News Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland may have more cash in the war chest, but the anti-fluoride folks are trying to put more boots on the ground. Advocates for Clean Water Portland, the “no” vote in the measure to fluoridate the city’s water supply, held a raucous march down Northeast Alberta Street during Last Thursday. Revelers walked, biked, skated and danced the twelve blocks to a vacant ...   More

Arts & Books Stories The Willamette River divides Portland’s art scene. Tony galleries in the Pearl District and Northwest exude First Thursday hauteur, while street artists turn Northeast Alberta Street into a fr   More

News Mayor Sam Adams and City Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who oversees the city Office of Neighborhood Involvement, held a meeting last night that Adams hoped would air out “the positive, negative, and everything in-between” of Alberta's Last Thursday. Adams began the evening at the jam-packed Acadia Ballroom by informing people not to jeer, comment or clap at the testifiers. Asked instead ...   More

News Throughout recorded history, man has taken up water-filled arms to battle for resources, ideology and uninterrupted access to Slip n' Slides. On Thursday, July 29, 2010, Radio Room PDX joins this glorious history of aquatic combat with PORTLAND'S LARGEST WATER BALLOON FIGHT OF ALL TIME. Organizer Tim McMillan is sending the call out to local activity leagues and the general, all-ages Alberta community. ...   More

News The Lemonade Revolt planned for Last Thursday on Northeast Alberta Street last night turned out to be a fizzle. Perhaps the appearance of just seven lemonade vendors was because Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen had already told inspectors to ease up on enforcement at the event after inspectors earned national headlines for cracking down on a 7-year-old girl's stand last month on Alberta. No ...   More

News Any Portland resident expecting either a raging, out-of-control party or a quiet evening last night on Northeast Alberta Street would have been pretty disappointed. It was August's installment of Last Thursday, the art show and 20-block-long social gathering held at the end of every month. Currently planned by Friends of Last Thursday and other informal organizers, the event has become the subject ...   More