Scoop: Weed and Brews, Weed and Brews…

1. PANIC/DON’T PANIC: The future of Foster-Powell’s historic Bob White Theatre is in limbo after negotiations broke down between the property’s owner and the manager who hoped to rehab it. Manager Nick Haas announced April 13 that owner Nick Storie won’t accept his offer to buy the theater, and the Portland fire marshal deemed the concert venue unfit for dancing. The two Nicks have been negotiating for six months. Haas says the theater needs a complete seismic upgrade, fire sprinklers, HVAC and more that would cost up to $1 million. Storie says he’s already spent more than $200,000 on renovations since buying the abandoned theater in 2012. >> Northeast Sandy Boulevard’s Tonic Lounge—home to everything from extreme metal to open-mic comedy—had an episode of Spike TV’s Bar Rescue filmed there April 12. The new name chosen by the show? The Panic Room. Amid a weird new food menu of flatbreads, the very L.A.-looking industrial décor included an expensive-looking new lighting setup and a host of tiled flat-screen TVs.

1. TELEPHONE GAME: Portland native Nathan Langston will reveal the results of a massive, two-year, interdisciplinary game of telephone on April 20, involving 300 artists from 159 cities in 42 countries—with 22 Portland artists, including poet Martha Grover, musician Matt Dabrowiak (Menomena) and photographer Alicia Rose. The Telephone Project’s artists were prompted with a still-undisclosed phrase, then a chain of other artists interpreted each other’s work in different media. The Portland launch party—alongside simultaneous parties in London, New York and Copenhagen—will begin at 7 pm April 20 at Velo Cult, with a performance by composer Richie Greene. See the project online starting April 20 at telephone.satellitecollective.org, or go to wweek.com for more details.

1. DRINK UP: Curious about all the people drinking in the used-car lot on the east side of the Burnside Bridge? That’s the new Bailey’s Taproom. Bailey’s owner Geoff Phillips rented the lot at 419 E Burnside St. for a pop-up beer party during the Craft Brewers Conference. Bailey’s bartenders and Josh Grgas of the Commons came up with the idea during WW’s Oregon Beer Awards, but Phillips was briefly thwarted when the lot was scheduled to be bulldozed this month to make way for apartments. When the lot’s destruction got pushed back a month, the party commenced. It runs through Saturday, April 18. Then, the lot will be reclaimed by the type of day drinkers who bring their own bottles.

1. EAT MOBILE:  Eat Mobile, Portland’s annual food-cart festival, will actually be mobile this year. On April 29, from 5 to 9 pm, buses will shuttle attendees between cart pods that have beer on tap. A $40 ticket buys samples from 25 carts, including Buki, the Japanese street-food cart that was one of our new favorites of the past year. Get tickets at wweek.com/eatmobile.

WWeek 2015