Burgerville.

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Since 1961, Burgerville has been a part of Northwest life, starting at a single address in Vancouver and growing to more than 35 locations throughout Washington and Oregon. This year, the restaurant celebrates its 50th anniversary, and what was true fifty years ago is true today: ask anyone in this part of the world–they’ll have a favorite item on the Burgerville menu.

On this Sunday’s Outlook Portland, we’ll be joined by Burgerville USA‘s President and CEO, Mr. Jeff Harvey; he’ll talk about the restaurant’s founding, evolution, and freakishly-delicious onion rings. We’ll also speak with Daniel Cogan, General Manager of Burgerville’s Montavilla location…and, as a side note, I’ll solemnly vow to never again tape Outlook Portland on an empty stomach.

The show will also feature another “Outlook Portland Editorial Reply”, brought to you by our marquee sponsor, Things From Another World. This week’s guest editorialist: Vince from the zombie-themed graphic novel Walking Dead.

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Cognition: The Robot Uprise.

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As you might imagine, Webster’s defines “robot” as “A machine which looks like a human being and performs various complex acts, but whose lack of capacity for human emotions is often emphasized.”

And, as Douglas Adams fan are almost certainly aware, the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with.”

Then there is Sid, the protagonist of Cognition: The Robot Uprise, a new comic whose first issue is already receiving significant acclaim. If you asked Sid –who is, in fact, a machine– to define “robot”, well…Sid might have an answer unlike any you have heard before.

Indeed, Cognition: The Robot Uprise is, itself, unlike anything you have recently experienced. A subversion and inversion of classic sci-fi paradigms, it’s also fantastically entertaining, and something you really ought to read.

On the next Outlook Portland, we’ll be joined by Cognition‘s author and creator, Mr. Aaron Cronan, along with graphic artist Matt Hopkins. They’ll discuss the book’s inspiration, creation, and evolution, and will give some clues about what the future holds…both for Sid and for Cognition itself.

The show will also feature another “Outlook Portland Editorial Reply”, brought to you by our marquee sponsor, Things From Another World. This week’s guest editorialist: the leader of the Decepticons…Megatron.

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Cars may get the glory, but bicycles have the numbers. There are more than one billion bicycles in use on planet Earth –easily double the number of automobiles– and another 130 million bikes are sold every year.

An astonishing number of those bicycles end up right here in Portland, where the streets and sidewalks are filled, year-round, no matter the weather, with pedaling enthusiasts of every stripe and variety.

From every walk of life, so to speak, cyclists emerge onto the paths and pavement of our fair city, forming –to borrow a term from Dostoyevsky– an accidental tribe, with its own culture, history, challenges, and coalitions. Portland is, in many ways, a city which runs on two wheels.

On the next Outlook Portland, we’ll be joined by Rob Sadowsky, Executive Director for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance; we’ll discuss all of the above…and more.

The show will also feature another “Outlook Portland Editorial Reply”, brought to you by our marquee sponsor, Things From Another World. This week’s guest editorialist: The King of the Monsters…Godzilla.

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On the next Outlook Portland, Rick talks to Atomic Arts’ Adam Rosko about their latest Trek in the Park production, “Mirror, Mirror”. Tune in Sunday morning, 6:30am, only on NW32 TV.

Music composer, Kielen King.

“Run-DMC First Said a DJ Could be a Band.” -Chuck D

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Throughout human history, music has adapted, evolved, and cross-pollinated, each amalgam mixing and swirling the disparate forms together, often to create something staggeringly new.

One thing, however, remains a constant: the player, the singer, the songwriter. In a room or in a studio, attempting a kind of artistic alchemy: the transformation of imagination into physical form. To capture -on tape, paper, or hard drive- what exists only as a free-floating magic within the creative center.

Sometimes, it seems so amazing that it’s a wonder it ever happens at all.

On this week’s Outlook Portland, we’ll speak with Kielen King, a Portland musician whose latest idea has been successfully transferred into the realm of the real. His past albums include Soundtrack for an Automated Night and (as part of Azure Noir) Addicted to Blue. His new project is Star Pilot’s Lament: A Musical Sci-Fi Epic.

The show will also feature another “Outlook Portland Editorial Reply”, brought to you by our marquee sponsor, Things From Another World. This week’s guest editorialist: Paul Stanley of KISS…as a rubber duck.

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SCRAP.

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Here’s something to ponder the next time you’re up late and staring out the window, wondering about your place in all creation:

Scientists who study the dispersement of material throughout the universe theorize that the Earth is so fantastically efficient at redistributing its matter –so mind-bogglingly good at re-using things– that every time you inhale, you are, in fact, breathing in at least a bit of Mr. William Shakespeare. (I swear, you couldn’t make this stuff up.)

And so it goes with water, dirt, air…and everything else. The Earth is, indeed, recycled…every last bit of it. And what is true for the planet at large is true for our own fair city.

On the next Outlook Portland, we’ll be joined by Alyssa Kail, Creative Reuse Center Manager of SCRAP. If you haven’t heard of SCRAP, just ask around: you’ll find that this quintessentially-Portland endeavor is making quite an impact on how our fellow townspeople reuse, recycle, and refashion everything.

The show will also feature another “Outlook Portland Editorial Reply”, brought to you by our marquee sponsor, Things From Another World. This week’s guest editorialist: the leader of The Decepticons…Megatron.

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Stephen Cassell and the Q Center.

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A truly fascinating conversation with Mr. Stephen Cassell, most recently known as the man behind “Hands Across the Hawthorne”. He’s also the founder of public-relations firm Cassell Communications, and sits on the board of The Q Center, which builds awareness and support for Portland’s LGBTG community.

We’ll talk about the art of marketing, advertising challenges in The Age of Irony, and the 1980s biography which inspired his career choice.

PLUS: a discussion of Portland’s Q Center and Q Patrol PDX, as well as look ahead to Portland Pride 2011.

The show will also feature another “Outlook Portland Editorial Reply”, brought to you by our marquee sponsor, Things From Another World. This week’s guest editorialist: The Last Son of Krypton…Superman.

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Podcasting in Portland.

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There’s a lot that science fiction got right in terms of prediction: atomic power -and atomic bombs, for that matter- spaceflight, the practical application of lasers, and cloning, to name just a few.

Where dreamers of the past got it wrong, however, is where designers and creators of today get it right….and that is matters of size. One device -which fits in one pocket- and represents the miniaturization and consolidation of…everything–your phone, your videophone, your computer, your GPS, your Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. In fact, the only thing immense about this device is the vast, nearly limitless amount of content it can access. In the blink of a figurative eye, terms like “radio” and “broadcast” have become either augmented or obsolete, depending on your view.

Sunday, we’ll talk with two Portlanders who are knee-deep in this ongoing change: Mr. Matt Hunter, creator and host of A Jumps, B Shoots, which focuses on video game news and culture, and Mr. Kyle Yount, founder and host of Kaijucast, which centers on all things directly or tangentially related to Godzilla. We’ll get their take on owning and operating  a podcast in 2011, as well as pitfalls that might face up-and-coming programs. It is a glorious time to be alive.

The show will also feature another “Outlook Portland Editorial Reply”, brought to you by our marquee sponsor, Things From Another World. This week’s guest editorialist: The King of the Monsters…Godzilla.

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All about Zombies.

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Throughout human history, we have struggled to find tools by which the universe might be understood: Galileo and Copernicus wrestled with theories of heliocentrism and geocentrism, Thomas Young fought to decode the Rosetta Stone, and Douglas Adams sought the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

It is, however, entirely possible that the residents of Portland, Oregon have discovered the true philosophical and galactic constant–the method and means by which anything can be explained…or, at least, made infinitely more entertaining.

The center of existence may, indeed, be zombies.

In fact, this month, Portland devotes a four-week stretch to the shambling ghouls, with May of the Dead…a series of disparate events covering film, music, money, gaming, and, of course, booze. Zombies are at the center of Portland life…so to speak.

On this week’s Outlook Portland, I’ll be joined by Heather Erickson of the Portland Zombie Prom, and we’ll discuss other May of the Dead happenings, such as the Portland Zombie Walk.

I’ll also engage in a bit of awkward self-promotion: I’ll speak with Todd Werkhoven, who, along with CNN reporter Lisa Desjardins and myself, is one of the authors of Zombie Economics: A Guide to Personal Finance.

The show will also feature another “Outlook Portland Editorial Reply”, brought to you by our marquee sponsor, Things From Another World. This week’s guest editorialist: Vince, from the zombie-themed graphic novel Walking Dead.

Outlook Portland, Sunday at 6:30am, only on NW32 TV…the home of Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries, and Rick Emerson..