Come out to the Mount Tabor Legacy (SE 48th & Hawthorne, right next to Bar of the Gods) early tomorrow evening to catch the free premiere of wideshot studios' newest short film, “Steeped” which was shot right here in Portland.  Other wideshot shorts as well as trailers for upcoming feature films will screen alongside.

The screening will start promptly at 7pm, is free and open for 21+, and will last under an hour.  “Spiked Tea” drink specials will be available.  Come mingle with local filmmakers and other awesome folks, and support the independent film community by showing up to this early screening before heading out for your later Friday plans.  See you there tomorrow at 7pm!

*Julian Chadwick edit/shout-out: Oregon Literacy noticed my inabilities and is now contributing *

Neighborhood: North

Map: 2240 N. Interstate Ave, Portland, Or, 97227

Scrabble- It's free and it's every Tuesday at The Gotham Tavern

Oregon Literacy hosts free scrabble games every Tuesday evening at The Gotham Tavern, located at:
2240 N. Interstate ave. from 6-9pm.

Join us for lightly compeitive rounds with a chance to win prizes, meet new people, and enjoy the yummy food and delicious beverages The Gotham Tavern offers. Ten percent of your food/beverage tab goes to supporting Oregon Literacy.

Please feel free to call us, send an email, or visit our website for more information on this and other events, ways to promote literacy, and for volunteer opportunities.

www.oregonliteracy.org
www.myspace.com/oregonliteracy

email: oregonliteracy@gmail.com
phone: 503-244-3898

It's BarFly Awards time once again! As of now, you have ONE DAY to nominate your personal creme de la creme of the PDX scene for a coveted 2007 Golden BarF! Fill out BarFly's online survey to nominate your fave raves for BarFly Awards celebrating the local service industry, media, and artsy-fartsy contingents that keep Portland PORTLAND, and enter to win tickets to the social event of the season!

Act fast! Nominations close at precisely 11:59pm on Monday, October 29th, so hit the survey, now. Once our crack staff of CPAs collate and rank the popular vote, we'll announce the top four nominees in each category on Tuesday, October 30th, and issue the remaining VIP invites for the Awards Gala on Sunday, November 4th, to our lucky drawing winners!

When making your nominations, please give as much identifiying info about the nominee, as possible – like their full name, where they work, phone number, their email address, MySpace, FaceBook, etc., stuff like that. We're not going to sell anyone into white slavery or stalk them any more than usual, but we'll need to track them down. Your answers will be kept completely confidential, and yes, you may nominate yourself (but don't just say “ME”, give your name, please). Multiple nominees are hunky-dory, too. Multiple surveys from the same person – not hunky dory. One survey per person, please!

Continue reading after the “more” jump…

THIS IS 100% LOCALS ONLY, SO PLEASE LIMIT YOUR NOMINEES TO CURRENT PORTLAND RESIDENTS, ONLY!

Anyone (over 21, that is!) may fill out the survey anonymously, but if you want to be in it to win it, please include your email address at the end of your completed survey – we'll draw 50 random addresses for personal invitations to this otherwise VIP-only event. A word on privacy – We won't use your email addresses for anything else, and they'll be discarded after the drawing. Feel free to forward this page or link to any interested parties of your choice.

Have questions? Email jen@barflymag.com. By the by, I really appreciate all the votes I've personally received already, but I AM NOT ELIGIBLE, so please vote for other people and just send me money, okay?

Click here to make your nominations, now!

For a list of who last year's big winners were, read on…

Best retards,

Miss Jen Lane
BarFly Fame

The 2006 BarFly Award Winners were…

1. Fastest guns in the West?
WINNER! Jason Keebler (Sabala's)

2. Funniest bartender?
WINNER! Kelly “Gator” Gately (Dante's)

3. Hottest item not on the menu
WINNER! Stephanie (Sabala's, Doug Fir)

4. Nicest bouncer? Please include where they work, and if there's multiple locations with the same name, please be as specific as possible!
WINNER! Crack La Rock (Doug Fir, Fez)

5. Sexiest stripper
WINNER! Malice (Devils Point, Sassy's, Devil's Point, Union Jacks, Sinferno Caberet)

6. Bestest deejay ever?
WINNER! Disk Jockey Gregarious (Fez)

7. Favorite cabbie
WINNER! Enrique (Radio Cab)

8. Hottest hairstylist?
WINNER! Crystal Eppinger (Bishops on Alberta)

9. Most good writer
WINNER! Night Cabbie (Willamette Week)

10. Best drunk
WINNER! Kelly "Gator" Gately (Starantula, Dante's)

11. Most ghetto fabulous
WINNER! DJ Paula B (Berbati's, XV)

12. Best band for a one night stand?
WINNER! The Nice Boys

13. Hardest working man or woman in show business
WINNER! Noah Mickens of Someday Lounge

14. Most likely to be famous?
WINNER! Jen Folker of Dahlia

15. Lifetime achievement award?
WINNER! John "Elvis" Schroeder

Be sure to check out UrbanDrinks.com — they've added many new
features recently, including revamped user profile pages (mine is at
http://urbandrinks.com/people/JulianChadwick), and a so-easy-to-use-
that-a-fingerless-monkey-could *Edit Below*

-do-it star rating feature for bars and
restaurants.

 

You can literally rate your 50 favorite places in less
than five minutes. Also, if you have an account, you can add tags,
friends, photos of your nights out, and brutally honest reviews of
your favorite and not-so-favorite drinking holes.

Check out Portland's 260+ happy hours here: http://urbandrinks.com/
happyhour/usa/or/portland.

Edit: Bryan emailed me to say that this monkey-line probably didn't come out right. But, you know, when you are visiting 260+ Happy Hours, you might get sloppy at times. I hit 4 or 5 a week, and I get sloppy

He wanted me to remove it but then he would lose 8 hyphen points; that kind of hyphen-domination would win any scrabble or boggle tournament–so it stays–and the point is that it is so easy to use that Tom Potter wouldn't even need to create a committee to figure it out.

And as we all know, Tom Potter likes to drink beer and he likes his committees…so he probably is looking.

More on Tom Potter's drinking issues on the Pipeline:

Mayor Tom Potter gets to drink on the job—how sweet!

Mayor Tom Potter Continues to Drink on The Job!

Is it Intervention-Time for Mayor Tom Potter?

Poster image by Bobbie Sue

Headlining the show are Bobbie Sue, Rikki Barney, Indgha Leigh, and Buket. Bobbie Sue has prepared a new zine, and paintings featuring crying celebrities and our own celebrities from local bars. In addition to these 4 artists we've also invited the following artists to fill the space with glorious art:

Maura Arraj
Janina Angel Bath
Heather Campbell
Ashby Collinson
Britney Crump
Sarah Gottesdiener
Kathie Hadd
Midori Hirose
Joelle Jones
Aidan Koch
Kristie Louderbough
Carolyn Main
Dylan Meconis
Jennifer Mercede
Erika Moen
Sarah Oleksyk
Jennifer Parks
Jeannie Lynn Paske
Catherine Peach
Ruth Pierich
Rachel Richter
Morgan Ritter
Taryn Tomasello
Nubby Twiglet
Jen Wang
Julia Wertz… and more to be announced!

These artists come from many different fields and professions: comics, animation, fine art, graphic design, sculpture, illustration. It's going to be one of our most diverse and interesting shows yet.

This is from their orignal show there

Sunday: The Hive Has a Message for Dave Matthews

September 1st, 2007 — Julian Chadwick

The Hive makes its big move to Plan B (formerly Acme) tomorrow. It should be interesting and you can read more about the Hive show at this earlier post (And The Lord Said, On Day Seven, I Will See Hive at Plan B Bar)

I asked Ms. Chris if she thought Dave Matthews was a musical genius or a musical prodigy—I mean come on—Dave Matthews* is changing people's lives! Her response follows:

I'm sooo not a fan. I think he starts and ends every song very well, I actually like those parts, but the bridge is my kryptonite. So I'm being diplomatic and not siding either way. Better to just stay silent. Now if you asked about the Clash or Depeche Mode or The Guess Who. I could give you my opinion.

Thanks,

MS!!! Chris

HIVE
Plan B (formerly ACME)

Portland, OR 97214

(Corner of SE 8th & SE Main)

Every Sunday 9pm-2am

21+ $3 cover

www.darkhive.com

www.myspace.com/darkhive

hivepdx@gmail.com

*Reference Quota: Never, ever, ever, eva bet with Dave Matthews. It's easier to play Joseph Hachem in Poker…

BUT…Heidi is bar tending at the B-Side tonight (Tanya's on vacations- lucky!). Yes, that Heidi, The one from Meat, and formerly of the BOG (Bar of Gods).

When I first moved to Portland, I met up with the mayor the second evening. He wasn't the M.O.B yet, as he was living off Hawthorne (South of Hawthorne and north of 39th=dirty laundry= mayoral recall).

Anyway, he (and some others) took me up to the Bar of Gods where we drank many $2 special beers and dropped about $50 to get past level 4 or 5 of Archanoid table-top (where did it go?!).

That is where I met Hiede. So, Heidi is my first Portland bartender, and she was top of the game before moving onto MEAT. Now, I don't have a pet, but I've been to MEAT, see MEAT hoodies everywhere, and friends who have gone their swear by it–plus, ummm, it's called MEAT!

From Meat's Website:

meat proudly supports and supplies the raw food diet for dogs and cats. Haven't heard or tried the raw diet before? We will walk you through each step of the way to help integrate raw meat into your pet's diet.

Meat
2250 E. Burnside
Portland, Or 97214
503-236-6971
fax 503-236-8039
mon-fri 11-6pm sat 11-5pm sun 12-5pm

*Picture of Heidi from Motokitty with Motokitty Bag*

From B-Side's Myspace Page:

About me: Beer,Whiskey,Pinball, 632 e. burnside PDX, OR,97214
Who I'd like to meet: People who like to drink beer,whiskey & play pinball

With September being in the title of a bulletin, it indicates that summer is nearing an end. So come on out for possibly 2007's last hot day in the Park. Sad we know – but let's all go out having fun in the sun and most likely go for drinks at the Night Light Lounge following. They have a great sunny deck and an awesome happy hour menu.

Scheduled Tee time is 2:00pm at Powell Park (SE 26th & Powell).

More info: Sept 3: "Why Tiger Woods is Moving to Portland"

So, let's take a look…

1. greg oden
   • Greg Oden…really honored….I need to put more info about you to direct those people to right place/info (but it looks like they are finding your blog from my earlier posts). I'm sure I'll be writing Blazers stuff when the season starts (email us if you want to)…Rip City baby!

   

2. Plan B Bar 1305 SE 8th Ave portland oregon
   • Nice – the searches for Plan B Bar are going up every day. Good for Jeff! I'm all about the Plan B (and the B-Triangle) success.

   

3. plan b bar portland
   • yep 2 and 3–Plan B is almost Hansel/Flexcar hot!
4. black tangerine music
   • black tangerine music must be playing a show this weekend or just getting more popular, but here is some info on their pioneer square noon tunes show with a link to their site.
5. piercing
   1. hmmm…weird, must be because of this Dante's show where there was live tattooing and piercing going on and THE SMOOCH GIRLS!

   

6. rockfest 12 portland pictures
   • Again, that's that bad mojo KUFO 101 has created with hummer/bummer–get a hybrid or a biodiesel…come on, it's been 2 months since you said you would/lied.

   

7. morrison hotel portland
   1. Morrison Hotel was actually top yesterday and their searches are going up dramatically. Good for them. Now, I want a free beer for this press I'm serious. I'll take this 40 of Old German in fact.

• 8. bike commuting
  • Cool, but you should really go see the expert in Portland on this, Mr Jonathan Maus of BikePortland.org
• 9. Diggnation
  • See Kevin Rose and Alex–you gotta do a Diggnation in the PDX. Portland has really, really, really good beer as you know and we've got 47 digg votes to prove it as of this moment (get those up!).

Jeff told me a lot of funny things–he's an interesting person to speak with for sure. One that I remember is that he said Plan B completed the B(ermuda)-Bar-Triangle of this zone with the B-Side and the Basement Pub.

I love all three and am down to disappear in their triangle nearly anytime (big-ups Jeff, Tanya, Joel, Ingrid, Sandy!).

Saturday, the wonderful Mt. Tabor Soap Box Derby takes place. Afterwards, 3M (Atom 13, Pete Moss, Homonym) will be rocking the after-party at…guess…right–Plan B!

Sunday brings PRA's 2nd Annual Bangaroo Party, where all kinds of things will be going on including someone taking on The signed PDX PIPELINE (american apparel) Thong. Oh yeah, that will be at…ummm…Plan B.

Plan B=Plan A for many of us this weekend!