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Meet Brianne and Jared Mees. A Portland couple who created Tender Loving Empire. It's the sunshine embrace of creative power. It is all things. Are you an artist with something you absolutely must share with the world, right now? Are you a musician who wants to put your CD in a store? Are you looking for new music? Are you looking for affordable art? The perfect gift?

The Tender Loving Empire store is in ActiviSpace on the corner of NW Lovejoy and 18th Street.
I stop by on a Monday evening at closing time. Jared is in the screenprinting studio working on a big order of orange bandannas for Oregon State University. Full story here…

The artists roaming Olympic Mills has been putting on some great art shows for over a year now. The Love Show is one of the largest and best of the year and will have music, 0ver 200 artists, a live participatory art show and a Valentine's day bizarre! If you have time for only one event to see this weekend, this is what you should go to. This is also a benefit for Buckman Arts Elementary and the Oregon Food Bank.

Plus, you are just right over the river from the bad luck video variety show at Valentine's Cafe. Yes, that means Pipeline will be at both taking pictures, video and twittering. Lastly, bring your “received, sent, or never-sent Break-Up Letter to the Love Show” and get chocolate (info below).

Other Portland Valentines Weekend Events here

From Launch Pad:
OPENING FRIDAY THE 13th at OLYMPIC MILLS
THE 4th ANNUAL PORTLAND LOVE SHOW
An Open-call Salon-style group show about Love of all Kinds! Featuring over 200 artists!!

February 13th – March 26th, 2009
From 7pm-12am
FREE!! ALL AGES!! ALL ARE WELCOME!!
at Olympic Mills Commerce Center
107 SE Washington St.

(head down Washington St. toward the river, enter on the south side of the building-
You'll know it when you get there! (map)

Partial proceeds of the Love show 2009 benefit
OREGON FOOD BANK and BUCKMAN ARTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

* * * * * Please, Please bring a canned food item * * * * *
to donate to your fellow Portlanders in need!

About the Love Show:
The Love show started out as a very reasonable humble endeavor with the following clear goals: to do a non-juried show about love, open to everyone be they beginner or professional; to highlight the complex nature of love as a contrast to all the syrupy romantic schlock we are bombarded with leading up to Valentine's day Read the rest of this entry »

As we all know (because there is a new Jason movie), Friday the 13th proceeds Valentine's day this year. So, to take advantage of both, Odds and Ends is having a show at Valentine's Cafe. If you haven't been to this bar, it is snuggled in an alley around the corner from Berbatti's Pan and Voodoo Doughnut. They finally put up a sign a few months back….I guess the economy has made it too hard to be a hidden spot. It's a nice little place and has a happy hour of food and drink until 8PM, which is quite rare.

Other Portland Valentines Weekend Events here

From ODDS and ENDS:
Valentine's day the 13th bad luck video variety show. The ODDS AND ENDS SCREENING SERIES is kicking off the 2009 season with a hellish three ring circus extravaganza of music, performance and film dedicated to the wonder of black cats, broken mirrors and well…”Love”

Featuring music and performances by: Last Prick Standing, Angela Fair, Rush-N-Disco, Eet, PartyKiller and a special appearance by DJ Favorite Machine!

and Film and videos by: Mona Huneidi, Grace Carter, Emilie Sabath Chioke Nassor, Andrew S. Allen, Salise Hughes, Andrew Ellmaker, Lara Gallagher, Gretchen Hogue and more!

+ Delectable sweet treats provided by The Sugarcube

Valentine's Cafe Portland, OR.
232 SW Ankeny St. Portland, OR 97204
Friday February 13th, 2009, 9 pm
Cost = 5.00 measly dollars

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Statesman and author John Frohnmayer will be at Rontoms this Wednesday to talk about how capitalism rubs democracy the wrong way. Frohnmayer received his appointment to chair the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989. He served during the controversy surrounding arts funding, most visibly around Robert Mapplethorpe. Pressured by the religious right and Pat Buchanan, Frohnmayer was asked to resign in 1992.

He is the author of Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an arts warrior. Houghton Mifflin.(1993)

The Oregon Council for the Humanities sponsors the happy hour conversation with John Frohnmayer. This event is free and open to the public. John Frohnmayer's brother, David B. Frohnmayer, is president of the University of Oregon and former Oregon Attorney General.

Rontoms
600 E. Burnside