The PDX ♥ JPN series at the Mission Theater is halfway through. A benefit for continued relief (via Mercy Corps) for tsunami victims, the series also emphasizes the art of sake consumption. Sake brewer Gordon Heady initiated the series in part to help remedy “the general misunderstanding of sake in the United States. Japanese food […]
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Hey, Go See The Untouchables This Week
Generally when we recommend an older movie in My, What a Busy Week! or something, it’s because the film’s particularly beloved, or particularly rare, or screening on increasingly non-existent 35mm film, or any number of other things that make it an out-of-the-ordinary screening. The Untouchables—currently playing at the Laurelhurst via a slick DCP—isn’t necessarily any […]
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What’s Better Than Upright Brewing’s Flora Rustica? Barrel-Aged Flora Rustica!
This is now the second post in the same day about delicious barrel-aged farmhouse-style ales with brettanomyces funkiness, but that’s just how your weekend is going to go. Assuming, as I always do, that you take my word as gospel and drink whatever I tell you to drink because you want to be a happy, […]
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Tomorrow is the Day to Finally Take that Beer Pilgrimage to Corvallis
What are you doing this weekend? Drop everything and go to Corvallis. I mean, finish reading this, then go. Or like finish reading this, get a good night’s sleep, then go. Block 15, Corvallis craft beer OGs and purveyors of spot-on offerings in every style of beer imaginable, are debuting the first bottles from their […]
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Free Tickets to The Bent Brick’s Growler Party
Fresh on the heels of the passage of Oregon’s wine growler bill, which permitted licensed establishments to fill appropriate reusable containers with bulk vino (read a good overview of rules here), Northwest Portland’s the Bent Brick is throwing a little soiree to promote the practice this Thursday, August 8. Featuring wines from Boedecker Cellars, Love […]
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Whoa, A Movie Marathon That Doesn’t Sound Terrible
THE WORLD’S END Greeting the apocalypse with a pint in hand. As they’ve done in the past, Regal Entertainment is offering a marathon-style screening leading up to a new film—but unlike their excruciating, 700-hour-long endurance test of “Every Single Marvel Movie Ever Made Leading Up to a Midnight Screening of The Avengers,” or their surprisingly unsuccessful Dead Man/Chocolat/The […]
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WOOOOOOOOO!!!! (That’s Brewfest for “Top Picks at OBF”)
The Oregon Brewers Festival has been in full swing for two days now, but the weekend is coming and it’s going to get crazier and crazier. With that madness in mind, here are a few beers that stood out. Having a plan will keep you from just wandering and bumping into people and going WOOOOOO […]
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Oh My God, There Is No Emoji for How I Feel About This Cherry Bourbonic Plague Tapping
I was thinking maybe like this: *o* or like some kind of winky drunk face ;S thing, but it just doesn’t work. REGARDLESS, here is the Cascade Barrel House description of what they’re tapping for their weekly Tap It Tuesday event, during which they tap into live, currently-aging, unblended beers: Tonight’s Tap It Tuesday at […]
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Win Tickets to the Portland International Beer Fest
GOOD DAY! Do you like to drink beer? Then perhaps you’d like to attend the Portland International Beer Fest this weekend! Here’s what they say: PIB is a high end 3-day beer festival specializing in rare, hard-to-find, exotic beers. Over 150 world-class beers from 16 countries will be on hand, hailing from all over the […]
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Joe’s Cellar Back from the Dead
Joe’s Cellar is back in business (almost). The venerable northwest Portland dive bar shut down by the city in April will reopen later this summer, according to a news release. “C.E. John Company announced today they have purchased the building on NW 21st and Pettygrove, will make the required repairs in July, and hope to […]
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It’s July O’Beer-Thirty Somewhere
Hemingway, playing with beer during a cold snap. (Courtesy Algonquinsidetable.com) It’s hot. Too hot to work on the bike. Too hot to prune the blackberry bush that is steadily absorbing the yard tools. Too hot to rephrase press releases about beer. Especially that last one. So, here are three promising beer-centered events for the coming […]
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Guillermo del Toro Gets a Nerd Drunk
THE MUPPET A cocktail suitable for the most sophisticated of palates. Here’s Guillermo del Toro making his favorite cocktail, “The Muppet.” (If I’m right, the other guys on stage include Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, del Toro regular Doug Jones, and some lucky/poor nerd who decided to wear only his finest Joker t-shirt to meet del […]