Starting this weekend, the Willamette Light Brigades Portland Winter Light (non)Festival will cheer your icy spirits with installations throughout the city, including Sea Creatures at the Portland Art Museum on Friday.
Starting this weekend, the Willamette Light Brigade's Portland Winter Light (non)Festival will cheer your icy spirits with installations throughout the city, including Sea Creatures at the Portland Art Museum on Friday. Courtesy of Portland Winter Light (non)Festival

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See our latest batch of suggestions for pandemic-safe weekend activities below, from Stout Month specials to the Winter Soup Festival To-Go, and from the Portland Winter Light (non)Festival to Black History Month events. For even more options, read our guides to the best online events this week, the best movies to watch this week, and the best things to do all month long

FOOD & DRINK
Celebrate Stout Month. A mere pandemic couldn’t stop Portland’s annual month-long extravaganza dedicated to pitch-black beers. Stout Month will be celebrated in COVID-safe fashion this month, with a lineup of new releases and other special programming. Fort George Brewery in Astoria will be unveiling a host of midnight-dark brews for February, including the 2021 release of Matryoshka, a strong Russian imperial stout aged in Buffalo Trace Bourbon and Westward Whiskey barrels for a year. The brewery will also have a lineup of hearty food specials (like beer-braised beef with potatoes and mushroom gravy and bacon on a stick) to complement your stout of choice. Deschutes Brewery is also releasing its famed Black Butte Porter in cans for the first time, and Laurelwood Public Brewing is releasing four new variants of its award-winning Space Stout.

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