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“Busking Hawthorne”
Hawthorne Street
Portland, Oregon
July, 2007
Taken by Julian Chadwick

I took this pic a couple summers ago. The Hawthorne Street Fair is Sunday and you'll probably see a lot of busking in addition to the regular events and art displays.

Related Info and Posts from PDX Pipeline

• Hawthorne Street Fair Info & Schedule, 11am-5pm
• 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | August 13-16
• Portland Pictures

Every week, Pipeline gives away many tickets to great shows all around Portland (and sometimes outside of Portland). We usually reserve many/most of these for friends of ours on Facebook & in our Email list.

For a month, we are showing everyone the tickets we are giving away and anyone can enter to win. However, you will need to join our email list here (ideal) or be a member of our Facebook Group to see these deals in the following weeks.

Looking for something to do this weekend?

75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | August 13-16

Some of our top picks this weekend:

• August 14-23: 10-Day Portland Festival of Visual Art, Music & Performance
• August 13-16: Meetin Portland Celebration (main event @ Fez Ballroom on 14th)
• August 14: Portland Bike Sharing System Experiment
• August 15: 4th Annual ‘AC/VC' Arts Extravaganza @ AudioCinema
  
• August 15: Hip Chicks Do Wine 10th Anniversary Party + Win Tickets
• August 16: It's a Terrible Movie!
• August 16: BridgePort 25th Anniversary Party
• August 16: Portland Bike Sharing System Experiment
• August 16: Portland India Festival Video & Information | Pioneer Square
• August 16: Hawthorne Street Fair, 11am-5pm

Free Tickets and info after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Do you have any Portland Non-profit suggestions? Comment them below.

Sent over from our friends @ EngineWorks

Are you a lover of pets or animals and want to give back to the animals of Portland? Here are three different non-profit animal organizations that could use your love and help.

Oregon Humane Society

Since 1868 the Oregon Humane Society has relied entirely on private donations and volunteers to help animals find a home. Since then it has become the largest and oldest humane society in the Pacific Northwest, by helping over 10,000 animals per year. In 1997 the Oregon Humane Society made history when it opened the nation's first Animal Medical and Learning Center. Volunteer opportunities include foster care, dog walking, assistance with special events, and more.   The Oregon Humane Society is looking for volunteers that are any age or ability!  You will join a team of over 1,000 compassionate volunteers that help facilitate hundreds of animal adoptions per year.

Animal Aid

Since 1969 Animal Aid has served the Portland Metro area animal community. This organization strives to reduce animal birth rates and suffering through public education programs. Animal Aid uses its monetary fund to help families or individuals in financial distress help their pets in need of urgent veterinary care. Animal Aid also provides adoption services for over 125 dogs and cats and shelters for another 40-50 abandoned animals every year. Volunteers range in age from 6-80 years old and act as caregivers, event coordinators, and foster home coordinators.  You can be a caregiver, an event coordinator, or offer your home up as a foster parent to one of hundreds of animals throughout Portland.   Weekend and weekday opportunities also exist!

Portland Animal Welfare Team

The Portland Animal Welfare Team makes veterinary care accessible to the pets of those experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty. Homeless shelters do not allow pets inside, leaving the animals outside and unattended. The emotional stress to provide adequate care can often be overwhelming. The Portland Animal Welfare provides six "street" clinics each year, which provide care for an average of 70 animals per clinic. Volunteers help with outreach, the health clinics, community events, and many other activities. The PAW team is looking for many different veterinary supplies and general supplies.  Check out their list of critical ongoing medical supplies needed to keep their operations running.

These are 3 organizations that we picked; now it's your turn!

Give Back, Even Without Time

If you're short on time and aren't able to volunteer at one of these organizations there's still a way to help them or any other local "pet-friendly" organization of your choice. EngineWorks, a local company, is putting on a contest, "Helping Animals One Search at a Time." With a simple blog post you could help an organization generate more donations through the web.

For more details on the contest visit http://www.engineworks.com/helping-animals/

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 ish… If you are a fan of hip-hop we have a ton of tickets this week! And we're giving them to the first people that respond and request them! We have three tickets to see Invincible at Someday Lounge tonight, two tickets to see the Mystik Journeyman (members of Living Legends) on Friday at Slabtown, two tickets to see Mike Slott Friday at Crown Room, 5 passes to the Dew Tour to see LFMAO and 1 VIP booth for 4 to see Pete Rock Saturday night at the Crown Room. Pete Rock!?! Yes, Pete Rock… We also have two movie passes for District 9 for Friday afternoon and 2 free passes to the MC Escher art show at the Portland Art Museum. Wanna win any of them? Hit me back first and say "Gimmie Gimmie, I want tickets to _______!" (From Pipeline: These tickets are only available to people on Liegh's email list, not through us).

Free music ish… Local producer and mc Dave Notti and beatsmith Hi-Res team up to create ‘The New Chill.' This is for fans of hip hop and for anyone that appreciates beautiful music. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1ynrzzgihyj

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

See you all out and about! Leigh Feldman

Portland Thursday Events, August 13

• I've Got A Hole in My Soul w/ DJ Beyonda @ Rotture (the once a month r&b dance fest)
• BLVD, Off the Grid, Alpaca @ Berbatis (jam band goodness)
• Club DJ Spinoff Wild Card Battle @ Dirty (some of the best NW club djs)
• Rooftop Movie Screening of Traffic @ Hotel Deluxe (movie and music)
• Empty Space Orchestra @ Goodfoot Lounge (live hip hop collective)
• DJ Rhienna & DJ F @ Random Order (electro dance)
• Beer Belly Dinner @ East Burn (amazing food and beers paired with each course)
• I Hate Your Job w/ DJ KG @ Tube (soul/r&b and rock)
• 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 w/ Invincible @ Someday Lounge (hip hop)
• Delicious @ Crown Room (weekly alternative party with super cheap drinks)
• X-otica Go Go @ Dante's (bass and booty)
• From Pipeline: Portland Wine Tasting Event: 80 Sips @ Portland Art Museum
• 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 Nathalie Weinstein

Three dudes and a laptop

Portland musicians Wax Fingers will bring their aggressive, atmospheric math rock to the Doug Fir Lounge Saturday night with Experimental Dental School, Swim Swam Swun and Mighty Tiger.

If you have a hankering for live, melt-your-face-off indie rock this weekend, then this show is for you, and at only $7 for admission, it's a bargain.

Zack Jacobson (guitar), Tommy Franzen (drums) and Pete Bosack (guitar and vocals) met in 2006 on the virtual world of Craigslist.

"We are a Craiglist band," said Jacobson. "I moved here with the intention of finding like minded musicians, so the first thing I did was put out an ad on Craigslist."

Jacobson says he instantly clicked with Bosack and Franzen, and after repeated efforts at trying out bassists after the band's current bassist left, the group decided to leave the bass notes up their handy laptop, which is present at every show.

A Southeast Portlander, Jacobson's favorite bridge is the St. John's and when he needs a stiff drink, he heads to either Beulahland or Sidestreet Tavern for a freshly squeezed gin and juice. He was kind enough to chat with me after band rehearsal one night about Wax Finger's sound, what he's been reading, and the five albums he couldn't live without. Read the rest of this entry »

We met the Hip Chicks doing wine at the Bite of Oregon Saturday evening. The wines were lovely and people super friendly. They are having their 10 year anniversary this Saturday and we have 4 pairs of tickets to give away for this event. To win, simply comment on this post on why you would like to go. We will draw & email winners on Friday at noon.

Also, don't forget to follow @Oregonwine on twitter for more wine information, thoughts, pictures, deals and events.

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 like THIS SHOW. Join it if you like free stuff.

From Press Release:
Hip Chicks Do Wine Celebrates Ten Year Anniversary
Portland's Premier Urban Winery Commemorates Milestone with Tasting Party

In honor of their first decade in business, Hip Chicks Do Wine will be hosting one of its signature tasting events on Saturday, August 15th from 6 to 9 p.m. at their Southeast Portland winery and tasting room located at 4510 SE 23rd Ave. This truly hip event will feature wine tasting of 10 Hip Chick wines, appetizers and live music from Carlyle, (eclectic, folk, pop). Entry fee for the event is $10 for non-wine club members.

This landmark event is the perfect opportunity to stop in and sample some of the winery's classic bottles including the delightfully sweet Vin Nombril "Belly Button Wine", the spicy Wine Bunny Rouge or the elegant 2007 Pinot Noir.

History

Around ten years ago not a lot of people were making wine in Portland, let alone in Read the rest of this entry »

Ezra sent over the music info for the first weekend of Manor of Art. They are still looking for volunteers  if you have some time from August 14th – 23rd (Volunteers Needed For Manor of Art).

Related: Portland EVENTS LIST

Friday & Saturday August 14-15
The Manor Of Art fest kickoff weekend.
Featuring an incredible lineup of local talent playing for FREE to an ALL-AGES festival.

If the bands aren't enticing enough The Manor Of Art features over 100 visual artists over 3 floors of a converted retirement home. Their will be daily guided tours and a beer and wine garden for those over 21.
This is the Art event of the year.

Friday the 14th
MOA kicks off with Post-punk dance rock from The Prids, party synth rock from World's Greatest Ghosts, Thrash Garage Punk from LA transplants Magic Johnson and amazing turntabilist and one man band Boy Eats Drum Machine juggling percussion and saxophone.
Bands from 6-9pm

Saturday the 15th
Features some of the best electronic dance rock the city has to offer including Disco Electro rockers Atole, acclaimed pop circuit benders Church, one man electronic show Jeffrey Jerusalem, electro Hip-Hop from Quiet Countries, experimental jazzy rock from Rollerball and experimental moody electonics from Holliday Junction.
Bands from 3-9pm

Are you on twitter? Follow @PDXbikes here and post your bike pics, events, & info using the #pdxbikes tag.

I received this announcement from SmartTrips / City of Portland Transportation a couple hours ago. Looks like a great thing to check out and on Sunday, you can make you way down to Laurelhurst Park from the Hawthorne Street Fair. Message:

The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation is studying bike sharing as a potential tool to increase the number of people using bicycles for transportation and recreation – and we need your feedback!

Come try out four different bike sharing systems:

Friday, 8/14 from 10:30 – 6:30pm
Ankeny Pavilion (Waterfront Park just south of the Burnside Bridge)

& Sunday, 8/16 from 9:00 – 4:00pm
Laurelhurst Park, SE Oak and 37th during the Sunday Parkways event

Bicycle sharing systems are automated, public bike rental systems available for short term rental. To learn more about bike sharing, please visit PBOT's bike sharing information website.

We hope to see you on Friday or Sunday!