Dave Knows: Portland

I make a point of attending as many street fairs and festivals as I can and the Mississippi Avenue Street Fair is always one of the best. This year’s was no exception.
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Moxie RX, the cute little food cart on Mississippi just north of the Shaver (and my next door neighbor), is featured on the USA Today website today as one of “10 great places to flag down a fabulous feast“.
“Fruit juice and smoothies are the specialties here, but you’ll also find inventive breakfast and brunch [...]

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The Mississippi Ave. Street Fair is the best street fair in Portland. Five blocks of the avenue, from Skidmore to Fremont, will be closed to cars from 10am to 7pm. In place of traffic you’ll find “Live Music, Dance Lessons, Storytelling, Beer & Margarita Gardens, BB’Q Rib Off, Dunk Tank and much more.”
And [...]

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The overgrown lot Twilight Theatre in the Garden behind Moxie RX is hosting a series of events this summer, including music, dance, films and Puppetstock, a summertime puppet theatre extravaganza!
The current schedule:
Friday June 27, 10 am:
Mudeye Puppet Company
Penny’s Puppet Productions
Thursday July 3, 8 pm:
The Dim Sum Puppet Opera Company
Thursday, July 10, 7 pm:
The Joe Cocker [...]

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Maybe Mississippi Avenue should be closed to cars all the time?
Tomorrow afternoon the Cirque du Cycling comes to town. Later in the summer the Sunday Parkways and the street fair will also serve up some bike and pedestrian friendly time on the strip. As part of the Cirque du Cycling Saturday, Mississippi will [...]

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Portland historian Tom Robinson’s vintage 16mm films will be shown at Mississippi Pizza through February, starting tonight at 9pm (right after the spelling bee).
Tonight’s subject:

January 7, 2008
Beer Commercials a Go-Go!
Tom’s been busy buying even more of those retro liquor ads. See some of the classics you already love, plus reels of never shown ads, certain [...]

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Missing a Timbers match is not something I take lightly.
A team of wild horses won’t be able to drag me away from the Timbers match Sunday at PGE Park.
So naturally I joined over a hundred of my fellow fans at Slabtown last night to watch the Timbers draw 1-1 in the first leg of the [...]

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Every second Thursday of the month North Mississippi Avenue, between Fremont and Skidmore, hosts a social showcasing the diverse local businesses and talent along the avenue. The event runs from about 6pm until 10pm.
This particular social (September 13th) features Flourish, a fashion show exhibiting items from Phlox, Gypsy Chic, Sameunderneath, Pin Me Apparel, Blue, [...]

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Moxie Rx, in the lot just north of the Rexall Building at N Mississippi and Shaver, is the place to be Monday nights in late summer. Outdoor movies are the reason:

Monday August 27th – Steve Cheseborough will perform acoustic blues from the 1920’s and 30’s followed by the Portland Premiere of the [...]

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Gravy (3957 N Mississippi) is known for its breakfast (and the 30 people out front Saturday and Sunday late mornings waiting to get in), and rightfully so.
But Gravy also has a happy hour . . . and Gravy Fries.
I tried them for my first time last night. As I have long been searching for [...]

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