Remember back the day when the Friday newspaper would come out and you could see all the movies playing in a handy dandy chart all on one page?

Remember newspapers? Sure, there are websites that will show chain theaters, but between chains and independent theaters, there are over FIFTY in the Portland Metro Area alone and I haven't been able to find a single source that lists all of them (NOT EVEN GOOGLE!)

So went through and made a clickable list. Looking for something to see? Check out what's local to you! Independent theaters listed first, chains after that, sorted by city.

Portland Independent Theaters
5th Avenue Cinema 510 SW Hall St Portland
Academy Theater 7818 SE Stark St Portland
Aladdin Theater 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave Portland
Cascade Festival Of African Films 705 N Killingsworth St Portland
Cinema 21 616 NW 21st Ave Portland
Cinemagic 2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland
Clinton Street Theater 2522 SE Clinton St Portland
Hollywood Theatre - Portland Airport 7000 NE Airport Way Portland
Hollywood Theatre 4122 NE Sandy Blvd Portland
Jubitz Cinema 10350 N Vancouver Way Portland
Laurelhurst Theater 2735 E Burnside St Portland
Living Room Theaters 341 SW 10th Ave Portland
Moreland Theater 6712 SE Milwaukie Ave Portland
Oak Grove 8 Cinema 16100 SE McLoughlin Blvd Portland
OMSI Empirical Theater 1945 SE Water Ave Suite 100 Portland
St. Johns Twin Cinemas 8704 N Lombard St Portland
Studio One Theaters 3945 SE Powell Blvd Portland
Tomorrow Theater 3530 SE Division St Portland

Portland Chain Theaters:
Cinemark Century Eastport Plaza 16 4040 SE 82nd Ave Portland
McMenamins Bagdad Theater & Pub 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd Portland
McMenamins Kennedy School Theater 5736 NE 33rd Ave Portland
McMenamins Mission Theater 1624 NW Glisan St Portland
McMenamins St. Johns Theater & Pub 8203 N Ivanhoe St Portland
Regal Fox Tower 846 SW Park Ave Portland
Regal Lloyd Center 1510 NE Multnomah St Portland
Regal Pioneer Place 340 SW Morrison St Portland
Wunderland Avalon Theatre 3451 SE Belmont St Portland

Portland Area Independent Theaters:
99W Drive-in Theatre 3110 Portland Rd, Newberg
Cornelius 10 Cinemas 200 N 26th Ave, Cornelius
Lake Theater & Cafe 106 N State St, Lake Oswego
Joy Cinema 11959 SW Pacific Hwy, Tigard
Kiggins Theatre 1011 Main St, Vancouver

Portland Area Chain Theaters:
AMC Progress Ridge 13 12345 SW Horizon Blvd, Beaverton
Cinemark Cedar Hills 16 3200 SW Hocken Ave, Beaverton
Wunderland Beaverton 17235 NW Corridor Ct, Beaverton
Cinemark Clackamas Town Center and XD 12000 SE 82nd Ave, Clackamas
McMenamins Grand Lodge Theater 3505 Pacific Ave, Forest Grove
Regal Stark Street 2929 NE Kane Dr, Gresham
Wunderland Gresham Cinema 140 NW Burnside Rd, Gresham
Regal Evergreen Parkway 2625 NE 106th Ave, Hillsboro
Regal Movies On TV 2929 SW 234th Ave, Hillsboro
Wunderland Milwaukie Cinemas 11011 SE Main St #7684, Milwaukie
Regal Hilltop 325 Beavercreek Rd, Oregon City
Regal Bridgeport Village 7329 SW Bridgeport Rd, Tigard
McMenamins Power Station Theater & Pub 2126 SW Halsey St, Troutdale
AMC CLASSIC Mill Plain 8 11700 SE 7th St, Vancouver
AMC Vancouver Mall 23 8700 NE Vancouver Mall Dr, Vancouver
Regal Cascade 1101 SE 160th Ave, Vancouver
Regal Cinema 99 9010 NE Hwy 99, Vancouver
Regal City Center 801 C St, Vancouver
Regal Vancouver Plaza 7800 NE Fourth Plain Blvd, Vancouver

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/58444

Portland, OR – On Friday, June 17, the immigrant rights organization Portland Contra las Deportaciones (PDXCD) held a rally outside of city hall and attended the city council meeting to demand the council and the mayor revoke the permit for the ICE facility. Over 30 community members were forcibly removed from the meeting while exercising their First Amendment rights.

The city has allowed landowner Stuart Lindquist many delays and extensions to appeal the land use violation issued to the Macadam Facility in September of 2025. Most recently, he appealed to a Multnomah County Circuit Court to claim the hearings officer in the case is biased. The appeal hearing was granted to Lindquist willingly by this hearings officer after the city failed to begin the revocation process or enforce the fine for the land use violation.

While preparing for the protest, activists encountered Mayor Keith Wilson walking towards city hall. Several tried to speak with him, asking what the city is doing to push forward the currently stalled land use violation hearings. Some chanted “Keith Wilson, do your job!” as he walked by ignoring their questions. Wilson rarely attends Portland City Council meetings, but was present to discuss the upcoming budget renewal.

The rally outside city hall was met with violent right-wing agitators who have historically assaulted and pepper-sprayed protesters unprovoked. The crowd chanted and maintained their energy over the sounds of the right wingers’ megaphones. Protesters then packed the first floor of the chambers, holding signs in the front row that read “Revoke the permit!” and “Shut down the Macadam facility!”

Protester Holly Brown also encountered Eric Kutch, director of Portland Permitting and Development. This is the department authorized to officially begin the revocation process. When questioned about the extremely slow movement of the administrative review that spanned from September to February, he claimed that was due to “following the legal process,” despite ICE’s terror on Portland and the surrounding neighborhood.

Kutch then stood up and walked out of the chambers. When Brown attempted to follow him, they were physically blocked from moving through a public building by a plainclothes private security officer.

Because Portland City Council meetings don’t allow opportunity for public comment, community members stood up and spoke out to condemn the council’s inaction and call for emergency legislation to be put forth. Activists repeatedly stood up one by one to disrupt the council proceedings and were swiftly removed. When speaking, Ivan Vargas said, “The clock has been ticking for over a year now regarding the revocation of the permit, while immigrants have been wrongfully and violently put in jail cells in this so-called ‘sanctuary city.’”

City Council President Jamie Dunphy ordered Vargas’ removal and the other activists who dared to speak out. Private security officers paid by the mayor’s office and a cop attending the meeting forcefully ejected more than 30 speakers.

The majority of Portland City Council are self-proclaimed progressives who routinely use the mayor’s private security and the Portland Police Bureau to repress immigrant rights activists.

As to why the city claims they are powerless over the ICE Facility, Democratic Socialist and reactionary councilor Angelita Morillo said, “Laws are enforced through force or through the legal court system and if the legal court system does not support our findings, then we don’t have any standing.” The legal system would have supported permit reconsideration if the city started it when they had the chance, and legal enforcement of city code would also be supported legally at this time.

Violent right-wing streamers cheered on this statement, with one shouting gratitude to the councilors for allowing the permit to keep the facility open.

Later, PDXCD member Taylor Goss countered the council’s hypocrisy in public comment when he said, “Councilor Morillo, you mentioned earlier this evening that Portland doesn’t have an armed force to enforce laws, but in May on May Day, the PPB was sent to defend the ICE facility and officers brutalized and arrested activists. In February, they were sent here, to city hall, to silence protesters who were exercising their First Amendment rights.”

Private security and PPB had also forcefully removed protesters earlier that evening, showing the city government does have power to use violence and force. However, they refuse to enforce city laws over private land leased to the federal government.

This was the first time PDXCD returned to a council meeting after their protest during a meeting in February after the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good led to the city sending every available officer to the chambers to violently remove and arrest protesters.

PDXCD will mobilize to the next hearings in the land use violation appeals process to keep up public pressure on the city to move forward and fight back.

#PortlandOR #OR #ICE #ImmigrantRights #PDXCD

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47904525

Good story on Packwood from the biography of Governor Tom McCall, "Fire at Eden's Gate".

Packwood was a first term Senator and McCall was term limited out of the Governor seat and eyeing the Senate:

"Most of all, Packwood promised an ugly, mean battle, the kind that McCall dreaded. And Packwood made sure McCall knew how nasty he would get. He started by publicly boasting that his style of politics would “make the shootout at the OK Corral look like a duck pond pic-nic.” Then he began spreading word that he intended to drag details of McCall’s private life into public view.

McCall’s thin skin had toughened somewhat over the years, but he could not stomach what Packwood threatened. Packwood announced to associates that he intended to make an issue of McCall’s drinking habits. But what worried McCall most of all were Packwood’s threats to drag McCall’s son Sam and the issue of his drug addiction into the race.

Schmidt first heard about Packwood’s threats through mutual friends—people Packwood had told probably knowing that they would rush back and tell McCall and Schmidt. At first glance, a threat to bring up Sam’s drug addiction seemed prone to backfire against Packwood. After all, the McCalls had been public about Sam’s problems. But Schmidt saw the significance. Packwood, or someone working on Packwood’s behalf, was preparing to leak to reporters the stories about McCall’s staff’s efforts to hush up Sam’s crimes. More damaging to McCall, however, would be the story of the governor accepting thousands of dollars raised in 1967 by Glenn Jackson and others to pay Sam’s medical bills.

Schmidt heard this threat from a businessman who claimed to have talked to Packwood and, as it turned out, was one of those who had helped pay Sam’s medical bills. The donations for the medical bills had remained secret for seven years. Now, the possibility of its exposure could create severe problems for McCall. After all, the money was ultimately to McCall’s personal financial benefit. If he were dealing with the Oregon press, Schmidt knew he could control the story, portraying McCall as a compassionate father trying to help his son. Outside of Oregon and in the Watergate era, however, the national press was casting about for any hint of scandal. Schmidt knew that the media’s love affair with McCall would sour at the first whiff of fund-raising efforts for Sam. He feared the headlines: “McCall Covers up for Law-Breaking Son,” or “McCall Accepts Secret Payments.” The press that had made McCall a star might as easily rejoice in tearing him down."

Workers gathering signatures for the effort to divert clean energy funds to Portland police are using talking points that don’t line up with the petition’s actual text.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/69307787

Oh great, now they're going after urban areas too?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47188579

Can't say I'm surprised, they ditched all their back issues years ago and seemed more toy and graphic novel centric since then.

Plus Disney snapping up Fox meant they lost the Star Wars, Alien, and Predator franchises which moved to Marvel.

Probably no surprise to anyone, but here's how it will break down for the general election:

Gas Tax:
No 83.1% 738,393
Yes 16.9% 150,124

Governor, Republican Primary:
CHRISTINE DRAZAN (R) 42.42% 134,976

Governor, Democratic Primary:
TINA KOTEK (D)* 84.25% 283,518

So it will be a re-hash of the last election, only without Betsy Johnson in the race:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Oregon_gubernatorial_election

Kotek 46.96% 917,074
Drazan 43.54% 850,347
Johnson 8.62% 168,431

US Senate, Democratic Primary:
JEFF MERKLEY (D)* 93.36% 332,188

US Senate, Republican Primary:
DAVID SMITH (R) 29.88% 82,998

Smith is going to have a hard road, not only because Oregon hasn't had a Republican Senator since we showed Gordon Smith the door in 2009, but all the Republican primary votes COMBINED were less than what Merkley got. 277,755 to 332,188.

US House, 1st District, Democratic Primary:
SUZANNE BONAMICI (D)* 88.21% 56,441

US House, 1st District, Republican Primary:
BARBARA KAHL (R) 71.84% 19,697

US House, 2nd District, Democratic Primary:
CHRIS BECK (D) 34.89% 13,284

US House, 2nd District, Republican Primary:
CLIFF BENTZ (R)* 79.95% 67,104

Same problem for Beck as with Smith in the Senate race, district 2 is RUBY Red. Not enough blue voters there to make a difference.

US House, 3rd District, Democratic Primary:
MAXINE DEXTER (D)* 90.01% 60,264

OR 3 Republican Primary was uncontested. Loran Ayles.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/oregon-us-house-district-3-results

US House, 4th District, Democratic Primary:
VAL HOYLE (D)* 77.37% 49,271

US House, 4th District, Republican Primary:
MONIQUE DESPAIN (R) 86.72% 44,069

US House, 5th District, Democratic Primary:
JANELLE BYNUM (D)* 83.52% 54,985

US House, 5th District, Republican Primary:
PATTI ADAIR (R) 60.03% 34,242

Nothing for the 6th District? 🤔

Found it here, District 6 had 2 uncontested primaries:

Denocratic:
ANDREA SALINAS D 37,590 100.00%

Republican:
David Russ (no results)

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-primary-elections/oregon-us-house-district-6-results

The fee will help pay for key road maintenance and safety programs, which have long gone without adequate funding.

Happy April, hope no one had a chance to make a fool out of you. We're getting closer to the tabor neighbor's yard sale, so thought would share another reminder. We now have 16 houses participating! If you're wanting to get in on the yards selling action, be sure to add your house to the map soon because time's running out. If you're just interested in having a nice day of yard selling, make sure to add it to your calendar!

Date: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 Time: 9 AM 4 PM Location: Throughout the Tabor Neighborhoods

If you want to participate as a seller be sure to sign up on the page below to get added to the yard sale map!

https://www.northtabor.org/2026/03/2026-tabor-neighbors-yard-sale/

Tabor Neighbors' first yard sale was a hit! So let's do it again! This special event will take place exactly one week before our 2026 Neighborhood Cleanup, making it the perfect time to clear out your unwanted items and get organized.

This is a great opportunity to: Find amazing bargains on treasures from your neighbors. Declutter your home and turn your unwanted items into cash. Connect with fellow residents and enjoy a day filled with community spirit.