Funds
Update: 3/9/10 In the comments to this post I was asked if the grant was for the entire Innovation Quadrant program, or if it applied to the Moody component only. I learned last week that in fact the grant amount awarded is only for Moody. We'll need to keep looking for funding...
Pun intended. I'm a bit slow to the party on this. The BTA already has a post up about Earl Blumenauer's Active Community Transportation Act. I encourage you to follow their lead on supporting this bill that would set aside $2B for active transportation. ...
About.com Portland, OR
If you're ready for a road trip, you might want to check out one of the upcoming culinary festivals in Oregon: What: Savor Cannon Beach Wine & Culinary Festival When: March 12-14 Where: Various locations around Cannon Beach, Oregon Get more information about the Savor Cannon Beach Wine & culinary Festival What: ...
Two Easy Ways to Donate to the Oregon Food Bank
With spring cleaning just around the corner, now's the right time to be thinking about finding new homes for the many things we own but don't use. How about the perfectly good canned food that's not getting used in your pantry? The Oregon Food Bank will gladly accept a box...
There are already successful tool lending libraries in NE and North Portland, and now the same concept is coming to SE, hopefully by early May. It works just like a traditional library: you borrow something and return it by a specific date to avoid late fees. There are no membership...
If you've never experienced springtime in the tulip capital of the world, this could be your chance. Delta Airlines is advertising flights from Portland to Amsterdam for $359 each way. Tickets must be purchased by March 9, 2010. Get the details at Delta's website. Get Outta Here! originally appeared...
Free Admission to Portland Art Museum
This coming Friday, have a different kind of night out. Take your friends to the Portland Art Museum for FREE! From 5 - 8 p.m. this Friday, February 26, (and on the fourth Friday of every month), you can enjoy the museum's collection for zero dollars and zero cents. Get...
Library Events for Chinese New Year
This week, celebrate the Year of the Tiger at the Multnomah County Library. Enjoy these events including drumming, singing, crafts, and snacks. Tuesday, February 16, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Midland Library (805 S.E. 122nd Ave.) Wednesday, February 17, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Woodstock Library (6008 S.E. 49th Ave.) Library Events for Chinese New Year...
Portland News
Readers comment about 'Avatar' and Portland's Joel David Moore
Joel David Moore and "Avatar" castmates listen to James Cameron. may not have won as many Oscars on Sunday night as fans would've wished, but prizes or no prizes, the movie has the power to provoke discussion....
News To Lift Portland Out Of Depression.
The Portland Development Commission is preparing to buy out some employees and lay off others because the agency has few projects....
Explosives scare evacuates Milwaukie neighborhood
For nearly four hours Thursday, Southeast 54th Place in Milwaukie was on lock down after a civil service deputy with the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office spotted something alarming in the home of Geoffrey and Ryan Williamson....
Portland Man Arrested On Child Pornography Charges
Kenneth G. Pitts Jr. faces multiple counts of encouraging child sexual abuse Oregon Attorney General John Kroger today announced the arrest of a North Portland man on child pornography charges....
Portland, Oregon: The boutique city
Portland's star has been on the rise for the last few years, and it's only continuing its upward trajectory....
Girl shot with beanbag gets probation for hitting Portland police officer
A judge ruled Wednesday that a girl who was shot with a beanbag by police must spend a year on probation for hitting an officer during a scuffle....