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The view from Southeast Portland's Lauro Kitchen, the future home of Duane Sorenson's new Italian restaurant, Ava Genes.

Delicate Steve touring w/ tUnE-yArDs and Yeasayer , releasing 'Positive Force' which you can hear in NYC via public listening stations this weekend Delicate Steve 's second album, Positive Force , is out July 10 on Luaka Bop and you can download two tracks from the album at the top of this post.

With the NBA's draft lottery being held Wednesday night, the order for the first round of the June 28 draft is now complete.

The 2012 NBA Draft Lottery will be held at the Disney/ABC's Times Square Studios in New York on Wednesday, May 30, and will be televised on ESPN at 8 p.m. EDT.

Portland, Maine, my hometown for the better part of two decades, is a pretty hip place.

The Dandy Warhols traveled to Austin, Texas on Tuesday, May 22 and performed at Emo's East with opening act 1776.

Reggie Watts , who played the Vic in Chicago last week and is now on a tour that hits Austin for two shows this weekend , recently played a sold out show at Webster Hall in NYC and was just announced on the lineup of the upcoming multi-venue CBGB Festival in NYC .

Work is already under way along the MAX route through Southeast Portland, including the intersection of 12th and Clinton, where one of six new stations will be built.

Summertime nightclubgoers will be thrilled to hear that the Bowery's Bantam is adding a new 1,000-square-foot outdoor lounge just in time for the warm weather.

The winners of the 2012 Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door contest have been announced .

A Nigerian police official says that three time bombs were found in different sections of a university in the city of Kano.

The head of the Federal Transit Administration is scheduled to sign a contract guaranteeing U.S. funding for the Portland-to-Milwaukie Light Right Project on Tuesday.

For the protection of motorists, a single travel lane in each direction is now closed to motorists around-the-clock on the Horseblock Road Bridge over the Long Island Expressway in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County.

It was the kind of trip that sort of happens to you. The kind you don't plan for in advance or research what to see or do.

Fab.com is giving back tons of smiles everyday to it's visitors. Fab's fun and exciting site brings new designers and unique finds to discover every day.

It's Craft Beer Week 2012, and as America's craft beer scene has grown up over the last decade, so have the bars serving the sudsy stuff.

The snow-capped peak of Mount Hood is never far from view, looming over this gloriously groovy, gritty and green city in the Pacific Northwest.

Professor of the groove Dam-Funk is one of the many artists on board for Northside Festival this year.

Eileen Brady, Jefferson Smith and Charlie Hales speak with voters at the Sunday Parkways event in Portland on Sunday.

This was interesting to me since Oregon is typically known for pinot noirs, not chardonnay.