All ages benefit show, 8pm tonight the Atristery (4315 SE Division St, Portland, OR) featuring White Fang, Gepetto, Oak Rot and Moth Dust. Door open 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. $5-10 suggested donation. If you decide you absolutely have to move obstacles outside of the confines of Brooklyn Street (see above left) – please put it back when you leave. It looks like a blast, but it will not help with public relations and the neighbors.

I’d place this video at maybe 93-94? That’s my layman’s-I-wasn’t-there guess. It was posted on YouTube by Nate Sherwood, so it’s mostly footage of him as a youngster, but mid way through there is some amusing footage from a local Portland news channel. Seems to be from shortly after the city of Portland decided to leave it alone. Look for Mark Scott in a Turf t-shirt. – Thanks to Malcolm MacMaster for the tip.

Okay, they called it a Skateboard Design Workshop and it’s connected with the China Design Now exhibit currently showing at the museum. Saturday, November 21, Learn the art of spray-paint stenciling with Steven Uppinghouse. Bring some favorite images to turn into stencils and then spray paint the design onto the skateboard. Skateboard decks will be provided. Sign up online I searched for Uppinghouse and found him as a design student at U of O. Hey, the $35 workshop does get you a skate deck and some stencil time.