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You might notice that we have slowed down a bit the last few days. We are working hard on a new site (and this Portland Jobs site), so not much time to post many announcements.

That being said, there are many great Portland events this first week of April & we wouldn't want to leave you high and dry not knowing what to do the next days.

Also, we are giving away tickets to several shows on Wednesday and Thursday to our Portland Facebook friends and Portland Twitter followers. Follow us/Friend us and win tix.

Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events: April 2-5

Portland April Events You should know about (April 1-5)

• April 1: Stereo Total from Paris/Berlin @ Wonderland Ballroom
  (Great show & we gave tix away for this to our Facebook group last Thursday)
• April 1: Flash Mob: Cisco Guerrilla Dance in Pioneer Square
  (We will live stream this starting around 12:10 PM–watch here)
• April 1: From Portland Jobs: Working in a Creative Economy
• April 1: Great Lakes Swimmers, Super XX Man, Kate Maki @ Doug Fir
  (Super XX Man Review)
• April 1,2: The Crystal Method Live w/LA Riots tix on presale.
  (Pipeline is giving tix away to this Thursday on Facebook & Twitter)
• April 1: Beat Off Battle at Holocene
• April 2: Handmade NW Presents First Thursday in April at NW ActivSpace (flyer)
• April 2: 2009 Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival tickets go on sale
• April 3: Dredg/Torche/From Monument to Masses @ Hawthorne Theatre
• April 3, 4: Mortified at Someday Lounge
  (You can still comment a mortifying story and win tix here)
  
• April 3: Quasi at Backspace (What?! Only $8!)
  (We are giving away free tix to this on facebook!) Read the rest of this entry »

I just got this message from Fantasy For Adults (Only). I was not aware that Mr. Breedlove was on a media tour. Here is your chance to meet the man who makes all the boys, men (many ladies and some political officials) hot.

Update: looks like we'll be there with Melissa Lion to interview/take pics

From Fantasy For Adults:
Beau Breedlove will be doing an in store signing appearance and signing copies of Unzipped. Unzipped is a gay men's magazine…Playboy for the gay man.

Beau Breedlove: A Man Made for Fantasy
Portland based model, Beau Breedlove, has got what it takes to make it.

If there are any doubts of that left, opening May's issue of Unzipped Magazine will end them. The seven page pictorial reveals Breedlove's range between sexy and sweet, and brings elegance to Unzipped. It's about time someone from Stumptown got some real… exposure.

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The Beat Off Battle takes place tomorrow at Holocene. It starts at 9PM and costs $5. Want to spend that $5 on drinks instead? Thanks to Eric, we have a couple pairs of tix for this show to give away. If you want a pair, leave a comment below or email us & we'll set you up.

Want more free tickets? We give away several every Thursday to our Facebook group. Last Thursday, we gave away to tickets to shows at Wonder Ballroom, Holocene, Rotture, Backspace, Someday Lounge, Fez Ballroom & more. Join our group and you can get some of that freeness too…

From Erik of the Beat Off Battle:

I wanted to let you know about the next Beat Off battle on Wed April 1st. The battle will be at the Holocene and the doors open at 9pm and the  battle starts at 10 pm. There will be a dj in the bar room along with an all mpc live pa set by a group called the production center.

This is the fourth battle in series of six and the winner will receive 100 dollars cash and gain entry to the grand battle in which all six previous winners  will battle for a 600 dollar cash prize.

(details on how to win tix at bottom of post)

Posted By Nathalie Weinstein

Cisco Umbrella Ad
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Portland, Oregon

Update 04-01: Click image above to watch the Umbrella Cisco Ad shoot

More Portland April Events here

It's springtime in Portland and that means wabbit flash mob season, or in this case–ads depicting flash mobs. This one appears to be done by Cisco instead of T-MOB. I'm guessing it has to do with their recent half-billion Flip video purchase (I was wrong). They're out of money now to pay extras, but they still got some change in the pockets for coffee & cookies.

From Amber Geiger:

Hi all!

EXTRAS needed for guerrilla dance performance.  It will be similar to the T-Mobile guerrilla dance performance in Liverpool station…but Portland style so not quite as huge

WHAT: Guerrilla dance performance for a Cisco video.

WHY:  We need extras to be in the square when the performance happens. You don't need to know how to dance…just be a bystander.

WHEN: 12noon to 1:30pm, Wednesday April 1.

WHERE: Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland.

WARDROBE: if possible, wear business style clothing.

It doesn't pay but it will be fun to be a part of! Plus there will be coffee and cookies!

Thanks! Please let me know if you can make it.

Amber

If you want to join in, contact Amber at amber @ ambergeiger. com.

Posted By Teresa Huarte

This past September I was one of hundreds of people standing in a line that wrapped around the entire block of the Wonder Ballroom. I was waiting to see Ratatat perform during Music Fest Northwest, and the performance was well worth the wait (and the ice cream bars passed out to those in line didn't hurt either).

Ratatat is the kind of instrumental band that I wanted to see live so I could see how they created their unique sound. The purist in me was happy to discover that many of the sounds are created by talented musicians on electric guitars, bass and keys, not just MAC laptops and high-end synthesizers. And one can't forget to mention the dazzling projection screen onstage with its syncopated imagery ranging from Hindu Gods to awesome outdated fight scenes from Predator.

The whole show felt like rock meditation; not like a hippy jam band, but more like a celebration of electric guitar and simple percussion. I was able to appreciate the music in all its purity as the entire crowd was moved and hooked by the subtle and effective rhythm changes.

A live Ratatat show is not to be missed and judging by the line last time, this one will be longer. So get there early, because I doubt they'll be giving out free hot cocoa this time around. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted By Nathalie Weinstein

Shop co-owner Celeste Sipes with an item from the store's Spring collection
Radish Underground
414 SW 10th Ave, Portland, Or, 97205
Photo by Nathalie Weinstein

Bracelets made from metal spinal columns and feathered party hats are only some of the treasures you'll find at Radish Underground, a boutique and gallery space in Portland's West End Fashion District. Owners and former ballerina's Celeste Sipes and Gina Johnson have stocked their small space with everything from unique, sustainably produced local women's fashions, to new vinyl from local musicians.

—More pictures & articles on Radish Underground (CORALINE artist! ) after  jump… Read the rest of this entry »

Update: Concert moved to February 10, 2010

Posted By Julian Chadwick

Earlier this morning, I went over to the press cconference of a “major concert announcement” at Rose Garden. Let me say this–coffee cake–delicious. They sent out the announcement invitation on Friday, & the general consensus from people on twitter (I'm looking at you Steph Stricklen) and over at the Mercury* was U2. Wrong.

You can watch the live video stream I had up earlier here on Qik. It's not that great of quality and the sound is a bit low, but it was live. If you can do better live quality & want to join the pipeline team, email us and you too can have delicious coffee cake.

From Press Release:

Billy Joel and Elton John come Face 2 Face at the Rose Garden Nov 10
Who: Billy Joel and Elton John
When: Tue, Nov 10, 2009 ● 7:30p
Where:  Rose Quarter — Rose Garden, Portland, Oregon

Billy Joel and Elton John, the most successful and longest-running concert pairing in pop history, will reunite for their Face 2 Face tour at Rose Garden on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Billy and Elton open the concert with a series of duets, playing twin pianos and trading vocals. Each artist then performs a set with his own band. A grand finale brings the two superstars and their supporting musicians back together for a closing encore. This includes some of both Billy and Elton's greatest hits along with an unpredictable selection of rock and roll classics.

Tickets: Tickets are priced at Read the rest of this entry »

Better Living Show
Portland, Oregon
March 28, 2009
Photo by GeoffK

Lots of events happening this Sunday. Below are several from Leigh Feldman and Pipeline. We recommend the ones in red. If you are out (or have been out) this weekend and took pictures, send them to us at pdxpipeline @ gmail dot com. We'll add them to our weekend round-up post tomorrow with credit to you and link to your website.

Sunday, March 29

• Casting extras for a movie with Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell @ Lloyd Center Doubletree (be in a movie!)
• Soap Box Derby @ Mt. Tabor (watch people get hurt) (This is sign in at Beulahland)
• Gong Show @ Kelly's Olympian (variety show)
• Lake @ Rontoms (indie rock)
• From Pipeline: Wicked Cast Party @ Groove Suite featuring Wicked Tour DJ, Open to Public, Free! 9pm-close ("Wicked" Continues to Amaze | Keller Auditorium)
• Skate Like A Girl @ The Department (girls only skate session)
• Dark Meat @ Doug Fir (indie rock party)
• From Pipeline: Get Naked: Champagne Autograph Party! at Muddy Waters Coffee Shop
  
• HR from Bad Brains @ Berbati's (hard reggae rock)
• Lego Fest @ Convention Center (tons of lego sculptures)
• The House of Sound Art Show @ NAAU (art / large scale installation)
• Boy Eats Drum Machine @ Backspace (electro rock dance abstract)
  (Boy Eats Drum Machine pictures & review)
• Zombie Burlesque Party @ Dunes (alternative party rock/dance)
• Mega*Church @ Someday Lounge (rock)
• Better Living Show Fashion Show @ Expo Center (fashion)
• DJ Nealie Neal @ Moloko Plus (funk and soul)
• SWAN Event @ Expo Center (30 female authors and performers)
• Percussion Performance @ Evans Music Center (marimba, djembe, timpani drums)

Posted By Megan Bradley

Fans of The Portland Cello Project would do well to keeps their eyes and ears out for the member's many side projects. As they build audiences for their solo work, you can often catch them for free these days. Wednesday night at wine bar The Press Club on 26th and Clinton in Southeast, was the brilliant inaugural edition of Cello in the Round, a sort of showcase for these various projects.

Playing to a packed house of 70 in this tiny, usually mellow joint, Cello Project members, Allegra M (myspace), Ashia, Anna Fritz and Sami Kushnick (as Walking Home: myspace), Sonja Myklebust (myspace), and Skip Von Kuske (myspace), showed off their skills. The show was a hit, so this is likely to become a regular bi-monthly gig (although turnout was so great, expect it to be at a slightly larger venue next time).

Organizer of Cello in the Round, Ashia, Polish-American diva, self-described as “Cello Folk Cabaret for Babushka Lovers”, made my heart catch fire, burn, and then smolder for five delicious minutes with her torch number, Pay to Be Loved. Her cello playing is of course up to the high standards of any Cello Project performer, but add in her voice and the alchemy is magic. Check her music page at: myspace.com/ashiavc. She is playing for free (well, buy some drinks, eat some food) this Saturday at bar/restaurant Virgo and Pisces in Nob Hill (Northwest) at 10PM: http://www.virgoandpisces.com/events/.

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