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Mount Tabor is old. How old? So old it knew Burger King while he was still a prince. So old it knew Clark before he got Sacajawea pregnant the first time. So old it reads the Willamette Week (oh noes…approaching trouble town).

There is a huge party to celebrate this oldness starting tomorrow.

From the Mount Tabor Anniversary website (mttabor100.org).

Mount Tabor Park is today one of the oldest urban parks in the United States (Mount Tabor is so old, it knew Mr. Clean when he had an afro.).

Mount Tabor Park's centennial is established as 1909, when the City of Portland completed purchasing the rural lands now comprising the park. The site was identified in 1903 by landscape architect John Charles Olmsted, brother of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Related Posts and Info from Pipeline

• Portland EVENTS LISTINGS
• 75+ Portland Weekend Events & Parties: July 30-August 2
• August 1: Portland Fremont Festival

Full event schedule and possibly more Mount Tabor is so old jokes after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Related: Portland Events List

Fremont Fest Parade '06
Portland, Oregon
Shot by tiglath

Posted by Reuben Smith

Kick off August with Festive Style!

Every Saturday deserves an activity packed, family-friendly, street fair. This week's is the Fremont Fest, an annual day of summer time fun that will include a parade, live music, a sidewalk sale, an art show and carriage rides. The parade starts at 10:30am, so be sure to get out there early to take advantage of the whole day.

Fremont Fest stretches from NE 42nd to NE 57th on Fremont St. and will be happening from 10am — 4pm, so even if you miss the parade you can come grab a carriage ride and make your own parade.

The Fest boasts heaps of food and tons of Read the rest of this entry »

Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events & Parties: July 30-August 2

Posted by Kristen Imes

An Hour and a Half Filled with Death, Sex, Drugs, Violence, and Homosexuality? Good GRIEF!

Snoopy killed Woodstock and in turn, is, well, killed / "put down" / call it what you will. Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Brian Allard, is an Bert Royal's unauthorized take on what happens to Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang after Snoopy dies – a work so unlicensed that the playwright changed all of the characters' names, presumably to avoid lawsuits; to avoid confusion I've changed them right back.

The play opens with sexually-confused Charlie Brown* (Noah Goldenberg) and his Goth/ Wiccan / Christian / gangsta / some-combination-of-them-all sister, Sally, (Kaia Hillier) burying Snoopy before the re-introducing the audience to a re-imagined pubescent cast of all your favorite PEANUTS characters — Linus (Tristyn Chipps) is like that one guy from high school who is stoned 95% of the time — the kind of person who will get stoned and do yoga and read Buddhist philosophy. Beethoven (Joel Durham) still plays the piano and is s ridiculed and picked on for presumably being gay.

Peppermint Patty (Becca Anderson) and Marcie (Lissie Lewis) are the Read the rest of this entry »

Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events & Parties: July 30-August 2

Posted by Mike Harper

Riding on the touring current of their recently released album, Upper Air, Bowerbirds will fly through your soul with their soulful folk tunes like sunlit dust landing on the wind. Crossing between sincere hymns and call-and-response, the collective vocals of this band have the vibrancy of a room full of old friends resonating off the walls of the North Carolina woodlands.

Beth Tacular ties her sorrowfully smiling accordion around Phil Moore's vocals on slow numbers that will make your eyelids close into a smile.

Violins hide in front of simple guitar strings slapping out questions answered by harmonies of rattling percussion and a swooning upright bass. Their last album was on repeat for about a month after I bought it, and Upper Air is soon to surpass that record.

Megafaun (www.megafaun.com)
Also hailing from North Carolina, Megafaun has got that full folk sound — fuller than you'd expect from a 3-piece. They must be hiding Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Mike Harper

There's nothing better than a cold brew on tap after a nice long bike ride. There's nothing better than a cold brew after a short one either. Hell. Beer just goes well with bikes no matter how long the ride. That's why this city is so great. We've got breweries and bikes like they're going out of style, and here's a ride that mixes all of that together. Even the going out of style part (that's my opinion — no offense meant to the Hawaiian shirt wearing crowd — I'm just not plugged into dad style shirt fashion yet). Yes, Hawaiian shirts are necessary for this ride.

Take a tour de beer around Portland starting at the Deschutes Brewery and make your way around with Livers and Blisters as the group hits Rock Bottom, Produce Row Café, Widmer, Bridgeport, and Rogue! If you haven't visited these places yet, it's all mapped out for you — just drink up and follow the herd of bikes! Everyone is welcome and it's no race. Just a cruise and brew around the city.

Related: Portland Events List

Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is reproduced below with some additions by Pipeline. 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 (or blue = linked!) that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: 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.

Related: Portland EVENTS LISTINGS

From Leigh Feldman:

Things I'm currently jocking…

Free music ish… this mix from local record collector and selector DJ Roane. It's his Cancer mix for all the people that just finished celebrating their birthdays. Enjoy!  zshare.net/download/628

The ridiculousness that is our city!! Last weekend was incredible and it seems that PDX keeps rolling. Some amazing examples of amazing things that amazing people in this town are doing… Minh Tran's video of PDX Night Scenes (minhternet.com), Dead Letter and The Watershed's profile in the Portland Tribune (grab a copy at most newspaper stands), PDX 'hip-pop' artist Illaj's new video filmed at Rontoms (youtube.com), the continuation of PDX musicians being mentioned in magazines, Kenny Fresh's influential blog Freshselects.net, the possibility of a VH1/MTV reality show based in our city (?!?!) and MSNBC's article on how wonderful Portland is despite all the not so wonderful things happening in the job market (www.msnbc.msn.com).

Life is a party (even if you are unemployed), everyone is just waiting to be invited.

See you all out and about! Leigh Feldman

Portland Thursday Events: July 30

• Last Thursday on Alberta Street @ Alberta St (art, performances, street party!)
• The Pack Book Art Opening @ The Goodfoot (art art and beer)
• Lysa @ Wxyz lounge, Aloft Hotel @ Portland Airport (Deep, Progressive and Funky House)
• Scion Metro Showcase w/ DJ Fashen, DJ Eleven and Federation Sound @ Branx (free w/ rsvp @ scionmetro)
• Nobis Hats/Dapper Cap Last Thursday Party w/ Quivah, DJ Izm, Ramsey Brothers @ Dapper Cap (hip hop, beer, hats)
• Pipeline Pick: Starlight Mints @ Doug Fir + Video
• Soul Clap Dance Off w/ DJ Beyonda @ Rotture (soul and r&b)
• Castle Greyskull Showcase @ Caste Greyskull (indie folk)
• 6th Annual HairM Golf Tourney & Barbq Party @ Stone Creek (golf, food, massages, prizes)
• Rose City Rollers 5th Annual Benefit Event @ Delta Cafe (food and fundraiser)
• First Fest w/ Swim Swam Swum @ Berbati's (pop rock)
• The Secrets of Nimh / The Woodlands @ Hotel de Luxe Rooftop (movie and music)
• Apparel Sale @ 1625 NE Sandy (1000's of shirts, hoodies and other screen printed gear starting at $2)
• I Hate Your Job w/ DJ KG @ Tube (soul/r&b and rock)
• J Roby, Graintable, The Great Mundane @ Report (glitch, dubstep, bass)
• Raphael Vigilantics @ Angelo's (hip hop, beat rock, spoken word)
• Chariots of Rubber @ Theater! Theater! (a play about cars, hookers and carnivals)
• Psychedelic Sock Hop w/ DJ AM Gold @ The Tanker (Psych, Rockabilly, Surf, Early Soul and R&B and Fuzzed-out Garage)
• Flavour @ The Agency (hip hop, club, dance)
• The Fix @ Someday Lounge (hip hop)
• Delicious @ Crown Room (weekly alternative party with super cheap drinks)
• X-otica Go Go @ Dante's (bass and booty)
• Trivia Night @ World Famous Kenton Club (quiz games)
• Rose City Sirens @ Hawthorne Theater (burlesque performance)
• Trivia Night @ La Merde (quiz games)
• Twisted Thursdays @ Calabash (hip hop)

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

Posted by Christine Taylor

Years ago (before we knew of the scandal), I helped J.T. LeRoy, do some research for one of his novels. One of the best monologues I ever heard is, ‘Truth', by the controversial artist Mike Daisey. This monologue reflects his own 'open & honest' history of lying and telling the truth off of the story about J.T.LeRoy and also the story about James Frey. Mike shares his monologues with partially improvised, and amusing words, based off notes he reads that rest on the table he sits at during his performance.

On August 1st, at Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, in the alluring Wieden+Kennedy atrium, he will tell Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Julian Chadwick

Starlight Mints @ the Granada Theater
Dallas Texas 6-25-09
Shot by granadamusiclive

I have been looking around, but can't find any quality video of the Mints new tour on the interwebs. Hopefully, Brewcaster and I can change that tonight. Either way, you can see that they put on a fun performance even if the audio in this is shite.

In 2005, I couch-surfed on Allan Vest's (lead singer) woman's futon for a couple months (get married so this sentence will be less clunky!). It was shaped like the sun (from owner: “or a half moon when it was not made into a bed”). Allan pretty much lived there as well and we three spent many an evening sipping bourbons and playing cards. It was a good time. It was a great time. This will be a fantastic show and I would go with “not miss” if you are looking to see music tonight in Portland.

Related: Portland EVENTS LIST

Downtown Tillamook, Oregon
Photo by Julian Chadwick

OH BOY! It is only going to ONLY be 92 on Friday. That's like the arctic after yesterday's insanity. Is 10AM too early for wine and cheese or beer and cheese? If you have to work tomorrow, take off. This should be an interesting site.

From Press Release:

TILLAMOOK CHEESE CELEBRATES ITS 100TH ANNIVERSARY IN STYLE WITH

TWO CENTENNIAL EVENTS THIS SUMMER

The Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA), formed as a farmer-owned cooperative in 1909, has earned a reputation as one of the nation's premier makers of cheese. TCCA is inviting every Tillamook Cheese fan to join in celebration of its 100th anniversary. There will be free celebratory events in Portland on July 31 and at the Tillamook Cheese Factory on August 1, in Tillamook, Oregon.

On July 31, join Tillamook Cheese in Portland at Pioneer Courthouse Square from 10am-4pm for a full day of 100th anniversary fun.

Several free events are scheduled to celebrate Tillamook Cheese's 100th anniversary at Pioneer Courthouse Square including: Read the rest of this entry »

Scott Fish (scottfish.com) sent these pics over to us a bit ago of the Portland fire on NW 21st & Glisan.

From Scott:

Here are some photos from the fire that was on NW 21st and Glisan.
There were about 4 hook and ladder fire trucks and quite a few ambulances.  The fire dept closed down the NW 21st street in front of the building.  I heard that it was a 2 alarm fire.  It broke out around 5:30.

Update (from DP on Livejournal)

The fire started in the basement and rose up through the floors; the top two are a complete loss. Everyone got out okay and has been situated with the Red Cross, etc, but they won't be allowed to go back through at least tomorrow. Nobody knows what the cause is. Ladder #3 has the hottest guys. Only one person spotted using a RAZR to take a picture of the scene with himself in it. The Blue Moon is unharmed and open for business although their service still blows.

Related: Portland Pictures

Many more after the break… Read the rest of this entry »