Saturday, January 23rd is National Pie Day, according to the American Pie Council.

Yesterday morning Heather and I made a pilgrimage to Bob’s Red Mill in Milwaukie, Oregon to behold the Golden Spurtle.

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]