All Night Portland

In the next year, TriMet could restore all-night service to lines 20 and 57. Portland hasn't had an all-night bus since 1986!

These Bus Improvements Can Happen Within a Year If you’ve got any final thoughts, let us know.

2 a.m. cookie delivery. It's a definite start.

Eat This! Coop's Cookies makes late-night cookie delivery a thing!

Are you fu***ng kidding me?

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22707-when_darkness_falls.html

Portland Is Considering a Late-Night Permit as a Hammer over Problematic Businesses. For years, the city of Portland and the Oregon Liquor Control Commission have worked as uneasy partners in law enforcement, playing a game of “good cop, bad cop” with bars they identify as p,News Stories

Signal boost:

"Looking for Firefly cosplayers for an upcoming event. Paid figure modeling, some nudity ("n**e as you want to be"), on a Sunday evening. PM or email [email protected] if you are interested! Feel free to tag people who you think would be into it!"

-Megan Skye Hale

Up in Tacoma they have a pho place, "Pho-Ever", that is open until 4:00 am. So our mobile correspondant, Susan Abe, has just confirmed. What do we need to do to get them to open a joint down here?

http://www.yelp.com/biz/pho-ever-tacoma

We need this. The chili dog places. The ads. The sheer goddamn silliness of it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XOWYe9TgaU&feature=youtu.be

Pats Chili Dogs - Cinderella 1983 Cinderella cable commercial 1983?

Think of it, just two of these running between 2:00 and 5:00 on the MAX lines. Turnaround at Gateway, Washington Park, and Killingsworth.

A five dollar fare. Nice seats. A civilized conductor. Multivitamins, Odwallas, and little packs of cheese and crackers for sale. VERY washable floor and fixtures for the drunks who do distasteful things.

What would this do to late nights in Portland?

Too many of these are too true. But it would be much better to have some acknowledgement in it of the beauty of 3:00 am walks on silent streets, the sweet silly friendliness of clerks in all night stores when you've become one of the NON-crazy regulars, and the occasional chances to be one the first to see something or buy something or connect to something that goes live at midnight when all the normal people are asleep, distracted, or otherwise entirely off their game.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/javim2/28-things-people-who-cant-sleep-will-totally-unde-bw9q

Community Post: 28 Things People Who Can't Sleep Will Totally Understand At night you can't sleep but in the morning you can't wake up. Normal hours are just not for you.

There's nothing like Portland fog at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning.

We've never been that crazy around here for Voodoo Doughnuts. They're without doubt a Portland institution and we'd be sad to see them go but warm and fuzzy they ain't. So, that having been said, we don't find anything in this article surprising in the least.
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-21767-the_hole_story.html

The Hole Story: 3 months behind the counter at Voodoo Doughnut. “TALKING S**T ABOUT HALL & OATES WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.” This sign hanging next to the employee schedule at Voodoo Doughnut is probably a joke, but I’m not quite,Cover Story