Gossip Should Have No Friends

[March 22nd, 2006] BIG-SCREEN SOFA The space that housed downtown nightspot Panorama is transforming into Living Room Theaters . "A new model for upscale movie theaters," according to LRT's Felix Martin, the plan is to open the Stark Street cinema this June with six 40- to 60-seat digital movie theaters screening primarily foreign and indie productions. Too bad tha 'Couv beat Martin and Co. to the punch: Vancouver's Cinetopia , which opened last summer, uses a similar model, right down to the term "living room theaters." The new place also plans on serving beer and booze. Now that's an original idea for P-town.

FLESHLESS Three cheers for Tofurky! A recent survey by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals rates Portland as the country's most vegetarian-friendly large city , ahead of second-place Seattle and third-place San Francisco. The national survey (results available on GoVeg.com) used criteria such as the number of vegan and vegetarian restaurants, non-veggie eateries that offer vegetarian choices, and other retail sales numbers. Topping Portland's list of tasty places to eat breakfast without a face: Voodoo Doughnut and Paradox Palace Cafe .

PORN AGAIN One of Portland's former mayoral canidates has a future in soft-core porn. The cover boy of last week's Portland Mercury was none other than its former news editor Phil Busse—in black lace ladies' panties, a a hard hat and nothin' else. "I think that the photo left out my best feature," confessed Busse to Scoop. "My curly blond hair was unfortunately covered by that silly construction hat!" One click over to locally produced website pantydudes.com shows Busse, a.k.a. "Pinto: Remodel Citizen," has more to reveal, including the fact that he's into "responsible governing" and "explodes when you hit him from behind."

CORRECTION Last week's PDX Exposed! gave the wrong address for the Old Lair Hill Market. The correct address is 2823 SW 1st Ave. This mistake occurred, says artist Ryan Alexander-Tanner, because he is a damn fool.