Tuesday: Flash Kitchen @ City Hall | FREE, Summer Salads, Mayor Sam Adams

The Whole Foods Pop-Up Kitchen descends on City Hall Tuesday where Simpatica chef Scott Ketterman along with four city commissioners and Mayor Sam Adams will whip up a summer salad. This is a FREE event.
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From press release:
Whole Foods Flash Kitchen
Tuesday, August 9
Noon- 1 p.m. | FREE | All Ages
@ City Hall, 1221 SW Fourth Avenue

The doors of City Hall will open wide to host the next installment of Whole Foods Market’s Flash Kitchen pop-up cooking class. This Flash Kitchen is designed to show Portlanders that anybody can make quick, healthy and nutritious summer meals without turning on the oven.

With a focus on delicious and simple, the new Flash Kitchen will feature Mayor Sam Adams, Commissioners Nick Fish, Amanda Fritz, Randy Leonard and Dan Saltzman and local chef Scott Ketterman of Simpatica restaurant creating a cold watermelon and cucumber salad with fennel and mint. The focus will be on summer seasonal ingredients.

This Week: Columbia Gorge International Film Festival | FREE, 300 Films, 40 Countries

The 4th Annual Columbia Gorge International Film Festival starts this week with over 300 films from 40 countries. There will be free screenings in Vancouver, WA beginning Wednesday.

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From press release:
Columbia Gorge International Film Festival4th Annual Columbia Gorge International Film Festival
Wednesday, August 10 – Sunday, August 14
FREE | All Ages
Various Times and Locations Throughout Vancouver
For full schedule of screenings, click here.

The Columbia Gorge International Film Festival will host its 4th annual free film festival August 10-14, 2011 in Vancouver, Washington. Founded in 2008, in the first year we screened over 300 films representing 40 countries. With the festival free and open to the community, we make special effort to partner with community-based organizations and local not for profit organizations.

Films will be shown in the following venues: Read the rest of this entry »