Hi Folks. I have a huge report coming about the Portland Timbers pre-season excitement and MLS2PDX news, but I wanted to get the word out about this: Led by defender Cameron Knowles, the Portland Timbers are teaming up with DKMS, the largest bone-marrow donor center in the world, to host a bone-marrow donor drive on […]
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First Thursday Openings Tonight
Blue Sky Gallery presents Bryon Wolfe, AKA the man who took one photograph a day of random beautiful things for an entire year. The fine folks at Floating World Comics have taken on the very admirable task of making slideshows interesting, as they have put together hundreds of found photographs, which they will loop all […]
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BSG + Mark Verheiden!!
Battlestar‘s on tonight! KUFO’s Cort and Fatboy are hosting a very special guest this week at the screening… BSG writer Mark Verheiden (who also wrote the awesome My Name Is Bruce, which is playing at the Clinton St. Theater this week). It’s all going down at the Bagdad tonight at 10 pm. Frak (pak) yeah! […]
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It Saturates the Screen with Terror
Don’t forget about the great dismemberment double feature at the Hollywood Theatre tomorrow! The Grindhouse Film Festival will be showing Sergio Martino’s Torso from 1973 (7:45 pm) and 1982’s Pieces (9:30 pm). Both offer incredible examples of how to maim young people, including such varied suggestions as a pool safety net, a chainsaw, and a […]
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Battlestar Galacticat Friday!
Let’s not forget the most important thing amid this mayoral scandal: Battlestar‘s on tonight! Catch it at the Bagdad at 10 pm. KUFO’s Fatboy has promised to iron out the logistical problems that plagued last week’s screening. Or check it out at the Tanker (4825 SE Hawthorne), where they have Direct TV so they can […]
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FREE Pizza!
This just in! Pomodoro Pizza (223 SW Columbia) is giving away free pizza slices from 11 am to noon today in honor of the inauguration. I wonder if they’ll render Obama’s image in pepperoni? That would be effin’ delicious.
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Friday Funtastic
Well, it’s the last weekend that Bush is in office, and you know what that means… it’s another LOST WEEKEND. So where are you going tonight to get your drunken face even drunker? Me? I’m watching Battlestar and contemplating my life trajectory. Might I make a few other suggestions… Ash Street Saloon—Black Pussy, Branden Daniel […]
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What’re You Doing Tonight?
Happy New Year’s Eve! And happy Smoking Ban Eve! What’re you up to tonight? Maybe your New Year’s Eve is going to look a little something like this: Do-si-do! Or maybe it will be a little more like this: M’mm, m’mm, sexy disembodied legs! Or perhaps it will go a little something like this… (sure […]
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Cheap Tattoos at Rad Summer on Saturday
Been down to the new location of Rad Summer yet (28th & E Burnside)? Here’s the perfect excuse to roll down and check it out: This Saturday, ’round about noonish, proprietress Honey Owens‘ friend Mark Cross will be in town from San Francisco, doing cheap-o tattoos—like $20-50 cheap (yes, he is an actual tattoo artist). […]
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Prints for PICA
For the sixth consecutive year, PICA is herding together some of the best and brightest Portland creatives under one roof for the Prints for PICA fundraiser, a win-win where Portland’s most important arts non-profit makes a buck and you have the opportunity to snag one-of-a-kind art from your favorite artists. There are approximately one bajillion […]
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PDXSwap
It’s lame but true that the holidays are stressful as hell. And, of course, what with the Great Recession, it’s even scarier to overspend on Christmas presents for your friends and family (no good deed will go unpunished on your credit card statement, I assure you), and spending money on yourself is practically verboten. Here’s […]
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Breeze Block Gallery Re-Opens Tonght
Migrating from its perch on NE Alberta, Breeze Block Gallery reopens tonight with a store-wide sale, the work of seven artists (Stephen Williams, Steve Mathews, Tiago de Jerk, Jason Graham, Garrett Price, Jason Vivona, and Raskoe), and DJ T. Rust. Come see the brand-new alley-side space (1847 E Burnside) freshly festooned with murals and spray […]