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Pretty good video once again from Brewcaster. In the video, the first part(birds) is Tualatin Estates and the second part is David Hill. If you are looking for a holiday present, Oregon wine is quite nice and here are some links to help:

• Oregon Wine on twitter (run by us)
• Oregon Wine Country Guide Book
• From Portland Monthly: The Insider's Guide to Oregon Wine Country
• “Sip With Me” = Blog from wine enthusiast visiting every winery in Oregon
• WineCampPDX: upcoming wine “unconference”

Malice @ Holiday Ale Festival 2007
Portland, Oregon

Wednesday through Sunday brings my favorite beer fest in Portland. I don't know if their claim as the “West Coast's most prestigious winter beer sampling opportunity” is true or not, but I wouldn't doubt it.  There is something about drinking strong beers in a big warm tent during the cold, wet month of December that just feels right. Even Malice, Portland's premiere adult dancer came out to the fest in 2007.

No word on whether you'll see her there this year, but I did see her car was for sale the other day (NSFW).

Related from PDX Pipeline:

• Portland Holiday Ale Festival: MeaganKate double-fists … ale
• Interview & Photos With Malice: Let Her Entertain You

Holiday Ale Festival info after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

From our partners at Icon Tattoo

ICON TATTOO STUDIOS PRESENTS FIRST ANNUAL RUSSELL STREET HOLIDAY FESTIVAL (Portland, OR)-

On Saturday, December 5th, from 12:00 – 8:00 p.m., Icon Tattoo, located in the heart of Portland's bohemian Eliot neighborhood, extends a hand to the p:ear organization and hosts its first annual holiday extravaganza. For one magical day, beautiful Icon Tattoo Studio will serve as the site for a handmade bazaar featuring dozens of local craftspeople and a huge variety of locally made handicrafts including letterpress cards, handmade clothing and jewelry, artisan jams and chocolates, ceramics, accessories, prints and much more.

Preview silent auction items at flickr.com/icontattoostudio, and see them in person at Spectre's first Thursday opening, Thursday December 3, 412 NW Couch, suite 203

Food booths from Abby's Table, Ladles, and Salt, Fire and Time will also be onsite, and merry-makers can imbibe guilt-free as all sales from the cash bar will go to p:ear!

Visit the giant tree as Santa himself is available for photos, with proceeds going to p:ear. Read the rest of this entry »

(Christmas / Holiday) Tree Lighting
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Portland, Oregon
Taken on November 28, 2008
Photo By Chris Lae

If you are going to brave the weather and check out the lighting, it a good idea to go a bit early as it is rather crowded by 4PM. A message from Chris about last year's lighting ( plus another picture and video) here.

Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties, Free Tickets | November 26-29

From Pioneer Square website:

On the day after Thanksgiving, Portlanders will gather at the Square to celebrate the official start of the season by lighting the spectacular 75ft Tree. Thousands of people are expected to attend the 25th annual Tree Lighting Event hosted by KGW NewsChannel 8 and Kink.fm with guests including local Dignitaries and music by The Patrick Lamb Band featuring Chosen Generation Gospel Choir.

The Burgerville Nomad will be on site Read the rest of this entry »

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 From Pipeline: Portland Monthly Event Listings

From Leigh Feldman:
Things I'm currently jocking…I'm currently jocking…

Free ish… We have tix to Peaches (tonight), GWAR (Friday), Snap! 90's Dance Party (Friday), a VIP booth at Massive (Saturday), a seat on the Sunday Ski Bus (Sunday) and two passes to a movie screening of Old Dogs. Wanna win any of them? Forward this email to a friend, have them write us asking to join the group and we'll enter you both in a drawing to win! (These are from Leigh, not Pipeline. Email him to join his list & win: leighfeldman3 @ gmail)

Free music ish… This album sampler from J-Boogie. It's Bay Area hip hop, future soul, funk and bass based groove music. He'll be at Massive on Saturday night at the Crown Room (opening the night!) and hopefully you will be too as we raise money for Habitat For Humanity Women's Build Project. http://www.mediafire.com/?zaoczz21tjm …Never been to Massive? FREE before 10pm if you come to the door and say ‘LifeisaParty!'

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

Portland Thursday Events, November 26

• Peaches & Amanda Blank @ Wonder Ballroom (girl power naughty raps)
• Hip Hop Heaven w/ Staley @ CC Slaughters (hip hop and cheap drinks)
• Vegan Thanksgiving @ Tube (delicious vegan food options)
• Krushgroove Throwback Thursdays @ Bar XV (old school hip hop, funk and throwback jams)
• Dubstep Fathoms @ Report Lounge (dubstep)
• I Hate Your Job w/ DJ KG @ Tube (soul/r&b and rock)
• From Pipeline: Portland Thanksgiving: Where To Eat | Many Suggestions
• Psychedelic Sock Hop w/ DJ AM Gold @ The Tanker (Psych, Rockabilly, Surf, Early Soul and R&B and Fuzzed-out Garage)
• The Fix @ Someday Lounge (hip hop)
• X-otica Go Go @ Dante's (bass, bboys and booty)
• Savoir Faire Burlesque & Vaudeville Performance @ Hawthorne Theater (barroom fare)
• From Pipeline: Portland Thanksgiving With Turkey Tracker | Oregon Food Bank Benefit

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

Kyle, over at Barfly, has composed a list of bars open on Thanksgiving in Portland. Since this is the PDX, there are a lot of them. Many of you will find yourselves searching for a good place to eat tomorrow and so we asked our twitter and facebook friends for suggestions. If you have other suggestions, please comment them below.

Related from PDX Pipeline:

• Oregon Thanksgiving Weekend With Winegrowers Of Columbia Gorge
• Portland Thanksgiving With Turkey Tracker | Oregon Food Bank Benefit
• Pipeline listing: Storm Large's Holiday Ordeal @ Aladdin Theater

Suggestions from twitter and facebook after the break...

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Posted by Mike Harper

The Fez Ballroom opens up its doors once again for a new tradition to cook up your pre-T-Gives appetite. And what better way to make room for gorging yourself than a dance party named after boxed dinner? SHAKENBAKE DANCE PARTY! DJ Rhienna and DJF (the fantastic DJs of electro-indie-soul who turned the Fez and Branx into Electric Feel) keep you moving to work up your gobblers for a turkey calling contest hosted by local stand up Virginia Jones. Not to mention a special performance by the cornucopia of synth, Pink Noise. All that plus prizes, give-aways, including a Thanksgiving Day feast!

The shakin' and bakin' starts at 9pm and goes till you're hungry enough to go home and start baking your turkey (or tofurkey), and it's FREE!

Shakenbake Dance Party
Wed. 11/25 @ The Fez Ballroom
Free!

Portland Santacon
Jason Quigley Photography

Even though the above picture was taken way back in 2005, it is still one of my favorites. Police and Santa are apparently not BFFs on Satacon day. Because of this, Santacon has been a bit slippery with the event info these days. Last year they gave the famous Hillsboro fake-out. It appears if you want the real deal info this year, you gotta volunteer.

Related from Pipeline:

• North Portland Santacon (NoPDX Anticon) Date & Information | 2009
• 2008 Portland Santacon Pictures & Updates | Daily Stank Image Bank

Message from Drunken Rampage:

Ok, AntiCon (Dec. 5, North Portland) is the rampage we are recommending most people go to. But for those die-hard Santacon enthusiasts who can't go without the Read the rest of this entry »

We posted about Turkey Tracker last Thanksgiving  and I ended up watching a bit as well since the football wasn't particularly good. I enjoyed the show and they are really stepping it up this time. The event received all kinds of press (CNN I believe) and this year they are raising money for Oregon Food Bank.

Related from Pipeline:

• Oregon Thanksgiving Weekend With Winegrowers Of Columbia Gorge | November 27-29
• Portland Thanksgiving Day Interactive Experience: Turkey Tracker

From Turkey Tracker:
Innovative Website TurkeyTracker.com is back with the Third Annual Turkey Tracker Thanksgiving Broadcast

For the third year in a row, the creators of TurkeyTracker.com will share their Thanksgiving celebration with people all over the world, on Thursday, November 26th.

Turkey Tracker (turkeytracker.com) is a pioneering, interactive Thanksgiving experience, combining live video, text and photo updates and a live turkey temperature graph with visitor submitted photos and live chat. Turkey Tracker uses technology from Ustream.tv, Twitter and Flickr, along with a homebuilt, state-of-the-art Arduino based temperature tracking device, to share every aspect of Thanksgiving with viewers from all over the world.

Last year, Turkey Tracker had 1000 visitors and an additional 14,000 people viewed the video through Ustream's homepage. The site was featured in the New York Times blog, Mental Floss blog and on the CBC's As It Happens. This year, TurkeyTracker.com is raising money for the Oregon Food Bank by accepting pledges for each viewer the site has on Thanksgiving Day. Anyone can pledge by visiting www.turkeytracker.com/pledge. In addition to a live turkey smoking, the broadcast will feature food and drink discussions, an iPod Touch giveaway and a special cocktail presented by Kevin Ludwig of Beaker and Flask, Portland's 2009 Restaurant of the Year.

TurkeyTracker.com was created by Michael Weinberg and Chris Chen, of Portland, Oregon, as a way to share they and their friends' decades-old Thanksgiving tradition with the entire world. The broadcast will begin at 10am PST on Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, 2009.

• View, interact or embed the stream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/turkey-tracker-2009
• Schedule here: http://turkeytracker.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/broadcast-schedule/

From our partners @ Winegrowers of the Columbia Gorge

The Winegrowers of the Columbia Gorge are pleased to announce the upcoming ‘Thanksgiving Weekend Open House', November 27-29. Around thirty wineries on both sides of the Columbia River in the Gorge will be open from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM daily to thank customers and celebrate the holidays with new releases, barrel tastings and festive food, drink and entertainment. Many wineries will also have special gift items and wine discounts, as a convenient way to check off those gift lists while tasting the best that the Gorge has to offer.

This year, many of the wineries are planning special food and wine pairings for their guests; providing inspiring ideas for entertaining during the holidays. Tasting rooms will be featuring locally made cheeses, imported cheeses, hors d'oeuvres, chocolates and even seasonal pies — all perfectly paired with local wines! Tasting fees average around $5 — many waived with purchase. Please visit our website for more details: www.columbiagorgewine.com