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Pipeline has partnered with Helium Comedy Club and we are giving away tickets to many of their shows. We have TEN pairs for each Todd Glass show! Thursday night at 8PM, Friday, Saturday at 8PM & 10:30PM. To win: Comment below on this post why you would like to attend.

IMPORTANT: you must put which day/time in order to win.

Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every month to our Portland Facebook Group for many of the top events & venues in PDX. Join it if you like free stuff. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

From our partners at Helium Comedy Club:

Comedian Todd Glass will be performing at Helium Comedy Club located at SE 9th & Hawthorne on September 2^nd-4^th.  Show times are 8 and 10:30pm and tickets range from $15-$25.

Todd Glass launched his career in comedy at age 16. Since that precocious start, the Philadelphia native has developed into a polished performer with a bent for inventive material that often mocks the conventions of standup.

His television appearances include “The Sarah Silverman Show,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” “Late Night with Conan O'Brien,” “Showbiz Show with David Spade,” "The Bonnie Hunt Show,"”Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn” and “Politically Incorrect.” With his unique delivery and divergent style of witticisms, Todd quickly becomes a host and viewer favorite.

Todd has also become a veritable fixture on Comedy Central, recently headlining Read the rest of this entry »

We made several suggestions of how to spend your Labor Day weekend in & outside Portland earlier today & Portland's Art In The Pearl festival is a great addition to that list. There will be over 100 artists, music all day and lots of food choices. Related: Our Portland Events List

From Art In The Pearl website:
Art In The Pearl®, the annual arts festival, occurs every year on Labor Day weekend. This, our 14th annual festival will be September 4th to September 6th, 2010. Our 13th Annual show was a tremendous success. Thanks to all of of you who helped to make this a great year. This festival fills the Northwest Portland Park blocks with art, theater, music, and hands-on activities for people of all ages.

Art In The Pearl® is a wonderful community event. Over one hundred artists show and sell work ranging from fine wooden furniture to beautiful paintings to photography, glass, clay, metal, jewelry, and much more! Art In The Pearl is ranked in the TOP 25 Fine Art events nationwide by the Art Fair Sourcebook. (download ArtFairSourcebook chart)

The new World Music Stage has a variety of music, and the education pavillion has hands-on art activities for children and adults. There is also delicious food for sale.

Things to see and do @ The 2010 Art In The Pearl Festival Read the rest of this entry »

This year there will be no time to rest after your Portland Labor Day fun, because MusicFest NW starts two days later. We have two general admission wristbands ($65 each!) to give away (wristband info). With the wristband, you can apparently get into several of the sold out shows according to info below and on their website (“if capacity allows”). NICE. Got an iPhone? They got an app.

To win, comment below on WHICH BAND(S) you are looking forward to seeing (and why). Schedule here. Winners will be drawn & emailed on Tuesday, September 7th at 3PM.

Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every month to our Portland Facebook Group for many of the top events & venues in PDX. Join it if you like free stuff. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

Related Events & Info on Pipeline:

• September 9: Modern English Reunion Tour @ Aladdin Theater + Win Tickets
• Video: MFNW Musicfest NW 2010

From MusicFest NW:

Here are the schedules for the Crystal Ballroom, Roseland Theater and Saturday night at the Wonder Ballroom: Read the rest of this entry »

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2011 Update: Portland & Oregon Labor Day Weekend Tips

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By GeoffK

Photo by Ken Aaron, NeighborhoodNotes.com

After a rainy June and sizzling hot July and August, this year’s labor day weekend takes on extra weight as everyone tries to squeeze every last drop out of the Portland Summer.

Labor Day is a perfect time to hit some of the key Portland hot spots while the weather is nice or hit the road for a quick getaway before the march to fall (and Football season) gets underway.

Here are some Portland Labor Day Weekend ideas to help you get started in the right direction:

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Labor Day Weekend Events In Portland:

Distillery Row - Portland has long been mecca for microbrews but it’s quickly becoming the epicenter of a new wave of small artisan distilleries. Check out New Deal for some of the best Vodka in the city, Hose Spirits Distillery for things you won’t find anywhere else, then catch the easy to miss Stone Barn Brandyworks for spirits that will literally may you say WOW.

Portland Classical Chinese Gardens –  this urban oasis is not just for tourists and many Portlanders miss out on one of the most authentic and serene Read the rest of this entry »

The TBA Festival is right around the corner. The first night is next Thursday and there will be a free TBA opening night concert of Punk Rock Puppets (collaboration between Japanther and Night Shade Puppets) at Washington high school on SE Stark. The opening night concert last year was a huge party and if the weather is decent, should be the same this year (big beer garden!).

Tonight is “Pints For PICA” with 100% of proceeds going to PICA & you can get a guide to the upcoming TBA Fest.

Related: Our Portland Events List

From PICA press release:

Looking for an inside tip on TBA shows? Read the rest of this entry »

From our partners at Oregon Symphony

Waterfront Concert
Thursday, Sept 2, 2010
Tom McCall Waterfront Park
1020 Naito Pkwy

5 PM Portland Youth Philharmonic
7 PM Oregon Symphony performs and later in the program also features Dancers from Oregon Ballet

Theatre performing excerpts from the company's fall production of Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
The annual tradition of launching the Oregon Symphony season with FREE parks concerts continues with the much anticipated Symphony performance at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. No tickets are required. Bring chairs or blankets for lawn seating.

Closing festivities include the traditional grand finale — Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture with an elaborate fireworks show, complete with military canons from the Oregon Army National Guard 218th Field Artillery.

Concertgoers are also invited to bring school supplies to donate for use in Portland public schools. Learn more at OrSymphony.org

From the large Portland weekend event list compiled by Leigh Feldman & supplemented by Pipeline. 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. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

Portland Sunday Events, August 29

• 10th Annuanl PDX Zine Symposium @ PSU Stott Center (FREE — meet other zine makers of PDX!)
• Zoo Bombers @ Zoo Bomb Monument (FREE – mini bike madness)
• Anime Hentai @ Paris Theater (FREE – sex cartoons)
• Bike Polo @ Alberta Park (FREE — come watch or participate!)
• 2nd Annual Nano Beer Fest @ Green Dragon ($10 — 25 nano beers to taste, entry gets you five tasting tickets)
• Band Showcase @ Rontoms (IRETSU, Yours, Frank Sinatra, and Sean Battles – FREE – bands, beer, hipsters)
• 6th Annual Custom Car Show w/ performance by Elevated Entities @ Shute Park (FREE — cars, performers, music, food)
• Pop Up Pool Party @ 3pm Grand Central Parking Lot (FREE — pool party! Drinks, food, performers!)
• Pop Up Pool Party AFTER Party @ 10pm @ Rotture (FREE — tons of performers, dj's, and people in bathing suits)
• From @PopinaSwimwear: NE 42nd Ave Street Party 2-9pm today – live music all day featuring Duffy Bishop at 7pm + Beer Garden!
• From Pipeline: The Dimes – Free Summertime Outdoor Acoustic Music Series @ Mississippi Studios (3pm-7pm, free, all ages, drink specials)
• From Pipeline: Bob Dylan at Edgefield
• From Pipeline: Portland Timbers vs Crystal Palace ('Timbers Look To Finish The Win Against Baltimore')
• From Pipeline: Portland Opera Free Open Chorus Rehearsal In Director Park
• From Pipeline: Free Movie Nights in Portland
• From Pipeline: Research Club Brunch @ South Park Blocks | Free
• From Pipeline: 2010 Portland Summer "Movies In the Park" Schedule
• From Pipeline: Concerts In The Park | 2010 Portland Summer Concert Series | FREE!

UPCOMING (just a taste of things to come…) Read the rest of this entry »

By Ben Golliver

Photo by Meredith Rider

Timbers Look To Finish The Win Against Baltimore

It's taking care of business time for the Portland Timbers, as they inch closer to the playoffs and look to close out a strong August (2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss) by handling Crystal Palace Baltimore, one of the USSF's weakest teams, at PGE Park Sunday night.

The Timbers let victories slip away the last two times they played in front of their home crowd.  Back on August 11, an ill-timed red card let Minnesota pull even 2-2.  Last Thursday, it was Austin who had problems with the red cards but Portland failed to find a winner in the game's closing minutes and settled for a 1-1 draw.

Portland has an ideal opportunity to seal the deal against on Sunday. The goals should be there for the taking: Baltimore has allowed Read the rest of this entry »

Leigh sent out his weekly email of Portland weekend events earlier today. It is mostly 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. Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

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 win tickets to a movie screening of Takers (fri), the Stylized Fashion Show (fri), Mickey Avalon (fri), a booth for you and 4 friends at MASSIVE (sat), 2 tickets to Jogger + Baths (sat) and a free ring from Sticks&Stones at their Pool Party (sun)! 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 you can find us on facebook at facebook.com/LifeisaPartyFB to get tickets, music and info on weekly events. (these are from Leigh, not Pipeline)

Free music ish… This LIVE radio mix from DJ Fresh One from San Diego. http://bit.ly/96eK5H It seems a lot of dj's make mixes stuck to one genre nowadays, but this mix runs the gamut from funk to soul to club to freetsyle electro to 80's to pop to southern rap, all seamlessly and all while staying fun. It's pretty incredible, and lucky for you, you can see Fresh One at Massive this Saturday night!

Awesome Ish… PDX Pipeline is giving away tickets too! Win Portland Giveaways from Pipeline: Karnaval, NW Film Center, Saturday Market, Helium Comedy Club & More here.

More Awesome ish… MASSIVE is this weekend! What is certainly Portland's craziest event takes place Saturday August 28th at the Crown Room and this one will certainly be ridiculous. Fashion show by Candy Jones, DJ Fresh One from SD, the beer wheel and giveaways and and and and and .. and there is a lot. Prepare yourself. FREE before 10:30!

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

Portland Thursday Events, August 26

• The Lemonade Revolt/Flash Mob/Tall Bike Ride and more at LAST Thursday @ Alberta St (FREE — once a monthly street party, this time with tons of renegade lemonade stands, a flash mob performance at 9:45 and a tall bike parade)
• Drewbot 9000, Devonwho, She's on Drugs, Reesee, BoneS @ Crown Room (FREE — glitch, dubstep, bass, future music)
• The Fix w/ J*DaVeY & Tanya Morgan @ Someday Lounge (FREE — hip hop, funk, soul)
• KEEN Garage Block Party @ 5pm at Keen Studios on 13th & Lovejoy (FREE — music, clothes, drinks, food)
• Jimmy Pardo @ Helium Comedy Club ($18 — stand up comedy!)
• Steady Rockin w/ Deff Ro & Mighty Moves @ Bar XV (FREE — hip hop, funk, r&b)
• Night Dedicated to House @ Couture (FREE — big room house)
• Marv Ellis, Acoustic Minds, The Platform @ Goodfoot ($5 — hip hop soul fusion, folk, jazz)
• 19th Annual Festa Italiana @ 12pm at Pionner Square (donation$ – pizza toss, grape stomping, food, drinks, music, spicy meatballs, talking with hands, no one from the cast of Jersey Shore)
• 3rd Annual CHETS Band Bash @ McIver State Park (FREE — dj's, bands, barbq, all day and night)
• Starchile Bday Celebration w/ OG One, Juggernaut, Doc Adam, Mello Cee @ Qube (donation$ – club party, top 40, hip hop, dancehall, funk, this will be wild!)
• PCASC benefit w/ 2Mex, Serge Severe, Mic Crenshaw @ Rotture ($8 — hip hop)
• House Call @ Groove Suite (FREE — house music, techno, electro)
• LionsDen, Nathaniel Knows, Kassette @ Beauty Bar (FREE — electro music and three dollar shots!)
• TxE, Farnell Newton, Tony Ozier, Dennis Dove, Erick Lewis @ UP Front ($5 — live band hip hop, jazz, funk)
• Everyone Orchestra @ Alberta Rose Theater ($10 — burning man music, collection of all star players from March Forth, Fruition, Vagabond Opera and Los Lobos!)
• From Pipeline: Free Movie Nights in Portland
• From Pipeline: Last Thursday On Alberta: BillyGoat Vintage Anniversary + Things out of Stuff Celebration
• From Pipeline: Alice in Wonderland (2010) (The River City Trio) @ Hazeltine Park | "Movies In The Park" | FREE
• From Pipeline: Ron Wyden & Rep. Earl Blumenauer @ OMSI In Support Of Wind Energy Job Growth In Oregon
• From Pipeline: Timbers Aim To Keep Rolling Thursday Night Against Austin
• From Pipeline: Arts Council of Lake Oswego "Follow Your Art!" Summer Festival
• From Pipeline: Curtis Salgado will be playing a free show at EaT: An Oyster Bar | Free, 7-9PM
• From Pipeline: Klutch & Heidi Elise Wirz @ Goodfoot Lounge | Last Thursday
• From Pipeline: Pink Martini @ Oregon Zoo | Zoo Beat Premium Concert
• From Pipeline: 2010 Portland Summer "Movies In the Park" Schedule
• From Pipeline: Concerts In The Park | 2010 Portland Summer Concert Series | FREE!

Friday, Saturday & Sunday Portland events after the break… Read the rest of this entry »

Pipeline is once again giving away many Portland music and event tickets this weekend.

Reminder: We give out 100s of $$$ in free tickets every month to our Portland Facebook Group for many of the top events & venues in PDX. Join it if you like free stuff.

Not on Facebook? Join our email list and win there.

Win Tickets: Jimmy Pardo @ Helium Comedy Club (August 26-28)
Years of delivering this cutting edge style comedy has earned Jimmy the respect of his peers and along with it, the moniker "comic's comic". We have three pairs for for show tonight and both shows on Friday (9 pairs total!). To win, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winners drawn Thursday @ 3PM and Friday at 3PM.

Win Tickets: Karnaval Portland – Haitian Orphanage Benefit (August 28, $150!)
The event is inspired by Kanaval Haiti, the biggest festival of the year that celebrates music, dancing and the country's rich African and Creole heritage. It's also one heck of a party! To win, comment on this post why you would like to attend. Winner will be drawn & emailed Friday, August 27 @ 3PM.

Win Tickets: Jean-Michel Basquiat Film @ Portland Art Museum (Aug 27 & 28)
In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. From his early, cryptic street art to his meteoric rise to prominence in the New York art world, Basquiat exhibited genius. To win, comment below on this post why you would like to attend. Winners drawn 8-27 at 3PM.

Win Gift Certificate: $25 to Portland Saturday Market
It has become increasingly popular across our great United States for the theme "Staycation" to ring out loudly. What better way to experience Portland then purposely vacationing as a tourist. We went down to Portland Saturday Market for inspiration and compiled 5 easy steps to help you become a tourist in your own hometown. To win, comment below on this post on why you like the market or want to buy, etc. Will draw & email winner on Friday, August 27 @ three.

Win Tickets: Quick & Easy Boys, Alpaca & The Villains @ Mt Tabor Theater (Aug 27)
Tickets are $5 advance, $8 day of. To win, email us at pdxpipeline @ gmail dot com by 3PM Friday, August 27.

NEXT WEEK Giveaways: MusicFest NW full passes (bracelets) and much more. Join our email list or facebook group to win!