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Posted by Mike Harper

Simple folk songs with soaring energy and crowd-pleasing bravado will get your toes tapping, the ladies swooning and everyone dancing. Fanno Creek stands out as Forest Grove's (next) big thing, wielding poppy sing-along harmonies that dart between some semblance of that old-timey blues dance beat and a build-up-slow-down-break-down and join in with a jig kind of chorus. Reminiscent of Simon & Garfunkel, with a touch of today's indie-folkishness, Fanno Creek is a rushing river of melody. Put on your dancin' shoes and catch these guys live next time they're in town.

Fanno Creek's next show:
Next Show: March 21 at Hawthorne Theatre
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO4J4VKCqq8
Download MP3: “Oh I Don't Know” http://www.zshare.net/download/73721063c2b999d9/

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Just Another Music Monday: Leviticus Appleton
Just Another Music Monday: Don't Miss Miss Valeri Lopez
Just Another Music Monday: A. King + Download

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Update - Portland St. Patrick’s Day Events: Parties, Music, Food & Drink Specials

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A lot of you celebrated St. Patrick’s Day this weekend. However, the official party is on Wednesday so start resting your liver today to be ready.

DrinkSpirits.com has you covered on drinks: Top 10 Irish Whiskey Picks for St. Patrick’s Day.
Don’t forget that Bushmills is Protestant whiskey when you are out there getting your Irish on.

Lastly, don’t drink & drive: Riding TriMet on St. Patrick’s Day

Here are some 2010 Portland St. Patty’s picks from PDX Pipeline:

SE Portland Pick: East Burn – 1800 East Burnside Street

Raise a glass on St. Pat’s!!

We will have 16 amazing beers on draft with plenty of Guiness.  All Whisky, Scotch & Bourbon is $2off. SugarCane String Band @ 10pm
Mike’s Famous Corned Beef & Colcannon.
NO COVER

Killingsworth’s St. Patty’s Crawl + SW, NW & North after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

From Davis Street Tavern

Davis Street Tavern is proud to present an Evening with the Distiller featuring New Deal Distillery. Enjoy 5 cocktails and a 4 course menu created especially to pair with New Deal's hand-crafted line of specialty vodkas. Meet New Deal Distillery founders Tom Burkleaux and Matthew Van Winkle and learn why New Deal vodka is so unique.

$48/person, includes gratuity. Start time is 6:30.

To Reserve: Contact Chris at chris @ davisstreettavern dot com or 503.505.5050

Co-hosted by Drink Think and New Deal Distillery.

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 (blue = linked!) that we think will be good, well attended, or should be interesting.

Reminder: We give out free tickets 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 EVENTS LIST

From Leigh Feldman:
Things I'm currently jocking…

Free ish… We have tix here and will be giving away some on on twitter (add @leighfeldman3) to the Captivus Studio Loft Party (fri), Live & Direct Hip Hop Dance Party (fri), Abstract Rude Open Bar Party (sat), the Will Vinton Claymation Film Show (sun) and to the Foundationpdx.com 10 Year Anniversary Street Dance Competition (3.26/3.27)! 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 mix from PDX's own DJ Prashant. http://tinyurl.com/PrashantKPSU Prashant is bringing a new flavor to the world music dance scene in our city and will be opening up for DJ Suketu this weekend!

Awesome Ish… This Saturday (3.13) LifeisaParty is hosting a Pre-St. Paddy's Day Open Bar party with performances by Abstract Rude (Rhymesayers, Haiku D'Etat, Project Blowed, ATU), The Skunky Bunch and DJ Wicked and its only $5. Open bar hour begins at 9pm sharp. Party is at the Crown Room and it's definitely gonna be a fun one! Make sure to say ‘LifeisaParty' at the door!

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

Portland Thursday Events, March 11

• Imperial w/ Small Axe Sound & DJ Ka-el @ Crown Room (FREE – $2 whiskey, $2 pints, dancehall and reggae)
• Fruition CD Release Show @ Mt. Tabor Theater ($10 — bluegrass/folk, free cd with entry)
• Martin Lawrence @ Keller Auditorium ($30 — comedy, big mama's house … I really wanted to write that)
• The Fix @ Someday Lounge (FREE – hip hop dj's)
• Krushgroove Throwback @ Bar XV (FREE – old school hip hop, funk and throwback jam dj's)
• Oracle & Sutro @ Whiskey Bar ($5 — electro acoustic ambient trip hop)
• From Pipeline: Filmusik: KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL @ Hollywood Theatre
• PSU Auction, Movie & Dance Party Night @ Smith Center ($8 — bring your own items to be auctioned off/movie screening of Amerrika/all ages dance party)
• Soul Nite @ Rotture ($3/$10 w/out outfit — soul, r&b, N. Memphis funk)
• Parallel Boutique Art & Trunk Show @ Parallel (FREE — art and fashion)
• Tick Type Type: Opera Beyond Words @ Imago Theater ($15 — opening night performance!)
• From Pipeline: Free Movie Nights in Portland
• From Pipeline: East Burn's Beer Belly Dinner With 21st Amendment Brewing

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

EOTO Live at Sullivan Hall

Consisting of Michael Travis and Jason Hann of String Cheese Incident the duo mixes the organic sounds of live drums, bass and guitar through a variety of programs and gadgets to create a style of music that is more likely found in a dance club, then a live music theater. What sets EOTO apart from other artists in this emerging genre is how the music is created. While some artists may spend hours pre-mixing samples and elements of music for their live show, EOTO uses nothing pre-recorded, giving them the ability to approach each song with on-the-spot spontaneity and 100% live improvisation.

Friday March 12 2010
w/ Lynx & Janover & DJ James Ho
Berbati's Pan
9pm / 21+ / $12 in Advance – $15 at the Door
Tickets – http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/96354

By Sasha Burchuk

Chock full of succulent and wholesome "Mother Cuisine" recipes for traditional mainstays like black bean soup, chicken and dumplings, and cioppino as well as innovated classics like almond poppyseed pancakes and roasted garlic, prosciutto, and provolone macaroni & cheese, Mama Mia Trattoria/Mother's Bistro proprietor Lisa Schroeder's  new cookbook Mother's Best is a must-have for any cooking enthusiast. The focus is on using fresh, local produce to create healthy homey food like they do at Mama Mia and Mother's. In fact Lisa's emphasis on following her passion in life and cooking with love are main ingredients at her two stellar restaurants …Why not take your valentine there for a hearty meal?

So you've been on a roll lately — your first cookbook is out, you were recently on The Today Show, you've been getting tons of media coverage — is there something in your life that you especially attribute all of this success to?

Lisa Schroeder: I think it's really just that the cookbook did come out, it is news. I know that there's no restaurant that serves mother food, so I know that we're unique — but now that there's a cookbook out, that gives people something to talk about. So I gave them something to talk about and they're talking about it.

Having traveled and worked in France, as well as having travelled and worked in other places where dinner was more of a family affair, how do you see comfort food, mother food, as fitting in to the "niche"  dining market in the U.S.?

LS: Well I just felt that even back in ‘92 when I had the idea for Mother's, there was no place to get the kind of food that I would make if I had the time. Thai, Mexican, Chinese, there was all of that — but Read the rest of this entry »

From our partners @ East Burn

BEER BELLY DINNER with 21st AMENDMENT BREWING and Brewer Shaun O'Sullivan!
Thursday, March 11th 2010
6:30pm-9:30pm

East Burn chiefs, Jeff Pagel and Joe Daugherty will be cooking up a storm to pair with five courses of high quality craft brew.  From the Carribean Yam Chips served with Brew Free or Die IPA to Rabbit Terrine to Pistachio Ice Cream with Chocolate Pizzelles and Fresh Figs paired with Monks Blood Belgian Ale, the feast will be good.

Purchase tickets @ theEastBurn.com

Proceeds benefit RideOn, ensuring you and your car get home safely after soaking up Portland's nightlife.  For more info theEastBurn.com, 21st-amendment.com, RideOnPortland.org

Related from Pipeline: A Perfect Affair For Portlanders: East Burn's Beer Belly Dinner

The Visiting Librarian's Guide to Portland
March 04, 2010

Later this month, the Public Library Association will have its annual conference in Portland. Therefore, some local library students made a video to introduce the attendees to Portland. Most Portlanders will not find new information on this video, but it might be good to show/send friends and family visiting the city.

Mentioned/Shown in the video: Downtown library, Foodcarts on 5th & Alder (specifically Brunchbox), downtown Stumptown, Voodoo Doughnut, Floating World Comics, Powell's, Reading Frenzy, Cupcake Jones, Bridgeport Ale House & dowtown, underground mini-golf.

More Portland Videos here
Our Portland Vimeo Group here

***Hi librarians, find things to do while you are here on our Portland Events list***

Posted by Dan Wheeler

FILMUSIK, Portland's premiere live soundtrack ensemble, is back at the Hollywood Theater from March 10-12. They've stripped the original score from the 1952 noir classic Kansas City Confidential and written a new one to be performed live while you watch the film.

FILMUISK's greatest strength is their flexibility. They have provided pitch perfect accompaniment for everything from Japanese monster movies to Spaghetti Westerns to Superman cartoons to Plan 9 from Outer Space. They match every mood and tempo so matter how silly and no matter how serious.

Kansas City Confidential is a serious movie. It is frequently cited as an inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. During it's original run it was advertised with the apt tagline “Exploding like a gun in your face!”  Its plot revolves around an ex-con, John Payne, who is driving a floral delivery truck and trying to go straight. He gets framed for a million dollar armed car robbery and pursues the real culprits to Mexico. And it just gets noir-ier from there.

An all new jazz soundtrack will be performed live by an ensemble consisting of a brass section, jazz trio and string quartet. There is a level of emotional depth that live music can bring to a film that recorded music cannot. Put on your best hat, smoke a cigarette (outside) and feel it for yourself firsthand. This show looks to be a flinty piece of business.

Video trailer after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Kimberly Gehl

Last night's Oscar Night America – the only officially sanctioned Oscar Night in the state, hosted at the Film Action Oregon's historic Hollywood Theatre – was the place to be to watch the nation's biggest awards show of the year.

The Theatre was transformed into a 'sparkling shrine to the silver screen' complete with a red carpet (with paparazzi at the front door); the Oscars presented live on the biggest screen you'll ever see them on; pretty, sparkly things everywhere you looked (including an authentic Oscar statuette available for photo opps); a delicious selection of beverages and hour d'oeuvres from local businesses, and the best-dressed Oscar enthusiasts in the city filling the building.

More photos after the break…

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