Portland

Portland

A proposal to let the private US Tennis Association (USTA) take the reins of the Portland Tennis Center-and the rest of the city's public courts-has gained momentum. The plan comes amid a broader push for Portland's parks bureau, facing budget woes and a growing maintenance backlog, to open its doors to offers from the private sector.

Oregon officials are considering scrapping the state's promise program and investing the savings in need-based aid instead, arguing free college has failed to boost enrollments. An early proposal by the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission staff recommends sunsetting the decade-old Oregon Promise Grant, Oregon Public Broadcasting first reported. The program covers tuition costs for recent high school or GED graduates at the state's 17 community colleges, after federal and state financial aid are applied.

Statewide voter turnout (as of 9:15 pm): 24.7% Multnomah County voter turnout (as of 8 pm): 21.57% Democrat: 8 pm drop, 228,363 votes in Tina Kotek: 84.81% Fora Alexander: 2.2% Republican: 8 pm drop, 185,304 votes in Christine Drazan: 44.37% Ed Diehl: 30.73% Chris Dudley: 15.8% Danielle Bethell: 2.04% David Medina: 4.67%

The saxophone is a wonderful instrument. It boasts impressive dynamics and a nimble touch, allowing for impressive runs across its whole range. Its tone is very flexible: it can be as clear as an organ, fluid as a clarinet, or raspy as a horn. A sax can also be stretched to extremes via extended techniques to create deep honks, high squeals and other ungodly sounds. It's a shame it never became a mainstay of the orchestra.

Last night (May 20), Kevin Morby played the Oregon capitol's Revolution Hall, where he was joined onstage by a certified local hero: Portlandia star and Sleater-Kinney founder Carrie Brownstein. Together, they performed the band's 2005 classic "Modern Girl," a track so essential within Sleater-Kinney's enduring catalog Brownstein named her 2015 memoir after it. Watch the surprise performance below.

The May 15 explosion at Robbins Lumber in Searsmont, Maine killed one firefighter, 27-year-old Andrew Cross, and injured 12 others people, Maine's Department of Public Safety confirmed Monday night. Multiple first responders, firefighters, and the mill's owners are still hospitalized after the massive fire and explosion at a lumber mill in rural Maine, state officials said.

“It was a beautiful opportunity for the kind of experimentation-driven revitalization that I care so much about (and had spent so much time studying),” he told me recently by email.

On November 6, 2016, Justin Townes Earle made an important proclamation: He was moving to Portland. "Another new town another new home," he declared on Twitter, just two days before the Presidential election. "Northwest growing on me. I like this rainy motherfucker!"

Political organizer Denise Powell has defeated State Sen. John Cavanaugh to win the Democratic primary in the race for Nebraska's second congressional district, according to a race call by the Associated Press on Wednesday. With the race too close to call as polls closed Tuesday night, Powell ultimately defeated Cavanaugh by about 2 percentage points with 89 percent of votes counted so far, according to estimates from the AP Wednesday evening. That margin could change as the remaining ballots in the race are counted.

Huynh was Oregon Symphony's Associate Conductor back when I was living on campus at Portland State University and walking down to hear OSO concerts at the Schnitz a few times a week, and he led two of my favorite concerts of that era, both of them the "live score to film" type of concert where the audience gets to watch a movie up on the screen while the orchestra down on the stage plays the music.

“White men have historically dominated key parts of electronic music infrastructure,” Beach says, “from promoters and venue ownership to booking networks.” As the genre's mainstream popularity has grown in recent years, notions of what a club environment looks, feels, and sounds like have seemed to shrink. “Even when they would open the door to other identities,” Beach adds, “it wasn't kept open.”

Two hours and 10 categories later, I felt completely different. I left in awe—ballroom is exhilarating, inspiring, and profoundly queer. I loved the diversity of body type and gender I saw. And I loved how competitive it was! To quote Daniel 'Papi' Giron, our founder at the Rebound: "Ballroom is like gay sports."

Jordan Pearson grew up in the bus industry, and worked for her parents' company, Master Tours, in Greensboro, NC. Joining her sister Dwyla, she branched off to form a separate company, Transcendent Charter, also in Greensboro. She and her sister were active in UMA, attending UMA EXPO and participating in UMA committees, before closing their company.

“I didn't know why my sentence was reduced, but I wasn't going to argue,” he said. “It was a godsend.” The reduction stemmed from an Oregon Supreme Court ruling that found judges in Oregon “may grant” defendants credit for the time they served in jail before being sentenced.

The fire was limited to the follow spot booth of the O'Neill. At this time, the exact cause of the fire is unknown.

The musical itself is raucous and exceedingly silly - not generally my sweet spot. But Portland Playhouse has earned my trust in its programming, so I know to expect a wonderful quality of intention behind even a production like this one.

Portland is safer because Bob Cozzie has dedicated his career to public service. I know our staff and community members join me in thanking him for his leadership.

Investigators later found explosives inside the car, leading to the involvement of an explosive disposal unit after evidence of an explosive device was discovered.