This is a Representation of the Best Day of Your Life… Between Two Slices of White Bread Will this Saturday be the best food day of your entire young, restless, hungry life? Hells yes. Two reasons: cheese and bacon. So I’m sure anyone who’s been reading Blogtown for any significant amount of time has heard […]
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Happy Birthday, Elvis
If you’ve paid your dues in downtown Portland you know damn well who I’m talking about. The enigmatic, controversial John “Elvis” Shroder: photo via Soul StrutYou know him, right? Yeah, of course you do. Well, heads up because his birthday’s on Tuesday at Dante’s, and is being thrown by BarFly, who also interviewed him a […]
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Get Tons of Free Stuff at the Free Box “Bizarre”!
Portland’s Really Really Free Market (that’s really really the name) is teaming up with the Portland Free Store for a community event called the Free Box Bizarre this Saturday, September 26th, where everything is—you guessed it—free. The event will take place from 11am-6pm and is essentially a flea market/block party/opening for the Free Store’s new […]
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Stuff Your Face for Bitch!
Thursday: Eating holes for feminism. Two fantastic things are colliding in the same place at the same time this Thursday. 1) Bitch magazine, Portland’s own locally-made, nationally-read, super-smart feminist media outlet.2) A donut eating contest. At 7PM Thursday, Bitch is celebrating the release of their Fall issue “Consumed” at obesity epicenter VooDoo Doughnuts Two. Anyone […]
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Halloween: Get On It
Halloween is just a little over a month away! Imagine if this year you were actually on it for once instead of scrambling at the last minute making a damn robot out of cardboard and tinfoil again. The Oregon Children’s Theatre is offering a pretty stellar opportunity to score a costume that’s actually good (especially […]
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Flaming Lips Want Naked Bikers.
I didn’t repost this article on BikePortland because I thought it might be a hoax. But, I realized, if it is a hoax it will the most hilarious practical joke to be played on Portland cyclists in Stumptown history and therefore worth noting. Apparently BikePortland’s Elly Blue talked to Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne and […]
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A Belated Review: Entertainment for People
Last Thursday The Woods hosted Entertainment for People, a variety show produced by Melissa Lion and Frayn Masters, the ladies behind Back Fence PDX. It was their first effort at such a show, and a worthy one indeed. First on the docket was Beth Lisick, a San Francisan who co-founded the Bay City’s version of […]
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Beatles Infest Ground Kontrol
Today sees the release of The Beatles: Rock Band, and to celebrate, Ground Kontrol (511 NW Couch St.) is hosting a special edition of Rock Band Tuesday devoted entirely to the only rhythm game more popular than Jesus. Succinct official details, courtesy Ground Kontrol co-owner Anthony Ramos: Don’t wait in a midnight release line to […]
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Don’t Do What I’m Doing
I’m used to the Jersey shore: tens of thousands of people crammed onto a coastline about the size of a tapeworm (which may be the New Jersey state parasite). I don’t want to have a similar experience this weekend when I head to the Oregon coast for Labor Day weekend. Stay in town. Better yet, […]
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Brewhaha On The Economy: Live Stream
We’re all set for the live stream of tonight’s Brewhaha at Backspace, on the Oregon economy. Thanks to Joe Christensen at Blaze Streaming Media for hooking us up. If you hit play in the window, things should start streaming for you right away. We kick off at 7pm, but right now, you can watch folks […]
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Finally—A Fair Worth Your Money!
The first line of the most recent Oregon State Fair press release proclaims: “Make Way for the Queens!” Darcelle XV oh. But then it continues: “Thursday is Day 1 of the NPRA Rodeo Queen Pageant. The pageant begins with the finalists demonstrating their horse riding skills in the Pavilion. The day’s competition includes the following […]
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TONIGHT: GET A JOB! Mayor, Novick, Avakian…
Fingers crossed, we’re going to be running a live web feed of tonight’s Brewhaha on economic development at Backspace here on Blogtown, for those of you who can’t show up in person. Check back on here at 6:30, to tune in. Still, if you’re out of work, we’ll have resume expert Dawn Rasmussen on hand […]