Dave Knows: Portland

Next Saturday the Portland Farmers Market at PSU will host the The Wedge: Portland Celebrates Cheese. Cheese is one of my many interests, and the main reason I could never become a vegan.
With the big cheese event approaching I thought I’d share some of the cheesy local blogs I peruse regularly.
Pacific Northwest Cheese Project
This [...]

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Friday-Sunday
Brush up on your juggling skills and terminology, the 15th annual Portland Jugglers Festival begins at 6pm Friday and runs through Sunday at Reed College. More a convention than a festival, the three days are filled with workshops and vendor displays and demonstrations.
But Saturday night Benson Highschool hosts The Juggling and Vaudeville Extravaganza, a rare [...]

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The steady stream of New York Times articles about Portland’s quirks and merits continues in Wednesday’s paper: In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking.
At first it was a sort of underground stop for food and wine lovers who had heard word of small, fascinating restaurants run by young, talented chefs serving a bounty [...]

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Over at his blog Greg Oden tells us about his new dog, a Boston/Beagle that he has charmingly named Charles Barkley McLovin. I’m sure the TNT crew will get a kick out of that.
He is not too big because i cant have a big dog while im renting my house. He is very [...]

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I’ve never liked shootouts. a pretty move reminded us before the match that there is another way: if the USL had the away goals rule the result might have been different (but of course it still might have ended in a shootout; there’s no completely fair way to end a hard fought draw).
But in [...]

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Debbie Moost, a visitor from North Carolina, enjoys a recent trip to Portland:
The News and Observer - Foodie finds joy in ‘eatin’ town’
So in Portland, I let the forks fall where they may. Not being able to let go completely, I still checked with the usual suspects — food writer friends and online chat groups [...]

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Missing a Timbers match is not something I take lightly.
A team of wild horses won’t be able to drag me away from the Timbers match Sunday at PGE Park.
So naturally I joined over a hundred of my fellow fans at Slabtown last night to watch the Timbers draw 1-1 in the first leg of the [...]

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Nah!
But first a reminder that tonight is the first leg of the 2-game semifinal in Atlanta. Gather at Slabtown (1033 NW 16th) by 5pm to watch it live and carouse with the Timbers Army.
Let’s start with the podcast:
the107report’s TimbersCast - The 107 Report September 20 2007
WARNING: Most 107 reports rate a clean PG but [...]

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Once again, a pretty move writes about the Timbers like I would if I could actually write:
a pretty move - I can’t help falling in love with you
I want to watch the feel-good Hollywood movie about this improbably brilliant season, the season that should never have happened and should not be happening still, not in [...]

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Tonight at 6pm the portable barrel-shaped pub pictured (in a computer rendering) here will be making an appearance at the future (April 2008) home of Deschutes’ Portland pub, at NW 11th and Davis. According to the press release:
The new signature wooden barrel will be parking at the future home of the Portland Deschutes Brew Pub [...]

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