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St John's Bridge
Photo by Andrew Kaiser
Taken on August 30, 2009

Description:

This was by far one of the most challenging photo shoots I've done in a long while.

The model and I arrived at the bridge at about 4:45 in the morning. Believe it or not, but there is still a heavy amount of traffic coming from both sides, even at that early hour. At each end of the bridge there is a traffic signal and we waited for each side to sync with a red light.

When that would happen, we had a window of about 15 seconds before cars would come barreling across the bridge from both directions, 4 seconds of those dedicated purely to the exposure (it was still very dark).

It was almost like synchronized swimming in a way and we repeated the process about four times crossing out fingers that one of the shots would turn out well.

Ron Jeremy's Club Sesso has its first First Thursday art show tomorrow. Andrew Kaiser is the featured artist and his work is beautiful as you can see from this shot at St John's Bridge (You can view more of his work on Flickr here = NSFW). Also, if you haven't been in Club Sesso before, here is a chance to check it out at a “non-sexual event and FREE of charge”. No word on whether Ron will be there.

Press release from Sesso after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Kristen Imes

Bikes. Art. Free PBR. Does anymore really need to be said?

On Thursday, October 1st, The Cleaners at Ace Hotel will be hosting Artcrank, an art poster show featuring bike-inspired designs by local artists (like Ven Gist – shameless, i know.).

Each poster costs between $30, $5 of which goes directly to Bikes to Rwanda, whose goal is to he goal is to improve quality of life in Rwandan communities through a bike workshop and maintenance program that provides transportation resources for basic needs and enhances production of quality coffee. Read the rest of this entry »

The picture below is from last year's festival and as you can see, it was rainy then too. What's the best thing to do when the weather turns rainy and cold? Go out to the movies. Lucky for you, the Portland Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (PLGFF) begins this Friday.

Related from Pipeline: Portland EVENTS LIST

From Press Release:

The 13th Annual Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (PLGFF) takes place October 2 – 8, 2009 at Cinema 21, 616 NW 21st Ave.

PLGFF is a non-profit arts groups that annually showcases queer feature, documentary and short films from all over the world.

This year's festival begins with a special screening of the Swedish drama PATRIK, AGE 1.5 on Friday, October 2 at 7:30 pm at Cinema 21.

Goran and Sven are the perfect gay couple; they have a beautiful house in the suburbs, a solid relationship, a home full of love and warmth. Newly approved for adoption, they believe that baby “Patrik, age 1.5,” is on his way. One tiny decimal mistake later, they find themselves saddled with a 15-year-old juvenile delinquent! Directed by Ella Lemhagen, PATRIK has its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Our 13th Anniversary Gala follows the screening of Patrik, Age 1.5 at Crush, 1400 SE Morrison.

Other highlights (after the break): Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Kristen Imes

Jim Gaffigan
Bacon – KING BABY

Baconfest 2009 will take place on October 3rd from 3-10pm @ The East Burn and will be MC'd by Emily Gibson of The Meat Show.

This event will be chockfull of both calories and entertainment:

• Half Pipe - Bacon skateboards will be there to shred the half pipe between bands with sexy pro-skaters. Hot.
• Bacon Eating Contest – The 5 coronary artery hardening rounds would consist of eating 6 inch BLT's, Voodoo Doughnut maple bacon bars, bacon wrapped bananas, Bacon Salted peeps, and bacon ice cream sundaes. Winner waddles home with a Traeger grill.
• Bacon Dance Off featuring  8 contestants dancing while consuming bacon.  For every song you must consume a piece of bacon, or facon.  The second your dance slows or becomes pathetic you are eliminated. The winner gets an ipod touch loaded with bacon apps.
• Bacon Confessional – like HBO's Taxicab Confessions but more ridiculous/embarrassing/humiliating. Speak with Baconfest's priest to cleanse yourself of your bacon sins.  Best confessional walks away with $50 in itunes gift cards.
• Count the Bacon – seems easy enough… unless it's bacon bits…
• Bacon Inspired Merch from: Baconshirts.com – self-explanatory  / Mountain Girl Silver – “bacon bling” / Bacon Salt — because “everything should taste like bacon” / Bacon Skateboards sick boards + shwag / PDX.FM
• Music (but is it bacon inspired..?)  from Ether Circus, Blood Eagle, The Dry County Crooks, Super Secret Band, and Neapolitan beard.

Bacon & Beer…yumm… Always a delicious combination… Read the rest of this entry »

The Greek Festival is one of Portland's best events of the year. Great food, great entertainment and 15,000 atenndees.

Related: Portland EVENTS LIST

From the Greek Festival website (aka GoHoly Trinity)

Immigrants for Greece began arriving to the Northwest in the late 1800s to work in fishing, lumber, railroad and other jobs. Settling in Portland they established their church, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in southeast Portland. Moving to a new and larger church on 32nd and NE Glisan in 1952, the mortgage had to be paid off. The ladies decided to help by holding a bazaar with their handwork, food, pastries, music and dances from their homeland. This was the beginning of what is no known as the Annual Greek Festival which is one of the largest of its kind.

The Greek Festival remains a wonderful opportunity for us to share annually with over 15,000 guests from the Portland Metropolitan area our beautiful Greek Orthodox faith, our cherished cultural traditions, food, music, and dance.

Each year we award a portion of our festival proceeds to worthy philanthropic endeavors in the greater Portland community. Most recently, we have supported Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Kristem Imes

Cheese nerds of the world, unite.

A couple days ago I joked that I was detoxing from dairy and that I needed a 12-step program because I find it so hard to give up cheese. Amazingly, little did I know that cheese has actually been proven to be addictive. Why is cheese addictive? Because it contains opiates (seriously). Milk naturally contains casein molecules which, when digested, break apart to release tiny, powerful opiate molecules, called casomorphins. These casomorphins can be found insubstantially higher quantities in cheese than other dairy products (it takes about 10 pounds of milk to make 1 pound of hard cheese). Crazy, huh? But I digress…

The Wedge is a celebration of Pacific Northwest farmstead and regional artisan cheesemakers who will be featuring their local cheeses in a farmers market style street festival from 10am — 4pm in front of the Green Dragon Pub.

Here you can sample their goods, learn how to make your own cheese, build sandwich at the grilled cheese bar, and attend educational seminars like how to opiates and alcohol, well, kind of… Read the rest of this entry »

From our partners at Alive MMA

MILWAUKIE MMA, FIRST FRIDAY FIGHTS IV returns to the Milwaukie Elks on Oct 2nd. UFC vet and MMA legend Dennis “Superman” Hallman will host the submission challenge, win $200 if you can tap him out! We have a professional heavyweight fight, another title is up for grabs and a Women's MMA fight. Tickets on sale now at Alive MMA.

October 2nd, 2009, Doors open at 5:30pm Fights at:7:00pm

MILWAUKIE MMA, FIRST FRIDAY FIGHTS hosts a fight event which respects and celebrates the fighter, encourages community and promotes the sport of Cagefighting and Jiu-Jitsu in the spirit of Brother/Sisterhood. The intelligent, discerning fight fans' best bargain at $25 General Admission/Limited Seating, $35 for Rows 2-5 Seating, $45 Front Row Seating, and $300 VIP Tables (seats 10).

The fights are set in Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to be involved in the universe-wide "Thrill the World" dance party, you need to start practicing. Sunday  is your first chance.

Update: 2009 Portland Zombie Walk & Thriller Dance | Pictures + Video

Message from Thrill The World:
Here's the info on this year's Thriller Dance extravaganza. We are not quite ready to announce the location of the dance just yet, except to say that it's downtown.

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The dance this year is October 24th, Saturday, at 5:30 pm. The date and time are, of course, chosen by the folks in Toronto who started Thrill the World and kick it into gear every autumn. We're holding the dance downtown: we are not yet announcing the location; we will send out more details on this later. We will have room for as many people who want to dance.

Learning the Thriller dance ahead of time is a must… with that in mind, there are two ways you can learn it: Read the rest of this entry »

This is a pretty sweet way to experience both first Thursday and the start of October. We have three pairs of VIP tickets to give away as well. Information on how to win at the end of this post.

From Red Bull

RED BULL SOUND CLASH TO FEATURE COLLABORATIVE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY "VIVA VOCE" AND "THE BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS"

Unique, Interactive Experience Features Two Portland Bands In "Musical Conversation" Performance

WHAT: Red Bull Sound Clash — a totally unique clash of sounds, styles and creativity, where two bands don't battle each other, but instead collaborate to create an innovative live music performance. The Red Bull Sound Clash experience features two bands with different music styles (e.g. Folk vs. Rock) facing off on two stages positioned on opposite ends of the venue with the audience in the middle. In a series of four rounds, the bands perform various tasks – some rehearsed, some improvised – to showcase the array of their musical abilities. The audience participates in the back-and-forth exploration between the bands by judging each round.

The Portland event will feature bands Read the rest of this entry »

From our partners @ Singlelicious

Singlelicious and Blitz Ladd have teamed up to bring Portland singles a night of Pizza, Pints and Ping Pong. Join us for half off pizzas, pints and ping pong on Tues., Sept. 29 from 7-10 p.m. at Blitz Ladd, 2239 SE 11th Ave. Cost is $5. Register online at www.singleliciouspdx.com and get $3 microbrew pints all night.

Related from Pipeline: More September & October Portland Events here.