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The Portland Trail Blazers Playoff season kicks off in about seven hours and there will be many places to watch around Portland. Above is a screenshot from the 2010 Rip City Uprise video. Go here to watch it.

Unfortunately, there is still no legal way seemingly to watch the NBA Playoffs online (WHY NOT?!!), so you can go to these somewhat illegal sources to do so.

Our Portland picks (as well as many answers from Facebook and Twitter) are compiled after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

FIRST: There are a lot of great events in Portland this week. Here is our big list: 75+ Portland Weekend Events, Parties & Free Tickets | April 15-18

SECOND: There are a lot of great tickets to win from us. Here is our big list: Portland Weekend Ticket Giveaways | Roseland, Rose City Rollers, NW Film Center, Mississippi Studios, etc

Now Smash Putt….

This is the last weekend of Smash Putt in Portland.

We have two pairs of tickets for each night. We are giving them away to "fans" of our Facebook page. The amount of tickets we are giving away is going up every week, so you might as well become a fan and win.

Facebook Giveaway list: http://pdx.be/fb-topics

More Smash Putt pictures on Flickr here

——————Related from PDX Pipeline

***Smash Putt: Portland's Adult Miniature Golf Apocalypse + Win Tickets

****Join Our Portland Facebook Group & Win Free Tickets Every Week

****Portland Video: Smash Putt!

We haven't actually added up the value of all the tickets, but it is a good amount . We are giving them away to “fans” of our Facebook page. The amount of tickets we are giving away is going up every week, so you might as well become a fan and win.

You can easily become a fan and win any of the below tickets here: http://pdx.be/fb-topics

List of tickets (click them/links to enter and win):

• WIN “BUST: Starring Lauren Weedman” TIX @ The Woods | April 16 & 17

• WIN SMASH PUTT TICKETS | Drawing April 16

• Win GoodFoot Tickets here (april 15-21 | All entries by April 16

• Win Devotchka, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Steel Pulse, etc

• WIN Filmed By Bike tickets here

• Win VIP (FREE BEER) Tickets to the Rose City Rollers vs Baltimore on Friday

• Film Action Oregon presents: Film for Light at Mississippi Studios

• Win Tickets: Tall As Lions 4/21 Hawthorne Theater & US Air Guitar 4/22 Dante's

• ZRUBAVEL @ NW Film Center | Part of the Film Center's 18th Portland Jewish Film Festival

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 twitter (add @leighfeldman3) to Roska (fri), Scottie B (sat), Femme Fatale Audiovisionary Event (sat), 30th Annual African Night (sat), Norah Jones (mon) and tix for 3 different 420 parties — Alchemist/Oh No, Steel Pulse & Dr. Lonnie Liston Smith! 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 — or follow us on twitter @leighfeldman3!

Free music ish… Next Saturday is the last Saturday of the month (MASSIVE!) and will hopefully be the start of summer (fingers crossed for sunshine). To get you in the mood here is a live set from DJ Nugget, who will be at MASSIVE on the 24th that is perfect for all the picnics you know you'll be having in the coming months!

http://www.zshare.net/audio/64940373695fc61b/

Things to look for… Summertime drink specials! 2 for 1 wells at Crown Room till midnight on Thursdays, 2 for 1 beers till midnight at Tube on Fridays, FREE Sake tastings on Sat at Zilla, 2 for 1 pints at Space Pie on Sundays, Mimosa Mondays at Matador, $2 pint night Mondays at Fire On the Mountain… The list goes on and on!

See you all out and about!
Leigh Feldman

Portland Thursday Events, April 15

• The Phunktion w/ Philly's Phunkestra & Krushgroove DJ's @ Crown Room (FREE — New Orleans funk and jazz, 2 for 1 well drinks till midnight, bboy dj's)
• Museum by Moonlight @ World Foresty Center | Tastings •  Beer •  Wine •  Food
• `The Fix @ Someday Lounge (FREE – hip hop dj's, lounge breaks)
• Housecall @ Groove Suite (FREE — house music)
• Gretchen Mitchell, Liv Warfield, DJ Wicked @ Dapper Cap (FREE — live soul and jazz)
• The Mutaytor, March Fourth Marching Band, Solovox @ Dantes ($12 — voodoo brass, burning man fun)
• Gil Scott Heron @ Aladdin Theater ($30 — legendary status)
• Art Spark @ Olympic Mills Art Center (FREE — artist mingler)
• Portuguese Wine Tasting @ Sante Fe Taqueriea (FREE — wine and music)
• From Pipeline: $10 All You Can Sing All Day & Night @ Voicebox Karaoke
• From Pipeline: Free Movie Nights in Portland
• From Pipeline: "An Artist A Day" Live Art Fundraiser @ Muse Art & Design
• From Pipeline: Review & Pictures: Cirque du Soleil "Kooza" in Portland
• From Pipeline: Oregon Tulip Festival Pictures & Events | Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm
• From Pipeline: Teabag the Teabaggers @ Pioneer Square (Facebook event)

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

If you don't have 30 clams for the Firkin Fest on Saturday, just go up the street to East Burn. Gilgamesh is bringing nine beers to town for a partay

From Press Release
Portland Release Party – Sat, April 17

For those of you in Portland, we will be celebrating our release at the East Burn (1800 E Burnside) this Saturday night (4/17). We'll be starting at 7pm 6pm and will be serving our Black Mamba, IPA, and HopScotch. Also, there will be live music later in the evening. Again, we will have a lot of the family at the party, so please pop in to say HI! Please see http://www.theeastburn.com/event_2.htm for more details.

If you are unable to join us at either event, Venti's and the East Burn will keep us on tap for a while (if it's popular enough, hopefully they'll keep bringing us back!) so please pop in at a later date! And if we're not on tap, please request it!

Some related links:

• From Beervana: Welcoming Gilgamesh Brewing
• From Capital Tips: Fine Beer in Salem Oregon: Gilgamesh Brewing
  

From their website (we do serious research around here): Read the rest of this entry »

Conan O'Brien covers Radiohead Creep
Eugene, Oregon
April 13, 2010
nerdletta

Description: This was taken at the soundcheck in Eugene Oregon for the first stop on Conan's 32 city Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour.

From our partners at Voicebox Karaoke

Tax Relief on 4/15!
$10 All You Can Sing All Day & Night!

Save Some $ On Tax Day
Voicebox would like to invite you and all your pals to enjoy all the best we have to offer on the worst day of the year. You pay your taxes, we'll give you something to do to take your mind off of it. For just $10, you can sing all day and all night at Voicebox!

Get some of that aggression out of your system by belting out some tunes! Doors open at 4PM and close at 11PM. That's seven hours of singing for $10!! Ridiculous! We'll be audited by the men in white suits after they hear about this deal. Call ahead to reserve a room or just stop in!

Holly & Jimmy
Oaks Park Hanger
Rose City Rollers

The picture above is a clip from the last Rose City Rollers match a couple weeks back. Holly and Jimmy won a pair of VIP tickets from us and give a shout out to the Pipeline (Thanks Guys!). If you click the picture, it takes you to the video of the full match. At around the 64th minute, the interview shout-out comes in as well as some good information about strategy and rules of the derby. Go here and watch.

WIN VIP TICKETS (free beer!): You too can win a pair of VIP tickets from us to Friday's bout.

• Go to Facebook (http://pdx.be/fb-topics) & comment why you would like to attend.
• Drawing will be Friday @ noon. We then message you on FB, so check inbox.
• We give thousands of dollars in free tickets every month on Facebook, so join up if you like free stuff.

Press release for Friday after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Pipeline reporter Leigh Feldman was lucky enough to catch DJ Jazzy Jeff for a quick Streetside Interview while in Pittsburgh for the Red Bull Thre3style competition. Jeff spoke about the evolution of dj culture, the advancement in technology, how radio has changed and about what actually happened with his UNDFTD Michael Jackson mixtape project.

More Portland Videos here
Our Portland Vimeo Group here

From our partners at World Forestry Center

Museum by Moonlight
World Forestry Center
April 15, 6-9pm
www.worldforestry.org

Tastings •  Beer •  Wine •  Food

The Man got you down? Come celebrate TAX Day with us! 21+only
Let the World Forestry Center take the sting out of tax season with soothing samples of sipping chocolate, award winning wines, and chocolate martinis!

Here's what's happening:
Oregon's own McMenamins Brewery will be sampling Terminator & Hammerhead Ales and Black Rabbit & Syrah along with other great wines that go well with chocolate. Sip chocolate martini's and sample delicious Leonidas Fresh Belgian Chocolates! Willamette Valley Vineyards will be pouring their award winning Pinot Noir and much more! Savor and sip gourmet drinking chocolate from Sipping Dreams.

Get the ultimate chocolate experience from Ladybug Chocolates.  Winners of Best Confection, Most Innovative Ingredient, and Overall Best in Show at ChocolateFest 2010! Indulge Caramels are all Read the rest of this entry »