My friend’s company, ShopIgniter, just got a bunch of venture capital and is looking to hire. My friend would be your immediate boss, so I promise your boss would be awesome.

Interface Engineer

ShopIgniter seeks a full-time, front-end web developer with a solid understanding of standards-compliant (X)HTML/CSS with the ability to quickly slice up and implement designs created in Photoshop or Illustrator. General knowledge of Adobe software is a must. Experience working with dynamically-driven content and manipulating the DOM with jQuery or javascript is a plus. An eye for aesthetics and design is appreciated.

You Will:

* Perform your tasks quickly and efficiently, meeting all deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
* Cross-browser test your code, support IE6.
* Accurately translate beautiful designs to the web, with pixel-perfect precision.
* Posses 4+ years of experience hand-coding websites.
* Be comfortable working on a Mac.
* Understand modern font/image replacement techniques.

You Won’t:

* Ever use the words WYSIWYG or Comic Sans in a positive way.
* Code a site without giving consideration to text-resizing and other accessibility issues.
* Use tables to layout anything other than tabular data.
* Use a single unnecessary div, span, class, id… you get the idea.

ShopIgniter, a start-up located in Portland, OR, provides a next generation ecommerce platform for physical retail, branded website and social channels. Local candidates only, no recruiters please.

Interested applicants should send email, cover letter, and résumé to jasonATshopigniterDOTcom.

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If I ran a company here in Portland — no matter what goods or services that company provided — I would hire this person:

Greetings, Maker of Company Decisions!

I see from your recent Craigslist ad that you are looking to hire an office worker. While almost anyone could perform the duties expected of your average entry-level administrative person, I would like to present you with an alternative proposal.

My name is Helen Manjam, and I am a local actress who will accurately portray an office worker for 40 hours a week in a location of your choosing. I have trained for over a decade with experienced actors in learning all the finer points of recreating office culture: the language, mannerisms, routines, etc.

You may be asking yourself, why an actress? Why not just hire Jim or Susan, regular office workers? The answer, my friend, is enhanced substance. Jim and Susan may serve you dutifully, but they will never feel obligated to amuse you. They will volunteer too much – or too little – of their personal lives. You won’t care what they have to say, and you will grow weary of feigning interest in their mundane lives. You will realize, years down the road, possibly while intoxicated at the company Christmas party, that Jim and Susan have become, to you, less than human.

Read the complete post on Craigslist.

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Free coffee day at p:ear is a chance for the barista school students to hone their skills in a realistic café environment as well as a chance for the Portland community to support the recently launched p:ear barista school. Each student will work a shift as barista throughout the day, the drinks are free, but we will have a huge tip jar for the students.

New Session: p:ear barista school session number 3 starts the first in week in April. Interested individuals can apply in person at p:ear during regular business hours.

p:ear barista school’s goal is to provide on the job training to at risk youth and provide the necessary skills to become the best barista’s in Portland.

March 11th
9am – 2pm
p:ear
338 NW 6th Ave.
Portland, Oregon 97209

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On February 13th the Artists Repertory Theatre held its Season Reveal event fundraiser. Guests were invited to play a guessing game on the titles of the seven upcoming ART plays based on strange clues such as doughnuts and frustrated phone calls. Over $140,000 was raised over the course of the night.

At the end of the night the seven plays for the 2010/2011 season were revealed.

Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill. Directed by Andrew Upton
August 13 – August 29, 2010

Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O’Neill
September 7 – October 10, 2010

Mars on Life – LIVE! featuring Susannah Mars & Special Guests
November 16 – December 19, 2010

Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts
January 4 – February 6, 2011

The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh
February 8 – March 13, 2011

Jack Goes Boating by Bob Glaudini
March 15 – April 17, 2011

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Kramer
April 19 – May 22, 2011

Photos by Lisa Diventi.

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This Saturday, February 27th, admission to the Japanese Garden is free. The garden is open from 10am-4pm.

The garden is having a special exhibit of Girls’ Day dolls in the Pavilion.

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This event at Rotture looks so fun, although maybe it’s just this great video flyer.

Supernature 25! from Audio Dregs Recordings on Vimeo.

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The ChocolateFest at the World Forestry Center is going on now! Catch it today until 5 pm or Sunday from 10am until 5pm. Last night was absolutely packed. Walking around the vendor booths, I had a personal bubble only about a foot in diameter. At the sampling tables it was elbow to elbow.

Photographer Liang Liang, and I were literally running to the door in anticipation of free chocolate samples. We hobbled out two hours later feeling punched in the stomach. The samples are tiny but they add up. Any vendor with edible items (there was some soap and jewelry), had something they wanted you to try. Here are my local favorites.

Sweets

Sweet Masterpiece: Had a pear cinnamon ganache with a milk chocolate base. It was like mixing a pear pie with chocolate. May not sound like the best idea, but believe me, it is.

Brownies From Heaven (Vancouver, WA): Gorgeous brownie truffles! And they deliver.

Chocolate Craft Kits: Modeling chocolate. It looks and functions like modeling clay and comes in as many colors. I didn’t get a chance to try it, but I was told it tastes like a Tootsie Roll.

Coco & Co.: Most truffles are vegan. Even their bacon-flavored chocolate.

Missionary Chocolates: All of their chocolates are vegan. These ladies came dressed prom gowns. The Meyer Lemon Explosion delivers. BOOM! Meyer Lemon!

a little bit of sweet: This vendor was surprised to discover that their delicious fluffy marshmallows were selling more than their chocolates. The attendees had already eaten too much chocolate.

Wine

My favorite wine vendors were the ones that were giving away free tastes. (All two of them.) Most were asking me to pay. Thirst Bistro provided me with a mouthful of their surprisingly pleasant table red.

HV Cellars (Roseburg, OR) had an assortment of fruit wines: traditional grape wines as well as blackberry, pomegranate, plum, and cranberry. The cranberry and blackberry were especially complimentary to chocolate flavors. Less intensely sweet than a dessert wine, I decided I needed more of the blackberry wine and ordered a glass. Liang Liang bought a bottle. (That’s how sampling is supposed to work. Give us a taste for free and we’re hooked.)

The greatest delight came from a team effort of HV Cellars and Coastal Mist (Brandon, OR). Coastal Mist had an admirable assortment of chocolates on their own. But then they made some tiny truffles for HV Cellars out of their fruit wines. After my taste of blackberry wine I was given a blackberry wine truffle. Oh heavens, me. It was the best thing I tasted at ChocolateFest.

All photos by Liang Liang. To see more images of the ChocolateFest, check out her gallery on Roll35.

$8 adults, $7 seniors (62+), $5 children.
Under 3 and members are free.

$2 Metro Parking fee. Waived if you take MAX to our front door!

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Design for Living follows a trio of friends over a number of years and explores the dynamics of love and friendship. What happens when you love both your friends and you can’t choose which one you should be with? What happens when you figure it might just be better to leave and let them be friends? Can a dynamic trio be accomplished? These are all questions that Noel Coward raised with his 1932 play being performed now at Artists Repertory Theatre.

Now I’ve seen shows of varying degrees at ART in recent years. Design for Living, however, was one of the better ones. Despite the length it proved to be a solid, if not mostly enjoyable show.

The show was a bit slow to start, but that’s more the script’s blame than the production’s.  The first intermission, that’s right more than one, seems to disrupt the nice pace that has developed at the end of the first act. While the second intermission seemed to fall more naturally.

Todd Van Voris and Michael Mendelson are quite the comedic duo, and once this potenial is unleashed you want nothing more than the show to continue with these two alone.  Vana O’Brien provided a nice comedic break in the second act, while it seems Sarah Lucht failed to carry the same vitality as her male counterparts.

Jon Kretzu did a wonderful job of creating beautiful stage pictures and a solid pace throughout. Some of the Noel Coward’s more beautiful passages, however, could have been indulged a tad more.

Jeff Seats did a stellar job of creating three different and distinct locations by simple transformations the basic layout. Making the set a key player in the show. It’s a pleasure to return from intermission to see how so many small changes can effect a huge difference.

Overall Design for Living provides an enjoyable evening. Have a drink and settle into ART for a look into the complicated relationships of friends and lovers.

Design for Living is playing at Artists Repertory Theatre on the Morrison stage from now until Feb. 7th.

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For the 5th year in a row, the World Forestry Center will present ChocolateFest. The event is Friday, January 29 from 6:00 -9:00pm and Saturday, January 30 and Sunday, January 31 from 10am -5pm. Pre-sale tickets are available at www.worldforestry.org. Ticket prices are $8 for adults, $7 for seniors (62+) and $5 for children (3-18). There will be plenty of chocolate to taste.

This year, the World Forestry Center is expanding the hours to include Friday night. This evening will be extra special as chocolate-lovers will get a sneak preview of the Center’s newest exhibit, The Chocolate Story, which opens January 30 and is on view through April 25. The exhibit explore the history, production and consumption of chocolate – a food which is derived from the cacao tree that grows in the tropics. On Friday night visitors will also be able to vote for their favorite chocolatier and products. Categories to be voted on are:

Best Truffle Category
Best Confection Category
Most Innovative Ingredient Combination Category
Best Organic or Fair Trade Products Category
Best in Show Category

Over 45 of some of the finest chocolatiers in the Pacific Northwest, and beyond, will tempt visitors with luscious truffles, decadent brownies, heavenly fudge, and more. Demonstrations, presentations as well as a few wine, beer and coffee vendors will be on hand to explore all the pairing possibilities of chocolate.

Located in Portland’s beautiful Washington Park. There is a $2 Metro parking fee per car that is waived if visitors take public transportation. The museum is five minutes from downtown Portland, just off Hwy 26 and is also accessible by MAX light rail line.

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Portland’s famous velvet painting museum is leaving Portland! This is the last week to check out over 300 velvet paintings. The final viewing day is January 24th. Admission is $5, but it’s worth a peek. There are Elvises, wide-eyed children crying, Elvises crying, clowns smoking and crying, naked women, matadors, even a naked woman matador. I was surprised to discover that there are also some genuinely talented velvet painters.

Supposedly, the owners of the Velveteria are planning to reopen their exhibits somewhere with nicer weather.

2448 E. Burnside St.
Portland, Oregon 97214
(503)233-5100
open Weds – Sun noon – 5pm

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