Dave Knows: Portland

To recap, the weekend really starts on Thursday this week; let your boss know!
Brewers Festival Opening Parade
At 10am gather at the Rogue Ales Public House (1339 NW Flanders). Tickets at the door are $15. That gets you brunch, a pint, a t-shirt, and a kazoo. The parade to the waterfront starts at [...]

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There’s a new Oregonlive.com blog aimed at the Portland-area recreational soccer player and fan: Kick It PDX.
Not even two months old, it’s already established itself as a great resource for finding pick-up games, tournament information, and skills training (and that’s just the last three posts).
The blogger is Erika Kirkland; here’s an explanation of what [...]

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I’ve casually followed Portland’s cohousing developments for a few years, refraining from getting involved until something cropped up closer to town (Trillium Hollow and Cascadia Commons have been around for years, but are both relatively suburban).
Community doesn’t just happen, especially nowadays; cohousing advocates know this.  We shouldn’t bowl alone, and we shouldn’t live completely detached [...]

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Greg Oden posted his interview with Miss Gossip to his blog (Miss Gossip posted the interview on her blog a couple weeks ago).
I don’t like the ‘Optimus Prime’ nickname either. Any one got a better one than ‘O-G’ or ‘G-O’?

Oregon Reddit//

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Portland’s bike-friendly culture gets some love in the Portland Mercury’s big-sister weekly The Stranger. Erica C. Barnett writes in the paper’s blog (which for some reason they call SLOG):

In Seattle, when a bike lane threatened to take out a few feet of road that could otherwise be used by cars, businesses put pressure on [...]

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The Timbers are well loved, and well blogged.
Lynda at A Pretty Move posted a great piece this morning on the Timbers’ weekend matches and new Timbers owner Merritt Paulson’s thoughts on bringing MLS to Portland and PGE Park. Here’s an excerpt:
I’ve never had the time to write a proper indictment of the [...]

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There’s a new blog in the DaveKnows.org stable: pinball.daveknows.org.
There’s not much there yet, but it’s a beginning. Steve, the man behind the venerable PortlandPinball.com, is my co-blogger. Anything pinball related is fair game: new machines, leagues, news items, tips, and whatever else we can think of. Stop by and take [...]

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Longshoe at the entertaining Atlanta-area soccer blog Who Ate All the Cupcakes (not to be confused with the self-proclaimed “best football blog on the planet” Who Ate All the Pies*) has posted thoughts on
Saturday’s match in Atlanta between the Timbers and the Atlanta Silverbacks. Here are some highlights:

I was really impressed with the [...]

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It’s not the busiest weekend of the summer, but it’s pretty close:
Thursday-Sunday
Really, the weekend begins Thursday, when the Oregon Brewers Festival kicks off at 11am with the Brewers Festival Opening Parade. Here are my tips on getting the most out of brewfest (from a previous post):
If you prefer drinking beer to standing in lines [...]

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Can I be the only one not obsessed with all things Harry Potter? For those of you who got your fill of children’s books when you were children, here are a couple Portland-related books I recommend you read while all your friends enjoy making J. K. Rowling even richer.
(If you *must* read fantasy, at [...]

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