The 2010 Portland Highland Games take place Saturday, July 17th at Mt. Hood Community College – time once again for the the kilted mile, pipe bands, and of course the MacTarnahan’s Memorial Challenge Caber Toss!
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The Scottish Highland village of Carrbridge visits Portland
Posted on 07 May 2010
As part of a delegation from the Scottish village of Carrbridge, home of the annual World Porridge Making Championship, filmmaker Fergus Thom visited Portland recently.
January 23-24: Pie Day, Snuggies, Haiti Benefit with Chervona, and Portland Revels’ Pub Sing
Posted on 22 January 2010
Saturday, January 23rd is National Pie Day, according to the American Pie Council.
Behold the Golden Spurtle
Posted on 25 October 2009
Yesterday morning Heather and I made a pilgrimage to Bob’s Red Mill in Milwaukie, Oregon to behold the Golden Spurtle.
July 17-19: Beer, Woodstock Parade, the Big Busk, and a Sunday Parkway
Posted on 17 July 2009
Updates for 2010: July 16-18: Portland International Beerfest 2010 July 17: Woodstock Festival and Parade 2010 July 17: The Big Busk 2010 July 18: East Portland Sunday Parkways This weekend sports quite the line up. There’s a beer fest, of course – the Portland International Beer Festival, which runs all weekend (Friday 4pm-10pm, Saturday 12pm-10pm, [...]
October 17-19: Fresh hops, apples, and the Timbers Army
Posted on 16 October 2008
Friday-Sunday Portland Nursery‘s apple tastings continues this weekend, 10am-5pm each day. Enjoy the fair-like atmosphere, sample sixty varieties of apples and pears (pdf), and listen to the musical stylings of Pete Krebs Gypsy Trio (Saturday 10am-12pm), Hurricane Hole with Dale Jones (Saturday 1pm-4pm), The Mighty Filberts (Sunday 10am-12pm), and the Mike Danner Trio (Sunday 1pm-4pm). [...]
StreetFilms extolls Portland transportation planning for 30 minutes
Posted on 22 August 2007
You’ve probably seen bits of this before, but here it is all together in a 30 minute production. StreetFilms is a project of the New York City Street Renaissance, “a collection of non-profits geared towards re-imagining the city’s public spaces and making our streets safer for pedestrians, bicycles and non-vehicular modes of transportation.” Portland gets [...]
Kilts and hops next weekend
Posted on 16 July 2007
The Portland Highland Games take place next Saturday the 21st at Mt. Hood Community College. The game schedule is available here. The Mac MacTarnahan Memorial Challenge Caber Toss is at 4:30pm. Meanwhile south of town the Hubbard Hop Festival kicks off Saturday morning. It features a parade, a 5k run, barbecue chicken, german sausages, a [...]
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