Summer weather returns just in time for an epic Thursday night in Portland: a Chinatown icon (re)unveiled, fireworks on the waterfront (with music!), Chapman Swifts Watch 2010 begins, and the USL Timbers’ final PGE Park match!

A free Oregon Symphony concert with canons shots and fireworks!

My round up of other local event guides.

Tammy blogs about social change through simple living at RowdyKittens. She’s also a photographer, designer, and author.

The terrible twos are behind us!

Tell me who your favorite Timbers player is and you’ll possibly win two free tickets to the July 17th 2010 friendly between the Portland Timbers and Manchester City.

You can take the boy out of Portland, but you can’t take the Portland out of the boy.

Portlander Cynthia Morgan has assembled and reviewed a fairly comprehensive list of Portland related iPhone applications.

News and Notes.

Since the demise of ORblogs, several Oregon blog aggregators have come, and gone. None of the survivors quite live up to ORblog’s legacy, but several are making a valiant effort.