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Portland State has yet another great Monday Night free lecture with Daniel Bozhkov. Not only is Daniel a renowned artist, he apparently has a sweet day job at Walmart.

From PSU:

Jan . 12 : Daniel Bozhkov
Daniel Bozhkov employs variety of media, from fresco to performance and video, and works with professionals from different fields, using different strategies to activate the public space. He enters the worlds of genetic science, department mega-stores, world-famous tourist-sites, as an amateur intruder/visitor who also functions as a producer of new strains of meaning into seemingly closed systems.

Daniel Bozhkov is a recipient of 2007 Chuck Close Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome, and of Read the rest of this entry »

This looks like a promising Wednesday Night. You “tweeps”can also follow Drinking and Drawing on Twitter: DrinknDrawPDX.

From SIGGRAPH:
Drinking and Drawing: An Evening of Collaborative Animation

Drinking and Drawing is a super-fun animated jam session where animators and animation fans get together and do a little drinking, do a little drawing. Those who join in the drawing fun participate in the creation of an animated film in just one night!

How Does It Work?

Each animator receives a set of 8 blank cards in addition to the last card from the previous animator. This last card is the first frame for the next set of cards. Animators continue the animation. When they finish drawing, the animator vacates their seat, no dilly-dallying, and a new animator with blank cards is called to the table.

Repeat all evening and have some Fun! It ends up being a musical chairs way of producing a short animated film created by Read the rest of this entry »

By Stacy Day:

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Tomorrow is a O-Shogatsu, a family-friendly* New Year celebration at the Japanese Gardens. Here is info from the website:

This year the Portland Japanese Garden will celebrate O-Shogatsu (New Year's) with a special Family Day on Sunday, January 11 from Noon-3pm. The event will be held in the Garden's Pavilion and will include tea, sweets, traditional New Year's activities for kids, and calligraphy writing.

Families and friends are welcome to participate in a hands-on experience with Kakizome, the traditional custom of writing of the first calligraphy characters of the New Year. Children in Japan are encouraged to write a few characters with brush and ink in the very best style they can for good luck with their studies over the coming year. Beautiful calligraphy is as highly appreciated as painting in Japan. Guided by Master Calligrapher Sekko Daigo and Japanese teachers from Richmond Elementary School, participants need no experience writing in Japanese to enjoy this traditional New Year's practice.

Sunday, January 11, 2009
Noon-3pm
Free with Garden Admission

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I like to surround myself with talented people. It gives me hope for my pathetic future.

Nathalie (Portland) is one of my long time friends from college, and though I hate her for her delicious bone structure and ballerina thin body, I love her for her wit and creativity.

She, along with her friend Nicole (L.A.), have started a new blog called Your Baby Is An Asshole. And you know what – they're funny – and right. Babies are assholes.

My favorite YBIAA is here, and references The Little Mermaid. Which is, of course, my favorite movie of all time.

I spent approximately eight months at age five responding only to “Ariel” rather than “Meagan” – and if my parents attempted to call me by my God given name, I threw a giant hissy fit of ginormous proportions.

Go check out the blog, comment, and be jealous that you didn't think of it first.

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Related:

• Meagan Kate gets Motorboated at Rockbox
• Meagan Kate gets blasted at Holiday Ale Festival
• Meagan Kate ogles hot chicks who drink heavily and rock on stage

Tonight at Holocene, one of the most unique dance parties in Portland returns — Atlas.

Atlas co-founder, DJ E3 will be back bringing us the hottest Afrotech, Arabica, Asian 2-Step and Drum'n'Bass, Balkan Beats, Bhangra, Funk Carioca, Grime, Reggaeton, 4th World/ International Hip-hop and more.

DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid (Atlas' other resident DJs) may still be in India, finding the hottest new tracks to bring back to us – but tonight's show will have special guest DJ Magneto to spice things up, and keep the beats flowing.

Doors open at 9am. $5 cover.

Rumble at the Roseland
Ryan Cribba v. Jake Richmond
Roseland, Portland, Oregon
Taken on December 6, 2008
Photo By David Lawrence

Tonight is another Rumble in the Roseland. Geoff K, from OnPDX wrote this in his preview last month's event:

Portland is a huge city for Mixed Martial Arts, with Team Quest in town, some of the best world class fighters fight out of Portland. One of those great fighters Chael Sonnen, gives back to the Mixed Martial Arts community in Portland by putting on Rumble at The Roseland (along with Kevin Keeney). This regular showcase of up and coming fighters gives local fighters a chance to start their careers and make a run at professional careers in MMA.

Read his review on Rumble at the Roseland here. Read the rest of this entry »

This list is from Leigh Feldman of Hot Mess, SNAP, and Massive fame. I met with him yesterday at the new Floyd's coffee in Old Town (fantastic), to discuss his upcoming Massive event at Crown Room.

Leigh sends out an email of weekend shows going on in Portland every Thursday. I definitely have found some shows that I had not known about due to the list.

In this one, I found out there is another No Pants Party on the Max today (the “sekrit”event where photographers outnumber participants). I am also wondering…what is this Girls Skate Party at Department? Leigh?

Anyway, if you want to receive Leigh's weekly party notices, email him at leighfeldman3 @ gmail and join

Saturday Jan. 10th

• Ghost Town Soul Club Party @ Fez Ballroom (dj / soul funk r&b)
• Reform at Victory @ In Other Words (art / writer reading)
• King Fader @ Berbati's (dj / hip hop)
• Tim Connell Brazilian Ensemble @ Press Club (live band / jazz)
• Chata Addy @ Jolly Roger (live band / reggae)
• Bad Mitten Orchestra @ LaurelThirst (live band / abstract jazz strings)
• Small Axe Sounds Dub @ Calabash (live band / reggae dancehall)
• Tara Jane O'Neil, Dragging An Ox Through Water @ Sorority House (live band / indie rock)
• LA Riots @ Rotture (dj / electro dance)
• Fishbowl Party @ Alibi (live band / karaoke)
• Solidity and DJ Shortchange @ Redbrick (live band / dj / reggae dancehall)
• Girls Skate Party @ Department (dj / skating)
• Solar Party @ Mt. Tabor Legacy (dj / live band / dance)
• Blow Pony @ Eagle (dj / hip hop dance electro party)
• NO Pants on the MAX Prank Event @ Gateway Station (Kelly Clarke of WW has article about this here)
• Bob Marley 'Exodus' @ NW Film Center (film)
• Reporter, Typhoon @ Backspace (live band / indie rock brass)
• Chicharones CD Release Party w/ Braille and guests @ Berbati's (live hip hop)
• Tyson Stubelek Trio @ The Cave (live band / jazz)
• Thumbers Photography Showcase @ Pampo Space (art)
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Still looking for something interesting to do this weekend? How about getting down to the River city bluegrass bonanza?

From River City Bluegrass Festival:

Now in its 5^th year, The River City Bluegrass Festival is a rare chance to see the ‘best of the best' in acoustic and bluegrass music. Most of the artists are coming from the Nashville area.  RiverCity is an interactive, move-around-and-make-friends music event.

The festival, which is the largest winter bluegrass/acoustic music festival ever held in Portland, features two and a half days of non-stop music and workshops.  The festival offers music on two stages, and, as at any good bluegrass festival worthy of its name, there will be plenty of jamming, both at the convention center and at the headquarters hotel.
This year the RiverCity Festival was nominated for Best Bluegrass Event of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association, which, given the relatively young age of the festival and its location (the Pacific Northwest vs. the south), was a tremendous honor and demonstrates the progress RiverCity has made in such a short time. Read the rest of this entry »

Benicio Del Toro was on the Colbert Report last night promoting his new film about Che Guevara. Commie-loving aside, Benicio rocks a Portland Trailblazers T-shirt and Adidas. Perhaps he picked it up during his Oscar-worthy performance in “The Hunted”.

In other Blaze-show news, Travis Outlaw pulled off late game heroics to win last night over the Detroit Pistons and former Jailblazer Rasheed Wallace (wonder if he sold that crib yet?)*.

In still more #Blazers news, Brandon Roy has hair racing stripes.

(Our Playoff coverage 2009 NBA Playoff Coverage: Portland Trail Blazers )

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