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Another New Years party in Portland to check out. We are continually updating our Portland New Years events list here if you still haven't figured out what you are going to do.

From Press Release:
CELEBRATE THE NEW 2010 YEAR! with
CHERVONA, VIVID CURVE, James Faretheewell, Dingo & co.

ALBERTA STREET PUBLIC HOUSE
1036 NE Alberta / 503-284-7665
Doors at 8:30 / Show at 9:00
$10 at the door / 21+
Suggested attire: Red, black, gold

Champagne & Caviar @ Midnight
Party favors & special appearance by Snow Girl!

New Years is a holiday that you own to yourself. In old Russia they say that the special way – and the circle of friends – you spend your New Years night with will continue for the rest on the year.

Let's welcome the year 2010 as a year of balance: Balance between crazy and cozy, stylish and outrageous, cold and hot, beer and vodka…but always happy with caviar and champagne and good music.  The countdown at 12, party favors and a sea of champagne and caviar, will add a little touch of luxury, but don't you fear – all within the balance of your pocket!

MC Clown Dingo and his assistant Olive will make laugh and possibly cry, but just to keep you in a healthy balance. Snow Girl makes a game for you to find your perfect balance in the new 2010. So bring your Read the rest of this entry »

Want to spend New Years with the Portland Trail Blazers? Well, looks like all the stars of the team will be at the party and B-Roy is hosting.

Related: Portland New Years Parties, Events, Resources and Pictures

From Press Release:

Portland Trail Blazers rally in Pioneer Square

Rip-City NEW YEARS EVE, hosted by Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge, Greg Oden, Jerryd Bayless and Martell Webster at The Agency, located at 1939 SW Morrison.

4 DJ's, 2 floors, 1 gigantic New Years Eve affair!

$25 Pre-Sale/$35 at the door with a FREE stroke of midnight champagne toast!
Doors at 9pm. Complimentary food and drink from 9pm to 10:30pm.

Buy tickets here. (According to this tweet, you should “enter 'pipeline' in the field box when purchasing” if you want to support us.)

Photo: Peacock Lane Car Free 2008
Portland, Oregon
Taken on December 14, 2008
Photo by npGREENWAY

Tonight is the official opening of Peacock Lane's Christmas lights. There was a car-free night last night, but it was not rainstorm free unfortunately. We might not have been so happy with Snowpocalypse last year, but it was rather nice for pictures like this.

Related events and info:

• Portland events list
• Official website with maps and schedule
• Daily Stank Image Bank: Christmas/Holiday Lights on Peacock Lane

Santacon -North Portland Anticon on Trimet
December 5, 2009
Photo by Jason Keyes

The photo above is from a couple weeks back for the North Portland Anticon. The official Santacon is this Saturday. It is downtown, but meeting times and places are hidden until Saturday and even then, they of course are going to try and fool people.

This is what was sent to us:

• Santacon is Dec 19, and NOT at Skidmore
  [[[ not public ]]] meeting point will be at the new park by Fox Tower 10. The one they tore down a building to make. People who go to Skidmore will be abandoned and dodged most of the day.
• Santacon may release the route map
  [[[ not public ]]] If they do, they will also release at least five versions of a fake map
• The @santaconpdx twitter account is legit. They plan to screw with people up to the event, but don't plan to screw with people during the event. So subscribe to it for real-time Santa movements.

Related Posts from PDX Pipeline:

• More Portland Santacon Info: December 5, 12 & 19
• Video: North Portland Anticon (Santacon-Type Thing That Is Not Santacon)

From our partners at Bridgeport Brewing

BridgePort will host a release party for its newest 22 oz. Big Brew, Highland Ambush Scotch Ale, on December 17. Free and open to the public, beer lovers are invited to come enjoy live music from a three piece Scottish band along with world-class Scottish dancers.

To join in on the fun, head Chef Jack Henniger will be preparing a Scottish themed special menu incorporating the new brew into his recipes for the night. Attendees can be among the first to try free samples of the new brew and purchase the limited-edition 22 oz. bottles at a 20 percent discounted price.

ADDED BONUS: In honor of the Scottish tradition, guests who wear plaid to the event will be entered to win an 8-person Brewers Dinner at the pub with head Brewmaster, Karl Ockert.

Thursday, December 17th, 2009
Time: 5:00-8 p.m.
BridgePort Brewpub in the Pearl,
1313 NW Marshall St, Portland, OR
Cost: Free to the Public

Posted by Sasha Burchuck

Seven years ago, after he had just arrived here from West Virginia, I remember I used to see this guy Nathaniel Boggess (also known as "Westy") around town, driving his 1970s midnight blue Lincoln Continental from dance party to dance party. He would step out of the car in his three-piece suit looking like Tom Wolfe and yell "WOOH!" He sure did cut the image of being a real southern rock gentleman, with his drawl and the vest and the necktie and the car. All of these charming attributes, along with his quick wit and self-effacing sense of humor, made him one of the Portland scene's most eligible bachelors — but along with all of the female attention that he's been known to attract, there have been plenty of romantic misunderstandings, some of them glorious, some of them downright weird.

Boggess will bring his dating memoirs to life this Sunday at Someday lounge. When I asked him what inspired him to turn some of his more awkward and embarrassing moments in to a one-man show, he told me, "Mostly the ridiculous nature of most of these situations. I feel like they are stories that are odd enough that people will laugh, but common enough that they will also easily relate to them. Hopefully everyone will laugh and enjoy themselves and ultimately have fun at my expense."

See Nathaniel Boggess perform "This Is Not A Date" on Sunday, December 13th, at Someday Lounge — 125 NW Fifth Ave. Tickets $8/$10 at the door.

Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/91667

FIRST, You have to be a member of our Facebook group to win. I will check the names against the group. Join here before entering if you are not a member. Don't worry, we only send out one message a week about portland events and free tickets. 

Looking for something to do this weekend?

75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | December 10-13

Free Tickets and info after the break… 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…

Free ish… We have tix to Winter Harvest Festival (2 tix for Fri, 2 for Sat and 2 ALL WEEKEND passes), a ticket for the FREE BEER Ski Bus (sun), The Grouch/Exile/Mistah FAB show (15th) and two tix to the TIME2 NYE Event!… 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… Pete Bodega's Hit Man Mix pack (it's a full dancehall, foundation clash, Chicago house, reggae mix and then a track by track breakdown) http://www.sendspace.com/file/2wzdqo. You'll be hearing this dj's name quite a bit in the future! Look for him, along with Jagga Culture and Selecta YT (Reggae Soundclash Regional DJ Champion!) at Imperial at the Crown Room on 2nd & 4th Thursday's starting in January 2010!

Things to look for this weekend … Free beer/open bar events, bacon tastings, whiskey tastings, 100 artist art shows, 200 tuba player gatherings, Iron Bartender drink competition, boat parties, latke cookoff, crafty wonderland, female masturbation performances and erotic open mic… do something fun this weekend!

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

Portland Thursday Events, December 10

• Iron Bartender Benefit Event @ Radio Room (local bartenders serving up specialty cocktail recipes to win best drink honors)
• Vampire Weekend @ Crystal Ballroom (they are still around? Wow. Forgot about them)
• Bloc Design + LGA Creative Holiday Party @ NW 8th & Flanders (art, food, holiday happiness, drinks)
• Design Speaks @ Ace Cleaners (local gathering of designers, lecture series, mingler)
• Aveda's 7 Points of Balance @ Pioneer Square (aroma therapy body energy gathering)
• From Pipeline: Beer Belly Dinner @ East Burn With Deschutes Brewery
• Soul Nite @ Rotture (monthly r&b/soul hipster dance paty)
• Dingo Dizmal the Clown @ Muddy Waters (comedy, performance, part juggalo, part burning man)
• Mix Box Jazz Trio @ Roots Brewing (jazz)
• From Pipeline: BridgePort Brewing Company Presents Multnomah Village Pub Crawl + Prizes
• Undone w/ Vize, Echoik, Frequency, Burn @ Whiskey Bar (a genre f#%k indie dance party)
• Barisone & Mr. Wu @ Report (funk, trip hop, lounge)
• Krushgroove Throwback Thursdays @ Bar XV (old school hip hop, funk and throwback jams)
• I Hate Your Job w/ DJ KG @ Tube (soul/r&b and rock)
• 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: Museum By Moonlight @ World Forestry Center
• From Pipeline: Local Superhero Movie Screening | Benefit For P:ear
• From Pipeline: The Marijuana-Logues, Off-Broadway Comedy Hit @ Bagdad Theater

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

If you are still looking for holiday gifts like me, there are many great options this weekend. Tomorrow/Friday brings the “BIG 100″, a huge Portland art show with 100 artists, over 2000 pieces & every piece is only $30. On Sunday, you can head over to the Oregon Convention Center for Crafty Wonderland's “Super Colossal Holiday Sale” with over 200 artists and crafters. That might take care of most of your shopping.

Related: 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | December 10-13

From Crafty Wonderland: