This is the approximate spot where Jeff Buckley waded into the Wolf River on the night of May 29, 1997. He was in Tennessee with his band that spring to resume working on his second album My Sweetheart, the Drunk. The Wolf River can be deceptive right there between downtown Memphis and the Mud Island Peninsula right before the river intersects with the Mississippi, and so Jeff Buckley, accompanied by roadie Keith Foti, wasn't thinking of the vicious undertow caused by passing boats when he walked in wearing his clothes and boots.

He sang Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" while he swam to the middle of the river. Foti, who stayed on shore, lost sight of him after a tugboat went by, and Buckley's body wasn't discovered until June 4th near a riverboat in the Mississippi. His death was ruled an accidental drowning. He was thirty years old.

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In Batman Begins, the north-east corner of the old post office building was used as a facade for the Gotham police station.

In The Dark Knight, the north-west corner was used as the facade of the Gotham city bank which gets robbed in the opening sequence.

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Episode 5, Season 1 of Portlandia features the location of the Hollywood Theatre, a historic nonprofit theatre in Portland. In the sketch, Gus Van Sant is moderating a discussion after a screening of the Warnicker Bros. new film at the Blunderbuss festival. Franny Walker (played by Selma Blair) is the principal of the ground-breaking film.

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In Episode 5, Season 1 of Portlandia, "Sparkle Pony" (Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists) tries to con her way into the venue to do a sound check.

"Why you ask me so many questions? I can't let you in."

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In Episode 5, Season 1 of Portlandia, the North Portland Wellness Center serves as the filming location, and the angst-ridden musical acupuncture accompaniment, of The Roving Singles.

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