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We have another street fair this weekend, and it is the Alberta Art Hop. This one is sure to bring out several thousand people who haven't been able to enjoy a good Last Thursday in a while…you have everything you want from street closures to 70+ degree weather to art to music to…well, a big party.

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From Website:
Art Hop is Art on Alberta's (AoA) day-long celebration held each May.

On Saturday, May 15, 2010 from 11am to 6pm, Art on Alberta will hold its  11th Annual Art Hop with the theme, "ABC: Art Builds Community." Over 15 blocks of NE Alberta Street will  be closed to car traffic to accommodate 150+ artists, craftspeople, music, dance and theater performances,  interactive art events along with food and other vendors. This is a free arts event for kids of all ages! Come  have some fun!

For Art Hop 2010, we plan to have several murals painted and Read the rest of this entry »

From our partners at Matthew Allen Productions

Collaborative mural painting event; come watch and participate

Alberta Street between 18^th and 19^th
Part of the Art on Alberta happenings.
May 15^th. 9am to 7pm.

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Come to lend your hand, your brush, or just your blissful personality.  Murals have the quality of bringing communities together to enjoy the event itself and the results long lasting.  The content of the mural loosely depicts some of the various energy and community conscious actions implored by the Community Energy Project.  The imagery will reflect local house-environments depicting many factors that make a house or a building sustainable and also show the sustainable practices of the local urban landscape.

This mural is to be installed on the exterior of the Community Energy Project building at Alberta and MLK Jr Blvd.

Coordinated by Art on Alberta and The Community Energy Project
Organized by Esteban Camacho Steffensen
Directed by Esteban Camacho Steffensen, Robert Maxwell Humphres, and Matthew Allen Wooldridge.
[The Mural Team working with Matthew Allen Productions — MatthewAllenProductions.com]
Sponsored in part by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.

Portland's all-star roller derby team takes on Seattle this Saturday and we are giving away VIP tickets (FREE BEER!) to our twitter/facebook friends. While we wish you a good chance of winning, we also warn that it will likely sell out so you might want to buy ASAP to make sure you see this.

Reminder: We give out free tickets to our Portland Facebook Group including to many of the top music venues and events in Portland. Join it if you like free stuff.

You can go to a bar tonight and get discounted tickets as well (info below/after break).

From our partners at Rose City Rollers:
Sibling Rivalry 2010: The Domination Continues  #6 Ranked Portland Set to Ambush #7 Seattle In "Sisterly Smackdown"

On Saturday, May 15th Portland's Rose City Rollers'  (RCR) all-star team, The Wheels of Justice, renews its rivalry with Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Western Region foe Rat City Rollergirls at the Portland Expo  Center.

As pioneers of modern Women's Roller Derby, off the track these teams share a  bound of sisterhood. On the track, with both teams ranked in the top ten internationally, it's going to be sibling rivalry taken to a new level.

Each of the last two years Rose City has gotten the better of Rat, and lead by the  returning jammer foursome of Rhea DeRange, Cadillac, Scratcher in the Eye, and Blood  Clottia, Rose City is looking to make it a threepeat. Rat City, led by high scoring Carmen Getsome and transfer skaters Kamikaze Kim and the electrifying Jalapeño Business, has  other plans.

In the trenches, expect some seismic hits when Wheels of Justice newcomer Smack Ya Sideways and Read the rest of this entry »

Top Gun The Musical (aka “Hot Gun”) begins tonight at Dantes. Jedediah "Diamond" Aaker sent us this press release a couple weeks back and yeah…it's going to be talked about for sure. We are giving out a couple pair of tickets to Hot Gun to our Facebook group (giveaway on Thursday/Friday).

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.

From Press Release
Grab your wingman by the stinger, or lose him forever — Hot Gun the musical is locked and ready to load! The best of the best are in the cockpit once again, and they're poised to take your breath away. Are you ready to bring back that loving feeling? Do you feel the need for speed?

The creators of last fall's critically acclaimed "cock opera," Chariots of Rubber, WonderDiamond Productions, present Hot Gun — a rock 'n' roll re-imagining of the iconic blockbuster, Top Gun. Hot Gun will be performed live on stage at Dante's, each Wednesday for a 200-seat, eight-week run, beginning May 12, during Portland's Fleet Week.

Hot Gun reunites the talented team of director Jeffrey Wonderful (Chariots of Rubber, Rose City Rollers, Portland Organic Wrestling), and producer/rockstar Jedediah "Diamond" Aaker (Diamond Tuck, Lucky Thirteens, BarFly). While remaining remarkably faithful to the original screenplay's dialogue and plot line, the new live musical production bears the hallmarks of this dynamic duo's playful tweaking.

The overheated sexual dynamics of the 80s classic are turned up even higher — the pilots' locker room has become a sauna, our hero's rival and love interest flip genders, and the the top-selling soundtrack soars off the charts, with live renditions so testosterone-charged and full-frontal, they instantly Read the rest of this entry »