Portland Events, Music, Art, Entertainment, Sustainability | PDXPIPELINE.com

Description: Sonicsgate is a feature-length documentary film exposing the truth behind the SuperSonics' tragic exodus after 41 years in the Emerald City.

Like many Blazer fans who watched what happened to the Sonics, I often worry about our Blazers getting Oklahoma City-ed by some Texas, Florida or other sunbelt city…or even Seattle. While watching Rip City Live tonight, they had the director of Soncisgate on speaking about the movie and its upcoming Portland premier at Bagdad on February 20 (part of the BAM Beer & Movie Fest). If you want to watch and worry* alongside many other basketball and Blazer fans, it should be an interesting time with a possible Q&A session after.

The producer, Adam Brown, sent this message to me about the screening:

Yes, we will be at the Portland premiere on the 20th and we are stoked!…We are hoping to have a Q&A after the show but not 100% sure if BAM has time for that or not.

If you want to watch the full movie online, you can @ www.sonicsgate.org/movie

BAM: Beer & Movie Fest | February 10-26
Bagdad Theater
Saturday February 20
7:15 PM $3
Sonicsgate.org Read the rest of this entry »

The Fifth Annual Love Show is this Friday and has over 350 artists. The last large show at Olympic Mills (The Big 100) was a huge party. As you can see from the crowd shot at last year's event, this one will be as well.

Also, they are taking canned food donations for the Oregon Food Bank.

From Press Release
Launch Pad Gallery & Portland City Art team up once again to bring you the Love Show, a huge open-call show with over 350 artists making art about love of all types and shades, from romance to bromance, heart-ache to heartless to heartwarming, mysterious, delirious, deleterious, disappearing and reappearing, cheering, jeering and sneering- this show has room for your love or lack there of, because it's not all pink hearts, chocolate and doilies.

We're honored to present the show at the Olympic Mills Commerce Center, where we will be sharing the love by collecting cans of food for the Oregon Food Bank at the opening and throughout month and donating 10% of our bar sales and 5% of vendor sales to American Red Cross Haiti Disaster Relief. 5% of art sales will also benefit Zimbabwe Artists Project.

OPENING
Friday, February 12th, 2010
7pm-12am
FREE! All Ages! Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Kimberly Gehl

February is now ” brewpub and craft beer month” thanks to the work of local film aficionado Jacques Boyreau, Willamette Week screen editor Aaron Mesh and Beer Northwest Magazine. This beer and movie-loving triad have come together to present Portland's 1st Annual BAM: Beer & Movie Fest, opening this Wednesday night at the Bagdad Theatre.

Wednesday's opening night party is FREE, so anyone interested in celebrating the fusion of two of the most wonderful gifts the heavens have bestowed upon us* should swing by to try new seasonal beers from New Belgium Brewing and Nikasi Brewing, to pick-up free beer-related loot, to enter a raffle for DVDs and vintage movie posters, and to meet the BAM crew responsible for plotting 2 fun-filled weeks of BAM mayhem.

BAM promises to be a festival in the fullest sense of the word. The schedule boasts a 4 brewpub line-up, with screenings scheduled at the Academy Theatre, The Bagdad Theatre, Cinema 21 and the Mission Theatre. Films include cult classics, “super trash”, 80s sci-fi and comedy treasures, 5 Portland premieres, a 4-night “MetalHaus”series, and plenty of beer-themed favorites (see the full film line-up below). In addition, BAM will also be throwing opening and closing parties, hosting beer dinners, holding free pub and bar events, hosting an art gallery show and a metal music concert, and – last but not least – there will be additional special (FREE) screenings at various theatres across the city.

Featured beers and schedule after the break… Read the rest of this entry »