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If you are itching for Oktoberfest, but can't wait another seven months, someone was thinking about you. Mount Angel is not that far from Portland and they will have beer, wine, sausages, music, but no weiner dog races this time.

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From Press Release:
Dust off your lederhosen, starch up your Bavarian Dirndl and join the happy folk of Mount Angel for a fun-filled weekend of celebration in honor of the Wurst.

Mount Angel. Oktoberfest and the Mount Angel Chamber of Commerce are teaming up again this year for the last blast of winter. Wurstfest, a celebration of the mighty German (wurst) sausage, takes place in the Oktoberfest Community Building, 500 S Wilco Hwy, on Friday, February 12, from 5:00 p.m. ‘till 11:00 p.m. Saturday, February 13, from noon ‘til 11:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 14, from noon ‘til 6:00 p.m. This is the weekend before Ash Wednesday and the start of the austere, Holy Season of Lent.

Included in the $10.00 adult admission fee is a half liter, Spaten souvenir Bavarian glass beer mug, easily worth the price of admission. Four thousand mugs are available on a first come first serve basis. Sunday, February 14 is Saint Valentine's Day and we will have a special gift for the ladies — a $10.00 gift card to one of Mount Angel's great restaurants, the Glockenspiel, Bavarian Haus or the Mt. Angel Sausage Company.

Area sausage makers present for sale the best of their wurst — Read the rest of this entry »

Purple Octopus
Portland, Oregon
Photo by sicsnewton

Looks like the Greek Cusina octopus has found a new home. Is it really going to wear the Santa hat all the time? It's Valentines time now and this is the appropriate attire.

More Portland pictures here.

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
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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 »

From our partners at World Forestry Center

Join the World Forestry Center for Museum By Moonlight~ Chocolate Edition!

Let us pour you some wine, beer, and a good ol' taste of chocolate vodka while you explore our latest special exhibit, The Chocolate Story. Follow chocolate's beginning as a potent and magical drink used by the Aztecs to its current worldwide popularity.

Enjoy Brownies From Heaven sampling their chewy fudge brownies with a secret truffle tucked inside, and smothered with luscious bittersweet Belgian chocolate ganache. Can't get enough Missionary Chocolates? Get your chocolate fix with the best chocolates in town. And what do you know, they're vegan too!

New Deal Distillery will be sampling out Mud Puddle Vodka, a hand-crafted spirit created with the essence of chocolate. Compare and contrast against their more traditional flavors.

Tribeca Light is back with their ready-to-pour cocktails made with real juice. Come try all 3 flavors: Mojito, Pomegranate Martini, and Margarita.

Hip Chicks Do Wine is serving up wine with attitude try Drop Dead Red or Belly Button Wine. Oakshire Brewing Co. will be serving Overcast Espresso Stout along with Oakshire Amber – two very chocolate friendly beers! Samples are complimentary with Museum admission.

Bring your appetite and cash for Ancho Chile Mole Burritos or Nachos with a side of Ancho Chile Mole sauce from Qdoba

Museum by Moonlight at the World Forestry Center
An after-hours event for those 21+
When: Feb. 11, 2010
Times: 6 — 9:30pm
Cost: $8, or $6 with coupon off website
Where: World Forestry Center Discovery Museum
More info: www.worldforestry.org
Directions: Take MAX to our front door! Exit Washington Park/Zoo
Tastings •  Beer •  Wine •  Food

Posted by Mike Harper

A. King Can Sing

Her guitar gently weeps, and her violin smiles sad melodies across strata of music. Sleight jazz hides under waves of a present guiding bassline, often times running from wisps and whistles to climbing a wall built of organ pipes, distorted amps, and bent keys competing with A. King's less-than-mellow-while-still-spot-on voice.

Weaving spot on melodies between her six strings with pent energy, Ashley wraps softly haunting lyrics around an energetically crying violin on her track "You Don't Mind". A tambourine chases her violent strum that keeps you at the edge of your headphones till a break of echoes charms your ear like a surrounding line of smoke tip-toeing through delay before crashing back into a burst and end.

Drawn to the Northwest following a brick road of family and friends, A. King's saintly spirit will fit right in in Portlandtown!

A. King's next show: February 9th @ Ash Street Saloon

Download “You Don't Mind” here: www.zshare.net/audio/723224233f3a0579/

From our partners at Oregon Symphony

Announcing our Valentine's Crazy Deal for Storm Large's Crazy Love concert debut with the Oregon Symphony.
See Storm at her sexiest and sassiest with this fantastic package offer.

Feb. 13, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Brimming with treats and surprises, this package includes …
– Dinner for two at Nel Centro before the concert
– Two Dress Circle seats — the best in the house
– One great bonus: You get to meet Storm backstage!

Bring a date, or invite friends to get in on the package with you. Make it an unforgettable night!
An evening like this is simply a click away. Just go here to buy tickets.
But don't wait — because bidding ends at 10 a.m. Feb. 10.

Regular tickets can be purchased here.

Clare and the Reasons – All The Wine
www.clareandthereasons.com

Great video from Brooklyn-based group Clare and the Reasons. They will be at Mississippi Studios on February 10th with Van Dyke Parks. You can also download their mp3 of “That's All” here.

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Posted by Mike Harper

Oh So Saintly…

The calm croon of Annie Clark's voice can be a smiling trap  to capture you in a cascading lull as her gut-pulling guitar will tear at your ears with the lovely contrasting blows of string-bending and wall-of-sound instrumentation. Seeing her is like a glimpse of a nymph (one who listened to a good bit of Beatles), her small stature a misleading element of her raucously perfect musical wave that combines the sound of destruction and whispers of sonnetesque ballads.

St. Vincent is gracing the Doug Fir with not one but two sets on Saturday, February 6th, including one ALL AGES matinee at 5pm ($15). Catch her later at 9pm for just two bucks more!

St. Vincent with Wildbirds & Peacedrums
Saturday Feb 6 @ The Doug Fir
5pm $15 ALL AGES
9pm $17 21+