A trip to Woodburn this weekend will reward you with authentic Mexican food, salsa dancing, fútbol, y más!

Wow, what a weekend in Portland!

Join 300,000 other people at Waterfront Park this weekend to celebrate the Mexican army’s 1862 defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla.

El Hispanic News is sponsoring the 4th Annual El Grito y Fiestas Patrias celebration Tuesday, September 15th at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Entry is free and the party begins at 12 p.m. and continues until 10 p.m. In addition to folkloric and Aztec dancers and live mariachi, salsa, cumbia, and pop music, the event will include [...]

Saturday May 30th will be a lovely day for a tailgate. And then at 7pm the Vancouver Whitecaps visit PGE Park to face the Timbers in the teams’ second match up of the year. Vancouver, perennially a good team, is one point behind Portland in the standings. This will be a great match. The Timbers [...]

Update: Cinco de Mayo 2010 information here! Join 300,000 other people at Waterfront Park this weekend to celebrate the Mexican army’s 1862 defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla. The Cinco de Mayo festival, held at Waterfront Park between the Hawthorne and Morrison bridges, is sponsored by the non-profit Portland Guadalajara Sister City [...]

Well, that’s what it sounds like: Guillermo Lara Guadarrama, presidente de los Tiburones Rojos del Veracruz, afirmó que los escualos podría disputar un juego amistoso en los Estados Unidos el próximo 10 de octubre ante un equipo de Portland . . . I actually kinda know Spanish (unlike French). My rough translation is: Guillermo Lara [...]

Portland’s summer weather generally skips over June but lingers through September. So far so good this year. While I’ve no problem huddling under the tent in the rain (with my beer!) during the festivals that populate every weekend in September, the tradition is that I get my last sunburn of the year this month, and [...]

There will be a fiesta at PGE Park tonight, as the Timbers battle Mexican 1st Division team Monarcas Morelia in a friendly at 7pm.  Trust me; this will be a hell of a lot more fun than walking around the Pearl District looking at inanimate objects hung on white walls. Coach Gavin Wilkinson told the [...]

See this post for information about the 2009 Grito y Fiestas Patrias! El Grito y Fiestas Patrias 2007 started Friday (I don’t know how I missed this one – I even walked by Pioneer Square Thursday and made a note to myself to find out what was being set up), but it runs through Sunday. [...]