City Cast Portland
🪵🔥 The environmental hazard Portland loves
March 6, 2025 · — Rachel Monahan
Good morning, Portland! Here’s a deadline you may want to keep an eye on. Two months (and a day) from now, you’ll need a REAL ID at airport security ✈️
Two tips: The DMV is making appointments for these IDs (and, be forewarned, the office close to me is booking in April at this point) 🚗 Plus, remember your ID won’t come in the mail for a couple weeks after you visit the DMV 📪
What's CITY Talking About?
The Harm From Wood Smoke
Wood stoves, along with wood-burning fireplaces, produce “more harmful particulate matter than diesel trucks and cigarette smoke,” the Oregonian reports. Multnomah County has been regulating wood fires for six years and has invested $1 million in funding wood stove replacements, but wood burning has only increased in Oregon’s urban areas. [Oregonian]
People don’t smell poison; they smell nostalgia. But we can’t have clean air if we have wood burning.
Financial Problems at Ritz-Carlton Portland
The financial firm that holds the construction loan on the Ritz-Carlton Portland building is planning to foreclose on the property. Only 8% of condos have sold, and the hotel earned only $188 a room last year — compared with $343.28 for the average Ritz-Carlton. [Willamette Week]
Recurring Portland Protest
It’s unclear if protests at Tesla dealerships are contributing to the company’s stock value declining. But there are now regular demonstrations against car company CEO and Trump administration official Elon Musk at the Tesla dealership in South Waterfront. [Portland Mercury]
What To Do
Thursday, March 6
- 🖼️ Free First Thursdays | 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. | Free Admission | Portland Art Museum
- 🎨 First Thursday at PNCA + North Park Blocks | 5 - 9 p.m. | Free | Pearl District
- 🏌️ Muni Kids Urban Golf | 6 p.m. | Free | Southeast 3rd and Stark (Central Eastside)
- 😆 Lindy West: Every Castle, Ranked | 7 p.m. | $25+ | The Reser (Beaverton)
- 🎭 Silent Sky | 7:30 p.m. (through March 9) | $39 | Kendall Planetarium at OMSI
Friday, March 7
- 📽️ Queer Ecology (Portland EcoFilm Festival) | 7:30 p.m. (festival through June 21) | $14 | Hollywood Theatre
- 🎵 Erykah Badu | 8 p.m. | $119.50+ | Moda Center
- 🎨 First Friday Art Walk | 6 - 9 p.m. | Free | Various Locations
- 💎 74th Annual Agate and Mineral Show | 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. (through Sunday) | Free | OMSI
- 😆 Brian Posehn | 8 p.m. | $38.08 | Aladdin Theater (Brooklyn neighborhood)
- 🎥 Titanic (with trivia) | 6:30 p.m. | $15 | PAM CUT’s Tomorrow Theater (Richmond neighborhood)
- 🏒 Portland Winterhawks vs. Seattle Thunderbirds | 7 p.m. | $37.50+ | Veterans Memorial Coliseum
🍌 Portland’s oldest street mural is facing an uncertain future after the building where it’s located was sold. There are efforts underway to protect it, including copyrighting the mural.
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