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Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is reproduced below. You can get the email and your chance to win hookups for shows and deals by emailing leighfeldman3 @ gmail and asking to join

There are many listings so we have put events in red that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: Also, we give out free tickets every week to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.

From Leigh Feldman:

Things I'm currently jocking…

The fact that it's Father's Day on Sunday! As a young child (read: ages 4-26) I used to go into his closet and gift wrap something he already owned and give it to him. This year I got him something much better .. Congrats you're gonna be a grandfather!! Just kidding. No child yet, but I would like to take this chance to tell you how wonderful you are Dad and hope that everyone here does the same on Sunday, not just for their father, but for anyone and everyone around them that they love.

Free music ish… This mix from DJ 208, who held it down at the Michael Jordan party recently. It's pretty partytastic – http://tinyurl.com/nk8lhh

All the weird stuff going on this weekend — Swinger Clubs, Air Sex, Bike Rides, Free Beer Events, Fashion Shows, Dominatrix led Comedy Events. This city is fantastic. PS — I finally got twitter and will talking about all the things I see. @leighfeldman3. I promise it will be absolutely ridiculous.

Life is a party, everyone is just waiting to be invited.
See you all out and about!
Leigh Feldman

Thursday, June 18

• Commotion and Bounce Brigade @ Goodfoot (funk, Afrobeat, bass, live party tracks)
• White Light @ Valentines (free disco/electro dance party)
• Art Spark @ Rontoms (a gathering of artists in PDX to meet and collaborate on possible projects)
• Girls Rock Camp Benefit Show @ Rotture (bands, bands and booze)
• Pink Party Planned Parenthood Benefit @ Holocene (DJ Global Ruckus and DJ Anjali, plus Brazilian percussion group Samba Gata will keep you moving to world beat sounds)
• PDX Burlesque Event @ Hawthorne Theater (dance performance and cabaret show)
• Diamond D @ Someday (only $5 to see this famous hip hop producer and record collector)
• Flavour @ The Agency (hip hop, club, dance, upscale party)
• X-otica Go Go w/ DJ Izm & DJ Nature @ Dante's (booty bass, booty and bass)
• Cinema Project ‘Amar Kanwar' @ NW 13th (screening of film project)
• Builders and Butchers CD Release Show @ Wonder Ballroom (some good ole' Appalachian folk)
• Midnite @ Crystal Ballroom (some good ole' reggae)
• Boy Eats Drum Machine @ Mississippi Studios (abstract sounds and samples played live)
• Humane Society Party @ Pala (raffle, music, fashion, pets)
• Delicious @ Crown Room (dj's, dancing, decorations)
• Inviting Desire @ IFCC (a performance based on women's sexual fantasies, plus some naked ladies)
• NW Club DJ Spinoff Semifinals @ Dirty (club and top 40 dj competition)
• Luncacy Stageworks presents ‘Sight Unseen' @ Sellwood Masonic Lodge (pay what you will Thursday's for live theater)
• 3rd Annual Rocky Butte Sunset Ride @ Irving Park (food, dancing, portable sound systems, bikes, sunset)
• Quasi @ Disjecta (indie rock and readings from someone involved in porn)

Friday, Saturday & Sunday after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

(We have two pairs of tickets to this show. Read bottom of post for more info)

This video is from the last performance I saw Quasi at Backspace (and the last they performed I believe). They are playing a pretty cool show on Thursday @ Disjecta.

From Website and Press Release:

Tin House and Disjecta present
Arty Words Vol. 2
Zak Smith w/ special guest Jon Raymond
w/ music by Quasi
Thu. June. 18th / 7:30 pm / $7 (purchase from Paypal below)

Disjecta and Tin House return to a winning formula for the next installment of Arty Words, the literary/art/music sensation too unwieldy to be called an event. Vol. II features Los Angeles artist and writer Zak Smith, Portland's own Jon Raymond and a very special musical performance by Quasi.

Zak Smith does for alt porn what Hunter S. Thompson did for motorcycle gangs and Tom Wolfe for psychedelica.

Punk artist and icon Zak Smith made a name for himself by visually re-creating Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and drawing pictures of girls in the “naked girl business.” His artistic pedigree and acute observation landed him in high-profile exhibits at the Whitney and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Somewhere along the line, Smith went from the observer to the observed, from the guy with a sketchpad to the guy on-screen doing the unnamable for anyone eighteen or older to see.

We Did Porn follows Zak Smith (aka Zak Sabbath) from the New York art scene to Los Angeles 's seedy, yet colorful, underbelly—the world of alt porn. Through memoir and more than one hundred drawings, Smith narrates his foray into pornography and Read the rest of this entry »

Here are this week's Holocene shows. Events highlighted in red are our picks of the week. Plus there are links to any articles/stories/posts we have done on these events.

Reminder: Also, we give out free tickets every week to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.

Wednesday, June 17
Julie Doiron
Avi Buffalo
Everything is coming together in Julie Doiron's world, from embracing her electric past, to embarking on a new and energetic phase of her solo career with some of the most upbeat and inspiring songs of her recording career…read more here
8:30pm
$8.00 advance
$10.00 day of show

Thursday, June 18 (Pipeline Pick)
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon Presents… Read the rest of this entry »

(Win tickets to Mortified. Info at bottom of the post)

Also, PDX Pipeline's own Meagan Kate will be speaking at this Mortified. GONNA BE SO GOOD. Read her last post about Mortified Portland here…

Posted by Dan Wheeler

You did it.
I did it.
We ALL did it:

Wrote teen-aged unrequited love songs. Kept emotionally overwrought diaries of our seventh grade club-kid escapades. Composed serious poetry about our sexuality before we'd even had our first kiss. Attended public school in the 80's.

We are all pathetic. We are all imperfect. We all have reason to be Mortified.

Mortified is a series of readings held in cities across the country. Volunteers share their most embarrassing moments in their former selves' own unashamed words. The performances take the form of Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Meagan Kate

Back Fence PDX is a Pipeline favorite. We love these ladies and are so excited to see their one-year birthday show!

Wednesday, June 17th at the Mission Theater, Back Fence will be celebrating its first year of existence. Sure, every show is like a special little snowflake – but this one is the most specialist of them all!

The show that began at a creperie with 60 people in attendance, has outgrown its space and moved to the Mission Theater.  The event has gotten recognized by some of the largest publications in Oregon and continues to impress new attendees with its style and regulars with the continued honesty of its storytellers.

If you have never been to a Back Fence PDX event, this is the perfect opportunity to see people telling their unscripted stories of heartbreak, embarrassment, hilarity and sex. There's always a story about sex.

Doors will open at 6, as usual — but instead of getting embarrassingly drunk and waiting until 7:30 for the show to start – there will be hot ladies in bikinis at 7:15! That's right, kids, you read that correctly! Popina Swimsuits will be on display. Ogling is encouraged.

Just like the last event, Tiny Meat will be selling wallets at intermission – so make sure you stop by the merch table to check them out!

This show's amazing story tellers will be:

VIVA  LAS VEGAS Stripper and author

RAEL DORNFEST UX Engineer, Twitter

JAMI CURL Owner, Saint Cupcake

PEMA TEETER Playwright and ghostwriter

ERIC SCHNIEWIND Geologist

NICOLE GEORGES Comic artist and advice columnist

JEFF HARDISON Preacher's Grandson

Check out the Back Fence PDX site for more detailed info about the storytellers, and to see past posts and updates.

Don't forget to show up early to get a seat and a drink before the theater fills up and you find yourself standing up against a pillar or sitting next to Pipeline's very own Nathalie Weinstein and I while we hold our post at the merch table. Nobody wants that.

WHAT: Back Fence PDX

WHEN: Wednesday, June 17th. Doors at 6pm, fashion show at 7:15, show at 7:30

WHERE: Mission Theater

TICKETS?: Buy them online for $10; $12 at the door

Related: Portland's 2010 Cirque du Cycling Bike Street Fair Event Schedule

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More daily stank video bank videos here.

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Update: 2011 Portland Naked Bike Ride Info, Pictures, Nudity Facts, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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An estimated 5,000 take part in Portland’s Naked Bike Ride
The masses assemble in Northwest Portland prior to the World Naked Bike Ride. There were bikes and flesh as far as the eye could see in every direction when I took this photo (from the roof of a school bus).

–Jonathan Maus, BikePortland
Jonathan has a lot of pics and a full rundown at his site.

Related: Our Portland Event List

Related Posts on Pipeline:

• Portland Naked Bike Ride With The Flaming Lips
• Video: World Naked Bike Ride in Portland | Hawthorne Bridge

If you have pictures or storied from the ride, please comment them. Here is a breakdown from one commenter on the Pipeline who took part in an earlier naked bike ride:

I arrived at the Coe circle at about 1:20 PM. The weather was nice and calm and nearly 70 degrees.  About 8 riders were there.  There was 1 couple with a tandem and they were in the process of body painting.  He was nude and she was wielding the brush. One other girl was there and she was not yet making any move toward stripping.  3 of the men had their tops off but no shorts off at this time, except the man being painted.  Within 5 minutes 2 of the other men had their shorts off.  A couple of curiosity seekers joined us and more riders arrived including several more girls/women.

No one seemed to be in charge, which is just as well, since nearly everyone was here to do only one thing.  Get naked and Read the rest of this entry »

(Full Weekend: 50+ Weekend Events & Parties + Free Tickets | June 12-14)

Posted by Christine Taylor

Huh?  I'm sorry I don't understand.  What are you saying?  Deelay Ceelay?  What the…?

Abstractly it is a merry blend of tune, percussion, color, and light synthesized into danceable intellectual melody; a fuzzy rocket scientist.  The more literal explanation is it's a band name that represents a playful rendition off the names of its two members, Delaney Kelly and Chris Lael Larson.

Part live and part electronically pre-recorded (synched with a projected experimental video experience) tonight's Deelay Ceelay show at Backspace will impress even the most jaded self-proclaimed music connoisseurs.   Do not expect to see or hear the typical live set. All I am going to say is Delaney and Chris both play drum kits on stage.  Their sound resonates a calm complexity full of rich enthusiasm that unites audience with instrumentation.  In other words — you will feel it.

You can download their EP here.

An added bonus is that t Read the rest of this entry »

We give out VIP tickets (FREE BEER!) for the Roller Derby for nearly bout and will have 10 pairs for the championship coming soon. Join our Facebook group to win them.

Related Posts for your weekend pleasures:

• 50+ Weekend Events & Parties + Free Tickets | June 12-14
• 2009 Portland Pride Events Guide: June 12-14

How to Give a Beating in Skates and Spandex: the Countdown to PDX Roller Derby Victory

Posted by Stephanie El-Hajj

Picture by Steve Price

Last Saturday I joined my fellow Portland-Derby goers in the huge warehouse practice space, called "The Hanger" at Oaks Park Roller Skating Rink. The stadium was packed to capacity, bodies spilling off the few benches and crammed together on the floor (in designated areas, of course). Roller derby conjured images of Mad-Max battle cages, and having never seen a bout before, I expected a few of the derby girls to come out in chain mail and leather and battle to the death in an iron dome. Instead, the ladies came bursting into the rink, dressed in an explosion of Lycra, glitter, purple tights, and imposing body padding (some of which looked suspiciously like armor). When the glitter settled, the players stood proud atop their multicolored skate wheels, in fierce display of determination and ruthlessness.

As luck would have it, the only person in the world who Read the rest of this entry »

If you are looking for a Portland Pride Week event guide, we have that here.

Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is reproduced below. You can get the email and your chance to win hookups for shows and deals by emailing leighfeldman3 @ gmail and asking to join

There are many listings so we have put events in red that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: Also, we give out free tickets every week to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music and art venues in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.

From Leigh Feldman:

Things I'm currently jocking…

Weekend events… It's Pride and Pedalpalooza Weekend. So many things to do. Drag Races, Bike Races, Drag Performances, Bike Dancing, Dance Parties, Boat Rides, Block Parties, Naked Parties, Naked Rides and Nakedness in general.

Free music ish… A free remix album from Mad Decent's Toy Selectah – http://www.maddecent.com/mp3/toyselectah_MexMoreLP.zip and a new club mix from DJ Marvel – http://www.instinctdjs.com/mp3/djmarvel/No_Requests_Vol_3.mp3

DIY Events… So many fashion shows this month!! Explode La Mode and PDX Collections this weekend, the A.I, Silhouette Fashion Show, Zita Hollywood Fashion Show, the Create Clothing Trunk Show and the Pets Get This Fashion Show next weekend and at the end of the month is Massive #8. But perhaps the best DIY event in PDX right now is the weekly music gathering of musicians at Tony Ozier's Wednesday night party ‘The Doo Doo Jam.' It's at Club Calabash, it's free and it's pretty much what every person needs in their life — a little bit of funk and a whole lot of soul. I'll be there next week. Maybe I'll see you there too.

Life is a party, everyone is just waiting to be invited.
Leigh Feldman

Friday, June 12

• Portland Is Burning @ Someday (dance party, drag queens, performances, music)
• Ice Cream Fest w/ Grey Anne, Sallie Ford and more! @ Junior Ambassadors (ice cream, bands, sunset,
• ON:Gallery Broadcast Party @ ON:Gallery (come watch the dawning of the digital age e.g. the switch from analog to digital tv)
• Wend Magazine Ping Pong Tournament @ Lizard Lounge (spots may be full, but go to drink and shop)
• East Infection w/ DJ Izm @ East (weekly hip hop and club lounge party)
• Azsa West's Lesbian Art Show @ Fontanelle Gallery (mixed media designs)
• Mansion Mixtape Release Party @ Bossanova (hip hop showcase)
• Kulturszene @ Branx (minimal techno)
• Rose City BBall Showcase @ Lewis & Clark (streetball competition)
• Fruitcake @ Rumpspankers (go go dancers, dj's, lots of fun)
• Sucka Free w/ DJ Wicked, Mighty Moves and Deff Ro @ Tiger Bar (hip hop dance party)
• Nate Allen 6 Month US Tour Kickoff Party @ The Coop (banjo folk punk .. yes, banjo folk punk)
• Rave Cave w/ White Rainbow, Breakfast Mountain and Ghosting @ The Wail (live PA electro)
• Dom-Prove @ Hipbone Studios (improv comedy led by a dominatrix)
• BFA/MFA Thesis Show @ PNCA (art art art)
• OMSI Film Festival @ OMSI (movies in omnimax)
• Shpongle @ Wonder Ballroom (burning man jam band party)
• Shpongle Afterparty w/ Devon Who and David Starfire @ 2410 (this will go to the wee hours of the morn)
• Bike Porn Premier Party / Mystery Ride @ Mystery Location (screening of bike porn films and then a ride to a secret location)
• Yamio 263, Living Proof, Lady Adie @ Berbati's Pan (a mix of hip hop and electro)
• DJ Roane @ Report (hip hop, downbeat, lounge)
• PUFF V @ Clinton St. Theater (5th Annual PDX Underground Film Festival)

Saturday and Sunday after the break… Read the rest of this entry »