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The Rose City Rollers playoffs are here and we have a pair of VIP tickets (FREE BEER!) to giveaway for both Friday and Saturday. To win, comment below on this post why you would like to attend, who is your favorite team, etc. IMPORTANT: include which night you want to go or you cannot win. Will draw winners on 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. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

This is one of the last chances to see the Rollers this season, so go here and get tix before they sell out.

From Website:
RCR Season 5 Semifinal 1
June 04, 2010, 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm

First Place Heartless Heathers take on Fourth Place Guns N Rollers

RCR Season 5 Semifinal 1 at the Hangar at Oaks Park

This is roller derby up close and personal! The ice cold Heartless Heathers will face off against the head-bangin' GunsNRollers at the Hangar at Oaks Park.

The stakes are high in this all-or-nothing bout with the winner going to the Championship!  This 2010 season has been filled with all the hard-hitting roller derby action fans have come to expect from Portland's toughest athletes. Most home league games are played at the Hangar at Oaks Park, where RCR fans enjoy in-your-face skating!

Parking will be free for this event! Please note, sitting alongside the track puts you within feet of the action and places you at higher risk of involvement in a skater collision. Arrive early enough to make seating arrangements you are comfortable with.

Tickets are $14.00 for General Admission. Doors open at 7pm, bout starts at 8pm.
Purchase Tickets here

RCR Season 5 Semifinal 2

June 05, 2010, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Second Place High Rollers take on Third Place Break Neck Betties Read the rest of this entry »

Portland's monthly First Thursday event is tomorrow  and it looks like we will have good weather (60 & sunny…really…). There are over 50 (probably 100) galleries having openings this month.

We have a very large list below thanks to Sequential Art Gallery (328 NW Broadway) & Rich Vail Mackin. They compile an email called the  "[h]IT LIST" of events every month. You can join it by emailing them @ sequentialart @ gmail dot com. We have reproduced much of it below with permission.

Related: Portland EVENTS LISTINGS

Are you on the Twitter? Follow @FirstThursday to see what people are posting about it. Use @firstthursday or the #firstthursday hashtag when tweeting about the event. We will retweet many. You can also follow Sequential art on twitter: @sequentialart

From Pipeline:

• IRPC First Annual Chili Cook-Off and Olde Time Auction | Free Beer & Wine
• Anka Gallery | Ilibrium Curated by Anna Solcaniova King
• Floating World Comics – “POP GUN WAR: CHAIN LETTER” — The Art of Farel Dalrymple
• Film – “Gift to Winter, the Story of the Winter Solstice Puppet Collective” @ Hollywood Theater
• First Thursday Pearl Featuring Work Of Former NBA Player Desmond Mason | Barre3
• Lizard Lounge | Surfrider Benefit To Protect Oceans & Ban the Bag Campaign
• Scandals: Artists for Cascade AIDS Project | 25+ Artists | All Art $40
  
• Stumptown Downtown |  Julie Forward Demay “Last Show”

This month at Sequential Art Gallery (328 NW Broadway #113):
THE WHALES ARE MY CLIENTS:
SKYLAAR AMANN CONSTRUCTS WORLDS IN WHICH THE WHALES WIN

Continuing to bring attention to the urgent need for nature conservation is artist Skylaar Amann, showing throughout June at Sequential Art Gallery. As the International Whaling Commission discusses lifting the ban on commercial whaling, Skylaar's show of comics, poems, and handbound books–and a pod of soft-sculpture whales moving throughout the room–constructs worlds in which the whales win. Her installation uses elements of humor, storytelling, and nostalgia to invite the viewer into the simultaneous role of biologist, archaeologist, and activist.

“The Whales Are My Clients” opens First Thursday, June 3, from 6-10pm, and shows throughout June.

If you aren't able to attend our opening reception, we will be livestreaming all night! You can check out the live video feed at ustream.tv/channel/sequential-art-gallery-studio

Many more First Thursday Event after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

We'll have our large weekend Portland event list out tomorrow, but we wanted to put here on our front page now since there are some  interesting events tonight, as well as First Thursday and First Friday. So, start planning now.

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

Portland Events, June 2

• Bridgetown Comedy Presents SNL's Hannibal Buress at Mississippi Studios
• “Hot Gun” aka Top Gun The Musical @ Dante's
• Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution Music and Social Change in America @ Powell's Books on Hawthorne

Portland Events, June 3 (First Thursday)

• IRPC First Annual Chili Cook-Off and Olde Time Auction | Free Beer & Wine
• First Thursday @ Anka Gallery | Ilibrium Curated by Anna Solcaniova King
• First Thursday @ Floating World Comics – “POP GUN WAR: CHAIN LETTER” — The Art of Farel Dalrymple
• Film – “Gift to Winter, the Story of the Winter Solstice Puppet Collective” @ Hollywood Theater
• First Thursday Pearl Featuring Work Of Former NBA Player Desmond Mason | Barre3
• First Thursday @ Lizard Lounge | Surfrider Benefit To Protect Oceans & Ban the Bag Campaign
• First Thursday @ Stumptown Downtown |  Julie Forward Demay “Last Show”
• Opening Night: QDoc (the only queer documentary film festival in the US) @ Clinton Street Theater

Portland Events, June 4 (First Friday)

• First Friday Art Show – Nate Luna & Sip To Live Herbal Teas @ Local Goods
• Zoo Brew – 20 Northwest Microbreweries & Live Entertainment @ Oregon Zoo
• First Friday Extravaganza at The Rocket TENpod | Robots Robots Robots!
• QDoc (the only queer documentary film festival in the US) @ Clinton Street Theater
• Opening Party/day – Goonies 25th Anniversary in Astoria

Five bucks for all the chili you can taste plus complimentary beer and wine = perfect Thursday. And yes, there will be veggie and vegan chili. After you fill up, you can enjoy many First Thursday shows as well.

From Website (iprc.org):

Coming up on First Thursday June 3rd, the IPRC is pleased to host our first annual Chili Cook Off and Olde Time Auction. Just $5 gets you all the chili you can taste! For those who step up to the chili-cooking challenge, prizes will be awarded by celebrity chef judges Piper Davis (Grand Central Baking), Leather Storrs (Noble Rot), and Kevin Atchley (Pine State Biscuits). We'll also have a People's Choice award decided by you, the people. Did we mention complimentary beer and wine? Yes, free beer and wine!

During and after the tasting, we'll have a silent auction, where you can bid on the naming rights for just about anything in the IPRC that isn't tied down—chairs, computers, staplers, even our new Perfect Binding machine. Come place your bids, grab a label-maker and put your permanent mark on the IPRC! We'll also have some inexpensive zines and artwork up for auction, including a Read the rest of this entry »

Do I think there is a chance Lebron James would come to the Portland Trail Blazers in the prime of his career? No. Do I think the Trail Blazers are pursuing Lebron James? No.

Is there a rally to bring Lebron James to Portland? Apparently so. 365 confirmed guests as of noon, June 2.

From Facebook Event:
Lebron has only one team on his mind this offseason: the Portland Trailblazers. New York sucks, so does New Jersey, Cleveland has Anderson Varejao, Chicago has Joakim Noah, the Clippers' only fan is Billy Crystal, and Lebron isn't in Wade's Fave Five. Therefore it only makes sense that Lebron would come to Portland to B Roy's wingman.

Come to downtown Portland at Pioneer square on June 20th to rally for LeBron like we rallied for Oden.

Sunday, June 20, 2010
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Pioneer Square

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108540855858571

Related: Our Portland EVENTS LIST