Archives for July 2007

Thursday’s beery events: a parade, a brewfest, a Timbers game

July 25, 2007 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

To recap, the weekend really starts on Thursday this week; let your boss know!

Parade! At 10am gather at the Rogue Ales Public House (1339 NW Flanders). Tickets at the door are $15. That gets you brunch, a pint, a t-shirt, and a kazoo. The parade to the waterfront starts at 11am. More info here (pdf).

Oregon Brewers Festival

Taps open at noon. Get there early, get sunburned, get in line for the Honey Pot. I won’t give you any tasting advice because you’re a Portlander and already know all about beer!

Timbers vs. Silverbacks

Timbers Game begins at 7pm. It’s a Thirsty Thursday so beer is (relatively) cheap (and served is smaller cups) at PGE Park, and your first place Timbers are a damn good team this year; you’d be a fool to miss this one!

New soccer resource: Kick It PDX

July 25, 2007 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

There’s a new Oregonlive.com blog aimed at the Portland-area recreational soccer player and fan: Kick It PDX.

Not even two months old, it’s already established itself as a great resource for finding pick-up games, tournament information, and skills training (and that’s just the last three posts).

The blogger is Erika Kirkland; here’s an explanation of what she hopes to accomplish (from her first post):

Welcome soccer lovers! I’m starting this blog to bring the soccer community closer. My intentions for this blog are to provide a brief history of the sport (worldwide as well as in our lovely town of Portland), announce pick-up games, help teams find players (and players find teams), talk about where upcoming games are televised, and whatever else you can think of that’s related to the sport.

Those sound like worthy goals (no pun intended).

Cohousing in close-in Portland

July 25, 2007 by Dave Knows 4 Comments

I’ve casually followed Portland’s cohousing developments for a few years, refraining from getting involved until something cropped up closer to town (Trillium Hollow and Cascadia Commons have been around for years, but are both relatively suburban).

Community doesn’t just happen, especially nowadays; cohousing advocates know this. We shouldn’t bowl alone, and we shouldn’t live completely detached lives in front of our televisions surrounded by locked doors and chemically treated lawns. Establishing intentional communities is one way we can increase our social capital.

Portland Architecture recently covered Daybreak Cohousing: Co-Ho In No-Po: The Encouraging Trend of Tenant-Driven Mutlifamily Housing. The article piqued my interest once again into exploring Portland-area cohousing communities. Daybreak is far enough into the planning stage to have architectural designs and a chunk of land in the Overlook area. And they’re going to have an information table at the Division/Clinton Street Fair Saturday, so maybe it’s time I took a closer look.

Here are some local cohousing groups:

‘Optimus Prime’ is a Mac user, and other things I learned about Greg Oden

July 25, 2007 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Greg Oden posted his interview with Miss Gossip to his blog (Miss Gossip posted the interview on her blog a couple weeks ago).
I don’t like the ‘Optimus Prime’ nickname either. Any one got a better one than ‘O-G’ or ‘G-O’?

The Stranger: Portland Gets It

July 23, 2007 by Dave Knows Leave a Comment

Portland’s bike-friendly culture gets some love in the Portland Mercury’s big-sister weekly The Stranger. Erica C. Barnett writes in the paper’s blog (which for some reason they call SLOG):

In Seattle, when a bike lane threatened to take out a few feet of road that could otherwise be used by cars, businesses put pressure on the mayor and got the bike lane killed.

In Portland, when the city replaced prime curbside parking with parking corrals for bikes, businesses and city leaders applauded the move.

Hell, in Portland we even ride our bikes on the freeway 😉

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