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The rain finally arrived.
As evidenced by the list below, however, there’s still a lot to do on a rainy Portland weekend in the Fall, and every one of the events featured below is either indoors or tent covered!
Paddy’s Oysterfest

Like oysters? Guinness?
Paddy’s Oysterfest is this Saturday, October 17 from 11am to midnight Saturday at [...]

The Wordstock Book Fair takes place this weekend at the Oregon Convention Center (777 NE MLK Jr) from 10am-6pm Saturday and Sunday, October 10-11.
Other festival readings and workshops are ongoing, but good luck finding the information you need from the website, which just like last year, is thoroughly irritating (flash, awful navigation but [...]

Get to Know Your Bike today at Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Student Union (1825 SW Broadway) from 10am to 4pm.
Get to Know Your Bike is a bicycle fair, a celebration of bicycle community and culture, sponsored by Portland State University. All bicyclist and the bicycle curious are invited.
The fair boasts a [...]

Tuesday night we made what has now become an annual pilgrimage to Chapman Elementary School in NW Portland to witness the spectacle of thousands of tiny birds swirling and diving and peppering the sky before shooting into a giant chimney on top of the school as the sun sets.

In addition to the Timbers away match (find out where to watch here) and the multitude of beer events (Concordia Cup, Bones and Brews, and Bailey’s Taproom Birthday) there are plenty of other festivities that warrant your attention this weekend.
The Mount Tabor Park Centennial Celebration takes place this weekend, both Saturday, August 1st and [...]

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 [...]

The Mississippi Street Fair is so much more than mango-ritas and heat stroke!
It’s my favorite Portland street fair. It’s compact, only five blocks from Skidmore to Fremont, so you’re guaranteed to run into your friends. “Grandfather” Leonard Smith’s BBQ Rib-Off contest is unique to the festival, and this year the organizers have [...]

I’m heading to the coast this weekend, but if I were in town everything below would be interesting to me (well except for the fun center):

Timbers play two games
Rose Festival Waterfront Village opens Friday
Sunday buses return to the bus mall
Wordstock Book-to-Film Festival
Everything at Value Village is 50% off Monday

All Weekend
The 2009 Filmed by Bike film festival kicks off Friday, April 17 with an Opening Night Throwdown – a street party on Clinton Street between 25th and 26th with a beer garden, entertainers, music and more. It runs from 6pm until 1am. Tickets for the films go on sale a half hour [...]