![]() When I was 16 I thought I’d have charged hair and a studded leather jacket forever. Their music changed my entire course and path I was on both stylistically and musically, and set off a revolution in my mind like nothing I’d ever experienced before, and probably never will again. ![]() □□□□□□□□□□□□ #waltcurtis #pennyallen #gusvansant #markwoolley #leannegrabel #ericedwards #oldportland #pdx #portlandia #pink was 17 when I heard The Exploding Hearts for the first time, and it was only months later they had the tragic accident. GAWD, I love knowing, having known, all of these fucking TOTAL ORIGINALS, and I will strive to burnish my own credentials. Allen “paved the way” for regional and then national filmmakers like GUS VAN SANT, KELLY REICHART, TODD HAYNES and others with her seminal films “Property” (1978), “Paydirt” (1981) and subsequent films: “The Soldier’s Tale,” “Late for My Mother’s Funeral” and “The Didier Connection.” Van Sant, who recorded sound for “Property,” referred to a central force in the film, WALT CURTIS, as “a kind of whacked-out Northwest version of Woody Allen.” Penny and Portland poet/artist/ educator LEANNE GRABEL are collaborating on an upcoming book for which they have a publisher: “That Rescue Thing,” wherein Penny recounts her rescue of another of Old Portland’s heroes and “best amoré” of Walt, Marjorie Sharp, from NEPAL when Marjorie was… struggling- with illustrations by LEANNE. □ Somehow very fitting and dare I say… “poetic.” □□ PENNY is flying back to PARIS tomorrow, her longtime home. We BOTH wanted to visit with the poet and painter and “Street Poet Laureate” of Portland WALT CURTIS last Saturday, but he said “NO NO NO” (literally) the day before and crawled to a spot in his Holgate hospice and passed. Allen showed her incisive and graphic (as in grisly) stills from cell phone videos shared with her on a transAtlantic flight, from her seat mate, a psychologically shattered American soldier returning from Afghanistan at the Mark Woolley Gallery in the Pearl. BURN: activist-filmmaker PENNY ALLEN and gallerist, raconteur MARK WOOLLEY. TWO colourful, “Old Portland” characters & movers/shakers on the boulevards of Portland, Oregon TODAY… at “Flying Fish” on E. ![]() #portlandoregon #oldportland #barstories #bartalk #bartales #drunkstories #drunktalk #divebar #punkbar #portland #portlandbars #bars #pdxbartender #localbar #downtownportland #neighborhoodbar #pdxhistory #portlandhistory #barhistory #pdxdrinks #pdxnightlife #drinks #drinking #drunkhistory #beer #tothebar #barlife #HistoryByTheGlass wherever fine podcasts (and ours) are sold.īar visit and recording: Saturday, Sept. If you like the F-word, bar movies, unforgettable lavatories, obscure Seinfeld references, and confused middle aged suburbanites attempting to decipher modern day sex/drug parlance - this is your episode! It is, in fact, a neighborhood bar that gives everyone who dares an opportunity to be their most weirdly normal selves and is the type of place every single neighborhood in our city and yours should feature and celebrate. Its history is unknowable, yet infused throughout the sneaky warmth and undeniable character of the place. ![]() It's the grimy, thrashed, chaotic, debauched, unrepentant, undeveloped, iconically menacing "lowest down diviest dive in Portland".and we couldn't be more proud.Įstablished in 1933 or 1939 in a century-old downtown building, the Yamhill Pub supernaturally resists all attempts to categorize it or neatly explain it. The Yamhill Pub is a Fox News producer's wet dream. Who says Old Portland is dead? We’re keeping the flame aflame! #iangillingham #steffensilvis #richardspeer #davidchatt #willametteweek #oldportland Diana Milia and I met up with these gents at Gracie’s in the Hotel Deluxe, formerly The Mallory Hotel, site of many fond get-togethers in years past with Sandra Stone, Dorothy Goode, and Evan Esteban also in different contexts with Monica Lundy and Valentina Barrosa Graziano. and David Chatt, renowned sculptor and glass artist () who recently had a piece, “Love, Dad,” exhibited for a year at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and whose work deals with memory, nostalgia, and the capacity of inanimate objects to elicit poignant emotion. Steffen Silvis, my once and ever editor, playwright and dramaturge, Willamette Week theater critic widely admired and feared, editor/critic emeritus for The Prague Post, now professor of cinema in Seattle. A delight to reunite with this troika: Ian Gillingham, my trusty copyeditor from Willamette Week days, King of the Copy Cave, linguistics major and one of my two go-to grammarians when I’m hopelessly stumped, now head honcho of the communications department at Portland Art Museum. ![]()
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