Saturday, January 23rd is National Pie Day, according to the American Pie Council.
Posted on 22 January 2010
Saturday, January 23rd is National Pie Day, according to the American Pie Council.
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.
Posted on 17 July 2009
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, Sunday 12pm-7pm) up in the North Park blocks between Davis and Everett. This is the expensive one: $20 for 10 beer tickets and official glass (don’t [...]
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).
Heather, [...]
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 [...]
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 horseshoe [...]